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Free Film Show - 'Harlan County USA'. London Sunday 25th Oct

Full Unemployment Cinema | 20.10.2009 19:36 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Full Unemployment Cinema have a film show coming up this Sunday (Oct. 25th), this months it's Harlan County USA from 1976: 'Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a gruelling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town

Harlan County USA...
Harlan County USA...

the best film about US class struggle ever!
the best film about US class struggle ever!


. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack – with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece – the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line'.

5pm at 56A Infoshop, 56 Crampton St (off Walworth Rd), Elephant and Castle. Admission free.

All details here:
 http://unemployedcinema.blogspot.com/2009/09/octobers-screening-harlan-county.html

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