One of the strategies of corporate power is to make economic projects and policies impossible for most people to understand. Not only that, when it comes to freetrade agreements, the drafts resulting from these negotiations are kept from the public. This is why social movements must take on the task to unveil the logic and the interests behind these agreements. Friends of the Earth Brazil (Amigos da Terra Brasil—ATBr) and the World March of Women Brazil (WMW) are launching a new animated film to denounce the interests of transnational corporations in the European Union-Mercosur Trade Agreement.
The animation features two characters, Fátima and Rita, urban workers who are feeling the impacts of the crisis in Brazil firsthand. Amid unemployment and informal and precarious work, care and housework overload, increasing poverty and hunger , and thousands of deaths due to the coronavirus, they hear the news that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is about to be signed after 20 years of negotiations.
Watch the video below (Do not forget to turn English subtitles on!)