Past Event

Institute of African Studies and Carleton New Democrats present a screening of:

Blood in the Mobile – Is There Blood in your Pocket

with Paul Dewar, MP for Ottawa Centre (NDP)

The Documentary Blood in the Mobile (2010) shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.

After visiting the mine Frank Poulsen struggles to get to talk to Nokia, the Worlds largest phone company. Frank Poulsen wants them to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby is financing the war in the Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee.

Blood in Mobile is a film about our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo and about corporate social responsibility.
It is planned to skype in the director afterwards for the discussion.  For event poster here