[antiwar-van] Film on Migrant Labour in East Asia (this Monday)

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

Film and discussion about Migrant Labour in East Asia...


==========================================
"It Goes On (Kyesok Tuin Ta): The Undocumented are Documented"

Monday, February 21st at 7:30pm
@ Coach House at Green College (6201 Cecil Green Park Road @ UBC).

>From UBC Bus Loop head north on East Mall, past the Curtis Law Building
and the Chan Centre.  Proceed down the path to N.W. Marine Drive and then
turn on the Cecil Green Park Road.
==========================================


The film will be shown as a part of a Speaker Series.  Former Green
College resident Jamie Doucette will be presenting a film and wil be on
hand to for a discussion after the film.  Jamie Doucette is in the PhD
program in the Department of Geography at UBC. For his PhD research, he
will be examining the politics of labour migration in East Asia.
===========


It Goes On (Kyesok Tuin Ta): The Undocumented are Documented. South Korea
(2004) 74 minutes; Director: Hyunsuk Joo.

Filmed over nine months between 2003 and 2004, It Goes On documents some
of the political and personal aspects of labour migration to South Korea,
exploring both the emotional linkages established by individual migrants
between their home and host countries, and the collective organizing
efforts of migrant workers striving to have their rights recognized and
protected.  The film???s main protagonists are key migrant activists from
the Equality Trade Union ??? Migrant???s Branch (ETU-MB), who, in protest
of the South Korean government???s November 2003 immigration crackdown,
begin a yearlong sit-in in downtown Seoul, ultimately becoming one of the
targets of the crackdown itself.  Bringing her viewers through scenes of
everyday collective organizing and political violence, Joo is able to
temper both the shock and mundane routine of these events by inquisitively
capturing her subjects in both candid and serious moments.  The end result
is a film that is important not simply for its documentation of a
precarious social struggle, but also for its noteworthy treatment of
political activists in a warm and intimate manner. It Goes On premiered at
the Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004) and also screened in South
Korea’s 2004 Labour Film Festival last fall. This is its first North
American screening.



-- 
To subscribe to our low-traffic email annoucement list, please email
noii-van at resist.ca

No One is Illegal- Vancouver
web: noii-van.resist.ca
email: noii-van at resist.ca
(604)682-3269 x 7149

The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.