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Street 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
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Dear Meta House Friends!

How does GLOBALISATION affect CAMBODIA?

Our "Globalisation Week" at Meta House kicks off with tonite's
presentation of
ZEITGEIST (6.30PM). The "Winner of the Activist Film Festival 2007" is a
highly
critical documentary (2008, 120min) focusing on suppressed historical &
modern
information about currently dominant social institutions, while also
exploring what
could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue
their
patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.

Please visit us also for the following screnings:

WED, 04/03, 6.30 PM SAVE THE KHMER FOREST
Cambodia has one of the world's worst deforestation rates. Between 1990
and 2005 the
kingdom lost 2.5 million hectares. Illegal logging, combined with rapid
development
and population growth, is blamed for it. The doc films PREY LANG by
Jocelyn and Ben
Pederick and CAMBODIANA by Estelle Dorides take you inside the still
existing Khmer
forests. Om Kimsour's film TOMORROW plays in Rattanakiri, where ethnic
minorities
fight for their land.

THUR, 05/03, 6.30PM AT THE FACTORY GATES
The kingdom's garment factories in Cambodia aren't gloomy pits of
Dickensian misery.
Instead, Cambodia is seeking to become the rare Third World country to
develop
economically while treating workers reasonably well. This innovative soap
opera
series by ILO/"Better Factories" was produced to help factories with their
in-house
training, and covers important workplace issues and trains workers on
their rights
and responsibilities. (Q&A after screening)

FRI, 06/03 MH CLOSED FOR RECEPTION

SAT, 07/03, 6.30PM CHANGING THE WORLD ON VACATION
This new documentary by Daniela Kon (2009, 88 min) follows the Cambodian
grassroots
NGO PEPY which built a school for 540 children in a rural village and
supports this
project through "Volun-tourism" - the controversial trend in the modern
non-profit
world that merges adventure tourism and humanitarian aid work.

posted by Jinja @ 3:36 PM