The End of Poverty? special preview screening

To mark World Poverty Day on 17 October 2008, Jubilee Debt Campaign has teamed up with Amnesty International UK to host a specia preview screening of The End of Poverty? a new film by Philippe Diaz, narrated by Martin Sheen.



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About the film

Poverty is not an accident. 1492 marks the birth of modern times when the conquistadors violently extracted gold and other natural resources.

Since then, our economic system has been financed by the poor by forcing them to give up their land and access to natural resources, then through unfair trade, debt repayment and unjust taxes on labour and consumption.

This system was carefully built and maintained by the free market policies, resource monopolies and structural adjustment programs by the World Bank and the IMF.

The End of Poverty? investigates the causes of poverty today and the origins of our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor.

Narrated by Martin Sheen and featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, John Christensen and more.

The film will be followed by a short panel discussion chaired by Nick Dearden, Director of Jubilee Debt Campaign. Panelists will include:

Philippe Diaz
The film's director and writer, born in Paris, Philippe Diaz has produced and directed many films since he began his film career as a director in 1980. In 2003, he created Cinema Libre Studio with a consortium of partners, to provide an alternative structure for intelligent, independent films to get developed, financed, produced and distributed. This is the second feature length documentary that he has directed.

John Christensen
Founder of The Tax Justice Network (TJN), an international, non-aligned coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about the harmful impacts of tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens.

Naomi McAuliffe
Campaign Project Manager at Amnesty International UK, for Amnesty's forthcoming Poverty and Human Rights Campaign. Naomi previously ran Amnesty's Stop Violence Against Women campaign for Scotland as well as working on the campaign against the death penalty, tasers, extraordinary rendition and for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. She has a background in international health policy and environmental activism.