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LIFE AND DEBT
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This documentary perfectly captures the largely-ignored downside to globalization and the subsequent domination of the world economy by the U.S. and Western Europe. Namely, that undeveloped and developing countries continue to get poorer while the rich get richer.
Using 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 stylised narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural |
adjustment policies and free trade are brought to light in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
Playing at New Testament Church of God, Mile End, Thurs 1 May, doors open at 6:30pm
Speakers: Sarah Williams, Dr Lez Henry, James Alexander
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