Film on Shrimp Farming at Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival - May 4

It’s All a Lie (10 min, UK)
In September, 2007, Environmental Justice Foundation investigators visited Caravelas, Bahia State, on the NE coast of Brazil where a proposal for a shrimp farm the size of London’s Heathrow airport would turn coastal forests into a virtual wasteland, destroying sustainable livelihoods and threatening marine habitats. The film illustrates the delusion of local residents due to false promises made by the shrimp farming industry for jobs and a better life, and shows the devastation caused to alert Caravela’s residents of the activity’s reality. (Environmental Justice Foundation, 2007)

Date: Sunday, May 4
Time: 1pm
Location: Room 175, Johnson Hall, University of Washington

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