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you are worms is a city that is always shown america what is possible when we have the imagination to see. the train. battered. obvious but also exposed silent storms that have ravaged the city and our country. the stores. and joblessness equality and justice. act. akermanis why. it is

time for us to make sure the reconstruction is making. people's lives. together we do we're the rebuild the city we can pretty much.

katrina could not nag this down. it took a man to come here with a board always in magadan. i was born in one nine hundred fifty nine. ok my mother was accurate number. i was

one years old so i can see all my life that i come from this area has seen the changes. beauty me real beauty. you might not see it but i can see the building is the. i can sit here. now we've got buildings right here and people would sit out. there we would hang out on the porch is here you got a bam right here going to see it so you see the owner of ports it is the number three does you know hit me a. kick in the breeze. make him play and. you know i'll watch in a sports game some girls play ball is that. we sit here. we

planning. this is home this will always be home. i'm just told that me because i know in the. republican congressman from louisiana said about katrina god did in one weekend what we've been trying to do for twenty years in terms of public housing so god was able to close public housing in one weekend while there are many people who have been trying to do that for decades and that's sort of a theme in the response to katrina is privatization public housing was privatized

private developers were given the land private developers came in and demolished the good units that were there and private developers put up other apartment complexes on those spots which looked. nice and are beautiful to look at but. of the thousands of families that lived in public housing before katrina hit the numbers look like roughly ten percent have been able to get back into their neighborhoods where they were before so the government destroyed people's housing turn it over to private developers gave them billions of dollars of subsidies and contracts to be able to do it and then kick the people out who had been there and those individuals those families who lived in public housing who were nearly one hundred percent african-american were not welcome back it was very clear that the official response on the federal level the state level the local level was you all really should go someplace else we don't really want.

this one would have been in my him you see there. because it is a wonder. you said was that it was. you know would have incentives to. we would never. we know it's only out to get we have to use. people that i mean gays and believe in. that we helped you know when we. come together find ways. in these difficult times so we're not going to wait we're going to find a way to live in this is do for each other and help too.

we had like the old liberalism on steroids. and that is part i think of the disaster capitalism it's also part of a conscious decision by local government state government federal government because it wasn't just let the market decide it was let the market decide plus we will give all this public money to accelerate what the market wants to do and these longstanding patterns of racial discrimination economic security those are still there and they have helped. the response to katrina and they've helped side who are the winners and who are the losers.

no really new orleans chose me so new once threw me out because we wanted to be a part of the rebuild about the renaissance of this town so i moved in two thousand age the expectations that i had had was to join another startup company that was going to be able to walk into a new situation and do what i do well which is help companies grow. there were no situations like that so people always ask what's the big idea you have for starting a company the big idea was i had to if i was going to do what i do i was going after create the environment for that from scratch so loose it is only six years

old but we've been growing very very quickly. we want to become the largest market research platform on the planet and we're trying to grow as quickly as we possibly can. there are a lot of tax credits this state of louisiana has gone out of its way to establish what we were calling just the digital media tax credit what that means historically thirty five percent of every dollar spent on development technology development engineering and you think technical software development wise could be. would be given back to you by the state so essentially. develop it only cost sixty five percent on every dollar which is a huge benefit to a group company. we're

going to very similar experience on a much larger scale in new york new york now is seen as a entrepreneurship startup technical center but twenty years ago it wasn't in my goal is to have similar outcomes for new orleans as with new york as suddenly new orleans in twenty years will be seen as the epicenter of entrepreneurship in the south. we're trying to be more as the next version of itself. europe and the capacity to integrate. the refugees at the

same time we cannot accept everybody that comes to all come from countries all countries have the control of their borders books all come through so europe also as the rights to control needs for those. social environment. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is syria was exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. says three years old industrial giants reap the benefit. by chemical production. you know as if these people are people just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin

levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. in. this despicable. the earth. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media and the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

what this is they're saying is do is this is a zero in the water has come back oh or the same as i want to so we'll both know no one has got a lot of time to fly and write. you know i am at this point we are again going to. see this in a whole new war use because that's where these. are all. huge challenges in oil and in terms of ensuring that people that

lived here before katrina were able to return to the city when it comes to homeowners their own home program which was the government's response to help homeowners was having discriminatory effects on people that were applying for grants. your grant was based on either a priest or value in your house and so because of historic policies. that were in place in new orleans and many other places around the united states homes in african-american neighborhoods here were worth less than homes in white neighborhoods here and what that meant in concrete terms is that we would have clients with a home and an african-american neighborhood that would be receiving. sometimes as low as fifteen hundred dollars to rebuild their house and then you would have a family in a white neighborhood that experienced. some level of damage that we get the fall grants from our town which was one hundred to house not one city to be.

practically everybody three of the three of us. so. any property was able to fix the house right to the fun in that funny house he wasn't able to pay taxes big wasn't able to sustain so they had people from other states came in and bought up the properties predominate it is not. people who've been here for years is new people people from other states also to people as good a job and they can't afford to come back because. they have they had to with a problem. to come back to what they had lost the whole. building houses right away i mean.

to help. trying to get to trying to get it to get. to our road home plea that you know because they appear to be. giving you the money into your money. to battle in a very. very. trying to figure out why. and. damn got back with this so evidently they had been about four months ago still we. still. gave you enough to redo it. on only over pages you own that's right where i stand had a problem with whether the contract that they raise my house i came in twenty six

thousand eleven the way they did this is stop all the stuff they delete it. so i stuck with that. how to make you feel i'm in and changing when you don't have to be with me here hiring are like i don't want to be here in this league and not come. in it just at the same. day as they did to lose the after the hurricane for five years when i came back it's like a. maniac in the state in the afternoon so most am in. it is that is a he'll. give. them

any and have. each arm. jane the street. fellow. right next to the stands of my. town and there is no. chance. the. our. man. some.

would. say. why eat.

when katrina hit the president bush. and his allies along with some foundations across the country and people in louisiana said this is a great opportunity for us to try an experiment and charge arise the whole public school system sensually have a public school it's a given to a private company and the private company gets the public money to run it but the private company decides who's going to be the teachers what are they going to have bus service what the curriculum is going to be and all that so how that happened was within two weeks the louisiana legislature at the request of the governor and with the support of the president had a special law passed the just. applied to the city of new orleans and it was a takeover a literally a legal takeover of the. thousand

five when act thirty five was winding its way through the legislature many of us were still living in other places i was living in texas trying to rebuild my life and then i was coming back and forth once i was allowed back in the war islands trying to get contractors and electricians and plumbers to help me put my house back together i knew many of the people were not in any kind of position so will fight the takeover of our school. within the first month they decided that they were going to dissolve the union which is one of the biggest union in the state of louisiana. over eight thousand people lost jobs in the school system union jobs really good jobs in the new

orleans area the teachers fought in court they lost there were the louisiana supreme court said no you're not entitled to your job parents and you're looking for an excellent school for your side tech academy is back in session our schools have some of the highest growth scores on the leap in the city of new york side tech academy is a perfect fit for scoring high and academics winning championships and tackle football and volleyball and working hard every day to get into the city's best high schools and colleges provide a laptop for every child side tech academy is located a charter schools or businesses let's just be clear about that and what does a business do a business wants to maximize its profits and reduce its cost that means high cost student students who need more resources to learn or more of a lot of building for those. so it calls in less to educate a higher performing student than to educate a student and have

a lot of meaning and they get to have autonomy to discriminate and we see that in the data. we begin to see a lot of the titles change there were many people who had had no experience running schools they may have been business people who will now become the c.e.o. as they try their hand at operating a school day. so i started working at ash at the end of my six months i knew i wasn't going to retire and. i knew it wasn't a place where i would become the kind of teacher that i want to be.

yeah yeah. so these three are the first grade class or close to the end of the hallway and i was right in the middle of. the hall from kindergarden. posters everywhere the walls were covered. motivational thanks and test. the student achievement on the test was a big focus the more students who tested well makes the school look successful. school is successful then they can apply for a different grants and government funding schools with very low scores considered failing schools sometimes. or taken over by the state from my experience understanding it kind of comes down to

a money issue. test scores were displayed everywhere in the classrooms and outside on the walls we had daily meetings and scores were brought up we would be shown. graphs and data from the different schools and discuss what we need to do to to raise the scores. and for the students there was one particular test that they were taking in first grade they were shown their previous score and then on the other side they were shown their goal what we wanted them to get to to show that they were improving getting closer to on level. and said like oh right this is where you are nell this is where you need to be and. we were. bribed with stickers and candy and parties if you do well suits who like on the reading

tests if they stepped up to the next reading level they would be brought pizza and cake so you have the classroom and all the osun there watching these kids getting rewarded there's not. the recent spat between the gulf states has highlighted yet another middle eastern conflict while turkey is siding with cretonne iran against saudi arabia the long running tensions between the sunni's. into the open wanted to encourage jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. he put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

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the legal nor should i. a tough week for the british prime minister she faces calls to resign over her handling of the grenfell tower tragedy which she's apologized as well as mounting brags that. most go demands an explanation from washington over its downing give us syrian fighter jets the incidents lead the russian military to start tracking u.s. and coalition aircraft in syria as potential targets. and muslims around the world mark the end of the holy month of ramadan we report on the mark celebrations in moscow.