25m;
Synopsis: Four Cajun women in Southwestern Louisiana on what ironing means to them.
Author Archives: Metro Council
I Always Dream of Tomorrow (2001)
38m; South Korea
Director: Kim Mi-Re
Synopsis: Women workers in South Korea
Contact: Produced by the Korean Women Workers Associations United and the Korean Women’s Trade Union.
The Globalization Tapes (2002)
85m
Director: Vision Machine Film Project
Synopsis: The film powerfully documents workers exploration of history, globalization, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
Grassroots Rising: Asian Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles (2006)
56m; U.S.
Director: Robert C. Winn
Synopsis: Poignant stories of Asian immigrant families as their grassroots organizing efforts build community in LA.
Contact: http://www.vconline.org/grassroots/index.html recc by APALA DC’s Malcolm Amado Uno Muno@aflcio.org
Granito de Arena (2005)
Mexico
Director: Jill Freidberg
Synopsis: Resistance to attacks on public education in Mexico as result of globalization.
Goodbye Solo (2008)
91m; Belguim
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West and Diana Franco Galindo
Synopsis: Story of Solo, a kindhearted and friendly 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina, who is hired by William, a tough 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from which William plans to jump to his death.
Golden Lands, Working Hands
150m; U.S.
Synopsis: California labor history
http://www.cft.org/member-services/labor-education/golden-lands,-working-hands.html
Contact: Golden Lands, Working Hands, CFT, One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440, Oakland, CA 94612, 510/832-8812, or email . Visit the Golden Lands, Working Hands page in the CFT website, http://www.cft.org.
Fred Glass, Communications Director California Federation of Teachers One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440 Oakland, CA 94612 510/832-882 fax 510/832-5044
http://www.cft.org
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
96m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell and Aline MacMahon
Synopsis (IMDB): Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.
Going Private (Nachbeben) [2006]
98m
Director: Stina Werenfels
Cast: Michael Neuenschwander, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Bettina Stucky, Georg Scharegg
Synopsis (IMDB): Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, on a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP’s Danish au pair girl threatens to blow the whistle on her love affair with HP’s married boss. HP wants to please everybody but what was set out to be a gathering amongst friends spins out of control into a night of blackmail and intrigue.
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