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An Equal Opportunity (1982)

21 Feb

13m; U.S.

Director: Caroline Leaf

Synopsis (IMDB): This open-ended drama is designed to trigger discussion on the subject of equal opportunities for women in the workplace and on the role of unions in securing those opportunities and eliminating discriminatory labor practices. Though set within a hospital and focusing on one of several staff women who are denied access to a pharmacy training program despite suitable qualifications, the underlying premises, conflicts, and responses have implications that reach far beyond the hospital walls

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Women, Working Class

 

Erin Brockovich (2000)

21 Feb

131m; U.S.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Julia Roberts,  Albert Finney, David Brisbin

Synopsis: Based on the true story of an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Safety & Health, Whistleblowers, Working Class

 

Escape to Paradise (2001)

21 Feb

91m; Switzerland

Director: Nino Jacusso

Synopsis: Turkish emigres in Switzerland.

Contact: Distributor: Insert Film Untere Steingrubenstrasse 19 Postfach 106 Solothum/Schweiz, CH-4504 Switzerland Phone: 41-32-625-700 http://www.insertfilm.ch

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

Estamos Aqui (2005)

21 Feb

10m; U.S.

Director: Insurgen Media

Synopsis: UC Santa Cruz one-day strike of workers and students that shut down the campus.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Education, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Eugene Debs and the American Movement (1977)

21 Feb

43m; U.S.

Director: Cambridge Documentary Films

Synopsis: Documentary overview of the struggles of the workers in industry through historic union formations and workers’ political parties as observed in this film of Eugene Debs and heard in his own words as narrated by his friend and comrade Shubert Sebree

 

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Even the Heavens Weep (1985)

21 Feb

55m; U.S.

Synopsis: The story of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest armed labor conflict in American history. TV star Mike Connors narrates this classic story about the long and bloody history of coal in Appalachia.

Contact: Debbie Oleksa West Virginia; Public Broadcasting, Morgantown, 1- 888-596-9729.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, War, Working Class

 

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Evening with Claude Frazier, M.D. (1993)

21 Feb

27m; U.S.

Synopsis: Dr. Claude Frazier, M.D., is author of “Miners and Medicine: West Virginia Memories,” a personal account of growing up the son of a coal camp doctor and nurse. Frazier describes firsthand the horrific health problems in the coal camps, the resourcefulness of the doctors and nurses, and the struggle to raise health standards in and around the mines. Frazier recalls life in coal camps in Montgomery, Ansted, and Welch, WV. He describes the “ties that bind” in small WV communities. He also describes the responsibilities the coal camp doctor took on and the admiration the miners had for the company doctor.

Contact: WSWP-TV; WVLC

 
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An Evergreen Island

21 Feb

Australia

Director: Fabio Cavadini & Mandy King

Synopsis: globalization; villagers battle for self-determination against copper company & government

 
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Everyday Heroes (2001)

21 Feb

48m; U.S.

Director: IAMAW

Synopsis: America’s workers epic response to the attacks of September 11th

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Working Class

 

Tout va Bien (1972)

21 Feb

95m; France

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Cast: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda and Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a film director. The film is Marxist in its political message, explaining the logic of the class struggle, and Brechtian in its formal qualities, which emphasize the motion of the camera. The factory set consists of a cross-section of the building and allows the camera to dolly back and forth from room to room, theoretically through the walls. This makes the factory look like an ant farm, and serves the overarching Marxist agenda. This staging is also an homage to Jerry Lewis‘s film The Ladies Man in which a similar set is used for a women’s boarding house.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 
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