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DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nSiren 
 (2012)(60 min)(Bangladesh) by Molla Sagar  \n“Siren” by Bangladeshi 
 filmmaker Molla Sagar is a documentary on the organized destruction of the 
 jute industry, which once was the largest employer in the country with 
 60,000 workers. Jute was known as the golden fiber and this powerful 
 documentary exposes the human cost for workers and their families of the 
 privatization of the nationalized industry with the shutdown of the 
 state-run jute mills starting in 2000. The IMF and World Bank said they 
 were “modernizing” the industry but the real plan to was to shutter the 
 industry. Jute is a natural competitor to DuPont and Monsanto’s synthetic 
 fibers and the closures eliminated this competitor.\n Filmed between 2007 
 and 2008 at Khalishpur in Khulna, the documentary shows desperate 
 conditions as a result of the closure led some workers to commit suicide 
 while others were forced into prostitution. \nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2015/2015schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/21/18773786.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Film: "Siren" from Bangladesh
LOCATION:518 Valencia  - near 16th St., San Francisco. 16th St BART station\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/21/18773786.php
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