Contents:
A director's narrative provides a brief history of the film and a context for the interviews and locational filming in South America and Africa. A complete transcript enables viewers to study the text of the film carefully. Complete interviews with over 70 people round out the stories begun in the film.
Some of the interview subjects include:
Jaime de Amorim, National Coordinator, Landless Workers Movement, Brazil
John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network
Miriam Campos, National Coordinator for the Empowerment of Indigenous People, Brazil
Nora Castañeda, President, Bank for the Development of Women, Caracas
Maria de Oliveira, National Institute for Agrarian Reform, Recife, Brazil
William Easterly, author of White Man's Burden, a critique of foreign aid
Susan George, Author, Activist
Chalmers Johnson, author of numerous books on American Empire
Miloon Kothari, UN Rapporteur on Housing
Edgardo Lander, Professor, Venezuelan Central University, Caracas
Maria Luisa Mendonça, Director, Rede Social, Sao Paulo
Dr. H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo, Author, Law Professor, Kenya
Marcela Olivera, Activist, Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life, Bolivia
John Perkins, Author, Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate Economist
Joseph Stiglitz, Former Chief Economist, World Bank
Antonio Vinidcativo and Edinaldo, Sugarcane Harvesters, Brazil
Grace Wambi, Tea Plucker, Kenya
Published jointly by Robert Schalkenbach Foundation and Cinema Libre Studio, 2009
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