MMMM! Monday 13 April

Shorts from around 6:30pm ish

And the main features from 7pm:

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The Pickers (2024)
(100 minutes)

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!”

IMDb: 7.6/10

🍲😋 Delicious organic vegan curry from Vegie Vortex from 6ish:

Chickpeas with spiced tomato and spinach

Ginger and garlic potatoes

Masoor Dal

Served with rice and salads

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