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My grandmother, and my grandfather participated in that strike on the Ojinaga side of the family. When they were arrested and placed in jail, my grandmother is in the jail. And she is running a tin cup along the bars saying “We want the formula. We want the formula,” because a woman Okay, who was the wife of one of the organizers was also put into jail with her baby. And so the women and the babies were in jail and the woman inside the jail were protesting to receive that milk. The movie is called The Salt of the Earth.

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