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ANNOTATED VIDEOGRAPHY

1) Burlington Station WCAX TV 3 Interview
    Child Labor Education and Action Videlgraphy
    2 minutes. 5/17/00

News clip on the Brattleboro Union High School CLEA trip to Washington DC. CLEA members are interviewed while attending the Department of Labor Conference on Child Labor. Also included is an interview with Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent, VT)

2) Vidhayak Sanad
    Brick Kiln
    12 minutes. 1990's

This video provides an overview of child labor used in the brick industry in India.

3) Child Combatants: Road to Recovery
    Center for Defense Information
    27 minutes. September 13, 1998

This video, which contains graphic images of violence, discusses the Sierra Leone conflict and the uses of child soldiers in that region. Additionally, the video is critical of the role the U.S. has played in recruiting soldiers under the age of 18 and for the U.S. having not signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

4) Child Labor: The Despair and the Hope
    International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)
    8.5 minutes. 1998

The video discusses IPEC strategies to eliminate child labor. IPEC uses national surveys to set programming priorities in each country. The video also includes the voices of many former child laborers.

5) Childhood Regained
    Center for Rural Education Development Action (CREDA) India
    28 minutes. 1998

The video provides a non-western view of child labor in Northern India and the formation of a local non-government organization (NGO) CREDA in response to this issue. The carpet industry in covered from the recruiting of children into the industry to the wealthy exporters. The educational based intervention programs that CREDA has implemented are discussed.

6) Child Soldiers: Invisible Combatants
    Center for Defense Information
    27 minutes. July 29, 1997

This video contains graphic images of violence. It discusses how and why children become involved in armed conflicts with one reason being that modern war takes place within communities making children and other civilian populations especially vulnerable. The challenges of reintegrating child soldiers into society, through rehabilitation programs, are addressed as well.

7) Charles Kernaghan. Speech at Brattleboro Union High School
    National Labor Committee
    1 hour 20 minutes. 1998

Mr. Kernaghan, the founder and director of the National Labor Committee, speaks passionately about the inequalities of the current free market system that allows U.S. manufacturers to exploit cheap labor in free trade zones. Hear Mr. Kernaghan articulately blast Wal-Mart, Kathie Lee, Nike, Walt Disney, and the GAP. He highlights the inequalities in the El Salvador free trade zones in many of his stories. He also discusses the amount of labor that goes into these items using the actual garment or shoe as a prop. The video ends with a question and answer session. A fiery speech that is intended to motivate the audience to act this video is great for the classroom.

8) Craig Kilbergher interview
    60 Minutes - CBS
    12 minutes 1998

An interesting interview with Craig Kilbergher, the Canadian youth who at the age of 13 started the human rights group Free the Children, which is run by children. Today Free the Children is leading human rights group fighting against exploitative child labor in countries all over the world.

9) Guess- Who Pockets the Difference?
    UNITE
    8 minutes 15 seconds. 1993

This video exposes the sweatshop abuses perpetuated by the Guess? Clothing company. The company was using Mexican immigrant labor to sew their products in sweatshops throughout Los Angeles. The video also shows how the laborers were able to organize around this issue. This video dispels the myth that present day sweatshop abuses occur only in the developing world.

10) Highway to Hell: Trafficking of Girls From Nepal to India
      Multiple Action Research Group
      38 minutes. 1996

This documentary begins with the religious history of the region (Buddhism and Hinduism). The video discusses the migration, especially of girls, from Nepal into various exploitative industries in India (carpet, sex trade, and circus). The filmmaker takes the viewer into a red light district in India and interviews men who visit some of these brothels as well as interviewing, through the bars of a jail cell, people who have been incarcerated for trafficking children. The film ends with an emotionally charged interview of a 25-year-old former prostitute who is dying of AIDS. This film puts the sheer ugliness of child trafficking in the viewer's face. A great video to illicit discussion around the topic.

11) Little Steps Big Steps: The PRAYAS story
      PRAYAS
      26 minutes. 1999

The video outlines the development and activities of PRAYAS, an NGO, working to eradicate child labor in Northern India. PRAYAS initially addressed the issue of child labor through non-formal educational initiates but branched out to include other programs (health care, nutrition, women's empowerment, and vocational training). Interesting to see how the NGO started out with a narrow focus on child labor and over the course of 10 years took a more holistic approach to programming. Migration and HIV/AIDS 20 minutes 1990's United Nations Development Program-Voices From the Region Focused on India this video links migration trends to AIDS/HIV. Also addresses the plight of migrants who are stricken with the disease. There are interviews with immigrants who have aids, as well as interviews with immigration officers and health care professionals. The intention of the video is to reduce the vulnerability of immigrants while informing them of their rights.

12) Shackled Children
      International Labor Organization
      58 minutes. December 1992

The video begins with a raid on a rural house in India where the owner was utilizing child labor. The video continues on in this fashion going from country to country with local activists who work to expose exploitative child labor situations. From the jasmine fields in Egypt, to the migrant farm work in California, to forced labor work camps in Russia, to the glass industry in India, to the coal mines of Colombia this provocative gives the viewer first hand accounts of what the conditions are like for child laborers in various industries across the globe.

13) Something to Hide
      United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
      25 minutes. 1999

This video takes the viewer on a trip with Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, and a group of USAS members to El Salvador. The video focuses on the inequalities in the malquiladores, free trade zones, in El Salvador. There are also interviews with local workers describing their working conditions in the factories. Charles Kernaghan providers insight into "race to the bottom" that occurs when countries underbid each other in an effort to attract foreign manufactures. The result is that the local workers make "slave wages."

14) U.S. Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
      Center for Defense Information
      9 minutes. July 26, 1999

This advocacy video contains graphic images of war footage. The video discusses how and why children become child soldiers. The video is also critical of the international role the U.S. has played in blocking legislation designed to protect children from entering the military.

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