tv Documentary RT January 8, 2014 5:29am-6:01am EST
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brutal conditions rarely get adequate education or treatment you're disrupting their lives without actually providing them with any positive interventions are positive supports and so what happens is that upon release there are even less prepared to deal with society too often with time in jail and the criminal record many you find it hard to finish school or to find employers that will hire them. one block away from the prison is liberty's kitchen and organization dedicated to helping at risk youth right now a lot of various so i'm trying to scream i pad but i'm going to do a lot of the time i was on a gun charge i want it out for thought and bad police. dog and ization trained sixteen the twenty year olds in a working restaurant work often begins with a group discussion over
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a deli quote it's easier to build strong children than the paper of good men and easy to build strong children in the paper can men liberty's kitchen aims to put you on a road to a self-sufficient life you know mongul school right now because it's not their money that you make a lot of young people love work what don't have exams don't have miles of people get up go to work every day they young sixteen seventeen years old so naturally they don't have work experience a lot of folks don't want to hire young people because you have to make a commitment to training and that's doesn't that everybody's will do for kids who don't have support it can be hard to live up to the requirements of probationary period. so that means that they do check in once a week drug court so they got to go to drug class once a week he would serve you have those three points that that will happen you still have fines and fees that hussle pay for the fees still does that mean that you're
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one of those of the league so that increases the likelihood of you being picked up again same thing over and over for kids who need income selling drugs often seems like the only available job as i was thirteen i got in a game with twenty doubt it was a twenty dollar flip around what they call a flip a twenty dollars could you can break them a hair and make two twenty out of rocks so if i have twenty eight out of i'm going to flip a rock break and i have to make four take affably get to know flippers. rate them have now got eight but i didn't make the five sales and i don't turn my twenty four hours and also the hundred out of me and i've been a money more then what a fifty he was supposed to make you get out of school at three and if you from three to twelve at night you know and i travel with twenty dollars an hour left by twelve o'clock you've got driving under the. truck and i have a camaro i'm. just on avenue i had to make money my arms all work you might be on drugs my fears and i made it home were we name bologna sandwiches oh yeah. but only
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sound as a rhyme in the i'll get our restaurant is made down well the for status on necessity the law of selling drugs lead to packing guns for protection it was like no i've got a gun too i don't know there was a gun maybe made a film of masculinity walking around with a girl so i'm a give me a gun that i don't want you started on me which oh god yeah i got a gun to welcome our a week i'm scary you had to have missed dealing with that you really had to have specially with me because i didn't deal. i don't deal in my neighborhood because. in a good. knowledge of that ahead all the grass going to really step it if they had a beef between younger cats and really wants to be like maybe i'll need to stop this no i don't know which i want to whatever but this is the fate any good thing has only more blood on sharon but as well now eight really don't have the older figure that would come in and stop these notices right now.
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that they say other people in my family have done because they contribute to you know like drugs and virus not just the fact that it's the fifth day just because what they do i think that someone is going to come and try to get me through families and happens every day at this moment some matters for to somebody somehow most is that what we did i'm one big home with you know street justice. who put you in a hole when you retire early to this family in a family who are returning to this family in the wallet game with when i walk out the door and the first thing that goes in my mind i look to the left and i wait for about ten seconds to make sure that nobody's coming they say in a car coming to my right it's not going to get to before you give me. the raise. cause more so you've got to be straight you got
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a gun. and we got the guy you can protect yourself. airboat milly's a youth organization which made a shot film focus on retaliation we had hit in the family my son was one of six years old he was a joy a computer engineering and working for coca-cola bollen at night he got shot five times and he and we really knew that we had to do some model gun volleys because i had another son still to still live in and also we had community members and founded members there it was a set of bodies and we knew that we didn't need people retaliate in my son's murder if it's not you. it's only live in son was cast as michael a boy who was pressured by friends to retaliate for his brother's murder every time you kill one black kid you a do a number decide to his friends to take
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used to feel the authority by your laws but you really don't know how i feel into you. you. is an epidemic and you really have to understand on that day i lost my identity i was a mother and wife who had two children and now have one i don't believe and not answer the question when people asked me how many children i have david's death murder left a huge gaping hole in my life like half a meter high with him as an great emptiness so i had to fill that up with something . when you tell someone it just child was murdered in the streets or you know it or the ex how he died all he was shot of being he you know he was murdered ok did a lot of men whistling while he was a was involved in some type of drug so he most you know was a big one of the streets or whatever person killed another person you are
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destroying this person whole family doll whole family and the only day family your family also you know your families where you are going to do to families. all over for this generation you can't change this to their ready made up a mouth i don't think there's hope to stop violence in new orleans i don't think violence but never stuck on really going no i don't think so and if the next generation will be like degeneration then you know put them in jail that's not going because when they get out they better not worth it and what they'll learn before it went so well life some people just bank in a row my thinking killing is cool it gets you by gives you power so i don't know
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how you go will come know even though the. every thing that seems to be true to me in reviewing the murder board and reading the articles of virtually every murder victim. the one constant is in some way there is a connection to poverty when you live in poverty at some point in some generation you'll move from poverty with almost a her a spirit of hard work and labor you will you will eventually shift to despondency. and hopelessness if you've got nothing and you've got no opportunity what he had in. you start to construct your own culture and society against the news that is glorified if you seal minda dogs in
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a big cause in a drawer is a glorified kid's theologist on t.v. you see it but they can't put their hand i want to be can you get how can i get this they make it look like. this stuff. so. one is not but they tend to not care because they're hungry they want to feed their family so much. they don't really you know pay attention to what they're actually were kind of monster to creating one of the people working to contradict those images of violence is kevin griffin he's a member of to set a media collective that combines entertainment with education like here you don't even talk to you when you're mad he's everything from fang to the future of his life. like sesame street meets the six and part of me.
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oh yeah i remember when everybody with cancer. and danger around every corner. every call. to send social commentary has gone down several wars and a loyal following on you tube there's a lot of opportunities for negativity to just grow and you've got to accept what kind of culture we have the negativity can grow so easy. to. mock it. and tell us your rampant life all this way and sweet like all of. the market being a powerful good player like. the
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who have that kind of following and fang is like why would you you know do your thing and that's fine but why would you try to use that you know that power that mess for something positive you know because it is the mind tomorrow say it you know what i think make an always a school if you take every challenge will be in the book so. one of two since most popular videos is every book in the world a parody of the way every girl in the world the video was created as part of a book giveaway. and no. i in this day and age we have so many more outlets that people didn't have years
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ago you have internet and people can buy your own cameras they can do they own thing you know now you can sort of create the change you want to see you i got to say you know you can become that thing that you want to change and broadcasters for the world but to a kid one give no thought about cinema could you imagine what would the king do you to. right you know i just like the change like ok i'm about to move just want to show kids that it's a lot more to put on in that we just have to money you can be right you can be true to your religion voice be heard. with the variety of problems facing new orleans you there isn't an easy solution but the efforts of two sets and a number of youth development programs across the city are planning the seas of change and the ninth ward internationally known event producer call washington
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volunteers his time to coach kids killed all want to be bad give don't want to be gangsters they don't want to be drug dealers they don't want that but without a target of the help a kid came be we can see when we first came this player was a major because we had to work on that we had to get that to be the number one thing and we won that battle was there so we got to stay here we're going we're going to be engaged in life want to develop bases and we're serious about where we want to go we would do it there we saw it change the n.i.d. or disrespect they appear attention more focus they're more concerned eager to want to learn and grow under development for the fifth patterson brought more part of the daily commitment is helping kids to see a brighter future seventy five percent children i worked with couldn't write down their dreams and their hopes their aspirations we talked to a nineteen year old who didn't realize what he was going to do in five years he said another the lottery appears. and so we realized we had to wipe that slate
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clean that that curriculum is not going to work here we had to start with the basics teach the kids how to imagine again one of our foster children that lived with us during this time came up to me very very worried he was nine he thought that my seven year old there was something wrong with him because the seven year old was sitting on the couch saying hey chris ok rin spaceship we're going to go explore you sit here and i'll be the pilot and chris was trying to convince me that there was something wrong with my son because he didn't know where he was chris had lost at nine years old the ability to imagine while developing activities for youth vis pageants realize that many of the children at the center only getting fed in school. we said we did something one thursday night that's now turned to every thursday night we had some extra money and we had a donation come in that we were allowed to order pizza with we had everybody come in and they had to sit down at a meal i rearranged all the tables into
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a family style meal and we served the pizza sitting down and having a meal together and they had to talk to each other well those who are not from new orleans may not know this but third words are not supposed to talk to ten thwart their mamas and their grandmothers and their great grandmothers have told them that parkway in zion city no way but the power of pizza over that seems you know where every day they have to sit down when they eat together and they have to speak to each other kids have found out they were related when they thought they were enemies kids have found out they have a common grandparent kids have found out their evacuation story was the same. and i find this common ground when they talk to each other like anything this is a very good thing for the kids they help you still keep kids off the street they
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help you homework we have my fun time family night make sure no one has a tight curve. going their pants down below but they teach us to do the right bangs and life so we don't go in a bad direction we have fun and know not and then don't know what happened to them or that all the kids cavities all the right ways the lot of the ok to follow behind us and do the right thing. quartered central city you can palm a project helps young people from around the area by providing a variety of services they offer tutoring mentor and counseling as well as special assistance to those who are transitioning back home from detention centers by providing tents case management we could help them reconnect you know with family and community and make a healthy transition into young adulthood when they self esteem is now when they begin to feel that nobody is want to give them an opportunity but then they began
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to shut down and they go back to the things that are in their community that they think is a way to get out of it or a nasty struggle is like a revolving door i know christian won't kill us all body is different in bed how do you care where you live. with the word. right and what you think about the supports that you hare and if they were not there you know would choices which you have me feeling words should be reflected is that that you should be doing what you should be you the son this only. make you you know it's not something that's going to happen overnight it's a it's a process you know you have to get back to the things that we got away from and it's about understanding and allowing the kids. to to to know that you really
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care you know because if you take hope out i mean if you don't you know him no no reason at all who has raised the board. when our. you know i was going to be. in the bedroom you know one of the last words was it not going to buy. those who are actually. doing the film around these times you just get up to go crazy they now want out. and that will help. our holy. see you know. so yes if we do a number you know we would go for a change of what we call them on. our. time and be helpful being ok you are losing control because you do what is the reason hazy you follow the rules i've always been told that a very good very good is a really good one you raise
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a ball a. very. it's a lot of people get killed though to a really good in a city life and almost see my like i am tired of people having children and hoping that they make it i would children are supposed to make it help me with my boys the amato you know don't come to miles which of potato salad in your words of condolence is help me while he is alive more parks. more you know what. i'm saying but i'm a better school and they have more activist keep young teens off the streets the best book courts could. organization groups in the district i'm talking about where
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you know somewhere else because it is we streaming know everything being we because we had no choice but to be become no deaths we see you out of me get you know people come at us then you have to sort of like break their still you know like give them back to the point where they should be you know when we talk about the future of louisiana and the future of our city we need to change around the dynamic we are first in incarceration and yet either last or next to last in education that is certainly not the way to produce a viable state in terms of economic opportunity in terms of investment but it's also throwing away an entire generation of young folks i think people finally agree that you can't are enough cops to make the city safe people say make the laws harsher and harsher is harsh when you kin on a street with a man ten and some rock you don't care where the and go away for life or not whether a teenager is where his pants down to his knees cursing up
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a storm or brandishing a gun what they're really saying is look at the. matter. i don't want to get caught up i don't want to get i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young age because whenever i see it on the news my kid dives for even turned eighteen that's a shock to me that makes me not want to live here anymore but still making a living because my friends are here you know like people that i can see myself actually growing up with you know stuff like that i feel like i'm just torn in the middle i want to stay here but i don't want to stay a because i don't want to die. shellshock
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live in the snow we had some discomfort in all the stuff cold enough to get in the city of rome when we constantly hold in the cold so my own got a shell shock given the cold shoulder it's only so often all the people go on to not make it in the city because when you constantly hold the phone it's an old guy me just close shave old wall little pieces walk around with a prize go no go so we married asian missing a single city problem disco nation and poverty about the next occasion and live in
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the system big diplomats a peace treaty a dream to see believe in central economic he's got a second life animals. and the little chap in normal life with a traffic ticket in the they keep it high. enough so can't get excited he would see i'm still the one and that's a treat you can see it's a trap music one of my actions in the boss to soften up a case twenty five the old who had an awesome job this la salle shot live in the coastal me it's a leasing office and all the stuff cold enough to get in the city are broken when the congolese hold in the cold until the toll guy the shell shocked event in the polls told me it's only so often all the people go in to get in to see how when you constantly who looks so hot don't got me.
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dangerous entanglements in contradictory alliances is the u.s. has been asleep hostage to its many client states how well do these fine states and alliances serve america's national geo political interests and is washington hopelessly overstretched in its foreign policy commitments. language of war but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports so i'm likely to push the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say to mr kerry l.h.r. is on the docket to know god i. hope they do no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. pretty speech. down to freedom to crush.
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some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. coupon for the territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against
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