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Laborfest: Film on Turkish Labor Strugles

Date:
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type:
Screening
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Little Roxie Theatre - 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 1 block from 16th St BART


Wind That Blows From The Workers: Tekel Struggle
By iscinet (40 min.) (2010) - Turkey
In November 2003, Turkish State’s ruling party AKP sold the TEKEL alcohol and spirits plants to a national consortium (MEY) for $292 million. Despite the fraud and corruption behind TEKEL’s privatization, the new owners were further granted bank credits with no down payment for a period of two years. The “new owners” in turn had re-sold the alcohol and spirits component of TEKEL to Texas Pacific Group in 2 years time for a total of $900 million! On December 15, 2009, the workers’ of TEKEL had taken the streets of the main district of Ankara as the center of resistance.
http://www.iscinet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=45%3Avideolar&id=168%3Atekel-direnii&Itemid=92&c9d6dc0f6068525f4eb7e871f9b194dc=bbf10b02aef51eec3655aa046a689b8e
See also:
http://www.laborfest.net/2010/Films.htm
http://www.laborfest.net/2010/2010schedule.htm
Added to the calendar on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 8:05AM
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