Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
- Awards
- 2 wins total
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Self - Director, International Monetary Fund
- (archive footage)
- (as Horst Kohler)
- Self - Professor of Economics, University of West Indies
- (as Dr. Michael Witter)
- Self - President of the United States
- (archive footage)
- Self - U.S. Potato Board
- (archive footage)
- Self - Former President, Ghana
- (archive footage)
- (as Jerry Rawlings)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
The US didn't abolish slavery in the 19th century; they simply outsourced it. Take a look inside the Kingston Free Zone and you'll see the slaves still at work. Visit a Jamaican banana plantation and learn about how the economy of a sovereign nation was subjugated in the name of "free trade."
In short, fellow fat Americans, pull your heads out of your globalizing butts and watch this film, and then try -- for just a moment, at least -- to put yourself on the other side of the coin. Imagine how you would feel about a foreign agency that took away your livelihood, that treated you like chattel, that demanded you stop making a living so that a transnational corporation could capture the last 5% of a market share.
Wouldn't you hate them, too?
Storyline
Did you know
- Quotes
Narrator: "Jamaica was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa to satisfy their desire for wealth and power. Eventually the masters left, in a kind of way; eventually the salves were freed, in a kind of way. Of course, the whole thing is, once you cease to be master you're no longer human rubbish, you're just a human being and all the things that adds up to; so too with the slaves, once they are no longer slaves, once they're free they are no longer noble and exalted, they are just human beings." based on "A Small Place" copyright 1987 Jamaica Kincaid
- Crazy creditsSpecial heartfelt gratitude to the interviewees who share the truth with such eloquence.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The North Pole Deception (2010)
- SoundtracksG-7
Written by Ziggy Marley (as David Marley)
Performed by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Courtesy of Elektra Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Used by permission of Colgems-EMI Music Inc.
Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $263,107
- Gross worldwide
- $263,107
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1