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Film Details

Released: 2007
Running Time: 73 minutes

Credits

A film by Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates. DVD produced by Kathleen Dara Kell. Executive Producer Paco de On�s.

DVD Extras

- 74-minute film divided into 5 thematic chapters for educators.
- 13-minute mini-doc "Documenting the Movement" with filmmakers Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates.
- Slide show of Harvey Finkle's dynamic photographs.
- Links to educational resources on the internet.
- Electronic footnotes via internet link.

Educational Resources

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Living Broke in Boom Times

It is a wonderful documentary, heart-rending in its depiction of homelessness and desperation, yet inspiring in what it shows about the magnificence of people fighting back, organizing, refusing to accept their situation, trying to build a national movement. I found the close-ups of these people, their voices, their down-home eloquence very moving. I do hope this will be widely seen. I think it can play an important role in arousing people to action.
- Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn

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Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the movement to end poverty.

“Living Broke in Boom Times” has condensed three groundbreaking documentary films (Takeover, Poverty Outlaw & Outriders) spanning a decade into segments of ideal length for classroom use, with new wrap-around commentary from key activists who led the movement.  Cheri Honkala, Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the organizing, and the lessons learned from hard-won experience.


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