Ironweed Film Club No. 14: Black Gold/Heroes from Working Man’s Death/Fair Trade: The Story/Interview with Amartya Sen from “Nobelity”
February 28, 2011Ironweed Film Club No. 14: Black Gold/Heroes from Working Man’s Death/Fair Trade: The Story/Interview with Amartya Sen from “Nobelity”
Call Number: IWFC_no 14
by: Marc Francis; Nick Francis; Michael Glawogger; Aaron Straight; Ian Jay; Turk Pipkin; Act Now Productions.; Ironweed Film Club.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: [San Francisco, CA.] : Act Now Productions ; [Los Angeles, CA.] : Ironweed Film Club, [2007].
Notes: Issue: January 2007 (124 mins.); Contains 1 Feature Film, 3 Shorts, and Behind the Scenes feature;
Summary: In an attempt to save 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy, Tadesse Meskela searches for buyers willing to pay a fair price – and inadvertently begins to unravel a tangled web of greed and double-dealing that infiltrates the international trading system. Heroes from Working man’s death – Crawl alongside miners deep in the illegal coal mines of Ukraine to learn first hand what it’s like to do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Fair trade: the story – Highlights the TransFair USA in the ever-growing Fair Trade movement as they advocate for fair wages and better working conditions for farmers and their families in developing nations. Interview with Amartya Sen from Nobelity – 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics talks about the power of reason to solve our global problems of poverty and overpopulation in this short excerpt from the film “Nobelity”.
Summary: In an attempt to save 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy, Tadesse Meskela searches for buyers willing to pay a fair price – and inadvertently begins to unravel a tangled web of greed and double-dealing that infiltrates the international trading system. Heroes from Working man’s death – Crawl alongside miners deep in the illegal coal mines of Ukraine to learn first hand what it’s like to do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Fair trade: the story – Highlights the TransFair USA in the ever-growing Fair Trade movement as they advocate for fair wages and better working conditions for farmers and their families in developing nations. Interview with Amartya Sen from Nobelity – 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics talks about the power of reason to solve our global problems of poverty and overpopulation in this short excerpt from the film “Nobelity”.
OCLC #: 173147876
Added: February 28, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
