Movie Night: Threads of Wrath (July 28/08)
Posted on July 28, 2008
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
A story of trade partnerships.
A film about :
- A plant that was instrumental in the industrial revolution, the American Civil War and the Cold War;
- A plant whose growing uses 25% of the worlds’ chemicals and caused one of the world’s worst ecological disasters;
- A plant for which American farmers receive of 170% of the world price in the form of subsidies… Africans 30%;
- A plant on which 2 million farmers depend in Burkina Faso;
- The most influential plant in the world.
- And the plant for which real fair trade is needed.
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Movie Night: Dying to Get in & Oil On Ice
Posted on July 28, 2008
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Dying to Get In - Trailer
The U.S./Mexican border is one of the world’s best laboratories for learning the effects of globalization. As a global community it is our responsibility to understand the relationships between developed and developing countries. Moving into a 21st century of global trade, global travel, and global communication, we are all personally connected to the world’s population. The clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the air we breathe connect us with individuals around the world; a majority of whom live in poverty and do not earn enough money to support their families.
Oil On Ice
Oil on Ice is a vivid, compelling and comprehensive documentary connecting the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters.
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Movie Night
Posted on July 3, 2008
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The Story - Black Gold
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.
But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.
Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world’s coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.
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