. What real life labor movement was the film Salt of the Earth based on? Based on the book From Out of the Shadows and the film Salt of the Earth, how did women participate and contribute during the miners’ strike? What did the workers and their families gain through this movement? The film Salt of the Earth is based on Cold War politics and Mexican-American labor. Women participate and contribute during the miners strike in many different ways such as feeding the men while they were protesting. However, afterwards women take the men places on the line and men assumed childcare and household responsibilities. Even though women were assaulted and harassment they refused to be intimidated. In fact, women fought back for their rights. According to the book From Out of the Shadows the majority of the union negotiated team during the Empire Zinc strike were not miners, but wives of …show more content…
What was the Madrigal v. Quilligan case? What were the arguments on both sides of the Madrigal v. Quilligan case? What decision was made regarding the Madrigal v. Quilligan case?
The Madrigal v. Quilligan was a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County, California, involving sterilization of Latina women without informed consent or coercion. The lawyers Nabarratte and Antonia Hernandez began the case in court on May 31, 1978. The Lawyers who defended the 10 sterilized women argued that the sterilization of the women without informed consent violates women civil rights and their constitutional right to bear children. On the other hand, the arguments from the madrigal were that doctors acted in accordance with an attitude widespread within the hospital that overpopulation must be a remedied through sterilization of certain social groups who tended toward having large families. Also, doctors claimed that poor minority women in Los Angeles County were having too many babies and that this was placing a “strain on society” and that is was socially desirable that the women be