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Bill Haney will introduce his new documentary film, The Price of Sugar, about the plight of sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced.
Bill Haney will introduce his new documentary film, The Price of Sugar, on February 27, at 6:00 in Starr Auditorium.
More information about the film, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Academy Awards, can be found here.
Sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Center for International Development, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
