----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [STOPNATO] Director Ken Loach: Blair Got To Power On Backs of Workers STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM Send reply to: "STOP NATO: NO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) Date sent: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:04:34 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [STOPNATO] Director Ken Loach: Blair Got To Power On Backs of Workers Rick, Does The Independent have a website? If so, could you provide its actress for me Rick (or anyone else for that matter) David > STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > > [Ken Loach might have added Benito Blair's worst sin: He's a war > criminal.] > > The Independent (UK) > > Blair got to power on backs of workers, says Ken Loach > By David Lister in Cannes > 12 May 2000 > The director of the only British film competing for the prestigious > Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday launched an outspoken > attack on Tony Blair and his Home Secretary, Jack Straw. > The veteran socialist director Ken Loach, ostensibly flying the flag for > Britain at the festival, instead used the Cannes platform to tell media > from around the world that the Government was "right-wing". > And to add to the unusual atmosphere, where hostility was superseding > glamour for once, there was the rarest of Cannes moments - an actor > directly attacking others in her profession. > One of the stars of Loach's Bread and Roses, the Mexican-born Elpidia > Carrillo, said it was hard for Latin actresses to get parts in > Hollywood. They were always cast as maids or prostitutes. And she said > she was appalled that Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep had > played Latin characters in the 1993 film The House of the Spirits. "It > was totally insulting," she said. > The remarks were particularly provocative as Irons is on the Cannes jury > this year and will be sitting in judgement on the Loach film. > Loach, the director of a host of socially omitted films and television > dramas, from Kes and Cathy Come Home in the Sixties to Raining Stones > and My Name Is Joe, has madeBread and Roses in America. It is a > compelling film centred around office cleaners in Los Angeles, many of > them illegal immigrants, and their fight to form a union in the face of > intimidation. The film is one of the favourites for the top prize. > But before its screening for a gala audience last night, Loach used a > press conference to say that it was not just the United States where > there was social inequality and a lack of trade union rights. > He said: "In Britain we had a right-wing government, and now we have a > government which claims to be on the left but actively continues the > policies of the right. The people who masterminded it got to power on > the back of a workers' movement. But there are no more trade union > rights. > "They have carried on privatising. They are planning to privatise the > Tube. They are building hospitals on private finance initiatives and > they are going to cost the taxpayer three times over the odds. It is > clearly a right-wing agenda. > "We find Mr Blair is in favour of flexibility of labour, and it destroys > job security. The rights that have been fought for for generations are > disappearing." He added that Mr Straw's "instincts are quite repressive. > He plays to a right-wing gallery." > Loach's film was refused National Lottery funding, as it was not shot in > Britain. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ > Advertisement: > 15% off Ashford Collection jewelry for Mother's Day! Mom will love > these gorgeous pieces handpicked by our expert jewelry buyers - now > 15% off and shipped FedEx overnight FREE! Spoiled as a child? Return > the favor - get her gift at Ashford.com. > http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID'&AID31 ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: 15% off Ashford Collection jewelry for Mother's Day! Mom will love these gorgeous pieces handpicked by our expert jewelry buyers - now 15% off and shipped FedEx overnight FREE! Spoiled as a child? Return the favor - get her gift at Ashford.com. http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID'&AID31
