owners, the watershed association undertook a project to restore the nine mile run stream in urban pittsburgh. schombert: the urban impacts on that watershed have been enormous. flooding flows, combined sewer overflows, gave it the nickname of "stink creek" for many, many years. hecht: before the stream restoration, when you have a rain event, the stream would just be barreling, just filled with tons and tons of water, and the water would move very quickly, eroding the stream banks further. narrator: the rushing water ran all the combined sewage straight into the monongahela river, which is a main supplier of drinking water for the region. hecht: what has happened because of the restoration is the water overflows its banks, it floods into these nice flood plains with native plants. and then slowly the water percolates back down into the stream. narrator: this allows the land to naturally filter and clean the sewer overflows before they enter the river. the restoration included extensive environmental changes to improve the stream and infrastructure changes to reduce the csos into the watershe

look at this effort aimed at urban areas with people that don't own cars. philadelphia certainly, pittsburgh, cleveland, we have closed state elections, but you have minority communities bunched together in cities, and then ministers to go after same sex. you wonder about how this thing is working to try to get down the natural or expected strong vote for the president in the black community. >> it is hard not to see some dots and seeing dots is hard not to connect them. you have the matter of the voting rights laws being enacted, a lot of the more tightened stricter ones are happening in battleground states. pennsylvania, ohio, and it looks like there is an effort to place the thumb on the scale. you couple that with a lot of what has been talked about with defunding unions, those kinds of laws where people are not getting the right to collective bargaining. union dos what? register people to vote. also third party registrations, anybody who does active voter registration drives now has to overcome a second hurdle and make sure their organization is strikely set up for a social program. so

urban areas that don't have cars. people that rely on public transportation like cleveland, philadelphia, pittsburgh, cleveland, citiesies bunched together in cities. then ministers, after same sex wsh turning to church people, against the democrats. you do wonder about this, how this is working to get down the natural or expected i should say vote strong vote for the president. and in the black community. >> and it is hard not to see some dots and seeing dots is hard now to connect them because have you not only the matter where a lot of these voting rights laws are enacting. a lot of the more tightened ones. stricter ones are happening in battle ground states. pennsylvania where you are. ohio, wisconsin has a voter id law that a people are challenging. and it looks like there's an effort to place the thumb on the scale. you couple that with a lot of what has been talked about with defunding unions, those kinds ever laws where people aren't getting the right to collective bargaining. unions do what? register people to vote. there's also a crack down on third party organizations, league of women voters, naacp, anyone

urban crisis in the 1960s has been mirrored by many other industrial cities across the united states. rates of poverty among black americans in cities like newark, chicago south and west sides, detroit, cleveland, pittsburgh, st. louis, camden and baltimore range from 25 to 45%. the residents of these central cities have struggled with tremendous loss of manufacturing jobs and the emergence of the lower wage sector. racial discrimination, poverty, political corruption, urban renewal and police brutality were social forces that led to the uprisings in the summer of 1965. within weeks of dr. martin luther king's assassination, 125 american cities exploded in flames. the simultaneous outbreak of urban rebellions in 1967. the 1967 summer of discontent was in the words of "life" magazine headlines predictable insurrection. between july 12th and july 17th, 1967, newark residents experienced six days of rioting, looting and destruction that left 26 dead and hundreds of men, women and children injured. the black community was rendered powerless and disenfranchised through exclusion from meaning representation and police brutality. the conklin hall liberator saw what happens when a city brutally institutionally an

to these urban warfare drills that's what they announce is civil disobedience will not be tolerated your first amendment has been cancelled and when i had camera crews the g twenty in pittsburgh two years ago they had the police under military training shame the exact same thing and even attacking students at the college you weren't even protesting we got video of young women on bicycles and they were saying daytime nighttime curfew stay in your your dormitories beating women over the head with billy clubs just for fun just to set the precedent that hey you don't come out of your dorm that was famous footage of the g. twenty under pentagon control with the local police and national guard with german shepherds old women coming out of the grocery store with bags and they're told you can't be on the streets broad daylight and they release the german shepherds who begin biting the old women i mean this is just absolutely off the charts even the most authoritarian states don't act like this and the social controllers the big banks the taking over this country and their collaborators in the police and military are openly trying to train the police and military to be attack dogs and