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I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 512Format: DVDProducers: Ashley HuntCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
30 minute video documents the evacuation of Orleans Parish Prison, the building of the "Greyhound Jail" inside the New Orleans' Greyhound Station, and the criminalization of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, placing overwhelming stress on families and loved ones and hindering their 'right to return.' It uses footage from our October Human Rights delegation on the status of prisoners, interviews with family members, news clips and archival film.
Solidarity Not Charity
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.
Welcome to New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 549Format: DVDProducers: Rasmus HolmCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after the Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther Malik Rahim. All his life he has been struggling to make a difference, and been trying to pass on a better society to his children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, the need is greater than ever, and Malik uses the attention this brings, to begin the building of a long-term grassroots organization. The film starts in the days after the hurricane, and takes us on a journey to poor Afro-American neighborhoods where the mainstream media never goes. We meet despair, hate and a little hope despite all. But most of all it tells us the story about one man who wants to make a better world, and about his extraordinary fight for peace and justice.
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