Indymedia Presents: Blood In The Mobile Plus Director Q+a (tbc)
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Mon 6 February 2012 // 20:00
(Mon 2nd Feb / 8pm / £4/3 but nobody refused for lack of funds)
The selection between different models of mobile phone, and our dependence on them in everyday life is great, and big business...but their production has a dark, bloody side.
The minerals used to produce cell phones come from the mines in Eastern Congo, home to a civil war that human rights organisations claim, is the bloodiest conflict since World War II. By buying these so-called conflict minerals and phones we therefore contribute to finance this war, which for the last 15 years has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people, and during which 300,000 women have been raped.
Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. The film exposes the extent to which contemporary technologies are needlessly perpetuating slavery and child labour in the world today. Director Frank Poulson will be introducing his film and taking a Q&A after.
The selection between different models of mobile phone, and our dependence on them in everyday life is great, and big business...but their production has a dark, bloody side.
The minerals used to produce cell phones come from the mines in Eastern Congo, home to a civil war that human rights organisations claim, is the bloodiest conflict since World War II. By buying these so-called conflict minerals and phones we therefore contribute to finance this war, which for the last 15 years has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people, and during which 300,000 women have been raped.
Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. The film exposes the extent to which contemporary technologies are needlessly perpetuating slavery and child labour in the world today. Director Frank Poulson will be introducing his film and taking a Q&A after.