International Working Class Film & Video Festival

July 5
Show 6PM $5.00
Film Opening

Strange Fruit (57 min) by Joel Katz (USA) This documentary explores the history and legacy of the song Strange Fruit unique in the annals of American music. Best known by a 1939 Billie Holiday rendition, the song was written by Abel Meeropol, a New York City public school teacher and a Jew of Russian Immigrant origin who published music under the name of Lewis Allan. The tale of the song reflects on the lives of African-Americans, immigrant Jews, anticommunist government officials, radical Leftist organizers, music publishers and jazz musicians. (www.newsreel.org)
Los Piqueteros (40 min) by Ojo Obrera Production (Argentina) This video tells the story of the picketers in Argentina and why the working class is in rebellion. Hear the voices of a people whose country has been sold off to speculators under the guise of "free trade" and privatization. (Spanish with English subtitles) Ojoobrero@hotmail.com

July 6
Show 6PM $5.00
Among the short films and videos planned to screen wil be:

Whispered Media's "The Pie's The Limit" - featuring pie attacks on high profile public figures and controversial corporate officials.
Youth in Action's "Hunter's Point on Fire" - a look at the mysterious fires and that burned for weeks on the Naval Base in 2000.
Girls 2000 & Just Think Foundation's 2 short films by youths focusing on conditions in the Bayview Hunters Point area.
Jimmy Shotwell's "More Fun In The New World Order" featuring clips of Bay Area street demos.
Special Preview trailers of the locally made feature length docs "Straight Outta Hunters Point" & "Boom: The Sound of Eviction"
plus more including contributions from the East Bay Asian Youth Center & others...

July 8
Show 7:30 PM $5.00

Human Resources (1 hr 40 min) (French with English subtitle) By Laurent Cantet One of the most important new films on the role of modern capitalism. Franck, a Parisian business school student, takes an internship in the Human Resources department at the factory where his father has labored for the past 30 years. FranckÕs efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many workers, including his own father.
Combating the Unacceptable (30 min) By the ICFTU (Belgium) It demonstrates the reality of working children and growth of child labor around the world. It highlights children picking coffee beans and tea leaves in Kenya, long hours for young domestic workers in Philippines, local trade unions taking care of thousands of street children in Brazil. It focuses on the joint efforts of trade unions and other non-governmental organizations to put an end to child labor in their communities. http://www.global-unions.org