The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth. Featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.
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In the garden–with its constant demands for water and weeding, pruning and mending fences, sowing year after year, going to seed—we brush against the limits of our impact on the present and the frailty of our reach into the future. Filmed at the UC Botanical Garden in Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley CA, on Ohlone traditional land.
To approach, to commune with growing things that do not need us. Touching and never reaching, cutting, decomposing, rearranging, letting go.
Super 8 transferred to 16mm at 24fps, silent
