The DuPage Peace through Justice Coalition presents
JUST VIEWS: a Monthly Video/ Discussion Program

This night we will delve into the impacts that colonialism, economic globalization and structural adjustment are having on developing countries -- and on others too -- for better and for worse. We will be transported to an illustrative locale, a sunny vacationers’ paradise -- to see how life really is for locals. Aid for development has created national debt and destroyed local agriculture and industry, impoverishing the workforce. The Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) interviewed on camera explains the official policies of global financial institutions. IMF and World Bank policies may be well intended, and do serve international corporate and banking interests, but they continue to have dire consequences for ordinary citizens. Our post-film discussion will benefit from input from provider Hunter Adams and will entertain analyses from multiple perspectives. Possibly ask your library for this Stephanie Black production on DVD and for these relevant books and tapes: The White Man’s Burden; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Empty Promises: The IMF, the World Bank, and Planned Failures of Global Capitalism.