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World Bank:
A Tale of Power, Plunder and Resistance
Alex Dubro & Mike Konipacki
For more than 50 years, the World Bank has provided loans and technical advice to member nations. The bank's mission is to encourage development and supposedly raise living standards and end poverty. Except it hasn't worked out that way. World bank policies have instead increased misery and suffering worldwide. This cartoon-book vividly and forcefully tells us why we ought to know more about the operations about this powerful and accountable-to-no-one institution. 32 pages, full color.
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Allies Across the Border
Dale Hathaway
Written by the late Dale Hathaway, this riveting portrayal of the "Authentic Labor Front" or F.A.T. as it is known in Mexico, details the historic and exemplary role played by the independent pioneer labor federation and UE’s labor ally in building a social movement south of the border. 256 pages.
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The F.A.T. and the Workers' Center of Juárez
Dale A. Hathaway and Jorge Robles
On September 28, 1996, the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (F.A.T.) hosted the inauguration of a workers' center in Juárez, Mexico _ which is already playing a major role in providing worker education, legal defense and building a union presence in the maquiladora zone, home of more than 3,000 transnationally-owned export factories. The goals of the Workers' Center, and a brief history of the F.A.T., are described in this 12-page booklet.
The center was opened with support from UE and the Teamsters; the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock; the Funding Exchange; and from many contributions by trade unionists and activists.
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Another World is Possible
North American voices at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, dedicated to shifting power from corporations back to the community.
Running Time: 22 minutes • VHS Video
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$4 A Day? No Way!
The American Labor Education Center
As Mexican, Canadian and U.S. workers face the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (and U.S. companies stampede across the border), this video provides a glimpse of the efforts by Mexican workers to win justice and democracy ... and their growing ties with U.S. and Canadian workers. An excellent video to show the need for building solidarity across all borders. (American Labor Education Center, 2000 P St. NW #300, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: (202) 828-5170)
Running Time: 19 minutes • VHS Video
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Banking on Life & Debt
Maryknoll World Productions
Narrated by Martin Sheen
Critics have called the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "a war on the poor." Over 90% of the earth's population live in countries trapped in multibillion-dollar loan repayment schemes, with terms dictated by the Band and the IMF. Covering three continents, this documentary will show you how millions of children are sacrificed for the sake of profit and "financial stability." (1995)
Running Time: 28 minutes
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Face-Off:
History of the Korean Democratic Workers Movement
Produced by KCTU
A fascinating video, documenting the extraordinary growth and militancy of one of the most important Korean labor federations today.
Running time 25 minutes - VHS Video
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Global Village or Global Pillage
Grassroots Education Project
Documentary narrated by Ed Asner exploring what the global economy means for ordinary people and what they are doing about it.
Running Time: 28 minutes • VHS Video
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Maquilas:
A Tale of Two Mexicos
A documentary filmed in Mexico lays open to sight and sound the lives of contemporary Mexicans. The film shows graphic scenes of confrontation between Mayan people and the Mexican army, which occupies part of Chiapas. Some of these besieged peasants and millions of other poor farmers have been forced off the land and have migrated to Juarez, Tijuana and other Northern cities, where they work in Maquilas.
Running Time 55 minutes • VHS Video
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Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti
National Labor Committee
Distributed by Crowing Rooster Arts
What is it like to work in a Haitian factory sewing Disney children's clothing for export and sale in the U.S.? Your pay is 28 cents an hour ... a starvation wage. Your family goes to bed hungry. You make only seven cents for every pair of Disney Pocahontas pajamas you make — which sell at Wal-Mart for $11.97 — only one half of one percent of the sale price of the garment. This video calls on Disney to do the right thing: work with contractors to clean up their factories; guarantee workers their rights; pay a living wage; and open their plants for international human rights monitoring. (1996)
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New World Border
Documents the rise in human rights abuses along the U.S.-Mexico border since the implementation of border blockades, which have been erected in populated areas throughout the border region in the last decade. It includes interviews with immigrant rights organizations, testimony from immigrants, analysis of "free trade" policies and current efforts to build a vibrant movement for immigrant rights.
Running time 28 minutes • VHS Video
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Something to Hide
National Labor Committee and United Students Against Sweatshops
Today in the global economy, corporations hide their production around the world behind locked factory gates, armed guards and 15-high concrete walls topped with razor wire. This anti-sweatshop movement documentary exposes the abusive conditions in maquila factories.
Running Time: 25 minutes - VHS Video
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Sweating for a T-Shirt
May be the best video introduction to the issue of global sweatshops. In Honduras, the video contrasts comments by industry PR representatives with interviews of sweatshop workers and union organizers, and visits to workers’ homes. No problems here, say the industry folks. But the video demonstrates convincingly that the word "sweatshop" is well-deserved when applied to Honduran maquiladoras. Workers make around $3 a day, but the cost of living is $8 per day; hours are long; air in the factories is poor, and health problems like severe bronchitis and skin allergies are common; companies allow no talking and bathroom breaks are few; workers are fired for illness but especially for organizing unions; pregnant workers are fired and denied maternity benefits; youngsters regularly begin factory work around the age of 12 and are unable to pursue farther schooling.
Running time 23 minutes - VHS Video
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Tempest:
Struggle to Survive
The Tempest Production Committee
Nihon Denpa News Co., Ltd.
Japanese film made to mark the victory by workers employed by the Oki Electric Company, following their illegal dismissal. Focuses on workers from Tempest, an island near Hiroshima.
The English version was produced to "give the real picture of the struggle of Japanese Workers and their union movement" in the hopes of helping further international solidarity. From Zenroren.
Running Time: 52 minutes • VHS Video
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Trade Secrets:
The Hidden Costs of the FTAA
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
The FTAA would extend NAFTA to the entire Western hemisphere, encompassing 31 more countries and another 400 million people. If implemented, the agreement would accelerate job loss and endanger environmental protections and basic public services like education and health care.
Running time: 16 minutes - VHS Video
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Zoned for Slavery:
The Child Behind the Label
National Labor Committee
Crowing Rooster Arts
The video which helped lead to a major success by the National Labor Committee in obtaining a commitment from the Gap to improve the working conditions and pay of garment workers in third world countries. See also: Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti (1995)
Running Time: 23 minutes • VHS Video
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