Joseph Wresinski Videos

A selection of short videos of Joseph Wresinski.  Wresinski, along with the families in an emergency housing camp near Paris founded, what would become ATD Fourth World in 1957.
Videos are in French with English subtitles. These and other videos about Joseph Wresinski can be found on this YouTube Playlist.

Children Ask Their Elders

Swiss TV 1979.

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They Think It’s Their Fault

French TV 1977.

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When You Don’t Know How To Read Or Write

French TV 1982.

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We Never Refuse A Helping Hand

Joseph Wresinski, on French TV in April 1981.

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We Don’t Think They Have Anything To Say

Interview with Joseph Wresinski, on the show “C’est la vie” on France 2 in 1982.

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We Will Be Respected If We Know How To Speak

Presentation by Joseph Wresinski during a people’s university (spaces where people from different social backgrounds can come together to meet, discuss, and share ideas) in Paris.

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To Be Treated Like Young People

Joseph Wresinski October 17 1987 – Trocadero Plaza, Paris Gathering of 100,000 Defenders of Human Rights.

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To Be Free

Joseph Wresinski Antwerp (Belgium) 1986

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From People On Benefits To People With Rights

French TV 1984.

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Poverty Is Not Inevitable

French TV 1983.

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Schools Need To Come Down To The Streets

TV Show “laser” 1981.

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We All Have Something To Teach Others

French TV 1982.

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Can We All Do Something?

Joseph Wresinski talking about what can be done to help ATD Fourth World. It starts, he says by believing that extreme poverty is not inevitable.

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A Society Which Ignores Its Citizens

French TV, “Midi Presse” – 1984.

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What Those In Poverty Have To Say

French TV 1985.

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What People Suffer From Most

Interview in 1980.

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What Children Tell Us

Swiss TV 1979.

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