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e-culture: Globalization Forum speaker announcement and topical film events
February 13, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
-Globalization Forum
-World Cultures Film
-Sunday Film Review
On Wed. Feb. 15 Guy Leflar will be at Globalization Forum, Olive Branch Rm. (Garage Apt. at Maryknoll, 2360 Rice Blvd) to speak on "Communities of the Future: the Second Enlightenment." Guy is one of Houston's best speakers. He's a former business consultant to corporations on socially responsible business, is interested in a sustainable environment, ethical business, community building. For info: Joan Denkler, 713-467-2996.
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World Cultures Film Series
Presented by Houston Institute for Culture and University of St. Thomas Modern and Classical Languages
The New Rulers of the World
Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00pm
FREE
University of St. Thomas, Anderson Auditorium, 3815 Mt. Vernon St.
The series will explore economic and social issues that affect cultures around the world.
The New Rulers of the World - In this extraordinary investigative film, award-winning journalist, John Pilger, uncovers the realities of globalization by taking a close look at recent history and labor issues in Indonesia.
In order to examine the true effects of globalization, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. The film examines the use of sweatshop factories by famous brand names, and asks some penetrating questions: Who are the real beneficiaries of the globalized economy? Who really rules the world now? Is it governments or a handful of huge companies? The Ford Motor Company alone is bigger than the economy of South Africa. Enormously rich men, like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa.
Pilger goes behind the hype of the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before.
The film looks at the new rulers of the world -- the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them -- the IMF and the World Bank. Under IMF rules, millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The reality behind much of modern shopping and the famous brands is a sweatshop economy, which is being duplicated in country after country.
The film travels to Indonesia and Washington, asking challenging questions seldom raised in the mainstream media and exposing the scandal of economic globalization, including revealing interviews with top officials of the World Bank and the IMF.
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Sunday Film Review
When the Mountains Tremble and Zapatista
Sunday, February 26 at 6:00pm
FREE
Houston Institute for Culture, 5555 Morningside, Suite 204
The series will include documentary and feature films to explore issues that rise from cultural and economic domination, and conflicting cultural values.
In the struggle for indigenous rights and cultural identity, Zapatista picks up where the ground-breaking documentary film about Mayan resistance in Guatemala, When the Mountains Tremble, leaves off. Films are narrated by Rigoberta Menchu and Edward James Olmos.
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