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Twin Cities Assembly Plant: A Job and a Family

10 Feb
  • Format: DVD Video, 40 min., with bonus 14 min. slideshow
  • Publisher: Labor Education Service, U of MN
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The history of the Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community of workers in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood.

Since 1925, Ford Motor Company has operated a manufacturing plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, employing thousands of workers. This documentary tells the history of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community both hourly and salaried workers created inside and outside the factory.

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Posted by on February 10, 2014 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Transportation, Working Class

 

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Another Promise (2014)

04 Feb

original title: Another Family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDM1d8aqJ4  

Based on a true story of a working-class family whose daughter went to work at Samsung semiconductor factory, contracted leukemia during her time there and died from the disease in 2007.

Crowd-Sourced Film on Samsung Debuts
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/10/09/crowd-sourced-film-on-samsung-debuts/

 
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Posted by on February 4, 2014 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, Women

 

Popieluszko – Freedom Is Within Us

03 Feb

Another contemporary take on a life story on  early-‘Solidarity’ union hero;  more about struggle for freedom than labour struggles
In 1984 Jerzy Popiełuszko, widely known as the “Solidarność-Priest” for his role in the resistance against communism, was murdered by agents of the Polish internal intelligence agency. This film debut attracted over 1,3 million cinema viewers in Poland.
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1296&film_id=970&seite=3

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Black Thursday (CZARNY CZWARTEK)

03 Feb

by Antoni Krauze (Poland) –  contemporary take on the tragic events when Gdansk shipyard workers were killed by police during strike of December 1970 – got a FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition) award at 37th Montreal World Film Festival.

Still a painfully remembered event, the brutally suppressed shipyard strikes of December 1970 get a stirring, street-level dramatization from Antoni Krauze that focuses on the tragic story of Brunon Drywa and family. When protests spread among coastal towns, troops in Gdynia responded by firing on people on their way to work; the victims would include Drywa, who was shot in the back. Filming on historic locations in Gdynia, Krauze forcefully brings to the screen a rarely depicted yet pivotal chapter in Polish history.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Women’s Day (Dzien Kobiet)

03 Feb

Halina is promoted to store manager of the supermarket chain „Motylek“ („Butterfly“). But her life as chief is just transient when she finds herself being abandoned by the system for being overly humane. Social-critical feature film debut by the famous Polish musician Maria Sadowska.’ The chains’ name ‘Butterfly’ is a paraphrase of an existing Portuguese-owned chain of discount supermarkets in Poland, which were infamous for the treatment of the workforce until unionised by NSZZ “Solidarność”
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1269&film_id=992&seite=3

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Drama, Farm & Food, Philosophy, Retail, Service Workers, Women

 

Ann Kore Moun – Collective Action: A Force For Development

03 Feb

(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min) Unions in many sectors of Haitian society and their role in economic development.
http://www.productionsbonsai.com

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Blacks, Children, Cities-Urban, Class, Documentary, Genre, Global Economy, Labor History, Themes, Women, Working Class

 

Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement

03 Feb

(Regan Brashear, 2013, 60 min) A closer look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
http://www.fixedthemovie.com

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Automation, Documentary, Genre, Technology, Themes

 

Sanctuary Camp

03 Feb

(Brent Adams, 2014, 27 min) Successful camps providing housing for homeless.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Cities-Urban, Documentary, Genre, Themes, Working Class

 

Dogtown Redemption

03 Feb

(Amir Soltani, 2014, film in post production) America’s untouchables who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.
http://www.redemptiondoc.org/

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Cities-Urban, Documentary, Genre, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Occupation/Type of Work, Themes, Working Class

 

We Women Warriors

03 Feb

(Nicole Karsin, 2012, 82 min)
122 tribes of indigenous people caught between revolutionary guerillas and Colombian armed forces are an endangered species.
http://wewomenwarriors.com

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Environment, Genre, Themes, Women

 
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