Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

by Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Kathleen Dara Kell

"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
Professor, Historian, Political Scientist

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FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DVD: the epic movement of poor Americans organizing to end poverty as documented in a decade-long journey by the filmmakers. Living Broke in Boom Times has condensed three groundbreaking documentary films spanning a decade into segments of ideal length for classroom use, 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.

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DVD EXTRAS INCLUDE:

- 74-minute film divided into 5 thematic chapters for educators.
- 13-minute mini-doc "Documenting the Movement" with filmmakers Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates.
- Slide show of Harvey Finkle's dynamic photographs.
- Links to educational resources on the internet.
- Electronic footnotes via internet link.

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73 minutes • DVD

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"...a powerful and impassioned look at a segment of American society too often ignored."
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