Screening & Diskussion: Sacrificed to Feed the World: A testimony from Gabes, Tunesia

Gabes, a coastal oasis in Southern Tunisia is drowning in pollution. A chemical complex, transforming phosphate into fertilizer and animal feed heavily pollutes the surrounding environment and its inhabitants. Nonetheless, European companies continue being among the main clients of the highly-sought for phosphate, crucial for industrial agriculture. This film explores the environmental impacts of the phosphate industry, its extractivist nature and the increasing repression of activists fighting against the pollution.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, featuring our speaker Julia Albrecht (WEED), Policy Officer for Resource Justice.

 

Panelists:

Islem ZreIIi, Local activist: Overview of the current situation

Nesrine, WeSmeIIGas: Green colonialism and false solutions

Khayreddine Debaya, Stop Pollution Gabes: Social mobilisation and the political repression

Julia Albrecht, WEED: Resource justice and the role of the EU