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Poverty is not an accident, which means it can be unmade. It is our goal to present the solutions to poverty in a follow-up documentary to THE END OF POVERTY?

TO END POVERTY! will present 10 groups of solutions that can end poverty in this lifetime.

When we traveled with and spoke to the exporters in THE END OF POVERTY?, we asked them what types of real solutions would end poverty. Some might seem obvious: The guarantee of shelter, healthcare, education, food, and drinking water. While others would require the upending of our hyper-capitalistic society such as: a basic minimum income—regardless of employment—as a fundamental human right, which would not cost that much to implement.

TO END POVERTY! would be constructed from the conversations with these experts as well as new interviews with individuals and organizations spearheading new movements in the US and abroad . Together, they become Ten Solutions to End Poverty. Read more...

NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK (continued)

However, the film does not suggest that the adoption of those policies would end poverty in the world. The closing theme is the necessity of sharing the resources of the earth equitably. Any person or nation that hoards them causes suffering among others. Yet the unequal distribution of resources is now built into the structure of the global economy.

Thus, solutions must go much deeper than any set of specific policies. The process of overcoming five hundred years of oppression on a global scale cannot be reversed without a deep transformation of institutions. Even if the World Bank and the IMF adopted new priorities tomorrow, if debts were canceled, and fair trade policies were implemented (though all of that would help), the legacy of domination would not suddenly come to an end. For that reason, the film does not emphasize a finite list of solutions at the end. Instead, it asks viewers to ponder the changes our lives must undergo in the North for us finally to take responsibility for the ongoing impoverishment of the South.

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