Films about tobacco farming are available on Sidewalk radio the blog created by Marty Otañez. The name Sidewalk is a reference to the way people in Africa describe the information you get from the street. I was accustomed to the french version "radio trottoir" but had never encountered the english one.
Sidewalk Radio is a tool for advocacy along social, economic, and
political lines. Advocacy means stuff like creating healthy communities,
contributing to environmental justice, and building strong trade unions for agricultural workers.
The aim of Sidewalk Radio is to educate and encourage individuals to create visual media for social change, as well as being a resource for anthropological and ethical issues affecting communities in developed and developing countries.
Blog themes will shift over time. The first theme is transnational tobacco companies such as cigarette manufacturers (Philip Morris and British American Tobacco) and tobacco leaf buying companies (Universal Corporation and Alliance One International).
Marty Otañez operates sidewalkradio.net, with creative input from computer graphic artist Michelle Otañez.
Marty received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Irvine in 2004.
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