The End of Poverty?

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Award-winning actor and activist, Martin Sheen, provides the narration for The End Of Poverty?, the feature-length documentary, directed by Philippe Diaz, which connects the dots from colonialism to modern times in an indictment of the creation of the free market system, the system now blamed for the worst global recession in decades.

Filmed in the slums of Africa to the barrios of Latin America, The End Of Poverty? explores how the true causes of poverty stem from actions taken during and since colonial times to perpetuate exploitation:  first by forcing people from their land and access to natural resources, then through unfair trade, debt repayment and unjust taxes on labor and consumption.  This system was carefully built and maintained by free market policies, resource monopolies and structural adjustment programs by the World Bank and the IMF.