Event ends: April 22, 2010 – 10:30 pm
FREE PUBLIC SCREENING OF THE PRICE OF SUGAR
Thursday, April 22, 2010
8:15 PM - 10:30 PM (ET)
American University,
Ward Building, Room 2
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
Sponsored by Prevent Human Trafficking. More information online here [1].
Why watch The Price of Sugar?
"In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, The Price of Sugar follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced."
Taken from www.thepriceofsugar.com
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Free Parking is available after 5:00 p.m. in a lot bordered by Nebraska, Massachusetts, and New Mexico Avenues. The entrance is on New Mexico.
PLUS Light refreshments will be served