Program 11: Miners' Struggles Around the World, Past & Present

Sunday, May 10, 2015
4:30 PM 6:30 PM 16:30 18:30
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With Banners Held High celebrates the resilience and humour of miners and their wives and children who went through the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike.

NY Premier Women of the Mine (Mujeres de la Mina) Portrait of three women who live and work in the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia - a symbol of colonial plunder. Work in the mines belongs to men, yet women are the most precarious and cursed link of the system. Three women open up their lives to us so we can discover their stories of struggle and resistance.

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