For Anyone Without HBO.... (Pic heavy)

[LibraLiz1973]

Here is just wee bit of what we many of us have been seeing.


http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060820/ART09/608190314
"Lee affords these people what few media outlets have: the dignity to speak for themselves. It's why he doesn't brush past a provocative segment on whether someone dynamited the levees to save the richer neighborhoods. As Barry and other historians point out, there are a number of long-seeded, well-founded reasons for believing such a thing. It's why for every portrait of action, we witness the immediate impact of the action."

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R for Katrina Victims nm

[LibraLiz1973]

2. Add your own Katrina photos- I think it helps

to remember it as it really happened.

[Cronus Protagonist]

13. Here's one that will turn your stomach

[LibraLiz1973]

17. Look how hes looking over the guys head

Like... Hey, is that a bird?

[uppityperson]

35. "need some wood?"

that is what I am picturing him saying.

[LibraLiz1973]

3. Post katrina Failures

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200988.html
No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm _ and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4129438.html
Katrina refugees scattered across U.S.

[acmavm]

4. This was one of the most moving and telling films that I've ever seen

in my life.

Spike Lee has made his place in the world of cinematography and the humanities with this film.

"Walking to New Orleans" by Fats Dominoe. What a way to end it.

[LibraLiz1973]

6. I agree- the music was really touching

I also love the song they used in Part One
~ Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans"

[JohnLocke]

5. ....

[OhioChick]

7. What horrific pictures..........

K&R

:kick:

[Sydnie]

8. Add a bit more ... so we remember and never forget

and never let it happen again.













Rise up and make your voices heard. Enough IS Enough.

[LibraLiz1973]

9. Amen-

Hard to look at but VERY necessary.

[fujiyama]

10. Something about seeing those flags

with those people...

[LibraLiz1973]

14. Yeah.. brings it all home

It's weird how you think you really remember something clearly and then you see photos and you go "My god it's worse than I remembered"

I think about Katrina and the victims of Katrina all the time- but I guess the memories were in snippets. The documentary and pix Spike showed brought it alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll back

[fujiyama]

15. I wish I still had HBO

I hope it's on DVD soon, or better yet torrents.

[LibraLiz1973]

16. I'd bet major $$ it will be on DVD soon

It was a PHENOMENAL piece of work- I can't say enough good things about it.

[Sugar Smack]

27. GOD.

God.:grr: :nuke: I can't speak.

[Olney Blue]

11. We will never forget. Thank you for this excellent thread.

k/r

[walkon]

12. Ya reckon those insurance companies

were told to just go ahead and fuck those people by the Bushies? Promised no harm would come to them?
Developers want that property and probably had their ducks in a row for awhile jus' waitin' for this to hit N.O. Wonder what other nice little spots they covet after some disaster strikes?

[Subdivisions]

18. Looks like we are becoming a

third world country.

[Anita Garcia]

31. We are third world.

Tell them.
Do not sit idly by while people are allowed to languish in third world conditions in the richest country in the world.
Flood the White House. Send a water bottle to the President. Send him a message. People are STILL without drinking water.

[bdamomma]

38. and probably without electricity.

bush and this government is such a fuck up.

[speedoo]

19. Remember the Bassier sisters?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4597216

No room for phonies in Spike Lee films.

I wonder if they are happy now with their "performance"?

Wherever their sorry asses are.

[lonestarnot]

20. Even if I wasn't off TV for another 5 days, I still wouldn't have

HBO, so thank you very much for posting. I will NEVER forget and I thank you for reminding others what horrendous shit people endured from Katrina and continue to endure. Is Louisiana part of the United States?

[MzNov]

21. Thanks for this. I do hope we can buy it soon. nt

[Straight Shooter]

22. Here Lies Vera .......... God Help Us

:cry:

[Kurovski]

23. A list of Katrina survivor charities as created by DUer Plaid Adder.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x969016

[deutsey]

24. I'm assuming this will eventually be available on DVD

I hope so. Documentaries like this need to be on channels everyone with a TV can access.

[Rose Siding]

25. How quickly the media forgot.

Of course stories moved on, more news every day that must be covered -but why, why weren't their deferential attitudes more....altered?

A typical progression: CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien wondering why she, with a 23-year old intern and a lap top, has more information than FEMA director Michael Brown; newsreel of Canadian Mounted Police arriving before a coordinated U.S. response; then a man, sitting months later for Lee's patient camera, telling matter-of-factly how he left his dead mother in a wheelchair outside the Superdome, a note pinned to her chest.

[CollegeDUer]

26. And they're not covering the atrocities there now

Like the bulldozing of the 9th ward, the wage slashes for rebuilding workers, etc.

Congresswoman McKinney and many black activists and congresspersons went there and fought for NOLA in the aftermath. The media in its few weeks of actually showing compassion for the poor have now forgotten again. Jon Benet is more important -- don't you know?

[tnlefty]

28. I'm one of those without HBO and thank you for posting this!

I hope that this is available on DVD and soon. I really want to see this.

It's still very difficult for me to accept that this benign neglect happened in Bush**'s aMerica.

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Does anyone know when this will be available on DVD?

[uppityperson]

36. I hope by October at least. Not sure, but hoping pre-election.

the scope is immense. This is not just 1 town destroyed, but hundreds of miles, several states wide, on and on and on and on.

[Anita Garcia]

30. Thank you k/r

[stop the bleeding]

32. America is suppose to be the greatest country in the world

God bless those people and God help the rest of us.

[Kajsa]

33. And now Georgie says Aug. 29, 2005, the anniversary

of Katrina hitting NO is "just a date".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1967223&mesg_id=1967223


When The Levees Broke is one of most powerful documentaries
I've ever seen. The people had a chance to speak and we see that not
only did they get little help, five friggin days after the breach, they still
aren't getting help.

Two things were mentioned in this film that i didn't know;

1. Brown's hands were tied, Chertoff was the head guy who sat on his butt for four days.

2. LA doesn't receive revenue from the oil drilling right off their coast. Blanco has sued the
Feds, who get the money, to reverse this. WTH? It's oil off their coast. They don't get the revenue?
It was pointed out in the film, if they did receive the money, they could rebuild the levees and NO
without Federal monies, (which aren't' coming in, anyway).

No wonder the people of NO and many Gulf Coast areas feel no one cares about them!

Spike Lee's film will not let us forget-ever!

:grr:

[mod mom]

34. How could this administration have any support at all?

[bdamomma]

37. I just heard on the news that this imbecile (bush) we have in office

said, help is on it's way, what????????????????? after one year way to late for you georgie boy, you stupid man, how could anyone believe what this man spews up anymore, WHAT A SICK SICK MAN. He is so shameful and disgusting. After I heard that response I could of :puke:

[stepnw1f]

39. We Should Do a Clock Work Orange on the Bush Admin

Strap them into chairs and force them to watch video of all the damage they have created over and over again until they turn to jelly.

[LibraLiz1973]

40. A youtube piece worth watching...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCt43GIeEc

[Sydnie]

41. that was one powerful piece of work

thank you for sharing the link. :cry: