well backing off now with the left. new gold rush is underway in ghana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here is the book. that yoko i suppose that whatever children o'toole in between gold. from me was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to see which side will have the strongest appeal. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just blocking 2 nationalities. has

emerged riddled with the we don't have the facts in the whole world to. judge a. commentary crisis with this system to. do better we should. everyone is contributing each her own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

i 1st heard about hart island when i was working on a story about a formerly homeless man he had lived in the tunnels underneath penn station and i think. there was there's a photographer who photographed his little the little house he had made himself there and because of her work he'd been rescued he'd been given a home and that he'd been found dead in that home and he was going to go to heart island. and it was there was such sadness at the idea that this man who had finally

achieved a home of his own was going to be dispossessed it was going to be one of the multitude in these anonymous graves. i'm a new yorker and i believe that new york is more than you know the old idea of the city on the hill new york is really what america is about. and there is a tragedy inherent in a big metropolis and. there are all these stories of the chance has gone by the mistakes of a bad childhood bad choices or just bad luck. that's something

that any great metropolis contends was. but there's something more here. that you could have a loving family a career money set aside. and you could still end up in a mass grave on an island off limits to the public. buried by inmates paid $0.50 an hour.

when miners in from the south carrying the clang of the bell going from nearby city island tolling its fist forewarning. all around is desolate and sad. no kind hand to decorate these graves with trophies of love their number and so. on even a headstone to show with those interred what was once a human being. ringback

my baby was already sick so our already knew. there was a 5050 chance of him living or diane. who gave birth to him i didn't have the financial to be able to bury him and stuff so the hospital gave me. a week for me to you know collect the money. i wanted to the world fair day after day day after day week that i was given. and they said no. and at that point i didn't know my real mother i didn't know my real family. so is like i really don't have nobody.

power was a lone out here living actually literally alone. i care to be ungrateful because mean living. on the public assistance know your city has been. helping my children a lot. but when it comes to my son they fell to me completely because i put my trust. i put my child's body in their hands to bury him. you know it's not the way i wanted but i figure at least he's going to be buried. he'll be a piece but he says he was a. well

one heart island is open new york is on the cusp of yet another enormous rush of growth the city's population basically doubled every 20 years. the new york city is the commercial capital of america it's the center was publishing industry is the center of fashion and of course next to the glitz next to the glamour next to the mansions being built by 80 steward of the vanderbilt's you have the reality of the 5 points the slums the very very difficult lives lives by most new yorkers that is to say the working class and. new york is forced

to create full series of institutions to deal with the realities of tens of thousands of immigrants coming into the city continually. there was a sense i think that these people needed to be separated out that it was people were not comfortable seeing the insane seeing the paupers seeing elderly alcoholics on the streets of new york. and many of these institutions prisons lunatic asylums hospitals all were erected created outside manhattan on these islands in the east river. there was welfare island there were the quarantine islands and of course ellis island and these were all various processing stations. heart island was the terminal island. in the 890 s.

early 1900 every spring the police department have to fish out scores and scores of bodies that floated to the surface on the. harper and the rivers what do you do with these bodies most of those totally anonymous these folks want a hard island. this is a place that new york has to have to service the reality of death. i think new yorkers understand that there are always going to be inequalities in the city huge inequalities and they are in very sharp focus. but. in death. we're equal. we all die alone. in today's world you have so many families who are a strange or just lost which other by distance by misfortune.

and yet to know that someone you once loved or that you hoped loved to you is buried in a mass grave on heart island that resonates. forever. we got married in 1982 and get married at my sister's house they never wanted a big wedding imes never the one to be in front of you know where dress and have all these people that you know sometimes you don't even know half of them why would you want them there to mining but there were a lot of great times with with bruce a lot. and when he started spiraling down that was in 84

we moved right next to a bar called lady else. we used to go to lady elliston on friday nights got a babysitter for kimberly and he started hanging out with a lot of different people and started drinking heavily. and the bar was right next door which is not the greatest thing didn't think anything of it when we moved to the house. but it happened and. i remember vodka bottles being under the bed hid in you know so and then they would argue constantly so. i just remember my childhood not a wonderful. you know i think that he hurt his back at work and he got addicted to pain medication and then cocaine and then alcohol and he just spiraled downhill.

always enter my conscience i always wonder if he is he ok what is he doing is he living on the streets he do no good and when i was younger i would always wonder if that was him. you know i'd always want to give money to those people because i felt like that was my dad. like i hope which people don't hope that he was either in the hospital or in jail where i would get that one moment that he was sober and i never got it and the fact that he was in a hospital and nobody contacted any family members and then his body for 3 years is crazy. the crisis in the crisis began if that's the way used to be now there is just one

crisis on top of another raid on the world one starts and one stops and it's just a multiple crises stacked up you know right there for me and you're thinking to yourself my goodness gracious what happened. when else seemed wrong. but all the rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape our disdain becomes magical and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get us through the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

so in the world today everyone knows america as the land of freedom and opportunity. because you see me in front of you now. but prior to seeing me here. you didn't know of me except for one thing. he is us and i met.

he is not america. he is the slave that built america. this is the to some of every man and woman of color. now we at the point when we stumble upon a part of history. that do encounter us as a people of color of honor of respect. and. heart iraq has been at the time of 8060 was being conversed into champ aster.

there was must. it is over 200 pounds or so just code. it was not america at that time it was better see in the south and you you open the know and what brought us together was this of a wall. wasn't policemen we would not be free today if it wasn't for those united states color troops we will be as proud as we ought to day. united states code troops were definitely born that out. then this do astar little indications that a soul a few bodies that still remain. in the us knocking

at the door who is there to open a correctional department. i'm never so been humiliated to have a correctional officer. direct me in prayer. in the burials begad in 869 the department of charities and correction was one city ancient city. and what happened more recently was the department of welfare pulled out of heart out and. left the department of correction in charge of these various. so it used to be that there was a dead house staff at the end of 26th street and

a dock and in the dead have the bodies which. were unclaimed were put in these boxes and then put onto a boat there were 2 steamships one was called hope and the other was called fidelity. the boat backs up to the dead house and takes the coffins with their ghastly phrase. here shoved rudely down a slide like the various merchandise and as they strike the deck we hear the thud of the body and its rude receptacle. business is good to do this shar on of the sticks is. as we count the coffins heaped up her mysteriously we think so too. we steam away and soon touch it blackwell's island. near the bodies of those who

died of smallpox and other contagious diseases are taken on board. charity hospital is also visited and contributes its quota. the coffins are bundled out to men who cart them away into a field handling them as rudely as baggage masters to trucks that the depot trenches are about 15 feet deep and 6 feet wide and. the coffins are piled up like wooden cords or fuel in a coal pit 13. as soon as the coffin is placed at the bottom of the trench a barrel of dirt is thrown over it and another coffin placed above. children's coffins are chucked in at the feet of the others and helped to form a solid mass. of sort of earth is then thrown upon the upper one until the work is

completed. does all nationalities rest close together the murder. he's a close companion of the sea and the suicide is just beneath the parker. there's no aristocracy. i 1st heard of heart al and the problem at the session who was at harlem hospital and she was talking about incense that were born at dictate to crack and that they were buried in shoe boxes a 1000 other time on her the island. and at that time heard island was open

to journalists and to academics and so i decided that. i was just going to get there. and it just so happened that that. was the very 1st day that these inmates had ever been on our gas lines. and these are young man. convicted at mr me interests like train style john staying graffiti the so you know they're not felons or anything like that they're young men that couldn't afford a good lawyer. oh i used to live in red hook that was one of the bad neighborhoods but about to return only brooklyn. new york city was crazy in 89 it was crying and stuff like that in we used to so we'd n n

n drugs and stuff i done are one of getting caught with possession and i were not going to rikers island for a little bit of time. it knows these it was it was a zoom you can get anything you need a knife or a anything needs one great one term the guy had a gun in there it was like. gladiator school every day and so when i got short short means that you're going home you don't have a lot of time left in your stack and they gave me a job in a hard trial and. next you know they put some shackles on you and you end it a big you know little boss and they need take you on a boat i'm a little skid could i mean hand cause i'm on a book to get the boats going to go down i think the worst or whatever and they take you into the heart and. i still didn't know the hearts i was proudest feel i heard of polish fuel in movies and stuff like that but i didn't i didn't even know

what what it meant. and there's only 2 officers no french no nothing and it was just smell i don't know what the smell was so the next morning is raining and they tell you we're going to go we're going to go to work. we want to do this big hole we have but it was graves and it was mass graves we would in boxes and we're going to move them to put more boxes in there. and the people there john doe's all people that nobody want to pay for people when they get lost in the system they were like 5 deeded it was a big hole. it was a little coffin to integrate and the guys were all talk about them and they would just say crack babies even though who knows what they were there for but are there for the mentality they had those widows were undesirables or whatever they

encounter or whatever. when our mayor took office he was elected because of his campaign and our city being a tale of 2 cities now and has now and those who have not are usually the ones who are end up being buried and hard at. the difficulty in government especially when you're a mayor and you're managing a very large city the priorities of the public take shape and become the most important issues you address. and not many people bring her dial into it like that officials attention.

it is out of sight and out of mind to so many new yorkers people just don't care that much unless they have a personal connection. it shouldn't be so removed from the rest of the city. we should know what happens after people die we should be able to see. that space. the fact that we're using inmates to maintain this active burial site where 1000000 souls are buried where so much of new york city history is buried is dickensian. and it is a document of the inequality that existed in this city for centuries. i don't think the states is unique in this respect if you're poor in this world or you're not powerful you get forgotten pretty quickly. and harland is exactly where

our society in our country puts the people who are poor and for god. and you have. you know a situation you couldn't make up in which you have the corn forgotten people who are alive and are in jail who are burying the poor and forgotten people who are dead. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is truly what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. a new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here's the good. as they are by the children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. the in. illinois .

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