Review of the 1954 movie Salt of the Earth
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin / May 6th, 2021
Poster promoting the theatrical premiere of the 1954 American film Salt of the Earth at a (now demolished) theater on 86th Street in Manhattan. Mexican actress Rosaura Revueltas, who played the leading role, is shown.
Born in controversy but then ignored in its youth, the film
Salt of the Earth has matured beautifully into a classic film in the neorealist style. Set in Zinc Town, New Mexico, a mining community with a majority of Mexican-Americans, strike for working conditions equal to those of the white, or “Anglo” miners. The town and the mine is run by Delaware Zinc Inc. who refuse to negotiate with the workers and the strike goes on for months. The story focuses on Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacón) and his wife Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas) who is pregnant with their third child. Ramon is arrested by police and beaten in prison at the same time his wife gives birth to their new b
Fri May 7, 2021 “I used to struggle with impostor syndrome, but at 36 I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be,” claims an unnamed CIA employee in a recent CIA recruiting video now getting hammered from all sides on grounds of flagrant wokeness. The CIA applauds the effort, part of their “Humans of CIA” series that launched in 2019. A CIA mouthpiece told reporters the series lets “real officers share their firsthand experiences.” Since this purports to be
video vérité, a review is in order. “I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” the CIA star claims. She suffered from “imposter syndrome,” which supposedly causes high achievers to doubt their skills, but “I did not sneak into the CIA.” Indeed, “My employment was not and is not of a fluke or a slip through the cracks. . . I am educated, qualified and competent.” That gives viewers plenty to ponder.
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International Workers Day, May 1, is celebrated by tens of millions of people around the world. Its radical history emerged from the Haymarket Square resistance and the massacre that followed in 1886.
May Day was revived as a workers’ day by the immigrant rights movement in the United States in 2009. As the labor movement continues to blossom in the U.S., more and more people here now recognize International Workers Day, or “May Day.” Thousands of workers joined May Day events around the country this year despite the limitations presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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NYC, May 1. Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls leads a rally in front of Jeff Bezos’s apartment in Manhattan. Liberation photo
No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
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No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist | Thursday, April 29, 2021
âThe early church was a socialist church.â
So said the Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens of Georgia elected him as a U.S. senator.