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How can anger be an energy? #StreamAtSundance: ‘Kailash’

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and director Derek Doneen join The Stream to discuss their film and Satyarthi’s fight to end child slave labour.

The Stream kicks off a week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah with a  look at the documentary film “Kailash“. The movie tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, whose mission is to end child slavery in India. His quest to free children from the harsh conditions of their factory owners has him ping ponging across the country while launching a global movement in the process.

Satyarthi believes anger can be a powerful tool to initiate change. In fact, he says getting angry can help us make peace. And it’s his ability to harness anger that fuels his life’s work. To date he’s helped rescue more than 85 thousand children.

But there is much more work to be done. The International Labour Organization estimates there are 152 million child labourers, and that 75 million of them work in hazardous conditions.

So how can people harness their anger and help make a difference in the lives of millions of children? We will ask Satyarthi when he joins the film’s director, Derek Doneen, on this episode of The Stream.

On this episode of The Stream, we speak with:

Kailash Satyarthi @k_satyarthi
Children’s Rights Advocate
satyarthi-us.org

Derek Doneen
Director, Kailash
derekdoneen.com

Reid Maki
Director of Child Labor Issues, National Consumers League
stopchildlabor.org

Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK
Board Member, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation
rfkhumanrights.org

Read more: 

Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel Peace Prize caps decades of fighting child slavery in India – The New York Times 
Kailash Satyarthi: Saving India’s child slaves – Al Jazeera 
Why Nobel Winner Kailash Satyarthi urges everyone to be ‘Angry’ – The Quint 

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