Celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day!

Direct Action Underground Cinema

presents

SALT OF THE EARTH

Banned in 1954 during the McCarthyite witch hunts for its radical political content, Salt of the Earth, tells  the story of a  strike led by Mexican workers  for equal pay and safer working conditions, against a powerful American mining company.

After the striking men are viciously beaten and demoralised, their wives, mothers and daughters  take over the picket line, fighting not only for the working rights of their husbands & sons, but also for their own rights as women to equality and freedom.

Based on the 1951 Silver City mining strike, Salt of the Earth is a timeless film about the struggle of men and women for equality, dignity & human rights.

$10 workers / $6 concession

Refreshments available

7pm - Thurs, 11 March

@Direct Action Activist Centre

Victorian Trades Hall,

cnr Lygon & Victoria St, Carlton

(The Direct Action Centre is located in the Trades Hall Basement, next to the New International Bookshop. Entry is via Victoria St)

For more info:  Tel: 0439 454 375