National Geographic is showing Witness - a documentary on Katrina

[malaise]

just started

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Watching

I blew off The Five Pennies on Nextflix.

[malaise]

2. LOL

Watching the documetary and the live feed from the Chicago protests

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[malaise]

4. I've never seen some of these eyewitness videos from Louisiana &

Mississippi. This is heartbreaking

[dotymed]

6. It was (is) heartbreaking.

I was hired to go there, along with a lot of other Union carpenters (by business interests) to rebuild. This was shortly after Katrina. It was like a war zone. We worked 6-12 hour days. On Sundays, a few of us volunteered to help the people who couldn't afford help. That is where my career ended. My heart "blew-up" but after a few months and 4 surgeries, the company sent me back to supervise the end of the contract. I met some wonderful people there.
When I left, the ninth ward and many places were still devastated. The gentrification was sickening.

[malaise]

7. Your hands on experience must have been even more painful

Glad you're OK now

[fishwax]

5. I saw that last year -- pretty powerful stuff

[Thinkingabout]

8. I was in NO in November after Katrina

I was not prepared for what I found. For the whiners who thinks everybody ther got rich from government handouts don't have a clue. This was a terrible storm.

[malaise]

9. We bought a copy of Spike Lee's

When the Levees broke, but I saw new eye witness videos today.
That said I don't think the documentaries prepare you for what's on the ground.

[ellenfl]

10. bummer. missed it. gwb's interview re 9/11 is on now. switching off. eom

[malaise]

11. It was excellent

and their next program was on the Japanese earthquake and tsumanis

[maria2]

12. =)

ah ok