[imc-wellington] Indymedia film nights - Friday/Saturday 27/28 Feb.

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

The Wellington Indymedia collective and the New Zealand Film Archive
present:

BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans

and 

NEW ORLEANS: MAN-MADE DISASTER

at The New Zealand Film Archive
corner of Ghuznee and Taranaki Streets, Wellington

Friday 27 February and Saturday 28 February 2009
Starting time: 7 pm
Entry:  $8/$6 waged/unwaged

FURTHER INFO:

Big Easy to Big Empty
Palast Productions 2006     Running time: 30 minutes   

http://www.bigeasytobigempty.com/   
www.gregpalast.com

August 29th 2006 marked the one-year anniversary of the devastation in New
Orleans caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This Special Greg
Palast Report brings you exclusive footage and the stories you won’t hear
on the other networks — the hidden political agendas and the suppressed
eyewitness reports.

In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to
investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in
2005. On his visit, he discovers that the population of New Orleans is
miniscule, the reconstruction sparse, suicide rates are climbing, and many
have not, nor know how to, return to the city that care forgot. He examines
why residents had to leave, what really caused the flood and why they
aren’t returning.

“If the mass media were doing the type of investigative reporting that
you can see and hear in Greg Palast’s 'Big Easy to Big Empty' the
residents of New Orleans would be getting the help they need. Palast’s
reporting reveals the utter disregard for the people of this city and the
criminal lack of common sense or human decency in addressing the aftermath
of Katrina. Please watch this DVD and share it with your friends, your
family, your place of worship- with everyone!”

New Orleans: Man-Made Disaster   
in Dispatches 03, Big Noise Films
running time: 28 minutes

http://www.bignoisefilms.org/videowire/38-latest/80-new-orleans-man-made-disaster


Katrina was called the worst natural disaster in America in 100 years. . .
but the hundreds who died here were not killed by the storm - they were
left for days to drown as flood waters rose around them.

And today, the storm isn't what's keeping most of the city's former
residents from returning home. A richer, whiter New Orleans is being built
in which the city's poor and black majority have no place.While the city
moves ahead with its plans to destroy public housing, scattered former
residents fight a desperate battle for their right to return home.The
outcome will have far reaching consequences. New Orleans is the front line
of a national struggle to save public housing and to end the privatisation
of government services. New Orleans is the model that, if successful, will
be reproduced across the country.