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Bananas (2009)

24 Jan

80m; Sweden

Director: Fredrik Gertten

Synopsis: The human cost of banana cultivation is revealed in this documentary chronicling the case of Nicaraguan laborers, represented by L.A. attorney Juan Dominguez, against the companies who they believe poisoned them with pesticides.

Contact: International Sales: Peter Jager, peter@autlookfilms.com Phone: +43 720 34 69 34 film@wgfilm.com David Magdael & Associates – Los Angeles Winston Emano, wemano@tcdm-associates.com David Magdael, dmagdael@tcdm-associates.com Phone: +1 213 624 7827 http://www.bananasthemovie.com/

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Safety & Health

 

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

24 Jan

96m

Director: John Hancock

Synopsis: The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher’s terminal illness through a baseball season.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Sports

 

Barack Obama walks a day in the shoes of SEIU member Pauline Beck (2008)

24 Jan

3:48; U.S.

Synopsis: SEIU pioneered an initiative in which all political candidates seeking SEIU endorsement is required to spend a day with an SEIU member at work and at home with their families.During the 2008 election, now President Barack Obama walked a day in the shoes of Pauline Beck, an SEIU member and homecare provider from California.

Contact: Jennifer Wynter jennifer-wynter.philis@seiu.org

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 

Barbarians at the Gate (1993)

24 Jan

107m

Director: Glenn Jordan

Broadcast Date: March 23, 1993

Network: HBO

Cast: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis (New York Times): Based on the exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, best seller by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, “Barbarians at the Gate” chronicles the multi-billion-dollar battle in 1988 for RJR Nabisco, which at the time was working feverishly on developing a “smokeless cigarette.” The machinations were incredibly complex, requiring bankers galore and backfield lawyers for the lawyers on the front lines. Condensing the story into a movie running less than two hours, Larry Gelbart, the creator of television’s “M*A*S*H,” has eliminated the players in the middle layers to focus almost entirely on the top-level principals, most notably F. Ross Johnson, chairman of RJR Nabisco, and Henry Kravis, the master of leveraged buyouts at the Wall Street concern Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

 

Battlestar Galactica (“Dirty Hands”) [2007]

24 Jan

42m; U.S.

Director: Wayne Rose

Cast: Aaron Douglas, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell 

Synopsis: Battlestar Galactica ran for four seasons on the SyFy network and is considered by many the best science-fiction television program yet created.  Focusing on a fleet of human survivors from a mass genocide, the program explored all manner of personal and political issues.  Among those was labor – in this episode from the third season one of the main characters restarts a union by becoming the leader of a strike on a mining ship.  “Dirty Hands” explores several facets of labor, most interestingly how unions navigate their relationship to the government and their role in promoting social mobility.

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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, SciFi, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

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The Bauen Workers’ Cooperative (2005)

24 Jan

21m; Argentina

Director: Grupo Alavio & Marie Trigona

Synopsis: The story of the bankruptcy of a modern 4 star hotel in Buenos Aires and the role of the workers in protecting their jobs through an occupation.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Be More Human (2002)

24 Jan

Japan

Synopsis: Struggle against the privatization of Japan Railways.

Contact: Labor Video Press, Tokyo

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Organizing, Public Sector, Transportation

 

Below the Belt

24 Jan

Synopsis: Downsized workers

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, SciFi

 

Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen (2005)

24 Jan

56m; Canada

Director: Elaine Brière

The story of the little-known struggle of merchant seamen to save the merchant fleet and their livelihood. It traces the history of Canadian shipping from the international strike of 1949 to the globalization of coastal shipping in Australia by Canada Steamship Lines — owned by the family of Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Transportation, Working Class

 

Conviction (2009)

24 Jan

107m; U.S.

Diector: Tony Goldwyn

Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell and Melissa Leo

Synopsis: A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.  Movie alternatively titled “Betty Anne Waters.”

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

 
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