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DESCRIPTION:Miners Shot Down (85 min) 2014 by Rehad Desai (South Africa)\nFilmWorks 
 United International Working Class Film & Video Festival \n\nThe president 
 of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA), Andrew 
 Chirwa, will be attending the screening and will discuss the meaning of 
 this milestone event for the workers of South Africa.\n\nMiners Shot Down 
 is a powerful new film that tells the story of the organized massacre of 34 
 unarmed miners by the government of South Africa and the owners of the 
 Lonmin platinum mine, the largest platinum mine in the world. \n\n The film 
 follows the strike during August 2012. From day one, as the miners struggle 
 for justice and human rights, they faced not only a hostile management, but 
 also a government now includes Cyril Ramaphosa, one of the owners of the 
 mine. Currently, he serves as the deputy of the African National Congress 
 (ANC), which runs the government. The film also reveals the National Union 
 of Miners (NUM) to be a company union whose union officials make high 
 salaries, and therefore, argue against the mining company paying a living 
 wage. This film shows the union members trying to negotiate with the 
 company at the same time that the company works with the ANC government to 
 physically destroy the strike movement with armed police attacks and 
 company thugs.\n\nThis struggle led to the formation of the Association of 
 Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which was winning thousands of 
 workers from the NUM.\n\n Desai’s film shows that by mid-morning of 
 August 16, 2012, the AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa saw that hundreds of 
 heavily armed police were arriving and preparing to attack the miners. He 
 urged the miners to return to their homes so they would not be assaulted, 
 but it was too late.\n\n Rehad Desai, the film director, was already in the 
 area prior to the massacre and was able to clearly film the murderous 
 conspiracy between the mine owners and the government to break the strike. 
 This has become a turning point for the working class of South Africa. It 
 raises the question of how a government that they put in power to remove 
 apartheid could end up as a government representing the very bosses and 
 owners that they thought they had defeated.\n\n These events have led to 
 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) the largest union of 
 South Africa splitting from the ANC and calling for the launch of a working 
 class party. This history in Miners Shot Down documents a crucial turning 
 point for the working people of South Africa.\n\nSee also: 
 \nhttp://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/rehad-desai.html\nhttp://www.africanfilmny.org/2013/rehad-desai/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014Films.htm#f5\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/15/18757432.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Miners Shot Down, a South African Movie
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball 
 stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 
 801 Second Street or take public transportation: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station; \n30 or 45 bus from Market 
 and Fourth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between 
 Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street; \n47 bus which 
 starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  travels on Van Ness, 11th 
 St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then walk on 
 Townsend 2 blocks to Second Street; \n10 bus which runs from Van Ness on 
 Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Second St to Third and Townsend, so get 
 off at Second Street and Townsend. Also runs from 25th and Potrero, on 
 Cesar Chavez St,  Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Townsend to Second 
 Street.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/15/18757432.php
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