The Resource T-shirt travels, by Shantha Bloemen, (electronic resource)
T-shirt travels, by Shantha Bloemen, (electronic resource)
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The item T-shirt travels, by Shantha Bloemen, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. We see a secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully select a bale among dozens, bundled and shipped from abroad. He pays for the used clothing and then transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His meager profits support his entire extended family who subsist in shanty towns miles from the market. Their lives exemplify the poverty plaguing Africa today. They have virtually no possibility of advancing themselves and their children. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University Center for International Studies and other experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt. As the African governments service their debts according to an IMF/World Bank policy known as "structural adjustment lending," people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools and a crumbling infra-structure. Our old t-shirts come with a high price-tag. A presentation of the Independent Television Service (itvs). Partially funded by the Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute and the International Foundation for Arts and Culture
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 min.).
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011)
- Isbn
- 9781503407169
- Label
- T-shirt travels
- Title
- T-shirt travels
- Statement of responsibility
- by Shantha Bloemen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. We see a secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully select a bale among dozens, bundled and shipped from abroad. He pays for the used clothing and then transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His meager profits support his entire extended family who subsist in shanty towns miles from the market. Their lives exemplify the poverty plaguing Africa today. They have virtually no possibility of advancing themselves and their children. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University Center for International Studies and other experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt. As the African governments service their debts according to an IMF/World Bank policy known as "structural adjustment lending," people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools and a crumbling infra-structure. Our old t-shirts come with a high price-tag. A presentation of the Independent Television Service (itvs). Partially funded by the Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute and the International Foundation for Arts and Culture
- Additional physical form
- Previously released as DVD.
- Awards note
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- Best Documentary, Atlanta Film Festival, 2001
- Best Documentary, Human Rights and Justice, Vermont International Film Festival, 2001
- Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2001
- Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2002
- Cataloging source
- VaAlASP
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bloemen, Shantha
- Intended audience
- For College; Adult audiences
- Language note
- This edition in English
- Runtime
- 57
- Series statement
- Global business and economics in video
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Clothing trade
- Used clothing industry
- Africa
- Zambia
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- T-shirt travels, by Shantha Bloemen, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011)
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Control code
- ASP1650522/busv
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 min.).
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781503407169
- Medium for sound
- other
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- remote
- other
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781503407169
- (OCoLC)747798627
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- T-shirt travels, by Shantha Bloemen, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011)
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Control code
- ASP1650522/busv
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 min.).
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781503407169
- Medium for sound
- other
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- remote
- other
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781503407169
- (OCoLC)747798627
- Video recording format
- other
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