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DESCRIPTION:Mt. Fuji in Red (From Dreams) \n(1990) 8 min. Japan By Akira Kurosawa\nMt. 
 Fuji in Red is part of a series of stories by powerful Japanese director 
 Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa was not taken in by the media propaganda that 
 nuclear power was safe. This short drama is about a nuclear power station 
 which blows up and the people try to escape from Japan. This dream was a 
 nightmare that has come true for the people of 
 Japan.\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/\n\nFukushima Never Again 
 \n(2012) 57 min. By Labor Video Project\nThe nuclear meltdown at the 
 Fukushima nuclear plants in March of 2011 was not supposed to happen 
 according the government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO. This 
 documentary allows the mothers of Fukushima, health and safety experts and 
 trade unionists to talk about the real history of this disaster and effects 
 of it  on their communities and country. The nuclear radiation continues to 
 contaminate not only Japan but also the whole world, and yet the US 
 continues to operate nuclear plants on the coast of California, which is 
 also an earthquake zone and throughout the country. The 104 nuclear plants 
 have hundreds of thousands of used nuclear rods, which are building up at 
 each plant and waiting for a disaster to happen. The lessons of Fukushima 
 have great relevance and meaning for the labor movement and people of the 
 US. Chieko Shiina from Fukushima will be attending. 
 \nhttp://www.fukushimaneveragain.org\n\nANPO: Art x War\n(2011) 89 min. By 
 Linda Hoaglund \nIn 1960 a massive movement of trade unionists and students 
 rose up against the stationing of nuclear weapons and US military bases in 
 Japan. The US was pushing the Japanese government to sign the U.S.-Japan 
 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security known as ANPO which allowed for 
 military bases throughout Japan and on the island of Okinawa. This film by 
 Linda Hoagland, who grew up in Japan, is about the artists of the period 
 who expressed their opposition to militarization and war by their art. The 
 best land within the center of Okinawa contains the US base and it has 
 created an environmental and health crisis for the people of the island. 
 Today as the US expands militarization in Asia, the cost of this 
 intervention is paid for by the workers and people of the region. Cheko 
 Shiina from Fukushima will be attending. 
 \nhttp://anpomovie.com/en/?p=588\nhttp://www.lhoaglund.com/\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012Films.htm#f6\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2012/2012schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/16/18715530.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Nuclear Crisis Films from Japan
LOCATION:518 Valencia - Near 16th St., San Francisco.  Near 16th St BART.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/16/18715530.php
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