Free Screening of "Salt of the Earth"
Saturday, September 29th, 7:00 PM At The Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica 18th Street & Arizona, Santa Monica 90403 Join us to see and discuss an inspiring movie about working people fighting back. *SALT OF THE EARTH* Bring your fellow workers to a 1954 movie about a strike at a copper mine in New Mexico in which Anglo and Latino miners and their wives have to learn how to work together to win. Admission free. Spanish translation will be provided. Salt of the Earth (1954 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_in_film> ) is an American <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> drama film <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film> written by Michael Wilson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)> , directed by Herbert J. Biberman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_J._Biberman> , and produced by Paul Jarrico <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jarrico> . All had been blacklisted <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten> by the Hollywood <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema> establishment <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_establishment> due to their alleged involvement in communist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUSA> politics. The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism> social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action> , based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Zinc_Company> in Grant County, New Mexico <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_County,_New_Mexico> . In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc," and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico." The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neorealism_(art)> style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. The producers cast only five professional actors. The rest were locals from Grant County, New Mexico or members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 890, many of whom were part of the strike that inspired the plot. Movie will be shown in Forbes Hall, Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica, 18th St. & Arizona, Santa Monica 90403 Sponsored by UUCCSM Faith in Action Commission. Info: Rick Rhoads: [email protected] or: 310-306-0088 -- Best Regards, Rick Rhoads Chair Faith in Action Commission Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica 310-306-0088 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
