MMMM! Monday 13 April, Movie (The Pickers), Meal & Mingling
Hi all,
MMMM! Monday Movie, Meal & Mingling is back on Monday 13 April!
https://ud.coop/pickers
This week we're screening: The Pickers
A reminder to check out our MMMM! Next film? site where you can suggest and upvote films you think we should screen. It's easy to login, you just enter your email and then click the link it sends you.
You can also Join West Dorset Commons to get into MMMM! for free and to support our ongoing work to make West Dorset a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, whilst respecting the wellbeing of all people, and the health of the whole planet.
But back to MMMM! on Monday 13 April:
We'll have a delicious (mostly organic) vegan curry from 6ish:
Menu TBC
Pre-book (or at least let us know you'd like food) by 3pm Monday to avoid disappointment! 🎟️ 🍲😋
Shorts from around 6:30pm ish
And the main feature from 7pm:
The Pickers (1 hr 20 mins) 2024
We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us.
The Pickers is a journey to European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: in Southern Italy, Seydou from Mali is picking oranges. He has no contract and is paid per crate. He lives in a self-built hut in a settlement without water and electricity.
Blueberries in Portugal, olives in Greece, strawberries in Spain – one million migrants are currently working in European fields. The pickers are the mobile workforce that fills our supermarkets’ baskets, most of them without contracts or minimum wages, some without papers or with high debts with agents.
What we see adds a bitter taste to what we eat every day: Our daily fruit and vegetables are rooted in a system of exploitation.
No way out of this system? There is: Pape from Senegal is producing fair oranges in southern Italy: “We don’t want to be seen as revolutionary, we want this to be the new normal!”
We'll also have:
Delicious (mostly) organic vegan curries from Fergus Bradbeer aka Vegie Vortex (who also used to do the curries at Beach and Barnicott), plus hot and cold drinks.
Please note:
Our room hire costs £48/ week so if you're able to able to contribute more than the default ticket amount then please do so.
We also need to ensure enough people come along to make it worthwhile for Fergus to keep coming along to cook up the delicious food - so invite a friend!
Many thanks in advance. Together We Have Everything.
Get your tickets and pre-book your food now 🎟️ 🍲😋 https://ud.coop/pickers
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