France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Unionism: On screens: maids in fight (fr)

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In 2012, a first class hotel Campanile Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine) is paralyzed by a strike 
of the maids , supported by the CGT and CNT. During the 28 days of the conflict, Denis 
Gheerbrant dance looks, listens to sing and talk. His film was strike, tells the story of 
a collective force, and its impact on the lives of these women mostly African recently 
arrived in France and often illiterate. ---- In recent years, a protest movement, for 
better wages and better working conditions, is developed among the maids of French 
hospitality. ---- A successful step in this movement, the strike in 2012, twenty of them 
in Suresnes, in a First Class Hotel Campanile, was filmed by Denis Gheerbrant. This is a 
strike, in many respects, was exemplary by the conjunction of a relevant trade union 
strategy and determination of the strikers. Between the small company union, CGT HPE 
(Hotels prestige and economic), supported by the CNT cleaning [ 1 ], and these women, 
African majority, recently arrived in France and often illiterate, the division of roles 
was particularly effective.

During the 28 days of the conflict, Denis Gheerbrant dance looks, listens to sing and talk.

We strike allows us to know them better, give them faces, to understand sketches of lives 
... The viewer observes how the group is, how this collective action turns one and other, 
and wondered, in the end, what this type of fight carries the seeds.

For if this learning and introduction to the political moment is part of a genuine trade 
union dynamics, the film Denis Gheerbrant pose too hollow, the issue of male-female or 
black-white relations in this new class working.

Press Kit : " We strike "

PREVIEW

Paris, Cinema La Clef: Tuesday, September 9 at 20:30, screening followed by a discussion 
with Denis and Gerard Gheerbrant Filoche (former labor inspector, author of Notes on a 
labor inspector )

NEAR THE PROJECTIONS FROM HOME

Regular sessions

Espace Saint-Michel (Paris 5th)
Cinema La Clef (Paris 5th)
Cinema Les Arcades (Ales, 30)
Eldorado Cinema (Dijon, 21)
Cinema Paradiso (Saint-Martin-en-Haut, 69)
Screenings and discussions from 10 to 16 September 2014

Espace Saint-Michel (Paris 5th):
Wednesday, September 10, 2030: screening followed by a discussion with Daba and Oulimata 
(maids, protagonists of the film), Claude L?vy (CGT HPE - Hotels prestige and economic), 
Stephen Deschamps (CNT-Cleanup Workers Solidarity) and Denis Gheerbrant;
Thursday, September 11, 2030: screening followed by a discussion with Christophe Kantcheff 
(editor of Politis) and Denis Gheerbrant;
Tuesday, September 16: Screening followed by discussion with Denis Gheerbrant;
Cinema La Clef (Paris 5th): Monday, September 15 to 20h, screening followed by a 
discussion with Stephen and Denis Deschamps Gheerbrant;
Cinema Paradiso (Saint-Martin-en-Haut, 69): Friday, September 12 at 20:30, screening 
followed by a discussion with Stephen and Sophie Deschamps Beroud, master conf. Political 
Science at the University of Lyon II, specialist unionism.
From September 17 to 23

Espace Saint-Michel (Paris 5th)
Friday, September 19, 2030: screening followed by a discussion with Denis Gheerbrant;
Sunday, September 21 in the late afternoon screening followed by a discussion with Denis 
Gheerbrant Merckling and Odile (sociologist, author of Women of immigration in precarious 
work );
Tuesday, September 23, 2030: screening followed by a panel discussion with women strikers 
room and Claude L?vy;
Cinema Vox (Langres, 52): Wednesday, September 17 evening screening followed by a 
discussion with Denis Gheerbrant;
Eldorado Cinema (Dijon, 21) : Thursday, September 18 evening screening followed by a 
discussion with Denis Gheerbrant;
Upcoming sessions

Argenteuil, Movies The Fig Tree White / Film Jean Gabin
Arles, Actes Sud Cinema
B?darieux, CINE3
Blois, Cinema The Lobi
Carmaux, Clap Film
Clamecy, Cinema Casino
Cucuron, Cinema Cigalon
Fontenay-sous-Bois, Cinema Kosmos
Forcalquier, Cin?ma Le Bourguet
Gennevilliers, Cinema Jean Vigo
L'Isle-Jourdain, Cinema Olympia
Ivry-sur-Seine, Cinema Luxy
Marseille, Alhambra Theatre
Montpellier, Cinema Diagonal
Mulhouse, Movies The Bel-Air
Poitiers, TAP Castile
Port-de-Bouc, M?li?s Cinema
Saint-Denis, The Screen Cinema
Six-Fours-les-Plages, Cinema Six Stars do
Strasbourg, Movie Star
Thionville, La Scala Theater
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[ 1 ] Now CNT Solidarity working Cleanup