The producers go on location to delve into the topic of identity, politics, and culture as perceived by the Chiapas citizens. Great interviews with regular people who best articulated their argument by being simple and to the point.
A piece that is dominated by lovely use of sound that really takes gives the listener a strong sense of place. I liked the interviews with the people involved, especially an elder mourning the loss of old ways, the disappearance of animals from the environment, his vanishing language.
We pay fancy prices in the West for designer coffees - politically correct coffees - but it doesn’t seem to really be making a dent in the lives of the people who most depend on selling the coffee they grow – but at least it’s a start. The movement needs to catch on the way that protests against GM products in Britain and Europe did – people demanded the right to eat healthy and safe food. Now we need to start demanding for the rights of the people who grow our food – especially those on the lower economic scale who aren’t in a position to make demands on their own behalf.
This piece at least gives them a hearing.
Comments for Cafe Rebeldia
This piece belongs to the series "Worlds of Difference"
Produced by Tatiana Schreiber
Other pieces by Homelands Productions
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Emon Hassan
Posted on May 21, 2005 at 10:22 PM | Permalink
Review of Cafe Rebeldia
The producers go on location to delve into the topic of identity, politics, and culture as perceived by the Chiapas citizens. Great interviews with regular people who best articulated their argument by being simple and to the point.
Dheera Sujan
Posted on May 02, 2005 at 06:42 AM | Permalink
Review of Cafe Rebeldia
A piece that is dominated by lovely use of sound that really takes gives the listener a strong sense of place. I liked the interviews with the people involved, especially an elder mourning the loss of old ways, the disappearance of animals from the environment, his vanishing language.
We pay fancy prices in the West for designer coffees - politically correct coffees - but it doesn’t seem to really be making a dent in the lives of the people who most depend on selling the coffee they grow – but at least it’s a start. The movement needs to catch on the way that protests against GM products in Britain and Europe did – people demanded the right to eat healthy and safe food. Now we need to start demanding for the rights of the people who grow our food – especially those on the lower economic scale who aren’t in a position to make demands on their own behalf.
This piece at least gives them a hearing.