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February 4, 2010
ADM Tries to Take Down Funny Davos Video; Big Business Has No Solutions; Now What?

ADM video still available here, here, and (for download and reposting) here; page here
Fake initiatives pages, with links to organizations seeking change on these issues
More information about last week’s website and videos
Contact: scurrilous@theyesmen.org, bportello@cinemalibrestudio.com

A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM’s CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here, here, and, for download and reposting, here.)
Last week, the …

World leaders pledge to end poverty at Davos. At least when The End Of Poverty? partners with the YesMen on a diabolically clever Davos action! Close examination of the fake website and video manipulations reveals outrageous, elaborate subterfuge.

There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale. We have all shed tears and the media, as they bombard us with apocalyptic images, report on financial pledges generous States have made. We know that Haiti needs to be rebuilt, this country hard-hit by poverty and “its curse”. Therefore, at the moment, the focus is on Haiti. Comments fail to look beyond the terrible earthquake. We are told that it is one of the poorest countries in the world without any explanations provided. We are led to believe that poverty just happened, that it is a situation beyond remedy: “Haiti is an accursed land”.

Serge Latouch, Philippe Diaz, and Susan George at the premiere in France.

Jean-Jacques Beinex and Philippe Diaz at the premiere in France.

Jean-Jacques Beinex and Philippe Diaz at the premiere in France.

Charles Berling who did the voiceover for the French version of the film

Philippe Diaz filming with Eve Jackson his France24 interview.

Philippe Diaz filming with Eve Jackson his France24 interview.

Philippe Diaz filming his France24 interview.

The End of Poverty? is playing for THIRD WEEK in San Francisco. Also, don’t forget the film is playing in Denver and Austin starting December 18th!

Nicole R. from Oregon recently made a donation to sponsor a group of Social Justice students at Portland State University! Thanks to Nicole, 25 college students are now able to see The End of Poverty? for free. As a thank you, Nicole will receive a 50% off coupon for an entire order at the Cinema Libre Store, a copy of  The End of Poverty? DVD and (1) free DVD distributed by Cinema Libre Studio. Thank you Nicole!
If you would like to make a donation to sponsor a group to see …

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This Friday, SEE the new film that NY audiences scrambled to witness!  Begins its one-week run at Edwards University Town Center 6 in Irvine and continues at Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica for a second week.  The first film ever to connect the dots between colonialism, globalization and poverty and show that poverty is not an accident.

“****..EXCELLENT”
Kam Williams, NewsBlaze.com

“POWERFUL”
Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com
“…should be required viewing by every politician in the world.”
Eric Monder, Film Journal International

“Simply the finest documentary …

Panel discussion
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience. The panelists will be:
Irene Khan – Secretary General of Amnesty International
Clare Short, MP – Former Secretary of State for Intl Development
John Hilary – Executive Director of War on Want
Philippe Diaz – The award-winning director of the film
Colin Prescod – Chair of the Institute of Race Relations
More info here: http://www.stwr.org/endofpoverty/
Get your tickets in advance – expected to be capacity: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/regular_strands/previews/uk_premiere_the_end_of_poverty

New York Times
By ANDREW RICE
Published: November 16, 2009
Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary staples, fluctuate violently on the world market over the previous three years, at one point doubling in just a few months. The Saudis, rich in oil money but poor in arable land, were groping for a strategy …

The critically-acclaimed documentary film, THE END OF POVERTY? comes to Los Angeles starting Weds. 11/25 in two theatres!  The film was produced and is distributed by the truly independent Cinema Libre Studio based here in LA.  Check out the special group rates below!
 “****..EXCELLENT”
Kam Williams, NewsBlaze.com
 “…should be required viewing by every politician in the world.”
Eric Monder, Film Journal International
 “I feel confident in stating that there is no sharper critic of the capitalist system in the film world than Philippe Diaz. This amazing movie not only explains how global inequality has …