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THE BIG SELLOUT
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| DVD, 94 minutes, 2006, In English and Spanish with English subtitles throughout |
| Using case studies in the Philippines, South Africa and Bolivia, The Big Sellout illustrates how international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, are demanding cuts in public spending, the privatization of public services and market liberalization as the only path to economic development. The policies implemented by these international neo-liberal businesses have disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe. MORE... |
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BLACK GOLD
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 77 minutes, 2006, 
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| After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world. But for every $2 cup of coffee, a farmer receives only a few pennies. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. In the process Black Gold provides an in-depth study of the commodity and offers a compelling introduction to the ‘fair trade’ movement galvanizing consumers around the globe. MORE... |
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CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON
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| DVD, 72 minutes, Brazil, 2007, during the English language sections, In English, Portuguese and Monde with English sub-titles |
| Brazilian Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. MORE... |
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FEBRUARY ONE
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 61 minutes, 2004
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| In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade. MORE... |
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HEALTH FOR SALE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 53 minutes, India, South Africa, Switzerland, 2007 |
| Health for Sale asks: are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to making a healthier world? The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year and whose 205 billion dollars in pre-tax profits were more than the combined profits of the 490 other Fortune 500 companies. MORE... |
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A KILLER BARGAIN
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 57 minutes, 2006 |
| The killer bargain referred to by this documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the human and environmental costs of their production. MORE... |
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MADE IN CHINA
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 52 minutes, China, 2007, English |
| Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label "Made in China." MORE... |
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MADE IN L.A.
(HECHO EN LOS ANGELES)
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 70 minutes, 2007, In Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles
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| Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. MORE... |
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MAQUILAPOLIS
(City of Factories)
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 68 minutes, 2006, English Closed Captions, In Spanish with English subtitles
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| The inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites. MORE... |
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TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 73 minutes, 2006, |
| Thomas Allen Harris' bittersweet eulogy to his stepfather, Benjamin Pule Leinaeng (Lee) and to the thousands of other South Africans who went into exile to keep the freedom struggle alive during the harshest years of apartheid. MORE... |
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