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DESCRIPTION:"Blood in the Mobile", about the huge electronics companies that are 
 funding a brutal war in central Africa to boost their profits.\n\nA hundred 
 years after Belgium's savage colonial plunder of the Congo (recounted in 
 King Leopold's Ghost), the hypocrisy of so-called "corporate social 
 responsibility" is laid bare as the country's people and resources are once 
 again being brutally exploited, this time in the name of higher profits. 
 The spoils are rare minerals such as coltan and cassiterite — used to 
 make cellphones, computers, and other electronics — that are financing 
 the bloodiest conflict since World War II, as huge companies resist efforts 
 to restrict the trade in these "blood minerals". Be advised: This tense and 
 harrowing film is no 'talking head' documentary.\n\nDirected by Frank 
 Piasecki Poulsen.  Post-screening Q&A with Patricia Jurewicz, founding 
 director of the Responsible Sourcing Network. 
 http://www.sourcingnetwork.org/\n\nThe film is co-financed by Danish, 
 German, Finnish, Hungarian and Irish television, as well as the Danish 
 National film board.\n\nThe film premiered in Denmark on September 1, 2010. 
 During the making of the film Frank Piasecki Poulsen is working with 
 communications professional and new media entrepreneur Mikkel Skov Petersen 
 on the online campaign of the same name.\n\nThe campaign is addressing 
 Poulsen and Petersens notion of the responsibility of the manufacturers of 
 mobile phones on the situation in war torn eastern Congo. The project is 
 collaborating with ngo's like Dutch-based Make It Fair and British-based 
 Global Witness who are also engaged in changing the conduct of Western 
 companies regarding the industrial use of minerals of unknown 
 origin.\n\nThe cassiterite dug out in the illegal mines in North-Kivu is 
 according to Danish corporate monitor organization Danwatch [1] primarily 
 purchased as tin by the electronics industry after processing in East 
 Asia.\n\nApart from trying to raise awareness of the issue of illegal 
 mining and alleged lack of corporate social responsibility from the mobile 
 phone industry, the campaign is an attempt to experiment with new ways of 
 building an audience and create additional funding for documentary 
 films.\n\nThe production of the film and the campaign is run in association 
 with Danish new media company Spacesheep, founded in 2009 by Poulsen and 
 Petersen in association with major Danish independent TV and film 
 production company 
 Koncern.\n\nhttp://www.globalwitness.org/library/congos-mineral-trade-balance-opportunities-and-obstacles-demilitarisation\n\n\nShifts 
 in the control of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) mines have 
 created opportunities to begin breaking the links between the mineral trade 
 and the conflict that has plagued civilians for over a decade. This report 
 uses recent field research by Global Witness to highlight some significant 
 changes and outline what the key players must do to capitalise on them.  It 
 says that while much of eastern Congo’s mineral trade remains under armed 
 control, the departure of armed groups from Bisie - the region’s largest 
 tin mine - is a promising development.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/20/18680139.php
SUMMARY:"Blood in the Mobile", Electronics Firms Funding Brutal Congo War w Q & A
LOCATION:Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street\nSan Francisco (at Mission St.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/20/18680139.php
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