Sunday, April 28, 7:00-8:15pm (CDT)
Siddharth Kara’s Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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From the publisher’s website: “Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.”
Three options – choose one or more and complete prior to April 28:
Read the book - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara (2022), 279 pages. Read publisher’s description. Find at your local library or bookstore. Highly recommended.
Listen to an On Point NPR podcast, March 2024 with author Siddharth Kara (45 minutes).
View a lecture by Siddharth Kara presented at a Foreign Policy Association April 2023 event (90 minutes).
Reflection / discussion questions:
What is one new insight, fact, or perspective that you learned?
What did you find especially helpful or instructive? In what way?
What was the most troubling, challenging, or tension-producing for you?
What questions did Kara evoke for you?
How do we respond? We are complicit as consumers. Are there changes you want to make as an individual? Changes we need to push for in the U.S. and in international arenas?
What else do you want to talk about regarding Cobalt Red?
