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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