Global Village or Global Pillage: The Race to the Bottom

Today's global economy lets corporations pit workers and communities against each other to see who will provide the lowest wages - most abusable workers - cheapest environmental costs - and biggest subsidies for corporations. The result: a RACE TO THE BOTTOM in which conditions for all tend to fall toward the poorest and most desperate. But that gives people around the world a common interest in opposing the race to the bottom. This movie shows how they are doing so. The Global Village or Global Pillage Grassroots Education Project encourages grassroots actions and transnational linking to reverse the race the bottom. Narrated by Edward Asner. Featuring: Anti-sweatshop activist Charles Kernaghan - AFL-CIO labor economist Thea Lee - Human rights advocate Loretta Ross - International Anti-Apartheid Leader Dennis Brutus - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader - and a cast of billions! Animation by Mike Konopacki - produced and written by Jeremy Brecher. (VHS - 27 minutes - 1999) For more information - visit Global Exchange's Global Economy Campaigns.