Detroit’s Trumbullplex Womyn’s Nite
SUNDAY NOV 22
Womyn’s Nite
7PM — FREE!
women-only space, including transwomyn, of course.
@ 4210 Trumbull living room and dining rm.
- CUPCAKE AND MUFFIN POTLUCK
- film: SALT OF THE EARTH
A blacklisted film about strong women who fight back! “Film as politics. Politics as film”
“Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. The film is an early treatment of feminism, because the wives of the miners play a pivotal role in the strike, against their husbands wishes. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces. This film was written, directed and produced by members of the original “Hollywood Ten,” who were blacklisted for refusing to answer Congressional inquiries on First Amendment grounds.”
The film opens with a narration from Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas). She begins:
“How shall I begin my story that has no beginning? My name is Esperanza, Esperanza Quintero. I am a miner’s wife. This is our home. The house is not ours. But the flowers… the flowers are ours. This is my village. When I was a child, it was called San Marcos. The Anglos changed the name to Zinc Town. Zinc Town, New Mexico, U.S.A. Our roots go deep in this place, deeper than the pines, deeper than the mine shaft…”
