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DESCRIPTION:4/24 Berkeley Screening Of "Miners Shot Down" Benefit For SA Striking 
 Miners\nShowing this Wednesday at 7 pm, April 23, 2014, at La Peña 
 Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.\n\nSuggested donation: 
 $10, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will be 
 sent to currently striking platinum miners' strike fund in 
 Rustenburg.\n\nIn August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s 
 biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days 
 later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, 
 killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana 
 miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the 
 courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against 
 the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and 
 their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.\nWhat emerges is 
 collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country’s first 
 post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.\n\nThis 
 is a rare opportunity to see a courageous documentary in a class of its own 
 – the only feature-length documentary on the Marikana massacre.  Never 
 before screened in the United States, its director Rehad Desai has 
 generously agreed to let us show this film.\n\nWith the impending Bay Area 
 visit (see second attached flyer) of Mphumzi Maqungo from the National 
 Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), this screening will provide 
 ample background on the rise of rank-and-file militancy in South Africa and 
 the completion of the African National Congress’ long  road to 
 capitulation.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/20/18754509.php
SUMMARY:"Miners Shot Down" Berkeley Screening To Benefit Striking SA Platinum Miners
LOCATION: La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/20/18754509.php
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