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DESCRIPTION:Contact:  Sherri Taylor  Independent Television Service (ITVS)  
 415-356-8383 x240  sherri_taylor@itvs.org    Web Site Launch for T-SHIRT 
 TRAVELS  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/tshirttravels/  ITVS and PBS 
 present T-SHIRT TRAVELS and its companion Web site at  
 pbs.org/tshirttravels. While working with an international aid  
 organization stationed in a remote village in Zambia, filmmaker Shantha  
 Bloemen began seeing more and more unemployed Zambians selling used  
 American clothing in the marketplace. Tracing a winding T-shirt trail  
 carved by global economics, this documentary examines the devastating role  
 of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in directing Zambia’s  
 economic policies and the underlying reasons for so many Africans'  
 remaining in poverty. T-SHIRT TRAVELS airs nationally on March 23, 2004 at  
 10:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).    T-SHIRT TRAVELS Web Site 
 Highlights  |  Track a T-Shirt  Follow a T-shirt's journey around the 
 globe, starting with its origins at  a local charity drop box in New York 
 City to an exporter's warehouse, and  finally halfway across the world to a 
 marketplace in a remote African  village.  |  The People  Watch video 
 interviews with key figures featured in the film, including  local Zambian 
 businessmen, villagers and globalization experts. Hear their  views on the 
 free market, Zambia's debt and the nation's high poverty rate.  |  Impact 
 of Debt  Learn about the economic history of Zambia since its independence 
 from  Britain in 1964. Financially dependent on its mining industries, 
 Zambia  turned to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to 
 borrow  money in 1973 when the price of copper plummeted. Find out why 
 programs  such as structural adjustment prescribed by international lenders 
 have  left Zambians more impoverished, sick and illiterate than ever 
 before.   | Filmmaker Q&A  Read an exclusive Q&A interview with filmmaker 
 Shantha Bloemen in which  she talks about how her experiences in Zambia 
 inspired her to make T-SHIRT  TRAVELS. Bloemen also shares her views on 
 secondhand clothing, the current  debt problem in Zambia and the unique 
 role of public television.  |  Learn More  Explore related Web sites, books 
 and articles and learn more about debt in  developing countries, 
 international aid in Africa and African economic  history.  |  Talkback  
 Share your thoughts on the program and join a discussion on the secondhand  
 clothing industry in Africa, debt in poor countries and donating clothes  
 in the United States.  # # #  About INDEPENDENT LENS  Hosted by Don 
 Cheadle, this series showcases powerful and innovative  independent films. 
 Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is broadcast on PBS  stations 
 nationwide. Check local listings at  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens    
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SUMMARY:T_SHIRT TRAVELS ON PBS
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