Proteus Gowanus » georg koszulinski http://proteusgowanus.org An interdisciplinary gallery and reading room Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:40:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Change of Plans for Tonight’s Migration Film http://proteusgowanus.org/2012/04/change-of-plans-for-tonights-migration-film/ http://proteusgowanus.org/2012/04/change-of-plans-for-tonights-migration-film/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:48:29 +0000 http://proteusgowanus.org/?p=2227 Tuesday, April 3, 8pm

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to air Cotton Road tonight. Instead, we will show the documentary film, Immokalee U.S.A. by Georg Koszulinski.

Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. A vast majority of these workers are undocumented, leaving them at the mercy of the large agribusinesses who hire them, the crew leaders who contract them and the landlords and businesses that profit from the seasonal arrival of migrant workers. Their “undocumented” legal status allows for a system of exploitation that leaves workers and their families to endure conditions and wages that rarely meet international human rights standards. Immokalee U.S.A. documents these daily experiences, leading the viewer to examine their own role in the issues migrant workers face in the U.S.A.

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