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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180726T193000
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SUMMARY:Film: Turkey on the Edge 2018 (53 min.) Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Imre Azem\, 2018 (53 min.) Turkey. \nFour following years the Gezi Resistance\, great political and social changes were instituted in Turkey. Director İmre Azem follows four people striving for democracy\, from Gezi to a July 15th attempted coup\, a subsequent state of emergency\, and finally an april 16th\, 2017 referendum. The rise of Turkey’s dictator Recep Erdogan and his attack on academics and the people of Turkey is the focus of this documentary. The documentary shows the rise and struggle of the Gezi Resistance\, which was a fight against privatization of a park in Istanbul. Erdogan wanted to pave it over with a private development for his cronies. The use of fundamentalism and racism against Kurds and other minorities has a long history in Turkey. Azem links the struggle in Gezi to the July 15th coup attempt and a state of emergency to crush any political opposition while expanding the war in Syria. He also shows the April 16th\, 2017 referendum by focusing on the people who are fighting for democracy and equality for all. Following the films there will be a discussion hosted by the Solidarity Committee with the People of Turkey. \n \nTurkey on the Edge – (Trailer) from Kibrit Film on Vimeo.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/film-turkey-on-the-edge/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-26-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180726T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180604T082358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T194803Z
UID:1834-1532631600-1532631600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival \nReserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy \nDirected by Michelangelo Severgnini \nThe result of the U.S./European attack on Libya has been the restoration of slavery. Europe and the U.S. caused it\, allows it\, and benefits from it\, according to Severgini’s film Reserve Slaves. In case of need\, the “E.U. has its own reserve slaves just overseas\,” a message delivered to us by 3 African men who just landed in Sicily\, after having crossed the desert and the sea\, and especially after having served as slaves in Libya. This film shows the real stories behind the rise of slavery and the result of the U.S. and European war machine. There will also be a short statement from the director.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/reserve-slaves-schiavi-di-riserva-2018-30-min-italy-turkey-on-the-edge-2018-53-min-turkey/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-26-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180725T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180725T173000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180604T081453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T194912Z
UID:1829-1532539800-1532539800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Port Triumph (Puerto el Triunfo) 2017 (62 min.)
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival \nDirected by Jeffrey Gould \nThis film by Jeffrey Gould\, a history professor at the University of Indiana\, looks at an important labor struggle of shrimp workers at Port Triumph in El Salvador. El Salvador had a large shrimp industry\, which mostly exported to the United States. More than 1\,500 shrimp packinghouse workers\, who were mostly women\, organized and won important gains at Puerto el Triunfo (Port Triumph). As a result of the growing murderous repression\, the union collapsed and the industry as well was decimated by the 1990s. The U.S.-supported civil war in El Salvador not only led the death of thousands of workers and their families but also forced many of these workers to escape to the United States This film provides a personal view of why workers from Central America have been forced to immigrate and their struggle for survival.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/port-triumph-puerto-el-triunfo-2017-62-min/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-25-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-25-Port-Triumph.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180618T191522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195032Z
UID:2065-1532192400-1532203200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Pride\, 2014 (120 min.) UK
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Matthew Warchus (UK)\nThe unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort to break the miners’ union\, former Prime Minister Thatcher decided to force the National Union of Miners out on strike during 1984-1985. This movie encapsulates that strong support the miners and their families had from the people of the UK. The Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who formed in support of the striking British miners during the yearlong UK miners strike. Despite initial and difficult efforts to break through the socially conservative miners’ communities they finally joined together in a common struggle for workers justice and human rights. By the end of the strike there were eleven chapters throughout the UK\, and the miners ended up leading London’s Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in 1985. This powerful story\, through comedy and real history\, tells us how we can build working class unity. \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/pride-2014-120-min-uk-2/
LOCATION:Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center\, Ballroom\, 938 The Alameda\, San Jose\, CA\, 95126\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-21-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180720T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180604T073100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195153Z
UID:1804-1532113200-1532113200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Dare To Struggle Dare To Win\, 1968 (96 min.) France
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Jea-Pierre Thorn (France)\n50th Anniversary of May-June General Strike France\nIn the middle of the May-June French General Strike in 1968 Jean Pierre-Thorn\, a film student at University of Paris\, takes his camera to the Flins Renault auto plant and ends up in the middle of the workers struggle during these events. This is an intimate and close-up look at the struggle of the French workers during that historic strike and occupation by French workers. We see how the occupation took place from the inside and the role of the students who also were supporting the occupation. The strikers not only had to fight the bosses but also the CGT (France’s largest trade union federation) and the closely linked French Communist Party (PCF)\, who were both opposed to the general strike. Also depicted in the film are the heroic attempts of as many as 5\,000 students and workers from other workplaces and regions to reach the factory in its rural location to support the occupation. The police\, also numbering in the thousands\, attempted to block them from reaching the factory\, so the street fighting in the small town of Flins takes on a similar appearance to the battles of the Latin Quarter in Paris\, as local residents support the strikers and their supporters who came to show their solidarity. Following the film there will be a discussion.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/dare-to-struggle-dare-to-win-1968-96-min-france/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-20-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180719T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180604T072617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195238Z
UID:1800-1532026800-1532026800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Pride 2014 (120 min.) UK
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Matthew Warchus (UK)\nThe unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort to break the miners’ union\, former Prime Minister Thatcher decided to force the National Union of Miners out on strike during 1984-1985. This movie encapsulates that strong support the miners and their families had from the people of the UK. The Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who formed in support of the striking British miners during the yearlong UK miners strike. Despite initial and difficult efforts to break through the socially conservative miners’ communities they finally joined together in a common struggle for workers justice and human rights. By the end of the strike there were eleven chapters throughout the UK\, and the miners ended up leading London’s Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in 1985. This powerful story\, through comedy and real history\, tells us how we can build working class unity.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/pride-2014-120-min-uk/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-19-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-19-Pride-2014.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T024101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195530Z
UID:1649-1531508400-1531508400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The Strike and Uprising\, 2017 (66 min.) U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Anne Lewis\nThis new film by Anne Lewis and associate producer Laura Vare\, A Strike and an Uprising\, illuminates two major moments in Texas labor history: the Pecan Shellers Strike of 1937 led by young communist Emma Tenayuca\, and the Jobs With Justice campaign that coalesced around anti-Black racism at Stephen F. Austin University of 1985. Through the lens of participant interviews and the changes to their lives\, this film ties together past history with today’s struggles. Anne Lewis will present her film. \nAustin Beloved Community \n \ntrailer — a strike and an uprising (in texas) from Anne Lewis on Vimeo.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-strike-and-uprising-2017-66-min-by-ann-lewis/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-13-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180713T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180618T185448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195544Z
UID:2061-1531504800-1531512000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Last Train Home\, 2010 (87 min) China
DESCRIPTION:  \nDirected by Lixin Fan (China)\nWhen this documentary was made 8 years ago\, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130 million\, however\, it is now 260 million in China. These are the workers who have built the largest industrial power in the world. This film shows the lives of these migrant workers and the mass migration back to their homes and families during the holidays. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. They have been separated from their families during the year and many live in dire conditions with no political and education rights in the cities. While China is developing industry in the interior and workers are moving back to their provinces\, the vast majority still work and live on the coastal cities as second-class workers. If they bring their children with them\, these children are not allowed to registered for school or receive benefits of official residencys including the healthcare\, education and housing. Their long estrangement from their children leaves deep scars. The film is powerful in showing the lives of these workers as they fight for the last train home.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/last-train-home-2010-87-min-china/
LOCATION:San Jose Peace & Justice Center\, 48 S. 7th St.\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-13-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2832.original.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180707T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T023012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195809Z
UID:1632-1530990000-1530990000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : The Young Karl Marx\, 2017 (118 min.) Germany
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Raoul Peck (Germany)\nOn the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx\, many of his ideas are as relevant today as they were when he and his collaborator Frederick Engels were writing and organizing. The growing crisis of technology creating great wealth then as technology does now\, while livesof the mass of workers become increasingly difficult\, is wealth disparity The film Young Karl Marx looks at the early lives of Marx and his collaborator Engels\, whose father owned a factory in Manchester. The industrial revolution began in Manchester where we see the conditions of working people in this period. The struggle that took place to understand this economic revolution and its effect on working people. More than two hundred years since his birth\, his theoretical understanding continues for many to be critically relevant to our lives today and we see in this film where his ideas come from and how he organized to put them into practice.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-young-karl-marx-2017-118-min-by-raoul-peck-germany/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-07-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-7-young-marx.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T022430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195853Z
UID:1626-1530903600-1530903600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Last Train Home\, 2010 (87 min.) China
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Lixin Fan (China)\nWhen this documentary was made 8 years ago\, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130 million\, however\, it is now 260 million in China. These are the workers who have built the largest industrial power in the world. This film shows the lives of these migrant workers and the mass migration back to their homes and families during the holidays. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. They have been separated from their families during the year and many live in dire conditions with no political and education rights in the cities. While China is developing industry in the interior and workers are moving back to their provinces\, the vast majority still work and live on the coastal cities as second-class workers. If they bring their children with them\, these children are not allowed to registered for school or receive benefits of official residencys including the healthcare\, education and housing. Their long estrangement from their children leaves deep scars. The film is powerful in showing the lives of these workers as they fight for the last train home.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/ast-train-home-2010-87-min-by-lixin-fan-china/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-06-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2832.original.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T203000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180622T183015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195930Z
UID:2114-1530563400-1530563400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : Bisbee ’17 (119 min.)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Robert Greene (2018) \nThe hidden history of the American working class is exposed in this new film Bisbee ’17 by Robert Green. This film is centered around the attack on immigrant copper miners\, who in July 12\, 1917\, were rounded up and illegally deported out of the town by placing them in cattle cars. The train eventually ended up in New Mexico where the miners were later incarcerated by the US military. The Mexican and European workers had been organized by the IWW in the midst of the 1st world war when the price of copper was skyrocketing. The mine companies also used a group called the ‘loyalty leaguers’ to charge that the miners had actually been infiltrated by the Germans who the US was at war with. The film interviews members of families in the town and even residents whose families later returned to the town. \nToday as immigrant bashing is the new “normal” and the organized terrorism against Mexican workers and their families and children is now government policy\, this film resonates that racism\, ethnic cleansing and immigrant bashing goes back over a hundred years ago.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bisbee-17-119-min/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-2-Bisbee-1.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T021618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195940Z
UID:1618-1530558000-1530558000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : UNION TIME: Fighting For Workers Rights\, 2016 (86 min.) U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Matthew Barr\nNarrated by Danny Glover\nIn 1993\, a group of employees at the Smithfield Pork Processing Plant in Tar Heel\, North Carolina\, began to work with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union to organize the 5\,000 workers at the plant. In 2008\, after a 16-year-long struggle\, they won the right to form a union. Jobs in meatpacking are among the most dangerous in the country. Once dominated by skilled butchers working in unionized jobs\, the industry gradually moved packing plants to rural areas in right-to-work states. What used to be respected as skilled labor is now broken down into assembly-line tasks\, with workers—many of them African American or immigrant often treated as expendable. Dangerous conditions\, wage theft\, intimidation\, and abuse are rampant. Union Time weaves together labor rights and civil rights to show how unions can be a potent force for economic and social justice. Above all\, it celebrates the courage of meatpacking workers who refused to give up through a 16-year-long struggle.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/union-time-fighting-for-workers-rights-2016-86-min-by-matthew-barr/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-02-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/UT.event-flyer.image-resized.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T022247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T195951Z
UID:1624-1530471600-1530471600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film : A Taxi Driver\, 2017 (138 min.)\, Korea
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Jan Hoon (Korea)\nGwangju\, Korea is a historic center of struggle for the Korean people and this powerful dramatic film shows the story of the May 1980 Gwangju people’s rebellion against the repressive dictator Chun Doo-hwan. His military government is portrayed through the eyes of the students and taxi drivers in the city under assault\, the story based on actual events of that struggle. A German journalist\, Jürgen “Peter” Hinzpeter\, wants to get the story out and ends up with a Seoul taxi driver named Kim Man-seob (Song Kang-ho) who really isn’t aware of what is going on there. They start off from Seoul and have to get into the city where the military have locked it down and are massacring protesting civilians. The role of the taxi workers in supporting the people of Gwangju is a powerful story and the role of Korean troops was in fact allowed by the US\, which still controls troop movements in the country of Korea. \nK.J. Noh\, Flaspoint’s Asia-Pacific Correspondent will introduce the film and moderate discussion after the film.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/a-taxi-driver-2017-138-min-by-jan-hoon-korea/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ataxidriver-e1518131331394.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180701T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T024436
CREATED:20180524T021427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T200001Z
UID:1616-1530457200-1530457200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: We The Workers\, 2017 (174 min.)\, China
DESCRIPTION:FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival\nDirected by Wen Hai (China)\nChina has become the factory workshop of the world. The film “We The Worker” is a documentary shot over a six-year period. We see the real conditions and issues of the Chinese industrial workers as they fight for labor and worker rights. Similar to capitalist countries\, they are threatened\, attacked\, and jailed by the new bosses of corporate China. They also face not only the company owners but police who collude with the owners to silence and intimidate the efforts of these workers to defend their labor rights on the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/we-the-workers-2017-174-min-directed-by-wen-hai-china/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07-01-2018,2018,2018-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wetheworkers1.jpg
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