Empowerment Works Artists in Action Benefit Series presents
In Collaboration with Renegande Pictures and UCSB Center for Black Studies
Benefiting Poto Mitan and Empowerment Works
::Caribbean Dreams::
An Extravaganza of Art, Music, Dance, Film and Photography
featuring the film Poto Mitan:: www.potomitan.net
music by YehDede www.myspace.com/yehdede
and DJ NNAMDI
Friday November 30th
8pm - 1am
Club Fais DoDo
5257 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles 90016
$10 donation - $8 with RSVP
www.empowermentworks.org
POTO MITAN
Poto Mitan is a story of struggle, courage, resistance, and democracy. Through powerful, compelling stories/lives of five courageous Haitian women, Poto Mitan will inspire and educate solidarity, global justice, and women's activists around the world and challenge them to think critically about their own work. Each woman's life history will shed light on a particular aspect of the country's current crisis, weaving Haiti's story within her own, something that is often missed by the mainstream and even alternative media.
The image of Haiti that comes out of both mainstream and alternative media is almost entirely negative: a seemingly endless stream of dire poverty, protracted violence, and extreme fallout from natural disasters. While it is true that Haiti is a society that is poor and divided, there are important structural causes of this poverty and division. Poto Mitan viewerw not familiar with Haiti a humanizing historical context and lived understanding of the people who are confronting these structural imbalances.
Poto Mitan contributes the much needed understanding of the world economy. Our approach is to depict how inequalities based on social and national differences and gender roles intersect and are experienced on the ground. By sharing the lives - living and working conditions, life histories, and activism - of five everyday Haitians, we give the world economy a human face. Most people do not think about where their clothing is made, and how the people who make it live and work. An early site for export-processing zones, often called maquiladoras, Haiti is a good place to examine this global phenomenon, highlighting fluctuations within the export-oriented textile industry.
Poto Mitan is a tool to inspire, educate, and empower solidarity activists. By seeing the daily struggles of local women workers, seeing that they are not merely victims but organized activists, this film will inspire people in the North to get involved.
In Collaboration with Renegande Pictures and UCSB Center for Black Studies
Benefiting Poto Mitan and Empowerment Works
::Caribbean Dreams::
An Extravaganza of Art, Music, Dance, Film and Photography
featuring the film Poto Mitan:: www.potomitan.net
music by YehDede www.myspace.com/yehdede
and DJ NNAMDI
Friday November 30th
8pm - 1am
Club Fais DoDo
5257 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles 90016
$10 donation - $8 with RSVP
www.empowermentworks.org
POTO MITAN
Poto Mitan is a story of struggle, courage, resistance, and democracy. Through powerful, compelling stories/lives of five courageous Haitian women, Poto Mitan will inspire and educate solidarity, global justice, and women's activists around the world and challenge them to think critically about their own work. Each woman's life history will shed light on a particular aspect of the country's current crisis, weaving Haiti's story within her own, something that is often missed by the mainstream and even alternative media.
The image of Haiti that comes out of both mainstream and alternative media is almost entirely negative: a seemingly endless stream of dire poverty, protracted violence, and extreme fallout from natural disasters. While it is true that Haiti is a society that is poor and divided, there are important structural causes of this poverty and division. Poto Mitan viewerw not familiar with Haiti a humanizing historical context and lived understanding of the people who are confronting these structural imbalances.
Poto Mitan contributes the much needed understanding of the world economy. Our approach is to depict how inequalities based on social and national differences and gender roles intersect and are experienced on the ground. By sharing the lives - living and working conditions, life histories, and activism - of five everyday Haitians, we give the world economy a human face. Most people do not think about where their clothing is made, and how the people who make it live and work. An early site for export-processing zones, often called maquiladoras, Haiti is a good place to examine this global phenomenon, highlighting fluctuations within the export-oriented textile industry.
Poto Mitan is a tool to inspire, educate, and empower solidarity activists. By seeing the daily struggles of local women workers, seeing that they are not merely victims but organized activists, this film will inspire people in the North to get involved.
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