This powerful documentary is a portrait of India's Self-Employed Women's Association, the now-famous women's organization that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. Based in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, SEWA is at its core a trade union for the self-employed. It offers union membership to the illiterate women who sell vegetables for 50 cents a day in the city markets, or who pick up paper scraps for recycling from the streets--jobs that most Indian men don't consider real work. Following the lives of six women involved in the organization, including Ela R. Bhat, its visionary founder, the documentary is an important look at the power of grassroots global feminism. Directed by Patricia Plattner.
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