General

WASTE: MADE IN THE FIRST WORLD

Monday, 15 November 2004
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Organizer: Asian American Resource Workshop

WASTE: MADE IN THE FIRST WORLD
A evening showing films bridging the Asian diaspora.

7pm at Tufts University's Medford Campus in Braker 001

TRACKING THE E-WASTE TRAIL (dir. Lau So-Mui, 2003, 20 min)
The Guiyu, a small village in the Guangdong Province of China, is a newly industrialized area specializing in the management and recycling of computer wastes. The workers there burn the original components of computers to extract valuable metals from them. The useless parts are then casually discarded, releasing toxic materials, and polluting the surrounding environment. Media Watch investigative teams went to the U.S. and Canada in search of the source of this e-waste, and discovered that, using the euphemism environmental recycling, these countries are actually dumping their waste onto other countries.

TOXIC SUNSET: ON THE TRAIL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM SUBIC & CLARK (dir.
Louelle Lasola & Ben Pimental, 1991, 30 min)
Nearly one hundred years after the Spanish American war, US military bases were finally voted out of the Philippines. This documentary dredges up facts about life-threatening waste left behind by departing US military personnel.

Followed by a talk by Noah Sachs, Harvard University

Location:
Tufts University's Medford Campus in Braker 001

Cost: $5, $25 for Festival Pass ($15 for Students), Tufts students w/ID free

Directions: uccps.tufts.edu/storiesfromtheland/directions.htm

Braker Auditorium 001
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

By local transportaion:

Take the Red Line to Davis Squre T stop. Walk 15 min from the T station to the the Campus along College Ave. Free shuttle service between Davis sq and Campus is also avaiable. The shuttle will depart from Davis Sq (in front of Somerville movie theater) every 20 to 30 min depending on the time. Please get off your shuttle at the Olin Center (the second stop). See shuttle schedule here. Barnum Auditrium is right across the street in front of the the Olin Center.

URL: http://www.aarw.org for Asian American Program Schedule or www.storiesfromtheland.org for full schedule & info!