tv Documentary RT January 12, 2014 12:29pm-1:01pm EST
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of national studies have looked at the fact that when you take a child away from their community you take them out of school you take them away from any support system they're often housed in inhumane or 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 in the criminal record many youth 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 mobile video so i'm trying to scream i pad but i'm going to do a lot of the time i was on
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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 a deli quote it's easier to build strong children than the paper of good men is easy to build strong children in the paper in many liberties kitchen aims to put you on a road to a self-sufficient life you know mongul school right now because they're money that you make a lot of the young people i work with don't have exams don't have miles of people get up go to work every day sixteen seventeen years old so naturally they don't have work experience a lot of folks don't want to because you have to make a commitment to trainees 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 the deed to go check it once
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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 you've got to hustle to pay for the fees does that mean that you're 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 of twenty dollars could you could break them a hair and make two twenty out of rocks so if i had twenty eight out of i'm going to flip a rock break and i have to make four take effort to get to know flippers. rate them have now got eight but i didn't make the five sales and i don't carry my twenty dollars and also the hundred out i mean i've been a money isn't more than what a fifteen year supposed to make you get out of school at three and if you from three to twelve at night you know i travel twenty dollars an hour left by twelve o'clock you've got prizes under the. truck. and i had
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a camaro i'm. just on the avenue i had to make money my arms don't work you might be on drugs my fears and i'm in a home where we name bologna sandwiches oh yeah. but only sound is around when the it's all get our restaurant is made down well the for status on necessity to lose selling drugs lead to packing guns for protection i was like no i've got a gun too i don't know there was a gun maybe made a film asking us what he wanted to go 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 aria we've got scary he had to have missed dealing with that he really had to especially with me because i didn't deal. in my neighborhood because in a good see when i was younger the head oh the grass going to really step it if they had a beef between younger cats and really wants to be like may i need to stop this i
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know i don't know which i want to whatever but there's be fate any good thing has only more blood on sharon but as well now eight really don't have the old if it doesn't come in the stop right now. 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 there's a man is going to come and try to get me through ten decent heavens every day at this moment some matters for to somebody somehow most is that what we did i'm one big ohm i'm with you know street justice. who put you in a hole when you're a tele to this family in a family car is heading for this family in the wallet game with when i walk out the door and the first thing i go is my mind i live to the left and i wait for about
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ten seconds to make sure that nobody's coming they say in-car can look to my right it's not going to get to before you give me. the raise. it cost more so you got a straight got a gun. well we got no actual self airboat milly's a youth organization which made a shot film focus on retaliation we had a 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 had got shot five times and he and we really knew that we had to do some model gun violence 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 we teddy my son's murder if it's not you.
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never lost the child. thing you don't know what you know you hear stories about it so many people use a thimble. i'm so sorry for your loss but you really don't know why feeling to 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 ask me how many children i have they've it's death murder left a huge gaping hole in my life like half a meter with him isn't 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
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the ex how he died or he was shot of being 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 hit one of the streets or whatever person killed another person you are destroying this person whole family the whole family and then only did family your family also you know your family is were you hurt including two families. over for this generation you can take this to their ready made a payment i don't think there's hope to stop. i don't think balance 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 to solve that because when they get out they better not worth it and what they'll learn before it went so
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well life some people just bank in a row my banking killing is cool it gets you by gives you power so i don't know how you go 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 all her spirit hard work and labor you and you will eventually shift to despondency. and hopelessness if
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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 minute dogs in a big cause in a drawer is a glorified kid see all just 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. one is not real 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 what kind of monster to creating one of the people working to contradict those images of violence is kevin griffin he's a member of toussaint a media collective that combines entertainment with education like you're you know you can talk to you know your man he's everything from fang to the future of your
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life. is like sesame street meets and part of me. remember when everybody every. danger around every corner. every call. to send social commentary has gone at them several wars and a loyal following on you tube there's a lot of opportunities for negativity to just grow and you got to actually 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. these marquee being a powerful good play you know like. since
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what you are arguing for is that the kurds should pull back after making identity a boss of that national identity let me ask you a personal question the sky you are kurds first or an iraq at first i am a kurd first then i am your rocky i am not iraq you that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i am from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what the iraqi identity brought to me brought to me the killing so people might as grace four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed. because of the. police it was terrible they are going to be very
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play basic. economic ups and downs in the final months day belong to the new york and the rest because it's going to take a little baby every week on a plane live. play live well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gone to the future or covered . have that kind of following in famous site why would you you know do your thing and that's fine but why when you try to use that you know that power that mass for something positive you know because it is the wind tomorrow say it you know what i think macon always is cool if you don't think every challenge will be in a book so hard but. one of two since most popular videos
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is every book in the world a parody of the way the song every girl in the world the video was created as part of a book giveaway. and no. one . in this day and age you have so many more outlets that people didn't have years ago you have internet and people come out on camera taking away all the things you know now you can sort of create the change you want to see you are gonna be so you know you can become that thing that you want to change and broadcasting for the world but to a kid and wonder around and i thought about some similar could you imagine what would more became of you get you to write you know i think just like the chains i
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couldn't care about the two. just want to show kids that it's a lot more to put them in that we do stand for money you can be right you can really let your voice be heard. with a variety of problems facing new orleans you there isn't an easy solution but the efforts of two cents and the number of youth development programs across the city are planned in the seas of change and. a night war internationally known event producer called washington volunteers his time to coach kids killed all want to be bad good don't want to be gangsters they don't want to be drug dealers they don't want their bull without a timely and they have a kick a maybe we can see when we first came this blue was a midget because sorry we had to work on that we had to get that to be the number one thing and we won
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a battle was there so we had to stay here we were going to be engaged in life on a daily basis you were serious about we want to go we would do it then we saw a change the n.i.d. just respect the peer tension the more focus the more concerned eager to want to learn and grow and develop for the fifth patches and brought more part of the delhi commitment is helping kids to see a brighter future seventy five percent of the children i worked with couldn't write down their dreams and their hopes their aspirations we talked to one thousand year old who didn't who asked what he was going to do in five years and he said another be alive in five years and we did. and so we realized we had to wipe that slate 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 not 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 really spaceship we're going to go explore
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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 to visit paget's 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 order pizza with we had everybody come in and they had to sit down at a meal i rearranged all the tables into 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 wards are not supposed to talk to ten thwart their mamas and their grandmothers in their great grandmothers have told them that
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parkway in zion city no way but the power of pizza over that seems to be when 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 and 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 you think this is a very good thing for the kids they help you still keep kids off the street to help you homework we have my fun time family night make sure no one is going to buy cars . coming their pants down below but they teach us to do the right bangs and like so we don't go in a bad direction we don't have fun and no no they don't know what happened to them or all the kids cavities all the right ways the more to look at all the behind us
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and do the right thing. quartered in 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 to shut down and then they go back to the things that in their community did they think is a way to get out of it or a nasty struggle is like a revolving door i know pretty well tell us all why did you write you bad how do you care where you are. with the word.
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think 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 in this document that you should be doing what you should be you to some 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 care you know because if you take hope i mean if you don't you don't have the new reason all of you have raised the boy. when alice outright you know i was going to be that and that and. the man you know some of the lads were why was it rude not going to buy a. villa to watch them by. doing the rounds because he
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used to just get up to go to the river they now want to out if he can and will help . are really keen to see him on the day so yes if we use one number you know we would go for a change of what we call them up. our. time and be helpful movie help ok you are losing control because you do what. the region hainsey you follow the rules . and always i'm told that a very good very good goodness or a good book you raise a ball a. very. it's a lot of people being killed go to team a really good in this heated life and almost see my like i am tired of people
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having children and hoping that they make it i would children are supposed to make it don't help me with my boys how much you know don't come to miles which of potato salad in your words of condolence is help me whining is a lot. more park. or you know what a fine thing but i'm a better school and they have more active keep young teens off the streets it's best book courts could. organization groups had us in the district i'm talking about where 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 there you have to sort of i break they say oh you know it's 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
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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 killed on a street with a mack ten in some rock you don't care where the ng go away for wife or not whether a teenager is aware his pants down to his knees cursing up a storm or brandishing a gun what they're really saying is look at. matter. i don't want to get caught out 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
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live in the. midst of the scope of the north of the cold enough to get in the city when the congolese hold in the cold so much oh my god he was shell shocked living in the cold sold me until he saw nothing on the. country nothing in industries wrong when you constantly hold the phone it's an old guy me you know just blow shit on the sidewalk little pieces walk around with the fires go no go so we marry patient missing a single city problem this whole nation when it pops out the next cage and live in the system big pussy mancipation reaching a dream to see believe in santa economic he's got a second life animal. and a little champ a normal life with a traffic ticket in the back they keep it high. enough so can we get excited he would be so you're still the one that's a treat you can see it's
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a trap music going to come out in the boss to soften up the case twenty five the old to get enough some on this la salle shot livin in the course of old me it's a lease cause in all the stuff. you know make it in the city folks when they come the only hold in the cold so hot cold got a shell shocked livin in the cold sold me it's really soft in all the people go to not make it in this easy road when it comes to the whole good looks so don't got me . millions around the globe struggle with hunger each dirty. water someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they cherry sub they can the very strong position against them all and we think that. the genetic anymore the right products
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broke to. fifty. british. market. happening to the global economy. headlines. what they're trying to do now is sell another myth to us which is that one group of slightly less radical fundamentalists are now attacking. us. taking care of. these groups i mean they have to get money and training from somewhere. in this
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