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"The Price of Sugar" & speakers on Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic
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Date:
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time:
6:30 PM
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9:30 PM
Event Type:
Screening
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Location Details:
Room 110, Boalt Hall
U.C. Berkeley campus at Bancroft Way, East of College Avenue
U.C. Berkeley campus at Bancroft Way, East of College Avenue
The Price of Sugar
Directed by Bill Haney (2007)
“The Price of Sugar” follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic , he’s warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. “The Price of Sugar” raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.
90 minutes. English and Spanish with English subtitles.
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session featuring Mariah Lafleur, Berkeley Public Health graduate student and a PeaceCorps volunteer on the Vicini plantations at the time of the filming and Roxanna Altholz, Associate Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Boalt Hall and a key adviser in Inter-American Court ruling that recognized the right of Dominican-born children of Haitian ancestry to nationality and education.
Co-sponsored with the International Human Rights Law Clinic.
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30 pm
Room 110, Boalt Hall
Directed by Bill Haney (2007)
“The Price of Sugar” follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic , he’s warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. “The Price of Sugar” raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.
90 minutes. English and Spanish with English subtitles.
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session featuring Mariah Lafleur, Berkeley Public Health graduate student and a PeaceCorps volunteer on the Vicini plantations at the time of the filming and Roxanna Altholz, Associate Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Boalt Hall and a key adviser in Inter-American Court ruling that recognized the right of Dominican-born children of Haitian ancestry to nationality and education.
Co-sponsored with the International Human Rights Law Clinic.
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30 pm
Room 110, Boalt Hall
For more information:
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/i...
Added to the calendar on Wed, Oct 31, 2007 12:54AM
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