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International Working Class
Film & Video FestivalAt East Bay Location
July 6 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370 27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Maquilapolis (68 min) 2006 by Vicky Funari & Sergio DeLa Torre
In 2001 Tijuana suffered a recession as transnationals looking to cut labor costs even further, left for Asian countries. In the global marketplace workers are mere commodities. The filmmakers gave several women workers in Tijuana video cameras to make a record of their lives, giving the documentary the intimate feel of video diaries.
www.newsreel.org
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel010507.html
My Bicycle (Bisikletim) (12 min) 2006
by Esra Var, Seda Özdemir, Ercan Çof, Tolga Sert
In this documentary, we learn about the living conditions and stories of temporary workers from a 13 years old boy from Turkey. He comes to Eskisehir –one of the big cities of Turkey every spring to work as a temporary beet worker.
No Te Rajes (29 min) 2006 by Caitlin Manning
The peaceful civil disovedience movement took over the heart of Mexico City for 49 das in 2006. This film provides background and context for the current wave of social movements in Mexico.
Producer Caitlin Manning will be attending the screening.
Caitlin_manning@csumb.edu
Estamos Aqui (10 min) 2005 by Insurgent Media
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) initiated a one-day strike at all University of California campuses in April of 2005. At UC Santa Cruz, students and workers physically shut down the campus for hours as thousands blocked the two entrances. This film gives an inside look at this historic events.
solidarityfilms@riseup.net
www.mediainsurgente.comJuly 13 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370 27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Class Struggle Films from Australia
Film-Work (43 min) 1981 by John Huges
Between 1953 and 1958 the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia supported a film unit tha produced ten documentary films for several militant unions. Film-Work, produced in 1981, looks at sequences from four of these films in conversation with the Unit’s members raising issues pertinent to current problems of film and labor history, politics and social change.
jheworks@websurf.net.au
The Hungry Miles (49 min) 1954 by Jack Levy, Keith Gow of the Waterfront Workers Federation Film Unit
This labor film, which premiered to 5,000 wharfies in a Melbourne stadium shows the real lives and struggles of the Australian dockers. The WWF had made it a high priority to break through the anti-worker propaganda by the shipping bosses and this film played a key part in showing the working conditions, hopes and aspirations of dockers. It also challenged the corporate controlled effort to make film simply "entertainment" industry.
http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1864032804
Hola Australia (20 min) by MUA Film Unit (Australia)
Australian wharfies win a trip to Cuba and learn about fellow maritime workers as well as the healthcare system of the country. This first hand look at the healthcare in Cuba and how it operates.
July 20 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) -Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370 27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The Scavengers (69 min) 2007 by Karahber (Turkey)
Hundreds of people who have been pushed out of their Kurdish village Ördekli Kotran's in Hakkari during 1994 are still in a battle for survival. Their work is collecting paper for recycling from the garbage in the center of Ankara. In 2001, a group of these workers started to video record their daily lives. They documented the suffering as a result of their forced migration and their struggle against unregulated face of capitalism in the capital city of Turkey. Their work tells the story of those people - from a 13 years old child looking after his family in the garbage of Ankara to an old man being dismissed from his village at the age of 60 with their only resources being their labor. Despite forced migration, alienation and degradation, they are proud of what they do.
(Kurish and Turkish with subtitles)
www.karahaber.org
Central Bakery O, Dridi (33 min) 2002 by Camy Julien (France)
One night with a bakerman. Omar Dridi is born in Algeria and he arrived after the Algerian’s war in France where he lost his parents. He talks about his life, his work, his dream, the new generation etc. His work is what you eat.
juliencamy@gmail.comJuly 27 (Friday) 7:00 PM ($5.00) Fellowship of Humanity Hall 370 27th St., Oakland
International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Mother Jones (30 min) 2006 by Rosemary Feurer
Mother Jones, one of the most famous Irish born labor activists in the US had a brutal life. Her 5 children died in a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. She then moved to Chicago and during the Chicago fire she lost her home, shop and all her belongings. In her late 50’s she began to struggle for workers rights with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and helped organize strikes and marches including marches to protest child labor.
This powerful video tells her story and the fight for rank and file power that she stood for. Rose will also discuss her new book Radical Unionism In the Midwest 1900-1950.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s06/feurer.html
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/labor/indexpage.htm
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/radicalunionism/index.htm
Stolt Australia (11 min) by MUA film unit
A video by the MUA film unit about the fight by MUA ship crew of the MT Stolt who to keep it from being reflagged with the resulting destruction of jobs. The crew debates whether to take up the fight and what it means from them and the workers in the rest of the industry. The need for solidarity was clearly the decisive factor in making this a victory for the crew and the union.
http://www.mua.org.au/news/general/stolt7.html
We Live on The Railroad (20 min) by Doro-Chiba (Japan)
This is the story of the fight against privatization of JR (Japan Rail) by railroad workers union.
www.doro-chiba.org/english/english.html
The Cleaners Christmas Carol (4 min) by Chris Kasrils (U.K.)
Rail and tube cleaners campaign by the UK RMT for decent wages ( a living wage of £7.05 per hour). The living wage campaign goes up against scrooge.
C.Kasrils@rmt.org.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nWLoC5hqE http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=98930&int1stParentNodeID=8973
Hola Australia (20 min) by MUA Film Unit (Australia)
Australian wharfies win a trip to Cuba and learn about fellow maritime workers as well as the healthcare system of the country. This first hand look at the healthcare in Cuba and how it operates.