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DESCRIPTION:Henry George Historical Society\n189 Ellsworth St.\nSan Francisco, CA  
 94110         415-970-9306    info@henrygeorgehistoricalsociety.org 
 \n\nOctober 20, 2009\n\nsocial justice and environmental 
 advocates\n\nGreetings!\n\nI’m David Giesen, Director of the Henry George 
 Historical Society. I am writing to tell you about a dynamite film coming 
 to San Francisco this December which I’m confident will grow your 
 organization.\n\nThe End of Poverty explores how colonialism has AND IS 
 privatizing the commons, and thereby manufactures poverty. Social justice 
 and environmental issues are all about the friction generated when what is 
 properly the community’s is treated as a source of private income.\n\nWe 
 invite you to share knowledge of this Cannes Film Festival award winning 
 documentary from CINEMA LIBRE with your membership and with the public. The 
 film will unlock public conversations about subjects dear to your heart and 
 sure to resonate with a wider and deeper constituency.\n\nThe End of 
 Poverty features interviews with John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic 
 Hitman), Joseph Stiglitz (The Three Trillion Dollar War), Amartya Sen (The 
 Idea of Justice), Susan George (How the Other Half Dies) and others, 
 marking this film as significant for the voices it includes. But what 
 signals this documentary as one which YOUR WORK will wish to be associated 
 with is its identification of systematic appropriation of land, resources, 
 and capital leverage as the recurrent variable in the manufacturing of 
 poverty. It is not  inherent shortcomings in the poor or particular 
 cultures, but alienation of people from the commons that drives poverty. 
 \n\nWhether the issue is clean air, access to water, exploitation of 
 mineral or organic resources, access to health care, education, or fair 
 trade, an underlying concern with all of them is equitable, unprivileged 
 access to the commons.\n\nPlease come to a one hour long reception for you 
 and your organization on either Wednesday, October 28 (7 pm) at City 
 College’s Valencia Street campus, Room 363. We’d like to show you a 20 
 minute preview of The End of Poverty, and discuss what the film could mean 
 for building support for your organization.\n\nThe End of Poverty comes to 
 San Francisco in early December after its opening in New York and Los 
 Angeles the two previous weeks. \n\nRSVP appreciated.  Cheese, bread, beer 
 and wine will be on hand.\n\nSincerely,\n\nDavid Giesen\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626429.php
SUMMARY:The End of Poverty film preview
LOCATION:Room 363 of the Mission campus of San Francisco City College (Valencia 
 Street)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626429.php
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