TO END POVERTY! how you can help spread the word

Details: Published on Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:22; Written by editor

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your support and interest in THE END OF POVERTY?

Our original intention when filming THE END OF POVERTY? (TEOP) was to include both the root causes of poverty and the solutions. When we interviewed our experts (Susan Geroge, Eric Toussaint, Serge LaTouche, Joseph Stiglitz, John Christensen, John Perkins and others) back in '07 and '08, we asked what the solutions were. Based on their input, we were able to aggregate them into 10 groups of solutions that could end poverty in our lifetimes.

These are real solutions that would change the economic system that created poverty.

Some solutions might seem obvious: the guarantee of shelter, healthcare, education, food, and drinking water. While others would require the upending of our hyper-capitalistic society, for example, a basic minimum wage—regardless of employment—as a fundamental human right, which would not cost that much to implement.

As we shared previously, we've launched a crowdfund campaign to make a follow up film TO END POVERTY! But we need your help.

Crowdfunding TO END POVERTY!

We have some interview segments "in the can" but to complete the film we need to raise $150,000 (editing, music, production travel, etc.).

We've turned to the crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo to help us acheive that goal. For each contribution the individual or organization will receive a perk. It is open to contributors worldwide.

Please check out the campaign page and video for more background about the film: http://igg.me/at/toendpoverty

How Else Can You Help:

Our campaign launched last Friday and goes through 1/27/2015; we need to raise all the monies by then to reach our campaign goal.

We'd be grateful if you could help spread work about this project with your networks. The more the campaign page is linked to in the web-o-sphere, the more "gogo" factor we raise and the more support we get from the platform.

**Special thanks to our friends at CADTM (Committee for Abolution of Third World Debt) for sharing this campaign with their network!

1) You could forward this email to 10 people with a personal message and ask that they consider contributing or sign up for updates about the project at toendpoverty.com

2) Include a brief explanation in your organization's next newsletter:

This holiday season consider making a contribution to the TO END POVERTY! crowdsourcing campaign and help bring real solutions to ending poverty in our lifetime to screens around the globe.

http://igg.me/at/toendpoverty

3) Share it on your Facebook page and encourage others to SHARE (not just like):

Friends,

Help ring in a New Year with by making a contribution TO END POVERTY! Our frinds at Cinema LIbre Studio are raising funds to complete production on a feature length documentary that will share 10 groups of solutions that can end poverty. Please check out and SHARE their campaign: http://igg.me/at/toendpoverty

(remember to tag in @cinemalibrestudio so we can see your post!)

4) Write a blog post about THE END OF POVERTY? and include a link to the new campaign

If you need a refresher, here's the link to view the film free online (international access):

View THE END OF POVERTY?

(feel free to share this link!)

5) Tweet about it:

Join me in #crowdfunding campaign #toendpoverty, a follow up film to @endpovertymovie with #10SolutionsToEndPoverty http://igg.me/at/toendpoverty

6) You can sign up to volunteer: http://www.toendpoverty.com/

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“A sort of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for global economics…a powerful description of how Western policies since colonialism have subjugated Third World countries.”

- Charles Masters, The Hollywood Reporter

“… (it) should be required viewing by every politician in the world.”

- Eric Monder, Film Journal International

“Powerful and moving… it may even enrage you.” - Tim Rhys, MovieMaker Magazine “Warning: Don’t watch The End of Poverty?...if you want to preserve your contentment with your lifestyle and the web of structures - historic and current - that make it possible.” - Kaitlin Barker, Sojourners Magazine

I knew some of this but for the most part was blown away. It is astounding. I will think about this movie and what I have learned from it for a LONG time. I will feel guilty for complaining about anything knowing my conveniences come at quite a price.

- C. , Amazon Customer

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

Premiered at Cannes Film Festival's Critics Week

Screened in 47 film festivals around the world

Released theatrically in the US and France

Partnered with: CADTM, Tax Justice Network, Oxfam, Amnesty, War on Want, Jubilee Debt Network and many, many more!

1/2 million views on Youtube alone!

SEND US YOUR IDEAS

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