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The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves (2006)

13 Jun

60m; Ireland

Director: Socialist Party of Ireland

Synopsis (Indybay): “The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves” by the Socialist Party of Ireland describes how Turkish workers took on their employer, Turkish-owned multinational construction giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party (Ireland), whose members first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA to its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought battle, which eventually brought GAMA to heel.

Contact: Full documentary available to view here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8522850390691204183

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Available Online, Construction Trades, Documentary, Global Economy, Migrant workers, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

The Globalization Tapes

13 Jun
 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Global Economy

 

The Red Tail (2009)

13 Jun

86m; U.S.

Director: Dawn Mikkelson & Melissa Koch

Synopsis: In August of 2005 the mechanics at Northwest Airlines went on strike. Soon after, an anonymous flight attendant quit her job rather than cross the picket line. Disillusioned and inspired, this woman went in search of an established documentary filmmaker to tell the story of the workers of NWA.

Contact: info@redtailmovie.com http://www.redtailmovie.com

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Global Economy, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Technology, Transportation

 

The Yes Men (2003)

13 Jun

80m; U.S.
Director: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price

Synopsis (IMDB): A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization’s–and it’s mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

The World According To Monsanto (2008)

13 Jun

109m; France

Director: Marie-Monique Robin

Synopsis: Marie-Monique Robin has produced a powerful and frightening film in understanding the danger on a global level of out of control genetic engineering and the food industry. Workers, farmers, consumers and the environmentalists are all threatened by the unregulated development and growth products from this industry. The US media have censored the role of Monsanto and other biotech companies in spreading genetically engineered products that are harmful to workers in the laboratory, farmers and consumers around the world.Injured biotech worker David Bell who worked at Agraquest in Davis, which was owned by a former Monsanto Pest Division molecular biologist Pam Marrone, is one of the victims of this unbridled development and cover-up by the biotech industry.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

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These Hands (1992)

13 Jun

DVD
45 minutes, 1992, Tanzania, Africa
Director: Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles
http://newsreel.org/video/THESE-HANDS

Who would have suspected that a 45 minute documentary about women crushing rocks, without narration or plot, would offer one of the most unforgettable and rewarding experiences of recent African cinema? Flora M’mbugu-Schelling’s quiet tribute to women at the very bottom of the international economic order ultimately deepens into a mediation on human labor itself. These Hands will stimulate viewers to rethink documentary and to question their own role as consumers in a global economy.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Blacks, Construction Trades, Documentary, Global Economy, Women

 

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They Live (1988)

13 Jun

93m; U.S.

Director: John Carpenter

Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster

Synopsis (IMDB): Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like “Stay Asleep”, “No Imagination”, “Submit to Authority”. Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Consumerism, Global Economy, Horror

 

Trade Secrets-The Hidden Costs of the FTAA (2002)

13 Jun

16m; U.S.

Director: Jeremy Blasi

Synopsis: Examination of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

Umbrella (2007)

13 Jun

93m;
Director: Du Haibin
Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2008/umb.html
lori@icarusfilms.com

The program of economic reforms initiated in China in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping aimed to finance the modernization of the nation. But what Communist Party leaders called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” looked suspiciously to many as a return to capitalism. Today, some three decades later, the results of those sweeping economic reforms have become plainly visible in a country increasingly divided between its rural and urban sectors.

Filmed in five different regions of China, UMBRELLA provides a telling look at the vast changes that have taken place in Chinese society, including a massive migration from the countryside to the cities, the rise of a prosperous new class of businesspeople, millions of new college graduates competing for a shrinking number of jobs, and the neglect of China’s largest population group, its rural peasants.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Cities-Urban, Consumerism, Documentary, Global Economy

 

Under Rich Earth (Bajo Suelos Ricos) [2008]

13 Jun

92m; Ecuador

Director: Malcolm Rogge

Synopsis: Under Rich Earth is a story about ordinary people with extraordinary courage. In a remote mountain valley in Ecuador, coffee and sugarcane farmers face the dismal prospect of being forced off their land to make way for a mining project. Unprotected by the police and ignored by their government, they prepare to face down the invaders on their own. Their resistance ultimately leads to a remarkable and dangerous stand off between farmers and a band of armed paramilitaries deep in the cloud forest. In a world dominated by news of massacres and terrorism, Under Rich Earth offers a surprising and poignant tale of hope and determination.

Contact: rogge@ryecinema.com distribution@ryecinema.com http://underrichearth.ryecinema.com

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Global Economy, Organizing

 

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