SCN: Re: Reminder: 'Secrets of Silicon Valley' -- Seattle screening this Sat.

[Doug Schuler]

FYI...

-- Doug

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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Mike Blain wrote:

> 
> SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY
> 
> A groundbreaking, new documentary film by Snitow-Kaufman Productions
> 
> www.secretsofsiliconvalley.org
> 
> SEATTLE PREMIERE
> Saturday
> May 19, 7:30pm.
> One night only
> Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
> 100 University Street
> Tickets at the door only.
> Sliding scale starting at $7
> Q&A with filmmakers and event sponsors to follow.
> 
> All proceeds to benefit the Seattle Independent Media Center and the King
> County Labor Agency.
> 
> “Secrets of Silicon Valley” is a shocking expose of the hidden downsides of
> the Internet “revolution” and also a funny and moving meditation on America’
> s love affair with technology. Told without narration, the film chronicles a
> tumultous year in the lives of two young activists grappling with rapid
> social change and the meaning of globalization on their own doorsteps.
> 
> Raj Jayadev is a temporary worker who confronts the hype of Silicon Valley
> by revealing the reality of an unseen and unacknowledged army of immigrant
> workers. Hired by the world's largest temporary agency, Manpower, Inc., to
> work in a Hewlett-Packard assembly plant, he is laid off when he organizes
> other "temps" to challenge health and safety conditions. But Raj finds
> surprising and funny ways to take the controversy to the Internet, the
> public and the press.
> 
> Magda Escobar runs Plugged In, a computer training center in a low-income
> community just a few miles from the epicenter of high-tech wealth. As
> skyrocketing rents and increasing evictions drive out the people she works
> to serve, she struggles to find Plugged In a new home.
> 
> “As a former assembly line worker in Silicon Valley, I could write a book
> praising this documentary,” says Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a professor of Ethnic
> and Women’s Studies
> at Cal State University, Hayward. “It explodes the secret of a
> non-unionized, mostly non-white, female work force, underpaid and insecure,
> the reality beneath the glitz of obscene profits.”
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> To read recent reviews of the film from the New York Times, Salon.com, SF
> Chronicle, and more, see:
> http://www.washtech.org/news/051001_SSV.php3#reviews
> 
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> THIS SCREENING SPONSORED BY:
> King County Labor Council
> http://www.kclc.org
> 
> Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild
> http://www.nwguild.org
> 
> Seattle Independent Media Center
> http://seattle.indymedia.org
> 
> Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech)
> http://www.washtech.org
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