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Film | Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

The American TV series help to forge the image that the working class itself. Here is a great documentary to view and share in understanding the role of these media in the disappearance of a class consciousness USA and North America.

Sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas are actively constructing America’s working class self-representation or in other words the image the workers have of themselves. Here’s an excellent documentary to watch, and share, in the mean of raising awareness about how corporate media drives us workers away from the consciousness of being who we are as a social economic and political class today.

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Class Dismissed dares to open our eyes to television’s role in disappearing class from the American consciousness. The carefully crafted interviews set against humorous clips show how stereotypes of working-class buffoons distance us from the reality of corporate greed. Class Dismissed drives home the connections between class, gender and race to ongoing systems of inequality and reminds viewers of the importance of raising class consciousness if we are to succeed in forging meaningful models of citizenship in the future.

– Elizabeth L. Krause | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | University of Massachusetts Amherst
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«Locked out 2010» movie: 560 combative miners against RioTinto’s 107 days lock out and scabs

A compelling story of 560 unionized borax miners in the desert town of Boron, California who faced off against Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multi-billion dollar global corporation, which is the 3rd largest mining company in the world. Boron, population 2000, is home to one of the largest borates mines in the world, where close to 600 workers blast, you, process and transport the refined mineral to a thousand manufacturers around the world. Rio Tinto threatened the miners in Boron–either accept their cutbacks in the new contract or find themselves locked out of work. On January 30th, 2010 the workers voted unaminously to reject the company’s proposed contract and on January 31st, 2010, they were locked out of work and replaced with scabs. Who will win this David and Goliath struggle?

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Video reportage CUTVnews anti-capitalist demonstration on May 1

This report was made by Concordia University Television CUTV. The first minutes are the opening speeches. Following the premieres 11,30 minutes is interested in a contingent called “Baby Block” which formed in response to the repression of previous years.

This video is made by Concordia University Television CUTV. It’s first minutes are the opening speaches in french of the demo. The rest of the first 11,30 minutes are about a specific block of the demo called Baby block and how it came to be a necessity for some people that wanted to participate without being attacked by the police.[blip.tv ?posts_id=5126530&dest = -1]

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Video reportage CUTVnews anti-capitalist demonstration on May 1

This report was made by Concordia University Television CUTV. The first minutes are the opening speeches. Following the premieres 11,30 minutes is interested in a contingent called “Baby Block” which formed in response to the repression of previous years.

This video is made by Concordia University Television CUTV. It’s first minutes are the opening speaches in french of the demo. The rest of the first 11,30 minutes are about a specific block of the demo called Baby block and how it came to be a necessity for some people that wanted to participate without being attacked by the police.[blip.tv ?posts_id=5126530&dest = -1]

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The Coca-Cola Case

CBC We learn that Coca-Cola has just filed an injunction to prevent the broadcast of a documentary about its involvement in the murders of trade unionists in several countries.

In the movie The Coca-Cola Affair, directors German Gutiérrez and Carmen Garcia issue damning indictment against the Coca-Cola empire, suspected of being involved in the kidnapping, the torture and murder of union leaders who fought for the improvement of working conditions in Colombia, in Guatemala and Turkey.

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