Social Cinema: Winter 2010

Every First Wednesday At 6PM in the Madison Central Library ( 201 West Mifflin St, Madison)

Social Cinema is a bilingual cultural project that aims to promote awareness and dialogue on different social issues, by presenting a movie and facilitating a constructive discussion among the audience.

- Movies from February to February -

January 6: Maid in America.
A look into the lives of three Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, three of the nearly 100,000 domestic workers living in that city today.

February 3: At the River I Stand.
 This moving documentary recounts the two months leading to Martin Luther King Jr's death in 1968, coinciding with the 65-day strike of 1300 Memphis sanitation workers.

March 3: Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants.
Exposé of the horrifying results of the 1996 immigration law

April 7: 10, 000 Black Men Named George.
Union activist Asa Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the black porters of the Pullman Rail Company in 1920s America.

May 5: Salt of the Earth.
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.