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Title: Screening of the film "Salt of the Earth"
START DATE: 5/29/2009
START TIME: 6:30 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: Anaheim
Location Details:
Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim located at 511 S. Harbor Blvd. in the City of Anaheim
Event Topic: labor
Event Type: screening
Contact Name: Duane J. Roberts
Contact Email: duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: (714) 758-1050
DESCRIPTION:
You are cordially invited to

attend the weekly meeting of the

============================

> POTLUCK FOR PROGRESSIVES <

============================

Friday, May 29, 2009

6:30 - 9:30 P.M.

(Film starts at 7:30 P.M)

Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim

511 South Harbor Blvd.

Anaheim, California

(Located on the Southwest corner

of Harbor Blvd. and Santa Ana Street)

(714) 758-1050

www.uuchurchoc.org

The \"Potluck for Progressives\" is a group organized

for the purpose of bringing together likeminded

people on a weekly basis to break bread and talk about

crucial issues affecting the community and the world.

At each meeting, people interested in peace, social

justice, labor, and the environment gather to exchange

ideas, talk about successes, plan actions, or just

engage in a friendly discussion with one another.

Bring a dish to share! Enjoy the bounty that others

bring as well! The potluck will start at 6:30 p.m. with

a speaker or film to follow at 7:30 p.m. Please join

us even if you can\'t bring any food!

On the Agenda:

Progressive Potluck

6:30 - 7:30 P.M.

Bring along your favorite dish of food,

chips, dips, or soft drinks, and spend

an hour mingling with progressive people

from all over Orange County.

Featured Film:

7:30 - 9:00 P.M.

We will be screening "Salt of the Earth," a 1954

film that depicts a real strike that took place

at the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico where

miners walked off the job in protest of poor

safety conditions and low wages. Racial

discrimination is evident because the miners, who

are mostly Mexican, are paid less than those at

neighboring mines where the miners are Anglos.

As the strike ensues, the company bosses and the

Sheriff resort to illegal and violent tactics in

an attempt to break it.

Much of the film focuses primarily on the home

life of the miners' families. The wives are angry

that their homes in the company town do not even

have running water, while in the company towns of

mines worked by Anglos, amenities and better

sanitation make life significantly easier. When

the strike begins, the wives implore their husbands

to make better sanitation a key demand; but the men

refuse fearing it would jeopardize their efforts

at winning higher wages and improved safety

conditions.

But after a court order is issued forbidding

the miners from striking, the men begin to change

their attitudes. To continue the strike, their

wives volunteer to march the picket line in their

places, creating a reversal of traditional gender

roles: the women stage the rallies, maintain the picket

line even while under violent attack from the

Sheriff and his deputies, and spend time in jail;

meanwhile, the men stay at home and reluctantly do

domestic chores.

As a result of the unity between the miners, their

wives, and their Anglo co-workers, the company bosses

realize they can't break the strike; they are forced to

capitulate to the miners' demands for higher wages,

improved safety conditions, and better sanitation. This

film\'s underlying theme of racial and sex equality -- not

to mention working class solidarity -- still remains

as strong today as it did more than fifty years

ago, when it was suppressed by the House Un-American

Activities Committee and the FBI.

Open Forum

9:00 - 9:30 P.M.

Open discussion, announcements,

and other news of interest.

The "Potluck for Progressives" is endorsed by the

Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian Universalist

Church in Anaheim and is free and open to the

general public. Although a small donation might

be requested to help pay for facility costs, nobody

will be turned away due to a lack of funds.
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