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As neoliberal policies continue to exacerbate poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, the films in our globalization collection allow viewers to confront the harsh--and often hidden--conditions faced by those on the losing end of the dominant economic paradigm, as well as a framework for analyzing the forces shaping those conditions. They offer an alternative to the mainstream media coverage, reminding us that a different trajectory is not only possible but imperative.
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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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THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 56 minutes, 2006, 
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| A Chippewa community in a Great Lakes oil town near Detroit is facing a health crisis because of prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals. While the community once enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country, for the past decade miscarriages, reproductive cancers and widespread neurological problems point to the dangers of living near irresponsible corporations. The documentary follows a group of native women who choose to fight against the large corporations for their community’s right to good health. 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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END OF THE RAINBOW
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 52 minutes with 83 minute version on same DVD, 2007, In English, Mandinke, and French with English sub-titles |
| An in-depth look at the impact of a multinational gold mining industry on the economy, environment and traditions of a local community in Guinea. 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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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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ARLIT: DEUXIEME PARIS
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 75 minutes, Niger/France, 2004, In French, Bariba, Hausa and Tamashek with English subtitles |
| Arlit: Deuxieme Paris is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. MORE... |
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