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DESCRIPTION:A Frontline Special: Covid's Hidden Toll with Filmmakers Daffodil Altan and 
 Andrés Cediel \n\nJoin Rev Books for a discussion of the Frontline 
 documentary, \nCovid's Hidden Toll, with the filmmakers Daffodil Altan and 
 Andrés Cediel. \n \nWatch this at https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/. 
 You don't have to have Facebook to watch it.\n \nWatch the trailer here: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ANin0J9C0\n\nDo you know what is 
 happening to the people who put the food on your table? This documentary, 
 completed in the midst of the pandemic is a visceral and shocking window 
 into how the developing crisis of Covid 19 has hit vulnerable immigrants 
 and undocumented workers: how an estimated 10s of thousands have been 
 infected, and 100s have died.  And it exposes the cold negligence and 
 brutality of the ag industry, the government institutions, and Trump. \n 
 \nWe will show clips from the film --powerful interviews with the workers 
 which reveal in the most gut-wrenching, and moving, way how their lives in 
 the fields and meat processing plants-already among the most exploited 
 workers in this country-have been made exponentially worse by this 
 pandemic, and by the way they are being treated by multi-million dollar 
 agricultural and meat-processing businesses.\n \nFarm and meat plant 
 workers tell about having to choose between their health and their jobs - 
 and about a lack of protection from their companies. "It's necessity that 
 makes us work despite the fear we have," Sinthia, a broccoli picker who is 
 the sole provider for her mother, her children and her two siblings.\n 
 \nWhile the conditions of life of these workers was already a horror, the 
 pandemic has pushed things to an extreme.\n \n"Every day we go to work 
 we're thinking about the coronavirus. If we're going to catch it again. 
 Who's going to catch it? Is it on the walls? Is it on the product? Is it on 
 the equipment we use?... It doesn't feel like we're essential workers. It 
 feels like we're slaves." --a worker at Central Valley Meat\n 
 \nInvestigative journalist Daffodil J. Altan is an Emmy-nominated producer 
 and correspondent for Frontline PBS. She produced, directed and was the 
 correspondent for the FRONTLINE documentaries, Kids Caught in the Crackdown 
 (2019), and Trafficked in America(2018). She is  a lecturer at UC Berkeley 
 Graduate School of Journalism.\n\nAndrés Cediel is a documentary filmmaker 
 and Professor of Visual Journalism at UC Berkeley. He produced Rape in the 
 Fields and was a writer and producer of Rape on the Night Shift, which 
 brought to light rampant sexual assaults of immigrant women in the 
 agricultural and janitorial industries. He was a producer of "Kids Caught 
 in the Crackdown."  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/16/18835940.php
SUMMARY:Online Event: Covid's Hidden Toll with Filmmakers Daffodil Altan and Andrés Cediel
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/16/18835940.php
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