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DESCRIPTION:Strike (85 min. 1925) USSR \nBy Sergei Eisenstein\n\nStrike is a powerful 
 film on a locomotive factory strike in 1903 in Russia. A worker is blamed 
 for a theft by the management and hangs himself. The conditions that 
 workers faced under Czarist Russia are extremely oppressive, and this leads 
 to workers organizing to fight back. The struggle for workers rights was 
 met with brutal repression, and these conditions led to the Russian 
 revolution. Eisenstein, who was the foremost film maker in Russia at that 
 time, shows the role of not only the owner of the factory but also the 
 police, the government and the military who are brought in to destroy the 
 strike by firing on the strikers.\n\n Today, as workers face harsher and 
 harsher conditions and the government being used to support the bosses, 
 while the times are different, the growing repressions against labor and 
 working people has continuity.\n\nEven The Heavens Weep: The Mine Wars of 
 West Virginia  (60 min. 1985) USA \nBy Danny L. McGuire \n In 1920 in 
 Matewan, West Virginia, a shootout took place between local coal miners and 
 Baldwin-Felts were agents for the owners. Miners were seeking to join a 
 union, and the ensuing battle following the shootout at Matewan was the 
 battle at Blair Mountain. This mobilization of the miners became the 
 largest rebellion since the American civil war, and also led to these 
 miners joining the United Mine Workers of America UMWA. The shoot out is 
 re-enacted annually in Matewan, West Virginia, and labor and community are 
 seeking to preserve and save Blair mountain from environmental 
 destruction.\n Retired ILWU Local 10 longshoremen Howard Keylor will 
 introduce the film.\n\nSee also:\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178/bio 
 (Sergei Eisenstein)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178/ (Eisenstein 
 films)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178/awards (Eisenstein 
 awards)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178/otherworks (Eisenstein 
 books)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570179/filmotype (McGuire 
 films)\nhttp://www.umwa.org/?q=content/matewan\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2013/2013Films.htm#f18\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2013/2013schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/18/18738631.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Strike & Even The Heavens Weep
LOCATION:518 Valencia  - Near 16th St., San Francisco.  16th St BART.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/18/18738631.php
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