From Field to Factory - Film Screening and Discussion!

The United States is one of the world’s top producers of sugar from beets, much of the production coming from the area along the Minnesota-North Dakota border. As described in the documentary, From Field to Factory, “The survival of communities up and down the Red River Valley of
Minnesota is directly tied to this industry, which has an economic impact of $3 billion a year.”
Yet few outside the area know about the people who farm and process sugar beets -- and how their livelihoods are threatened by new, unfair trade deals (such as CAFTA which passed in 2005).
View this eye-opening documentary, produced by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service, and hear from Mark Froemke, sugar beet worker, union leader and member of the steering committee for the Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition.

Download the flier at http://www.fairtrademinnesota.org/beet_film_flier-1.pdf