PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

Rights and Responsibilities
by Aisha White Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004 at 4:08 PM
aisha@pitt.edu 4126610469 5706 East Liberty Blvd.

Rights and Responsibilities to screen Stephanie Black's 'Life and Debt' at Homewood Library Auditorium.

Set to a reggae beat, Life and Debt takes as its subject Jamaica's economic decline in the 20th century. Although colonialism was ended long ago and so-called Third World countries were given their independence, the financial pressures on the struggling nations end up continuing imperialism by another name. The story has reverberations in the plight of other developing nations blindsided by globalization, like Ghana and Haiti. After England granted Jamaica independence in 1962, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in with a series of loans. These loans came with strings attached--the kind that would eventually plunge the country $7 billion into debt, stranded without the resources to dig themselves out.

The film will be shown Saturday, November 20th, 2004, 7:30 p.m. at the Homewood Branch Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Avenue. Fee is $1.00. Featured speaker is Damu Smith, Executive Director of Black Voices for Peace.

Rights and Responsibilities is a human rights organization whose mission is to raise awareness of global human rights issues, particularly those impacting people of African descent. For more information about the film go to: http://www.lifeanddebt.org

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