Join Hip Hop Alliance and The United Students Against Sweatshops for a screening of Bling: Consequences and Repercussions a documentary tackling the issues behind hip hop’s obsession with diamonds and the continued illegal diamond trade in West Africa. Jadakiss, Tego Calderon, Paul Wall and Kanye West travel to Sierra Leone to visit the Kono diamond mines and view the conditions of the miners and witness a nation destroyed by a decade long civil war that took over 100,000 lives and created a population of more than 200,000 amputees.
Thursday, October 29th, 8-10pm, Bolton 282

