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Hosts: Nathan Callan and Mike Kaspar
An interview with Bill Haney, director, producer and screenwriter of 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 are toiling 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.
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1 comment:
I am really interested to see this following my trip to most of the Hawaiian islands last year. There is only one sugar plantation left on the islands! The industry in Hawaii has been destroyed with companies seeking cheaper sugar elsewhere. It was such a shock to drive around the islands and the locals would point out the cane fields and discuss the job loss and loss of identity to a great extent. It was truly heartbreaking.
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