September 14, 2009
Back to Busyness...Politics as Usual, Stormy Weather
By
Katherine Dodds
I will return to this topic, of TIFF, and mostly of Gaza, as it deserves it's own blog, but first I do want to encourage people to check out Trouble the Water.
This is, as our e'Zine proclaimed, the Storm that Won't blow over. But let us hope, that indeed it WON'T blow over. Even with Obama in the White House, racial, and social justice for the people displaced by the mis-action of government, rather than than an 'act of God' has yet to be really addressed in New Orleans and in America.
But don't take my word for it, watch the film.
It follows first hand as, on August 29, 2005, Kimberly Rivers Roberts turned her $20 bootlegged video camera as her family and neighbors as they weathered the storm. It's raw, and surprisingly unsentimental. As the levees were breached and flood waters devastated her neighborhood in the city's ninth ward you see what it took for her and her family to survive. But that's not all. Days later, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal traveled to New Orleans and crossed pathes with Kimberly and her husband, Scott Roberts. Trouble the Water -- the film -- is what happened after that.
Tag(s):
Film Launch,
Social Marketing,
Avi Lewis,
Naomi Klein,
Trouble the Water,
TIFF protest
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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