Media Bits and Bytes – February 6, 2024
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From “Salt of the Earth” to “Barbie”
From “Salt of the Earth” to “Barbie”
From “Salt of the Earth” to “Barbie”
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Hollywood on the Picket Line – 5 Unsung Films That Put America’s Union History on the Silver Screen
The Conversation
The SAG-AFTRA strike comes at a time when polls suggest unions are more popular in the U.S. than at any time since 1965, and the labor movement is experiencing a resurgence of organizing. These 5 films reveal some of the history of this organizing.
Tidbits – July 7, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Coup; Four Facts To Remember on the 4th of July; Salt of the Earth – Only Film Blacklisted; Resources; Announcements;
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Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Coup; Four facts to remember on the 4th of July; Salt of the Earth - Only Film Blacklisted; Resources; Announcements;
The Insane Saga of ‘Salt of the Earth,’ the Only Film To Be Blacklisted
Guardian
Blacklisted Hollywood workers independently produced one of the great labor films. “One of the reasons we made ‘Salt of the Earth’ after we were blacklisted was to commit a crime worthy of the punishment,” Paul Jarrico said.
The Legacy of Clinton Jencks
Monthly Review
In the postwar-Cold War period U.S. corporations used anti-communist hysteria to attack the labor movement. Salt of the Earth - tells the story of heroic Mexican American mineworkers, and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Tidbits - October 6, 2016 - Reader Comments: UE Calls for Trump Defeat; Fact Checking Pence; Israel Seizes Women's Boat to Gaza; Women of Salt of the Earth; New York's Muslim Communities; and more...
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Reader Comments: UE Calls for Trump Defeat; Fact Checking Pence; Israel Seizes Women's Boat to Gaza and 13 dangerous women - What you can do; Who to Vote For-Lessons from the Past for Leftists; Prison Strike Continues-Now Joined by Alabama Prison Guards; Reader query - why did you use certain sources in your labor post?; Cubs and Socialism; Public Option; The Women of Salt of the Earth;
Announcements: Labor and Islam; NYPD Surveillance of New York's Muslim Communities
Freeport-McMoRan Destroys Famous "Salt of the Earth" Labor Union
La Jicarita
The local Steelworkers union Shores decertified is the inheritor of Mine-Mill Local 890, a union made famous by the 1954 film “Salt of the Earth”, which dramatized Local 890’s 1951 Empire Zinc strike. A number of members of the creative team behind the film had been blacklisted by Hollywood.
Tidbits - March 13, 2014
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Summary - Reader Comments - Big Lie about Mayor Bill de Blasio and Charters; Ukraine; Disgraceful Rejection of Debo Adegbile; Salt of the Earth - Sixty Years and Still So Vibrant; Attack on Public Schools; Member-to-Member Harassment; NAFTA Scorecard; Vermont Public Bank;
Women in Labor History; 25th Anniversary of the Web; Today in History - Senate Approves Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Salt of the Earth: Made of Labour, By Labour, For Labour
The Guardian
Sixty years ago a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of US workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American left
Tidbits - October 17, 2013
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Reader Comments- Mexico teachers; Social Security; Israel; Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap; McDonald's; Grad Student unions; Jobs; Unemployment;
Announcements- NYC - Full Employment and the Right to a Job: (Oct 18); Film showing - Anne Braden-Southern Patriot(Oct 24); D.C - Government Surveillance in Communities of Color; So.Calif - Government Spying, Immigrant Detention Policies(Nov 12); Louis E. Burnham Award Welcomes Applicants
Today in History-Salt of the Earth
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