[ELECTRON] Electron DIY Cinema

[Bob]

NEXT THREE FRIDAYS FILMS:


'SALT OF THE EARTH' (1954) Film 7pm Friday 22th January Electron Club DIY 
Cinema CCA

is an American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. 
Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the 
Hollywood establishment due to their involvement in socialist politics.[1]

The movie became a historical phenomenon and has a cult following due to 
how the United States establishment (politicians, journalists, studio 
executives, and other trade unions) dealt with the film. Salt of the Earth 
is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political 
point of view.

The film centers on a long and difficult strike led by Mexican-American and 
Anglo miners against the Empire Zinc Company. The film shows how the 
miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist 
style the producers and director used actual miners and their families as 
actors in the film.

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'THE WOBBLIES' Film 7pm Friday 29th January Electron Club DIY Cinema CCA

Followed by brief outline of the history of the Indusrial Workers of the
World - the One Big Union by Boston IWW member Eric Chester

"Solidarity1 All for One and One for All" With this slogan, the Industrial
Workers of the World. aka the Wobblies, took to organising unskilled
workers into one big union and changing the course of history. Along the
way to winning an eight-hour workday and fair wages in the early 20th
century, the Wobblies were one of the few unions to be racially and
sexually integrated and often met with imprisonment, violence, and the
privations of prolonged strikes. This award-winning films airs a
provocative look at the forgotten American history of the most radical of
unions, screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly
members-lumberjacks, migatory workers, and silk weavers-in their 70s, 80s
and 90s.

Eeerily echoeing current times, THE WOBBLIES boldly investigates a nation
torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial
masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the fields and factory. Replete
with gorgeous archival footage, the film pays tribute to American workers
who took the ideals of equality and free speech seriously enough to die for
them.

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COMMUNITIES IN ACTION (Reshuffling priorities)
Film 7pm Friday 5th February Electron Club DIY Cinema CCA


A series of short films about different projects run in Glasgow From the 
DIY culture. Art things, community events, local news, books, films, 
freeing football pitches, growing food, claiming land, telling stories, 
going for walks, schools, allotments, asylum. Want to make films that make 
a difference. Using the technology, technique, cameras and software, Have 
ideas. Come along and have a chat about such things.

http://www.archive.org/details/Reshuffle
http://citystrolls.com/

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