Globalization+Resources

//Life + Debt//: A film by Stephanie Black (The library has a copy of this film.) http://www.lifeanddebt.org/index.html A political documentary about the impact of globalization on a developing country. "Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact."
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//Mardi Gras: Made in China// (available from abc) A film by David Redmon which explores the connection between Mardi Gras in New Orleans and China. Where do the beads and trinkets worn during the celebration come from? Who actually makes them?

//Matamoros: The Human Face of Globalization// (available from abc) A short (11 minute) film, "brief but revealing look at the small border town of Mataoros, Mexico exposes the environmental and human toll of NAFTA."