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Links for More Information:

Best Sites:

Third World News:

WN.com/Poverty

YouTube:

Movies:

The Film Connection:
The Film Connection is a community of film lovers, social activists and lifelong learners who use our non-profit online film library to watch, discuss and act on compelling films from around the globe. An initiative of the global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps, The Film Connection offers a growing library of DVDs that tackle the issues facing the world we live in.

Sicko
Soldier Child: A Documentary by Neil Abramson
Lord of War
Pandemic: Facing AIDS
Peace, a documentary
Devil's Miner
The Constant Gardener
Pursuit of Happyness
Blood Diamonds: the horrendous brutality and exploitation of the diamond trade
Amazing Grace: William Wilborforce and the history behind the "end" of slavery in Britain
Catch a Fire: true story, S. Africa
The Corporation: documentary, US Corporatations
Why We Fight: documentary, US and war
Motorcycle Diaries: Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevaras
Beyond Rangoon: based on true story, American escaping Burma in 1988
Witnesses: real-life war crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian war
Yesterday: AIDS
Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World): family travels to city to seek a better life
Turtles Can Fly: days leading up to the Iraq war from a young boy's perspective.
Lagaan, Once Upon a Time in India: Indian village, beset by drought, colonialism 1893
Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef: Tibet, focuses on daily lives and customs.
The Circle: Iranian women, repressive society.
Sometimes in April: Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen
Separate but Equal: Brown vs. the Board of Education
In My Country: South Africa's history of institutionalized racism
Syrian Bride: Marriage in the midst of political turmoil between Israel and Syria
Cry Freedom: true story, friendship between two men in S. Africa, struggling against aparteid.
Before Night Falls: life of one of Cuba's literary voices, Reinaldo Arenas
Chasing Freedom: lawyer who attempts to earn a foreign women citizenship in the US
In this World: account of two Afghan refugees' passage to the West in search of a better life
Lamumba: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa
Red Corner: thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of China
ABC Africa: documentary
Mandela and de Klerk: docudrama
Tears of the Sun: career soldier choosing to save refugees in Africa over orders
Born into Brothels: documentary of Kids with Cameras
Dark Days: harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless
Troublesome Creek: documentary demise of the American farm family
Devil's Miner: Bolivian silver mines from child's point of view
Dreams of Sparrows: plight of Iraqi civilians under US occupation
National Geographic: China's Lost Girls: documentary
Our Times: docudrama, Iranian women during 2001 election
Trust me: Shalom, Salaam, Peace: documentary
Hotel Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
Ghosts of Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
When the Mountains Tremble: documentary human rights abuses in Guatemala
Boys of Baraka: documentary Baltimore, MD 20 boys sent to special institution in Kenya.
Children Underground: homeless children in Bucharest
Keep the River to your Right: anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum jungles of Peru
Letter: Documentary Somalis immigrating to Lewistan, MA, post 9/11 violence towards them and the community response.
Homeland: American Indian activists
The Ground Truth: US veterans and the war in Iraq.
Last King of Scotland: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
Children of Men: future without ability to bear children and marshall law
Pursuit of Happyness: homelessness
Letters from IwoJima: WWII movie from the Japanese viewpoint
Flags of our Fathers: companion movie to IwoJima - WWII movie from US viewpoint

Books:

A Long Way Gone, by Ishmeal Beah
Left to Tell, by Immaculee Illibagiza
The Universe in a Single Atom, The Convergence of Science and Spirituality, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
House of War, by James Carroll
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
The Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz
Homeless in America, Melissa J. Doak
The White Man's Burden, William Easterly
The Working Poor, David Shipler
The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Diary of Ma Yan, Ma Yan, translated by Lisa Appignanesi
Africa Unchained, George BN Ayittey
One Nation, Mark Robert Rank
The Shackled Continent, Robert Quest
The World's Banker, Sebastian Mallaby
World Health, Ronan Foley
Poverty in America, Kathiann M. Kowalski
The War on Hunger, Ron Fridell
Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs, Sara K. Gould
Growing Up Empty, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
Economic Apartheid in America, Chuck Collins & Felice Yeskel
Each one, Teach One, Ronald Casanova
Masters of Illusion, Catherine Caufield
Perpetuating Poverty, Doug Bandow & Ian Vasquez
Ending World Hunger, Nathan Aaseng
State of Emergency, Patrick Buchanan
Deadly Business, Herbert Krosney
A Broken LandscapeL HIV & AIDS in Africa, Gideon Mendel
Black Death, Aids in Africa, Susan S. Hunter

Favorite Quotes:

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein
"The global HIVAIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity between the healthy and the sick, between the rich and the poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?" Kofi Annan
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems". Mahatma Gandhi
"Poverty is the worst form of violence." Mahatma Gandhi
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Mother Teresa
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need; there is not enough for everyone's greed." Gandhi
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt
"All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." Nelson Mandela
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"They say that we are disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

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