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Los Piqueteros
This video tells the story of the picketers
in Argentina and why the
working class is in rebellion. Hear the
voices of a people whose country
has been sold off to speculators under the
guise of "free trade" and
privatization. (Spanish with English subtitles)
Ojoobrero@hotmail.com
(www.lucharte.com.ar/OjoObrera.htm)
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Piqueteros Carajo
- about the repression that took place
the 26th of June 2002.
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Argentinazo y" Comienza la revolucio'n
- about 19th and 20th of December in Argentina.
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Voces Argentinas [Argentine Voices]
Interwoven voices from the streets of
Buenos Aires tell how it feels to
be Argentinian as the country plunges
fast from the first world to the
third. Resisting the dire personal, economic
and social consequences of
institutionalised corruption with poetry,
laughter and practical
solidarity, Voces Argentinas records a
people and a city staying very
much alive through the very worst of times.
The film covers the proto-revolutionary
events of December 19-20 2001,
the popular assemblies, barter markets,
workers©ö occupation of
factories, and the piquetero movement
who take to the streets to
¨«reclaim the state©ö from the dictats of
unaccountable power in a
neo-liberal global economy.
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Ojo Obrero
We founded the group on the 29th of May
of 2001(date of our Manifest
publication). The idea came from a n experience
some of us made on 1997
and 1998 when we had another group called
"Noticiero Obrero"
(translation: Workers News) on that time
we made two videos: "Workers
Struggle 1997" and "Estudiantazo"
(1998)( About Students struggle). Then
we also were in a Photograph proyect called
"Grupo Fotografia de la
Base". These two experiences helped
to develop what is today Ojo Obrero.
Also the experience of seeing movies made
in the 60s¢¥and 70s¢¥ in
Argentina and Latin America of some important
directors and groups who
combined films and politics on those tough
years. Examples are Raymundo
Gleyzer who was dissapeared by the military
dictatorship on 1976,
Fernando Birri, Pino Solanas, and many
others.
We formed the group at the same time an
important piketer movement was
formed: Polo Obrero, this also is the
name of our first work as Ojo
Obrero, then came "CGT San Lorenzo
en Lucha" that is about the
organization of a regional Workers Union.
Later came: "Un Fantasma
Recorre la Argentina...Los Piqueteros"
( "A Spectre is Haunting
Argentina...The Piketers"). Our work
consists in producing videos,
fotography, and posters, revolutionary
advertisement (I¢¥m not shure if
this part is understud) we¢¥ve only made
documentaries till now but we
wan¢¥t to expand and make other things:
animation, ficcion. Other part of
our task is to expand and that other Ojo
Obrero groups could be borned
in other parts of our country and in the
world as well. That anybody
with a camera or a videotapeplayer could
make an experience. We want to
grow. This is a small part of our past
and what we are working for.
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Navigators (2001, UK, 92min, Ken Loach)
Ken Loach, the most important working
class film maker in the world
takes us into the lives of British rail
workers as they face the trauma
of privatization. From the inside, we
see how this privatization scam
was sold and how it wrecked the lives
of tens of thousands of railroad
workers as well as destroying one of the
best rail systems in the world.
* Cradle will rock
(1999, USA, 132min, Tim Robbins)
Cradle
Will Rock is based on the true events
surrounding the
controversial 1937 musical drama by Marc
Blitzstein (Hank Azaria) about
a greedy industrialist taken down by an
ordinary man. When the musical's
plot line was seen as an attack on capitalism,
Cradle was canceled by
the W.P.A. Theatre. The men behind the
production - Orson Welles (Angus
Macfayden) and John Houseman (Cary Elwes)
- moved the show (and the
audience) to a nearby theater, where it
was performed without scenery,
props, or costumes. The play was a hit
and soon landed on Broadway.

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Not This Time (2001, UK, 24min, Conscious
cinema)
This timely documentary tells the story
of the murder of Simon Jones.
Jones was sent out by an employment agency
to work on the docks and was
killed on his first day on the job. This
exposes the corporate
government policy of privatization, deregulation
and union busting.

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Occupation (2001, USA, 45min, Maple Razsa
/ Pacho Velez)
A dynamic story of how students and immigrant
janitors took on and
defeated one of the most powerful corporations
in the world, Occupation
documents the historic three-week sit-in
by the Harvard Living Wage
Campaign. The Campaign won unprecedented
gains for low-wage workers at
the worlds richest university, and catapulted
the living wage movement
to the center of public attention. In
demonstrating one local response
to corporate power in an age of globalization,
Occupation powerfully
depicts how people from dramatically different
backgrounds were able to
raise their hands together in victory.
It is narrated by Ben Affleck.
(http://www.enmassefilms.org)
** Maple Razsa and
Pacho Velez -- Both are
currently Students at Harvard
University. They were both sit-in participants
and very active in the
Harvard Living Wage movement. They are
now planning a second film on
mining communities in the former Yugoslavia.
 
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Boom The Sound of Eviction (2001, USA,
96min, Whispered media)
A hard hitting documentary that popped
the bubble of the speculative
frenzy before the dotcom bust and exposes
why working people can no
longer afford to live in San Francisco.
(www.boomthemovie.org)

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Behind the Labels : Garment Workers on
US Saipan (2001, USA, 45min, Tia Lessin)
Lured by
false promises and driven by desperation,
thousands of Chinese
and Filipina women pay huge fees to work
in garment factories on the
Pacific island of Saipan
 
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The Bottom Line: Privatizing the world
(2002, Canada, 52min, Carole Poliquin)
About the extension of the market rules
to all spheres of human life.
Water, seeds, genes, healthcare and other
public services.... Very few
things today are not considered to be
saleable commodities. The film
shows how this is threatening the the
common good which forms the basis
of our communities. What will become of
society, confronted as it is by
Big Business voracious appetite for profit?
Can the marketplace ensure
that elements essential to life itself
will not become commercial goods?
Through various stories shot in Canada,
the USA, Mexico, France, Brazil
and India, the documentary shows the consequences
of the world?
submission to private interests: a Canadian
farmer is sued by Monsanto
because patented seeds brought by the
wind were growing in its fields;
traditional knowledge is being patented
in India; American people
without insurance are denied healthcare,
businessmen want to sell
Canadian water to the highest bidder while
thousands of people in the
world are desperately needing it...
 
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Combating the Unacceptable (2001, Belgium,
30min, John Eden - produced by ICFTU)
It demonstrates
the reality of working children and growth
of child
labor around the world. It highlights
children picking coffee beans and
tea leaves in Kenya, long hours for young
domestic workers in
Philippines, local trade unions taking
care of thousands of street
children in Brazil. It focuses on the
joint efforts of trade unions and
other non-governmental organizations to
put an end to child labor in
their communities.
(http://www.global-unions.org)
(www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?index=991214790)

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An Injury to One (2001, USA, 53min, Travis
Wilkerson / Susan Fink)
AN
INJURY TO ONE reconstructs the long-forgotten
murder of union
organizer Frank Little in the town of
Butte, Montana. The film is
constructed according to the mythic dimensions
of a territorial grave:
3X7X77 . Much of the extant evidence is
inscribed upon the landscape of
Butte and its surroundings. Thus a connection
is drawn between the
unsolved murder of Little and the attempted
murder of the town itself.
This unique film/video hybrid combines
painterly images, incisive
writing, and a bold graphic sensibility
to produce an articulate example
of the aesthetic and political possibilities
offered by micro-budget
filmmaking in the digital age.
((
Korean programs ))
There will be 10 programs from Korea.
Labor News Production will present
two videos, the one about Korean railway's
struggle and the other on
Donga engineering trade union history.
And there will be other politcal
programs covering the issues such as the
world cup and exploitation of
the workers and gentrification, people
with disabilities struggle for
access to the public transportation. And
the trainees of LNP's <the
workers with the camera> made three
documentaries on immigrant workers
and labor politics.
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