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DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nThe 
 Plundering\nBy Oliver Ressler (40 min.) 2013 Austria \n Extreme levels of 
 privatization can only be carried out under conditions where people are 
 under severe pressure, as in the transformation of former Soviet republics 
 toward capitalism. Since the Rose Revolution in 2003, the former Soviet 
 republic, Georgia under went such a radical transformation. President 
 Mikheil Saakashvili implemented one of the most extreme neoliberal projects 
 in the world. Today, Georgia is 9th among 185 states on the World Bank list 
 of “Ease of Doing Business” countries. This is creating an unstable 
 situation in a radical, free-market economy with the liquidation of most 
 social safety nets. Most Georgian residents are being driven into 
 un-experienced levels of poverty.\n The film, The Plundering, focuses on 
 four cases of aggressive, state-property privatization policies in Tbilisi, 
 Georgia. Through interviews, it discusses the privatization of the water 
 system in Tbilisi and of Tbilisi’s popular market, the Dezerter Bazaar. A 
 newly emerging movement prevented the attempted sell-off of the National 
 Scientific Library, and the destruction and conversion of the historical 
 Gudiashvili Square in Tbilisi’s city center into a shopping 
 mall.\nhttp://www.ressler.at/the_plundering/ \n\nMade In The USA, Tom 
 Hudak’s Plan to Cut Your Wages\n By Bill Gillespie, Director, Writer (19 
 min ) 2013 Canada \nThis film is the first film to expose the real role and 
 ideology of “open shop” states that prevent unionization. Canadians 
 capitalists are now pushing to model Canadian labor laws on open shop 
 anti-labor U.S. states like Georgia. Canadian Ontario Public Service 
 Employees Union decided they wanted to tell the real story about these 
 states in the US and made a documentary. http://www.madeinusamovie.ca 
 \n\nJudith Portrait of a Street Vendor By Zahidi Pirana (22 min) 
 2013\nThousands of immigrant workers in major cities in the United States 
 make their living as street vendors. This is the story of Judith and her 
 life in the streets of New York as she struggles to survive the obstacles 
 she and other immigrant workers make in order to survive as an immigrant 
 workers, activists and community 
 organizers.\nhttp://www.streetvendormovie.com/?q=node/3 \n\nHigh Power (27 
 min) by Pradeep Indulkar, India\nThis powerful film is about the lives of 
 workers and the community at the Tarapur nuclear power plant, which was 
 built fifty years ago in a poor rural community. Like other nuclear power 
 plants around the world, people in the community were displaced and 
 provided no real compensation but they were promised good jobs.\n This, 
 like the other promises according to the people of Tarapur, turned out to 
 be a lie. They also become the victims of diseases directly caused by 
 radiation and other toxins brought into their community by the plant\n 
 Their community, their lives and their work turn into a nightmare they are 
 struggling against as are communities where nuclear plants have been 
 built.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msxq0UifZlE \nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014Films.htm#f17\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/21/18757706.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: 4 Movies: The Plundering, Made In The USA, Street Vendor, High Power
LOCATION:518 Valencia - near 16th St. San Francisco. 16th St BART station.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/21/18757706.php
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