tv Documentary RT January 12, 2014 8:29pm-9:01pm EST
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amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but certainly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion. as part of their mission to transform the state juvenile justice system j. g.p.l. hold fears to educate young people about how the law can affect the lives and number 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 conditions rarely get
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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 they're even less prepared to deal with the sidey 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 actress you 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 a gun charge i want it out for thought and bad police. dog and ization trained sixteen and 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 and
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easy to build strong children in the paper when men liberty's kitchen aims to put you on a road to a self-sufficient life you know model school right now because it's not the money that you make a lot of the young people i work with don't have exams on it miles a few 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 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 that they need to go check it once a week drug court so they've got to go to drug class once we. get those three points that that will happen you still have fines and fees that hussle pay for the fees hussle does that mean that you're one of those of the league so that increases
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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 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 one hundred up i mean 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 twenty dollars an hour left by twelve o'clock you've got prizes under the. truck and i had a camaro. all ave i had to make money my arms all work you might be on drugs my fears and i'm in a home where we may well only fans oh yeah. but only sound is around when the
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all. our restaurant is made down well the for status are necessity the lure 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 him feel masking that's what he was i was a guard 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. in my neighborhood because. in a good scene when i was younger the head older guy was 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 went through whatever but this be very any good thing has only more blood on sharon but as well now eight really don't have the older figure to come in and stop right now.
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that they say other people in the 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 repaired is it happens every day at this moment some matters for to somebody somehow most is that what we didn't want to be home with you know street justice. who put you in a hole wanted to retire early to this family and their families are returning to this family in a wall of like a game with when i walk out the door and the first thing i go is my mind i look to the left and i wait for about ten seconds to make sure that nobody is coming they say in a car come look to my right it's not going to get to before you give me. the reasons . that cause more harm so you got to be straight 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 worked for coca-cola bollen at night he got shot five times and he and we really knew it at a depth we had to do some amount of gun violence because i had another son still there still living 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 tally the not sons 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 he's citing his friends to take
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about it so many people 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 ask 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 to just child was murdered in the streets or you know it or the ex how he died or he was shot and he you know he was murdered ok did they automatically assume way muscle 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
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destroying this person whole family doll whole family and the only day family your family also you know your family is where your include two families. all over for this generation you can't say this to parody made up a mouth i don't think there's hope to stop violence in new orleans i don't think violence but never stuff on ruby 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 nothing because when they get out they buy or not worth it and what they will learn before they want it so 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
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you go will come know even though. everything 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 over 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 do do you. 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 you know joran is a glorified kid theologist on t.v. you see it but they can't put their hand they want to be can you get how can i get this. stuff. so keen. 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 told me you know you. know. everything from fame to the future of hip hop. to basically. like sesame street meets six and part of me. oh yeah i
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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 you. and tell us your rampant life all this way and all of. the market being a powerful good player like. since what you are arguing for is that the kurds should push back after making identity
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and that national identity let me ask you a personal question. occurred first or and iraq it first occurred first then i mean rocky i know the iraqi kurds because let me ask you that question i'm from. you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to me. brought to me the killing so if people. four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed. right on the street in the. first street to me and i were being picture. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. to
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be in the old little. girl. but. we're going to do. the job the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy but there's. no. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was proud cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once will just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have done for you know ready to join the movement then walk
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a little bit. well who had that kind of following and famous right 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 mess for something positive you know because then if the wind tomorrow say it you know what i think macon always is cool if you don't think every challenge will be in the books so hard but may be. one of two since most popular videos is every book in the world a parody of the way you saw every girl in the world the video was created as part of a book deal with. me. and no. three .
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in this day and age you have so many more outlets that people didn't have. years ago you had and i met in people come out on camera thinking the way i think 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 broadcast it for the world but to a kid of wonder about thought about cinema could you imagine what it would moment became if you had you to write you know i just like the chains i couldn't care about the true mood just want to show you that it's a lot more to put on in that we do stand for money you can be right you can really let your voice be heard. what the variety of problems facing new orleans you there isn't an easy solution
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but the efforts of tucson and a number of youth development programs across the city are planning the seas of change in the night war internationally known event producer call washington 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 play was a major because sorry we had to work on that we had to get that to be the number one thing and we won a battle was there so we were here to stay here when we want to be engaged in a life want to develop basis 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 and eager to want to learn and grow and develop for the fifth patches and brought more part of the daily commitment is helping kids to see a brighter future seventy five percent of children i worked with couldn't write
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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 and he said i'm not in the lottery appears. 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 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 development 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
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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 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 in their great grandmothers have told them that parkway in zion city no way but the power of pizza over that seems you know 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 have found out they have a common grandparent kids have found out their evacuation story was the same.
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and i find this common ground when they talk to each other like anything this is a very good thing for the kids to help you still try to keep kids off the street to help you homework we have my fun time family night make sure no one has applied. doing their plans. but they teach us to do the right bangs and life so we don't go in a bad direction we don't have fun and no no no what happened to them or all the kids cavities all the right ways the water they'll get farther 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
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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 they go back to the things that in their community today they think is a way to get out of it or a nasty the struggle is like a revolving door i know christian won't kill us all body is different in bed have you ever. run through. the word. thinking what you think about the supports that you hair and if they were not there you know what choices which you have may feel should be reflected. that you should be doing what you should be using some that's only eat. thank 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
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it's about understanding and allowing the kids. to to to know that you really care you know because if you take hope out i mean if you don't you don't have the new reason all of you have raised the born way when our. you know i was going to be. in. the bedroom you know some of the glass were why was it really not going to quiet. those who are actually. doing the film around used to just get up to go to the river they now want to out if you can that will help to are willing to see the sun so it has its way to you in the least you know you're going for a change when we talk about. our. time and be helpful to me ok you are losing control because you do what. the reason hainsey you follow the rules
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i've always been told that he's very good very good at this are a good book you raise a ball a. very. it's a lot of people being killed though to team 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 when my boys. don't come to miles which of potato salad in your words of condolence is help me while he is alive more park more. or you know what a fine thing but i'm a better school and they have more active keep young teens off the streets best
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book courts could. organization groups 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 like 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 you know 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 hire enough cops to make the city safe people say make the laws harsher and harsher is harsh when you killed on a street with
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a mack ten in some rock you don't care where the ingo wafer wife or not whether a teenager is where his pants down to his knees cursing up a storm or brandishing a gun what they're really saying is look at i 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 like a kid dive for even turn 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 wall suppose we had some discomfort in all the stuff cold enough to get in the season when you constantly hold in the cold to hot cold got a shell shock live in the cold soul it's only so thin all the people go to nothing given the season now from when you constantly hold in the cold to hot cold guy me just blow shit on the sidewalk little pieces walk around with
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a prize go no go so we marinate she missing a single city problem disco nation and pop it's about the next occasion 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 tramp a normal lot with a traffic ticket in the back they keep it high. enough so can we give you some id with you 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 may soften up a big case twenty five the old to get enough some on this la salle shot livin in the coal sold me and some lease cars in all the stuff. you know make it in the city folks when they come the only hold in the cold until the toll guy shellshocked live in the boss told me it's only so often all the people go in the take it industry
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because when you constantly look so hot don't got me. 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 the i.s.i. yes and taking care of them who is the major supporter of these groups i mean they have to get money and arms and training from somewhere and then been named so far in this program is saudi arabia what is their role in all this i think it's a. misinterpretation of the. own reasons with the american. position because this. is proof.
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only. major cities in western iraq a show of strength not seen since their battles with u.s. forces a decade ago we look at who these insurgents are and how they became so strong. rebels and other opposition groups are fighting the forthcoming peace talks are under threat from the growing divisions among those. approval ratings for leaders to an all time low as a handful of bloc members face economic hardships tough times are being met with some people in the countries adopting new currencies. these colorful which tend not to money but they have a real. doubting that.
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