Fracture | Hearts and Minds

Trailer for a GREAT documentary called Life and Debt, about how Jamaica’s foreign debt to the IMF and the US undercutting local farmers by flooding the market with subsidised, surplus commodities have totally fucked the Jamaican economy.

People like Gordon Brown paint an emotional picture of globalisation when talking about global ethics and a “human community”. While this all sounds well intentioned, movies like this make you realise that the reality of globalisation for the world’s poor might not be so rosey if those ethics are not strictly and rigorously adhered to. Especially when it comes to those organisations for whom ethics are less important that counting profits.

Indeed, it could be something more like the world’s rich lowballing the poorest countries for their manufacturing work and local economies literally getting put out of business by cheaper, mass produced foreign goods.

Check out Life and Debt.