Throughout the global South, people of color nurture delicate ecosystems. Scenes from "Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure" show how US-backed "drug wars" threaten the environment of a rural Black community in Colombia. The video emphasizes the doubling of cocaine imported into the US during the last 10 years. Green Time host Don Fitz discusses the possibility that "drug wars" were intended to devastate the African-American community with Zaki Baruti of the Universal African Peoples Organization. "Plan Colombia" footage includes comments from Noam Chomsky, Colombian Green Party Presidential Candidate Ingrid Betancourt, and US Member of Congress John Conyers.

The Green Time show on

"PLAN COLOMBIA & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM"

will air on Double Helix Channel 21 in the City of St. Louis at the following times:

7:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 24 & December 31, 2003,
2:30 p.m., Friday, December 26, 2003 & January 2, 2004,
12:30 p.m., Saturday, December 27, 2003 & January 3, 2004,
7:00 p.m., Sunday, December, 2003 28 & January 4, 2004.

For viewers in St. Louis County, this Green Time episode will air on Regional Access Channel 18 in the Charter Classic Area at the following time:

6:00 p.m., Saturday, January 10, 2004 and
6:00 p.m., Saturday, January 17, 2004.

For more information about this Green Time production (No. 180), please call Don Fitz at 314-727-8554. To order, send $23 (+$5 for next day delivery) to "Double Helix" at 625 N. Euclid, Suite 460, St. Louis MO 63108.