{"id":32787,"date":"2012-11-29T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32787"},"modified":"2012-11-29T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:28:15","slug":"the-independent-director-ken-loach-refuses-italian-award-after-row-over-wage-and-staff-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/29\/the-independent-director-ken-loach-refuses-italian-award-after-row-over-wage-and-staff-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent: Director Ken Loach refuses Italian award after row over wage and staff cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran British film director Ken Loach has sparked a war of words with the organisers of an Italian film festival after he turned down an award over wage and staff cuts at the event\u2019s backers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Loach, whose films are known for their social conscience, had been due to receive the Gran Premio Torino on Sunday but today revealed it would be \u201cweak and hypocritical\u201d to accept after learning the hiring practices at National Museum of Cinema in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>Following his film Bread and Roses, which deals with workers\u2019 rights, he said: \u201cHow can I not respond to the call for solidarity from workers sacked for standing up for their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/director-ken-loach-refuses-italian-award-after-row-over-wage-and-staff-cuts-8347138.html\" title=\"Director Ken Loach refuses Italian award after row over wage and staff cuts\"> here <\/a>to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran British film director Ken Loach has sparked a war of words with the organisers of an Italian film festival after he turned down an award over wage and staff cuts at the event\u2019s backers. Mr Loach, whose films are known for their social conscience, had been due to receive the Gran Premio Torino on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32788,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions\/32788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}