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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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
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
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:20180720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180720T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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:20260605T031759
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T225407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211237Z
UID:356-1501412400-1501412400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Iron Moon (84 min.) 2015\, China / Play On (83 min.) 2017\, S.Korea
DESCRIPTION:Iron Moon: The Poetry of Chinese Migrant Workers (84 min.) 2015 \nDirected by: Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu\nThe new film from China Iron Moon is a powerful artistic view of the massive industrialization of China through the eyes and words of the workers who have made the new China. At Foxconn\, which has over 200\,000 workers and produces most of our Apple phones\, workers face a life of despair. One of them who committed suicide at the age of 24\, left 200 poems of despair\, “I swallowed an iron moon…” Using poetry as a tool to chip away at the ice of silence\, they and other workers in this film express the hidden stories and life experiences of millions of the workers who are the foundation of the new China.\nIt weaves from worker to worker\, from a female clothing factory worker who lives in poverty but writes poetry rich in dignity and love; a coal miner who works deep in the earth\, trying to make peace with the spirits of his dead coworkers through his poetry; rock miner Chen Nianxi\, who traveled to San Francisco this year\, speaking of his life; working in the mines to support his family\, gold-mine demolitions worker blasting rock several kilometers into mountainsides\, while writing poetry to carry the weight of his fury\, “My body carries three tons of dynamite..” These could be any of the 350 million workers in China\, and yet they are also poets. These stories of the life and struggles of Chinese workers are a mournful song and tale of global capitalism. \nReviewed by Maghiel van Crevel \n \n  \n \nPlay On (83 min.) (2017)  \nDirected by: Gyuri Byun\nWhat happens when subcontracted workers turn into podcast DJs? Subcontracted workers at SK Broadband\, Inc. began a podcast broadcast titled Workers Have Changed\, to deliver the news about their strike for job security. The podcast studio has become a theater of their life as they share their stories—daily hardships of subcontracted labor\, coping with rude customers\, and their future and dreams. They finally achieved a victory to convert their employment status from non-regular to regular\, yet with their monthly income cut in half. Given this “half” success complicating the picture\, Bong-Keun\, a union member\, decided to quit the job.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/iron-moon-death-by-design/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,30,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IronMoon.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170728T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170728T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T224840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T211114Z
UID:344-1501243200-1501243200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Care (60 min.) 2016 / Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Deirdre Fishel\n& The Defense of Our Elderly and Panel of Homecare and Disabled Care Workers\nCare by director Deirdre Fishel tells the story of home elder care and the homecare workers who do the work to protect our elderly. The humanity of both the elderly and disabled and their caregivers gives the film strength and shows the living reality for a growing part of our population. Millions of seniors need this care and the workers who do this job. These workers are doing critical public work\, yet\, are underpaid\, many struggling to survive themselves. \nA panel discussion follows after the film: \nBrett Miller\, SEIU 1021; Brad Wiedmaier\, SEIU Local 2015 California long term care; moderated by David Duckworth SEIU 1021.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/care/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,28,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1-pidRJiWoiXzeeucHA-BlGg.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170726T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T224404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210952Z
UID:334-1501066800-1501066800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Bridging Urban America (87 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Basia Myszynski and Leonard Myszynski\nThis biography celebrates Ralph Modjeski\, the Chairman of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Modjeski designed bridges that had significant impact on urban development and commerce. The film is a tribute to innovative engineering and to bridge workers during two eras of transit\, taking a deeper look at the scientific mind and artistic soul of a Polish-born\, Paris-trained immigrant who contributed to the building of a modern America. This is a relevant film that brings awareness about the deteriorating state of our bridges and how communities search for sustainable solutions to maintain\, rehabilitate and preserve these critical parts of North America’s infrastructure.\nScreened in conjunction with the exhibits “Building Bridges\, Not Walls” during July and August at the San Francisco History Center\, 6th Floor of the Main Library\, and at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach.h. \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/bridging-urban-america/
LOCATION:SF Main Library – Koret Auditorium\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,26,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-26-bridging-urban-america.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T224301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210941Z
UID:332-1500984000-1500984000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Where Are You Buddy? (25 min.) 2017\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kazim Kizil\nWith discussion – The Fight to Defend Academics and Journalists in Turkey\nThe growth of child labor in Turkey and around the world is exploding. The U.S. invasion of Iraq and Libya\, the war in Syria\, and now the U.S. supported bombing of Yemen\, are creating millions of refugees\, including many children forced to work. This film looks at the lives of these children from their own words as child workers. This new film from Turkey by director Kazim Kizil lets the children tell their own stories.\nThis will be followed by a discussion about the fight to defend the professors\, teachers\, and journalists who are under attack in Turkey by the Erodgan AKP government. Tens of thousands of teachers and public workers have been fired without a hearing or due process; many have been jailed\, some have committed suicide\, and others are on hunger strikes.\nThe director of this film Kazim Kizil  was jailed by the government and an international campaign is taking place to free him.\nSupport the campaign and come to the screening. \nSF Labor Council Resolution In Support Of Journalists In Turkey\nJournalism Is Not A Crime: Free Kasim\nhttps://kazimkizilaozgurluk.wordpress.com/iletisim/\nhttps://www.change.org/p/kazım-kızıl-a-özgürlük-free-kazim-kizil-kazımkızılvicdanımızdır \nSponsored by Solidarity Committee With The People Of Turkey\nhttp://www.freeacademicians.org \n  \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-fight-to-defend-academics-and-journalists-in-turkey/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,25,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-25-Turkey-where-are-you.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170724T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170724T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T224200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210924Z
UID:330-1500894000-1500894000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:The River Ran Red : (58 min.) 2012 / And Report on Labor in the Schools
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux\nThe violence that erupted at Carnegie Steel’s giant Homestead mill near Pittsburgh on July 6\, 1892\, caused a congressional investigation and trials for treason\, motivated a nearly successful assassination attempt on Frick\, contributed to the defeat of President Benjamin Harrison for a second term\, and changed the course of the American labor movement.\nThis film is aripping account of the summer of 1892\, in which a bitter conflict erupted at the Carnegie Works in Homestead\, Pennsylvania. The nation’s largest steel maker took on its most militant labor union\, with devastating consequences for American workers. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick head a fascinating cast of characters\, which includes 300 armed Pinkerton guards and the would-be anarchist assassin\, Alexander Berkman. This American tragedy still resonates 125 years later\, especially in communities hard hit by the decline of heavy industry and labor’s diminishing clout. \nReport on Labor in the Schools \nThe struggle to defend working people and our unions requires a real knowledge of history. We need to know where we come from and the lessons of the past to understand our present issues.\nLabor In The Schools has been a project of the California Federation of Teachers CFT to bring labor education into the schools and to support the idea that working class history is critical for all people.\nBill Morgan who is a member of the statewide CFT committee will talk about the efforts of the union to build support for labor education in the schools and what all unionists and working people can do to help support labor education.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/the-river-ran-red/
LOCATION:Plumbers Hall\, 1621 Market St. 2nd floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,24,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-24homestead-strike-1892.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170723T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T224107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210911Z
UID:328-1500811200-1500811200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Watsonville On Strike (65 min.) 1989
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jon Silver\nWith Jon Silver & Frank Barnacke\nIn September 1985\, 1\,500 Teamster-organized\, mostly immigrant women cannery workers walked out on the two largest frozen food companies in the United States — Watsonville Canning and Richard A. Shaw Frozen Foods in Watsonville\, California. This was known as the “frozen food capital of the world”. The workers faced not only companies who wanted major concessions but also a white union leadership who did not speak Spanish and who accused them of not being union members.\nThis historic and powerful video “Watsonville on Strike” hears the voices of these workers and their struggle for justice and control of their own union. The strike lasted 17 months revealing the contradictions in management and the unions.\nIt also shows the internal struggle in the union against the push for a concession contract and the role of solidarity.\nJoining film maker Jon Silver after the screening will be Frank Barnacke\, who was a farmworker\, and is author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. \n\nhttps://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC35folder/WatsonvilleStrike.html \n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSPSanxM8M
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/watsonville-on-strike/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,23,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Watsonville-Strike-Scab.jpeg.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T223532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210742Z
UID:315-1500638400-1500638400@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Island of Shadows : (98 min.) 2016\, S. Korea
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jeong-keun Kim\n“Island of Shadows” shows the history of Korean Hanjin shipyard workers to defend their health and safety building a union. They built one of the most industrialized countries in the world yet now face the destruction of their lives because of company unions and government corruption.\nConditions are so horrific that it is acceptable that workers are regularly getting killed on the job. Slowly workers began to set up a union to fight for their human and labor rights; we hear from the voice of workers about this experience\, their victories and defeats.\nIt also shows the despair that led union leaders to commit suicide in protest over their conditions. To understand the horrific conditions and sacrifices that these workers make to change their lives is to understand the power of the working class and how they can succeed despite repression and workplace bullying.\nOne of the worker leaders is Jinsook Kim\, a welder at the shipyard who challenged the workers to support their rights by occupying the top of a crane for 309 days.\nHer voice for justice and humanity resonates to all working people and human beings.\nFollowing the film there will be an update on the Korean elections and a discussion about how U.S. workers can support the struggle of Korean workers. \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/island-of-shadows/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Church\, 1187 Franklin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-film,21,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-21-Island-of-shadows-2.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170719T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170719T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170518T052658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T210714Z
UID:259-1500465600-1500465600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: I\, Daniel Blake (96 min.) 2017\, UK
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ken Loach\, written by Paul Laverty\nScreenwriter Paul Laverty will introduce the film by Skype.\nI\, Daniel Blake by Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Leverty is an important film on the destruction of the lives of workers and their families in the “welfare system”. Blake is a carpenter who has a heart attack and is then forced to go back to work despite his health conditions. While he is fighting for compensation\, he befriends a woman and her children who are also being ground up in the Employment and Support Allowance welfare system in the UK.\nThis film\, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes\, touches the hearts of all people about what working people are going through in their struggle for survival.\n\nFollowing this film\, there will be a discussion about LaborFests in the US and around the world and the fight to protect disabled workers and their families in the US.\nPanel: Chris Jury UK Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival and Liberating Arts; Mehmet Bayran\, LaborFest Turkey; Jimmy Kelly\, ReelWorks Santa Cruz \n \n 
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/i-daniel-blake/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:19,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/I-Daniel-Blake-Film-Still.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170715T030000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170609T081742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205634Z
UID:496-1500087600-1500087600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library\, 224 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:15,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170714T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170609T081154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205625Z
UID:492-1500033600-1500033600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike-2/
LOCATION:San Jose Peace & Justice Center\, 48 S. 7th St.\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:14,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170609T080752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205603Z
UID:489-1499947200-1499947200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Woody Guthrie’s Birthday & Homestead Strike : The River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012
DESCRIPTION:Join labor musician Jimmy Kelly in commemorating the life and songs of Woody Guthrie and his birthday. Guthrie\, a people and worker’s musician\, traveled coast-to-coast singing about striking workers and people in struggle.  \nThe River Ran Red (58 min.) 2012\nBy Steffi domike & Nicole fauteux\nAlso\, this year is the 125th anniversary of the Homestead Strike\, and there will be a screening of The River Ran Red about the 1872 Homestead Steel Works strike in Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie and the other owners of the steel mill brought in Pinkerton gun thugs to break the strike and the union. This struggle was a lesson on how the robber barons treated their workers and kept their power.\n(Please check the detail of the film The River Ran Red on July 24 calender).
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/woody-guthries-birthday-homestead-strike/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall\, 1924 Cedar St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:13,2017-music-theater-art,Film,Music, Theater, Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/7-13-WoodyGuthrie.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170713T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T043519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205539Z
UID:290-1499943600-1499943600@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Comme des Lions “Like lions” Lets Fight Like Lions (115 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Françoise Davisse\nThis documentary film traces the struggle of workers of the PSA plant in Aulnay-sous-Bois\, a poor suburb of Paris\, against management’s threat to close the plant. The title comes from the slogan of the strikers\, “Let’s fight like lions!” The conflict is experienced “from the inside\,” showing the workers’ debates and reactions on a day-to-day basis\, from 2013-2015.\nSponsored by the BCC Students for Socialism Club\n(Contact jberezin@peralta.edu)
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/comme-des-lions-like-lions-lets-fight-like-lions/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College Auditorium\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:13,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/comme-des-lions.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="BCC Students for Socialism Club":MAILTO:jberezin@peralta.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170519T043405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205526Z
UID:288-1499860800-1499860800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Killing Floor (114 min) 1984
DESCRIPTION:Producer-Writer: Elsa Rassbach\, Director: Bill Duke (1985 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award)\nOne hundred years ago\, a critical struggle was taking place in the slaughterhouses in Chicago to organize a union. This powerful dramatic film focuses on the Polish and African American workers and their conditions as they fight to overcome racism and class hate and greed\, in order to build a union of black and white workers.\nAfrican American workers traveled to Chicago for jobs and the continuing struggles that led to race riots in Chicago in 1919.\nElsa Rassbach fought for PBS to do a series of films on working class history but this was the only one that was able to get funded.  \nhttp://www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com/index.html
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/film-killing-floor/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:12,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-12-killingfloor.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170710T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170710T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170518T053853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205440Z
UID:282-1499688000-1499688000@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Divided We Fall (90 min.) 2016\, The Great Sitdown (52 min.) 1976
DESCRIPTION:Divided We Fall (90 min.) (2016) Directed by: Katherine Acosta\nIn one of the largest mobilizations of labor during the last decade\, hundreds of thousands of workers from throughout the country joined together to oppose the union-busting attack by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. This film by Katherine Acosta looks at the important mobilization\, including the Wisconsin University Graduate Student Assistants and workers throughout the state who mobilized to stop the attacks on labor and democratic rights.\nWisconsin was one of the strongest unionized states in the country and the result of the failure of labor to stop his attack has left unions like AFSCME and AFT decimated with a loss of over 50% of the membership. Katherine Acosta provides lessons from how labor and the community fought back. \nhttps://vimeo.com/194732001 \n  \n \nThe Great Sitdown (52 min.) (1976) BBC Documentary \nScott Houldieson\, Vice President UAW 551 Ford Assembly Plant Chicago\,  Illinois\, will introduce the film “The Great Sitdown”  and discuss the relevance today.\nThis year we also commemorate the 80th anniversary of the autoworker sit-down of GM Fisher Number 1 in 1937. This sit-down and occupation was a critical turning point in the fight to unionize General Motors\, which was the largest industrial corporation in the United States. Auto worker organizers and a Women’s Brigade planned the sit-down at critical plants that if occupied would shutdown the entire company. Women in this struggle also played a critical role by preventing the police from entering the plants and thereby allowing time for mobilization of strike supporters.\nThis historic struggle shows that despite the massive power of the largest corporations in the world\, workers can win their fight for unionization.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/divided-we-fall-with-katherine-costa-the-great-sitdown-on-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-1937-auto-worker-sit-downs/
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall\, 801 2nd St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:10,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-10-Divided-we-fall.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170708T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170708T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170518T053424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205352Z
UID:274-1499515200-1499515200@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Fascism inc. (83 min.) 2014
DESCRIPTION:Producer: Frosso Tsouka\, Director: Aris Chatzistefanou (Greece)\nDirector Aris Chatzistefanou’s films look at Greece during the time of neo-nazi and fascist movements\, pointing to capitalism’s attempt to profit by attacking the working class and trade unionism from banning strikes to complete deregulation\, allowing the wealthy to acquire land and resources. Chatzistefanou’s film Fascism Inc. explores the role of fascism in Greece during World War II\, and its development in contemporary times. The film also looks at the growth and politics of the Greek neo-fascist group Golden Dawn\, and how their ideology and methods are encouraged by corporate-controlled media\, which blames immigrants for the growing economic crisis.\nThe rise of immigrant bashing which is taking place in the U.S. is\, as the film shows\, directly correlated to the growing economic crisis\, and this well-edited film makes the connection concrete.\nFollowing the film\, producer Frosso Tsouka and San Francisco State professor Zeese Papanikolas will discuss the economic and social developments in Greece and the rise of Golden Dawn and other neo-nazi groups.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/fascism-inc/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:08,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/7-8-FascismInc.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170707T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170707T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T031759
CREATED:20170518T052923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190629T205257Z
UID:263-1499428800-1499428800@laborfest.net
SUMMARY:Film: Ludlow\, Greek Americans In Colorado Coal War (71 min.) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Producer: Frosso Tsouka\, Director: Leonidas Vardaros\nThe racist war on immigrants in the US has a long history and this film tells the story of Greek Americans and other immigrants who came to work in the mines of Colorado. This film shows the conditions that these miners and their children worked under and how immigrant workers were terrorized and exploited.\nThis story is not only about their conditions but also how they fought back despite major obstacles\, including organizing themselves to form a union and stand up to the goliath capitalist John D. Rockefeller.\nThe Colorado Ludlow massacre of 1914\, which killed 26 at a workers camp\, was a coordinated effort by Rockefeller and the politicians he controlled to use the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards to murder and destroy their fight for a union. This massacre of mine workers and their families was called by labor historian Howard Zinn “the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history.” It is a hidden part of our history today as workers fight for human and labor rights.\nFilm maker Frosso Tsouka and San Francisco State professor Zeese Papanikolas will take questions after the film. Professor Papanikolas is author of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre. This book helped encourage filmmakers from the U.S. and Greece to focus on this important American story.
URL:https://laborfest.net/2018/event/presentation-of-ludlow-greek-americans-in-colorado-coal-war/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, 518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:07,2017-film,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laborfest.net/2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ludlow.jpg
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