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The IMF and World Bank summit in Prague in September 2000 provoked a large-scale mobilization of citizens around the world. Seattle, Washington and Millau have already demonstrated the power of the antiglobalization movement and the independent media. "Prague, People and Profit" examines the movement and the changes in Check society since the fall of the Eastern block.

Ouagadougou. Darkness fell on the city several hours ago. Ramata, Mariam and Eugénie are bent over the ground, untiringly sweeping the dust which inevitably swirls back. The language they use to speak of their professional and family lives mirrors their struggle, to get rid of the city's dust and the poverty of their homes with equal energy. A documentary on the role and place of African women today. The majority are still illiterate and yet they are the cornerstones of economic activity in numerous countries of the continent.

  “Because one must produce, one must by all possible means of activity replace nature wherever it can be replaced, one must find a major field of action for human inertia, the worker must have something to keep him busy, new fields of activity must be created, in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured products, of all the vile synthetic substitutes in which beautiful real nature has no part, and must give way finally and shamefully before all the victorious substitute products (...)". Antonin Artaud.