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5 unusual facts about Bread and Roses


Bread and Roses

The film is about the struggle of two Mexican labourers in Los Angeles, performed by Pilar Padilla and Elpidia Carrillo, for the right to form a union.

Oppenheim's poem was set to music in 1974 by Mimi Fariña and has been recorded by various artists, including Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, John Denver, and Josh Lucker.

Bread and Roses Award

In a song - Bread and Roses - commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too."

Gude Cause

Despite the short notice, several hundred women turned up, walking along Princes Street and climbing Calton Hill to sing "Bread and Roses" and other feminist songs.

Cathy Peattie MSP sang 'Bread and Roses', and Janet Fenton spoke about the aims, aspirations and activities of the Gude Cause movement.


Cleaner

The 2000 film Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles, California to fight for better pay and working conditions, and the right to join a union.

Paul Laverty

Bread and Roses, detailing the experiences of migrant labour, was shot in Los Angeles, and featured Adrien Brody in a leading role.


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Bread and Roses Award

Bread and Roses is a phrase from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 among textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.

Mimi Fariña

Fariña used her connections with the folksinging community to elicit help in her focus with Bread and Roses, including Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Odetta, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal, Lily Tomlin, Carlos Santana, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others.

Stanley Whitehead

Whitehead featured along with Sonja Davies in protests over the closure of the Nelson railway line, which Davies wrote about in her book Bread and Roses, and also in the television series of same name.