Low-wage workers in the garment industry, janitors without legal papers, temporary labor in the high-tech industry: the protagonists of a new wave of labor movement in California were long time considered as unorganizable. Now they lead a new generation of workers struggles which takes precariousness rather as a starting point than an obstacle for multiple ways of organizing -- no matter inside or outside of the unions.
This 32-minutes video documentation portays three different campaigns: The garment workers center of Los Angeles organizes garment workers who come from many different countries, in order to claim wages and struggle for better working conditions. "Justice for janitors" prooves sinces many years, how successfull it can be, to fight for your rights, even if you are not supposed to have rights. "Debug" is the title of an initiative of temporary workers at the low-wage end of high-tech industry in Silicon Valley.
The video with english subtitles is available for download in half-size TV-resolution and pretty good quality that allows even projections. Please follow these steps:
1. Download the torrent, a small file that contains the tracker information
2. Start the download of the videofile (142 MB)
3. Watch the video with a player that supports ogg theora codec
In case you are not familiar with bit torrent p2p-download utility and ogg theora, the open source multimedia codec, please have a look at the instructions
You may also contact the filmmakers for a version in better quality as a tape or DVD: info [at] wastun.org
