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if t. million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a time a need to drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of many americans but that's just my opinion.
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well with. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered oh my god. ok you don't have to give me a second to think about this. for ya know a couple. three. for. five well i know about seven people a good team by the guys so yeah it is like a run to my fam but that's the close of my brothers i know about ten people who have that i. told them i brought us thank you every day i welcome my house
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i will feel right you know bust six impudent they all died before he even tired seventeen this is all most matter to you know somebody you know nobody's son row which is. every time something like bank or they change me on insanity. you just see somebody landed in the coal we don't know but i don't pull the seed a need to send out a young gays can expose my life it's a lot of. the first that they have been because of violence it was like you know it was a shotgun but we came together.
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the second one it was all but we still came to get it in a day when everybody just seemed just and just split up. one thing we do is citizens one thing we tend to do is to humanize human beings so we talk in terms of how many people were murdered norms what are the numbers so what do we do about that mindset what do we do to humanize murder the only way that we could think to do it was to name each day is listed on
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a board with the name of the person there is a judge and how they were killed without respect to where they're from what their color is what they did or did not do for a living whether they graduated or didn't from on a school where they deal in drugs or not you don't know if you look a bit bored. he was here free to walk. while my. shah sometimes i look at our little church on our little walls and say you know how much wall space do i have here after a while this will get to look silly and stuff like that and i suppose when we looked more like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty.
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yards ha ha ha. my name is me of iraq as a kid growing up in the projects of new orleans i saw shootings like this all the time and eventually committed acts of violence myself at the serving five years in jail i began to help kids to mentor but this story isn't about me this is a story about the environment in which i grew up. a wild night across metro new orleans someone sprays a crowd with bullets as they were leaving a high school basketball game five people i thought good evening and all nine
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people were shot tonight including an eleven year old in five separate shootings in new orleans and jefferson parish has a nine year old boys are covering tonight after another drive by shooting in new orleans east it's much like the one where the two year old girl was shot and killed several kids around side playing in the middle of the afternoon when the gunfire broke out a shooting happened just after seven i learned all of that was called an exhaust fire. that is a record it was the target that shooting. this is a story about what it's like being young and surrounded by father but it's also a story about finding solutions up much murder you tolerate as unable. to tolerate as an adult to watch the children have to see this day after day not be entertained. in one nine hundred sixty new orleans had his largest population and his smallest murder rate but in the course of fifty years over ten thousand people
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have been murdered and since two thousand and five more people have been killed than those who lost their lives when the levees broke. at this moment there is a battle being waged each and every day on the streets of new orleans it is a battle for the heart and soul of this great city by the time you wake up tomorrow morning i will have likely received another message. the worst part of my day that says exactly the same thing mr mayor was sorry to inform you that earlier this evening police officers responded to gunshots when they arrived on the scene they found a young african-american male face jail and in blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses.
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the first script that the prime. daddy and i'll have some to write the culture next one that's a load of crap and over there you know got your next one that's ok i would go to the next one extra roam can you i'm a real live people if the people listening to my take children. across the street from the shoot there's a screen printing shop or rest in peace t. shirts of the most popular either give us or when
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a person passed away it's like giving follows just recently to remember that person to show that this was my friend this was my loved one the day he died the next morning in the shop get my shirt and you go to church every day until that person is better dressed. similar. to. when you hold a shirt you write you were sometimes. hurts so much that people don't have words and now it's me to come up with words on x. me to come up with worse our actual what type of person was and from there the designs come from mighty many shops have opened to meet the demands for shirts about twenty all together with their three mile square radius there's not a soul as i basically want to do birthdays for every old pains more living than you can survive without the one rest in peace or with your business will never
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grow because i'm the world's. best for my whole family rest in peace dressed in jeans. he was the quiet person he was the hard work but he worked on the riverfront and he loved the spin and time with his kids wish they were babies when he was killed it was one and three he had a nickname goof troop after the the disney character goofy because he always said funny things you know to make people laugh the boys they played back in my head all the time is like what's wrong with my what i can remember about david is when he's twelve years trying to. scratch records on my little k.-mart stereo hours and hours and hours of david spending at his turntables mixing music and making music i think we were watching like american idol or talent show i can just remember that the people on t.v. saying and it sounded really bad for van want to go out on his birthday to
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celebrate with when i was nephew and this car pulled up into a parking lot that was there was nearby and told them to come here. and that's when the nightmare began we hear and what sounds like an explosion that pop pop pop but boom boom boom the whole house shakes he should and he was like my get up shooting and jermaine got shot and then i looked down and there is my son. lying on the ground there's a hole in his chest where the bullet by in his chest behind his ear a die instantly in the core and then and then you left with the blood on the sidewalk the neighbors the police tape much i was killed for no reason no reason he's saying that he done it because because my son just was bandaged and he was going to be a witness somebody had that much power in your life that they woke up and decided
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another human being would not walk the plane or another day. magri is a high school life documenting this life with a video camera i want to let you guys see. how hard i'm trying to get to my goal. i want to be a courier so you know that's not going to be easy this will be tough challenges of life. i know what it takes to get to and i'm striving for you know stand on the road of what it takes right now in this moment the struggles are similar to many teams i'm mad at sixteen be frustrated visitation all i want to do is just do this
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right but sometimes just one just do the simple thing a simple blood test to it's right it's no hard you know especially when the kids turn in so you're in the teacher's trying to make you feel stupid about you grazier x. and the question you know no he met took a video camera to school to record a class he was going to wave or my question was well over half of that anybody. can see it was. so much you know i can hear it when it was a. male his dad if you close or he. was drawing it was like yeah which i don't usually do not continue to throw k.b.'s meet somebody new years younger self that obama you know make you.
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feel this course is basically like you consume waiting for the teacher you know when you know you know what it was all exist. and you know what we're looking at teacher go to your issue you're not miss okada years ago even to webster. next week so you know. what is in the soup out here. you know you mandated an. idea behind a door and it will hear what is most out there i mean. what a message about him you know what it is. and i think the ancient near east. the first. will be the best. for our part of. the real me.
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please. please. a pleasure to have you with us here on our team today i roll researcher elect. their been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but classes like math are still common students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not addressed often these problems escalate into violence. and sometimes their resume after school where there is greater access to weapons.
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they grab a certain neighborhood make you feel like you need something to protect yourself and you know this is not going to take you these days because you came points above all no fighting want i mean this isn't my fight isn't school mike we can get out just any minor just because what i think kids have guns is for all different types of reasons i thank for it says in the main reason why people have what do you protect yourself. out of a lot of people who. are native but it's something that they get respect from travel both you have a k forty seven. we caught in the chapel i will say a gun is way easier to get than to take food now here you can find a cellar like. well like beds and fall about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people get it from punching. some time most of the time it be legal
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then you have to order them online and stuff like this can just walk into the store and buy and i don't see textbooks like that in wal-mart. take. the rap group u t p featuring juvenile produced a hit single know you clap in two thousand and four the group also included the rap a skill who continues to perform as a solo artist in addition to on the call to me. church . i made a sound about eight nine months ago when i had like a string of murders in like five murders and six murders in three days and i was right and it was too weak and out you know like somebody has got to care for i was made a sign of hope to stop the violence people started to man was like a parade but. i actively managed to mean there was no got to be any thousand
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fifteen hundred homes in the east like i have friends that it might have been murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some papers that have been on my classics like i didn't really feel may not be like i really figured to i might be afraid to name the best known name in there but i might be afraid the name was in the frame i just want to see if it became like jack it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing and unlike me and my up to dinner that night and the like and you know what happened and i'm like man no everybody can feel like. they had a gun shop it was on the borderline of like new orleans and jefferson parish called elliot's and it was just i was so. you get could just this was no paradise a lot of hunting going only it is normal and then in the wee ziyad the last station you must be twenty want to buy hand but you can buy a hunting rifle at the age of eighteen assault rifle falls into the hung rival category so if you have look class s k s's make
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a one hundred eighty now it's no use i didn't say you eighteen about one and one hundred. he just makes a hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood and aching i was so right with thirty round clip if you let the people instead of them going to operate in the office with fifteen twenty years the cumulation of got. to the streets it's got to be astronomical and you wonder why the bird to read because everybody got to start right. it was i want i'm alive i just i'm going to i was tired of going for a man i love him i was i will be the body i'm a fan of both but i've got a friend on the way repass i'm just kind of. has too much of.
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the fight must babineaux a way to get thomas to. you know the count is a problem before it gets to that problem. when the more not the forty children more just growing up as well just to live and survive and just the work the system the judge the liberal justice is going to be in jail there the next five ten years he's there you can see it can see a guy like that almost two four six seven children over there under the age of ten ten more years where would they be if this is going to be on being like this you know.
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in two thousand and six lisa and danny fiz patrick moved to new orleans to continues lisa's work with youth and the summer they started a daycare for kids who had nothing to do two weeks after summer camp a young man was shot a block and a half from here when that occurred and i'm driving home seeing that body on the other side of police today and what's more than that seeing the kids and the neighbors it was a normal occurrence in their lives and i just said we're going to open a center now we're not going to open it two years from now and i'm going to five years from now we're not going away to the experts tell us we dotted all the i's and crossed all the t.'s at the center over the fish patches quickly learn about
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the kinds of obstacles they would face lisa recalls it's a bike i gave him a bicycle because he'd been walking to work to the french quarter the donor had been generous with us so we decided to give him the bicycle to go to work he had had that bicycle only a few hours got a block from my house and officer pulled him over yanked him off of his bike threw him down face down on the ground and accused him of stealing about so now that young man he takes my six year old to the store with him for protection because a six year old white child is protection from the p.d. . and two thousand and eleven report from the department of justice confirms the claims of many new orleans you are findings reveal the pattern of practice of
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unconstitutional conduct or violations of federal law in several areas these included violations committed by officers through their actions including the use of excessive force unconstitutional stops searches and arrests and racial profiling and ethnic profiling the report details dead endy the limited arrest data that the department collects points to racial disparity in arrest of whites and african-americans and virtually all categories were particularly dramatic disparity african-american youth under the age of seventeen. how many live in polluted by police they don't know me so i might seem like i'm a bad person but you like you don't know me sometimes you know they do good deeds and they help people. that have seen the police raids people beat people i've seen into people x. me in from my door playing basketball just a kind of break the whole basketball game going to go on shoes they are like
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nothing but a crown thanks. i think all please quote it though i would want to know some of them are bad but not not all of them because i met some police officers s.f. at the disrupt. thought i would description. let's say i don't want to blame her i don't but to cut this thing i can steal your typing by saying all of them a bit because that'll be done with someone new to me the fact that so many times they go to call your barmy like yeah yeah i'm a gangster that's what happened against theirs they get pulled over by the cops you know when really i'm not really a gangster is maybe still like that you know it made me feel like i was i wouldn't even want it in my own society. might be pretty shortly to say.
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the least productive. than may be. i was just a little old. because of the valuation of. for those who do get arrested the rollies the courthouse in orleans parish prison known as opie p c c interviews two brothers about being locked up you have been up to be . right there your man or the boat would be. right or the crazy their mess does doesn't when you don't. know the no beef with them. or
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a fill the outlet that might be to get it up as a case of. moon when you were black in the cell for twenty three hours i don't need to hear one hour of free for. oh how did i make you feel. i don't want to cajun and hey i like their niggas in a sale in their bill to sell just get it how you live don't you think that is one of the most extreme examples of the city's arrest mentality is a story of kevin griffin very first run in with the first offense ten years old never done anything remotely as bad i got a lot of fights and you know without the children but never so this exploring and kevin was a kid he was cornered by three bullies he broke a bottle to defend themself and the show it blinded one of the boys kevin was arrested and tried for attempted murder my legal came to court drunk every b.
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he greet the alcohol every time so i don't have a great defense kevin served five years in a two lou you prison and not the wheezy and it was a lot of that lot of thinking going on you know is like a wind me a lot and then by me being a christian is like a lot of talk going to. leave next but mason is lying i'm ten and i'm sitting here in a sale there i'm still small i. someone circles around kevin into the place more brutal than the place he left behind a lot of abuse by guards a lot of kids. among. as well but a lot of the stem from the abuse from from the guards if you use up to kevin's release to lulu prison was closed for mistreatment of mix by the department of justice what assistance from the juvenile justice project of louisiana you know there's a lot of misconceptions about what are the most effective ways to reduce juvenile
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crime or to improve public safety across the board well we too often see is putting more money into building more prisons or you know the solution is more police officers on the street. and again this is christine. than again this is. i wonder to my. goodness i said every time again the money printing side streets we've gone down i wondered to myself hopes may rise with the market but honey you're not safe there so you run to the fed to the safety of the printing press but there's panic on the streets of comix schiller nasdaq and the l b m i wonder to myself burnt down the fear of disco and the blast of bankers because the money that they've totally put it does so much to ruin their own low. blows to printers.
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