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Father Christopher Hartley, a teenage rebel felt and it's called into the MINISTRY when he was fifteen. His father described him "who is all or nothing." in the documentary. Hartley lands in the Dominican Republic and comes to the aid of Haitian sugar plantation workers, who are paid ninety cents an hour, live in the worst kind of poverty imaginable, and work every day despite wounds on their bodies. As the plantation owners grow rich, Hartley states he believes Americans would be embarrassed if they knew the price which is paid every day for them to have the sugar they put in their cups of coffee.—Daniel By |
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On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies. |