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               Women & Development Film Series
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           This event is free and open to the public

                 Date: March 10-14, 1996
                 Time: 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.

                 Auditorium: TBA - Central Campus
                 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


        For updated information visit our Web Site at:
        http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fiatlux/film.html

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  * How does the Global Economy affect women around the world?
  * What impact does it have on AIDS, mass starvation, and mass
sterilization of women?
  * How can people in the North act responsibly in the New World Order?
  * What are some of the main barriers to achieve sustainable development
around the world?
  * Are women truly agents of their own destinies and the world's future?

Come explore these and other questions in an exciting week featuring several
films on crucial issues of global development and women.

Films shown examine the relations of global trade, international labor,
hunger, debt, mass sterilization and the politics of reproductive rights,
and the trafficking of women in the global economy.

All films will be followed by a panel discussion with professors,
graduate students, and other professionals and activists.

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                        P R O G R A M
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Sunday, March 10

     GLOBAL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL LABOR, AND WOMEN
     Featuring:
          "The Global Assembly Line"

          This film exposes the tremendous impact on women from
          transnational corporations and the global economy. Young women are
          often the first choice for untrained, underpaid, and
          exploitative work the world over. The serious effects
          on their health, their families livelihood, their lack of
          alternatives, and the pollution of the
          environment are carefully documented in this video.
          Lorraine Gray - 1986 - 58 min.


          "Lady Marshall"

          Afro-Nicaraguan women successfully overcome race, gender, and
          class barriers to form their own boating business. This lively
          documentary follows the activities of a group of Afro-Caribbean
          women as they overturn fellow villagers initial
          skepticism to gain economic independence, pride and achievement
          and a critical role in the functioning of their community.
          Maria Jose Alvarez & Marta Clarissa Hernandez - 1990 - 21 min.

     Discussion by: TBA

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Monday, March 11

     International Institute Social Change Film Series night
     (SEPARATE EVENT)
     Featuring:
          "Ripples of Change"
          "The Good Wife of Tokyo"

     Nanako Kurihara, filmmaker of "Ripples of Change," will be the Guest
     Speaker.
     Auditorium: 1210 Chemistry Bldg, 7 p.m.

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Tuesday, March 12

     HUNGER, DEBT, AND WOMEN
     Featuring:

          "Business of Hunger"

          A striking portrait of how international agribusiness generates
          hunger around the world. The impact of cash crops and export
          agribusiness policies on communities around the world are
          analyzed in several countries in different continents.
          Maryknoll World Films - 1985 - 28 min.

          "Hell to Pay"

          A moving and politically sophisticated analysis of the
          international debt situation through the eyes of the women of
          Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin America.
          Teachers, textile workers and miners wives speak vividly and with
          great comprehension of the causes of the debt crisis and the
          burden they are forced to bear.
          Alexandra Anderson & Anne Cottringer - 1988 - 52 min.

     Discussion by: TBA

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Wednesday, March 13

     MASS STERILIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
     Featuring:

         "La Operaci'on"

         Sterilization politics on Puerto Rico - This film examines the
         hidden politics of sterilization policies used in Puerto Rico in
         the last decades and their tremendous impact on Puerto Rican
         women and their families. In Puerto Rico, like in Brazil and
         other countries, more than one third of all the women have been
         sterilized, many without any basic knowledge of what was being
         done to them.
         Ana Maria Garcia - 1985 - 40 min.

     Discussion by: TBA

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Thursday, March 14

     TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

     Featuring:

          "Dying for Sex"

          Trafficking and Prostitution in Asia - This BBC documentary
          inquires what is the relationship between poverty,
          prostitution, AIDS, and drug abuse in Asia. The
          film portrays the heartbreaking result of Asian prostitution and
          sex tourism that destroys the lives of millions of Asian women
          and girls whose human rights are trampled on from
          an early age onward.
          BBC News - 1993 - 47 min.

     Discussion by: TBA


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                     R A I S O N    D' E T R E
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     Women all over the world are deeply affected by development
policies and the transnational capitalist world economy that dominates
the world. What may be an improvement for one group of people, may spell
disaster for another, including the environment. Because of the phenomenon
of feminization of poverty, it is women and their children that bear the
brunt of misguided small and large scale planning and development
programs around the world.

          As the Fourth Women's World Conference in Beijing has shown, it
is of vital importance to examine ways in which women act as agents in
development processes as well as how they are affected by practices in which
they may have little or no control. Related to this one must look at which
institutions and organizations function as gears in generating "development"
or lack thereof both at a local level as well as at the international arena.
Since we are all part of the global economy, it is important to understand
how policies or processes devised by one group of people affect all others.

          Because women's roles in society are of utmost importance to
achieve a sustainable model of development, whether as primary caregivers, or
participating in social movements, or as agriculture producers, or as labor
in the world economy, or as community leaders, to name a few, it is of
fundamental importance to understand the ways that development policies and
practices have either empowered or have been detrimental to women, their
families, and their environment. By analyzing the past and present we can
ensure sustainable goals for the future. It was because of this reason
that the Women & Development Film Series was born.

          The Women & Development Film Series will comprise seven videos
shown and discussed by a panel of academics, students, and activists
during four evenings (Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
March 10-14, 1996). Monday night features two films on the women's
movement in Japan and it is part of a separate event: the "Screening Social
Change" Film Series, sponsored by the International Institute.

          We will also feature two "new" films to premiere at the Film
Series (Lady Marshal and Hell to Pay), that is, they have not been shown
at the University before. Lady Marshal is a film about Afro-Nicaraguan
women facing sex, race, and economic barriers to develop their own
boating business. Hell to Pay is a film where various Bolivians explain
how their country's foreign debt harshly impacts their lives.

          The Women & Development Film Series is followed by a National
Symposium on Development entitled: " Making Development Work Without
Forgetting the Poor - Re-thinking Our Common Future." The Symposium was
developed by the Law & Development Student Association (U of M Law
School) and it will be held at the Law School on March 15 & 16, 1996.
Internationally known professionals from major NGO's, the U.N., and
academia will convene to discuss development issues in the symposium.

          The main objective of the Women & Development Film Series is to
increase awareness and interest in these issues and to have an
informed discussion of many crucial problems regarding gender and
development. Additionally, students and other participants may have a
better appreciation and critical understanding of the panelists in the
L & D symposium. The film series also focuses on various parts
of the world, making it a truly international presentation, ideal
for U of M's dynamic and multicultural community. The issues presented
are entirely interdisciplinary and should attract a diverse group of
students and other citizens.

                       Film Series Speakers

          Proposed speakers will include U of M professors, U of M advanced
graduate students whose doctoral research focuses on women and
development issues, and activists or NGO personnel working with such issues.
Finalized list of speakers will be announced in February.

                                 Sponsors

Brazilian Students Club - Univ. of Michigan

The International Institute - U-M
Women's Studies Dept. - U-M
India Development Service - U-M

Shaman Drum Bookshop - Ann Arbor, MI
Common Language Bookstore - Ann Arbor, MI

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For more information, please contact Vera Britto at fiatlux@umich.edu -
Research Assistant, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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Vera Britto
(fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux)
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"Y no estimo tesoros ni riquezas; y asi, siempre me causa mas contento poner
riquezas en mi pensamiento que no mi pensamiento en las riquezas. Y no estimo
hermosura que, vencida, es despojo civil de las edades, ni riqueza me agrada
fementida, teniendo por mejor, en mis verdades, consumir vanidades de la vida
que consumir la vida en vanidades."      Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz