Korean&Argentinian Labor Video Events

U.S. PREMIER OF THE NEW DOCUMENTARY FROM OJO OBRERO

"Open the road to the women fighters".
"Paso a las luchadoras".
Argentina 2004

a video by the Ojo Obrero collective

Presentation and Benefit
with
Carolina Luzuriaga of
Ojo Obrero (Argentina

7:30 PM, Sunday, April 4, 2003
Donation $3 to $5
In Spanish with English Subtitles

Thousands of women in Argentina have taken up the
struggle for liberation by their own hand. Paso a las
luchadores focuses on seven women whose day-to-day
struggles against sexism takes in all aspects of life.
These Argentine women see that their oppression is
created by the capitalist social system and in
Argentina and is manifested by the lack of jobs, the
double burden of exploitation that working women face,
domestic and institutional violence, and in the lack
of freedom to govern one's own body. (Abortion remains
illegal in Argentina.)

This movie focuses on the solutions these Argentina
women in struggle have come to: the solution lies not
in individual remedies but in confronting the
repressive social system. They look to the creation of
an independent assembly of the working class as the
way forward for the fight for working woman's power.

Visit the Ojo Obrero website for a description in
Spanish: http://www.ojoobrero.org

Sponsored by:
LaborTech/Access2004
http://www.labortech2004.org
Argentina Solidarity Committee
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Argentina_Solidarity/
Labor Video Project phone 415/282-1908


Location:
New College
766 Valencia St./19th St.
San Francisco, CA

For More Information: Adam Richmond (415) 864-3537,
email sf_adam [at] rocketmail.com






~~ Please distribute widely !! ~~

Public Forum: South Korean Workers and the Struggle Against
Globalization

U.S. Premiere of South Korean labor documentary, "FRIEND OR FOE"
Followed by Panel Discussion with Filmmaker, Jiyoung Lee and South
Korean Labor Media Activist, Myoung Joon Kim

Tuesday April 6, 2004 6-9pm
Institute for Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley
2521 Channing Way; Berkeley, CA

Organized by Korea Solidarity Committee and LaborTech http://www.labortech2004.org
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Education, UC Berkeley
Center for Korean Studies, the Institute for Food and Development Policy
(FoodFirst) and the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation

About "FRIEND OR FOE"
Produced by Labor News Production, Directed by Jiyoung Lee, 2003,
119min

Directed by award winning filmmaker, Jiyoung Lee, "Friend or Foe"
documents the bitter 517 day long struggle of contracted workers at KT
(Korean Telecommunication) against globalization. When KT announced its
downsizing plan in 2000, they immediately fired 7,000 contract workers.
Workers had already been forced to work under "non-regular" contracts at
lower pay, heightened job insecurity and limited legal protection and
they were no longer willing to be sacrificed for the good of the
economy. The targeted workers launched a new union and fought for a
year and a half to stop discriminatory dismissals. In the face of
police oppression and betrayal by regularly-employed workers, the union
eventually lost their struggle, but not before exposing the severe
situation imposed by globalization on workers compelled to accept
discriminatory non-regular status. "Friend or Foe" provides critical
analysis of the weaknesses of the current labor movement in South Korea
and renders key insights into how crisis-ridden unions in the current
global context can fight the assault on their basic rights and
livelihoods.

English/Korean interpretation will be provided.
Refreshments will also be provided.

PANELIST BIOS
Myoungjoon Kim is a member of the independent labor video activist
organization, Labor News Production <http://www.lnp89.org>, president of
Seoul's media center MediACT <http://www.mediact.org> and board member
of JinboNet <http://www.jinbo.net>. He has been integral in the
promotion of labor media activism and the implementation and legislation
of public access TV. Kim has also been an advocate on issues such as
independent film and video, documentary, and the internet.

Jiyoung Lee is currently a member of Labor News Production
<http://www.lnp89.org>. She made her debut with Labor News16, Video
Magazine
(1994) and has made several documentaries, such as THE LAW OF LABOR
(1995), GENERAL STRIKE 1,2 (1997) and FIRED WORKERS (1996). Lee's ON THE
RIGHT TRACK (2002), a documentary about the rail workers struggle for a
democratic union won the Best Documentary award (Woonpa Award) at 7th
Pusan International film festival (2002). Her latest work, FRIEND OR FOE
(2003) chronicles the Korean telecommunication non-regular workers union
struggle against mass dismissals.


For more information about the event, please visit
<http://www.koreasolidarity.org> or contact <info [at] koreasolidarity.org>
or LaborTECH http://www.labortech2004.org
or lvpsf [at] labornet.org