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Living Broke in Boom Times

Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

About This Project

Living Broke in Boom Times has condensed three groundbreaking documentary films (Takeover, Poverty Outlaw & Outriders) spanning a decade of an American movement to end poverty, into segments of ideal length for educational use or advocacy workshops, with new wrap-around commentary from key activists who led the movement. Cheri Honkala, Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the organizing, and the lessons learned from hard-won experience.  As the economic inequality gap in the United States continues to increase, this film gains evermore relevance.

“It is a wonderful documentary, heart-rending in its depiction of homelessness and desperation, yet inspiring in what it shows about the magnificence of people fighting back, organizing, refusing to accept their situation, trying to build a national movement. I found the close-ups of these people, their voices, their down-home eloquence very moving. I do hope this will be widely seen. I think it can play an important role in arousing people to action. ”

HOWARD ZINN

Release date

Jul 13, 2007

Running time

73m

CREDITS

Pamela Yates, Producer/Director
Peter Kinoy, Producer/Editor
Dara Kell, Editor
Harvey Finkle, Photographer

OUTREACH PARTNERS

Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
The University of the Poor

Category
Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

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