this black soil
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This inspiring and provocative new film chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, Virginia, a small and severely impoverished rural African-American community, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Catalyzed by the defeat of a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard, the powerful women leaders and residents created the Bayview Citizens for Social Justice, a non-profit organization, secured $10 million in grants, purchased the proposed prison site land and are now building a new community from the ground up.
Under the leadership of visionary women, this new rural village challenges all conventional ideas of community development and includes not only improved and affordable housing, but a sustainable economic base to earn a living wage, a community center for educating its residents, a daycare center, laundromat, and a community farm, which not only provides jobs and income for the organization, but returns them to their roots, working on the land.
Bayview's story has been featured in national and international media including: CBS' '60 Minutes', the New York Times, Washington Post, People magazine, and the BBC.
'The tendency of today's policymakers to serve up prisons as the answer to rural America's economic plight comes with devastating consequences...The story of Bayview, Virginia provides a much-needed example of what can happen when indigenous rural leaders reach beyond the boundaries of race, class, and geography to fight back against the prison industrial complex. Teresa Konechne's inspired and inspiring chronicle of one community's successful struggle to defeat a plan to locate a prison in their town and pursue a sustainable future instead should be in the toolkits of all educators, organizers, economic developers, advocates for justice, and founders of innovation across the nation seeking an answer to the question: 'If not prisons, what?'' Tracy Huling, Author, An Analysis of the Economics of Prison Siting in Rural Communities, Founder/Co-Director, National Resource Center on Prisons and Communities
'This is the story of people who help themselves and destroy the myth that being poor means ignorance, apathy or surrender.' Cleveland International Film Festival
'Teresa Konechne puts the Bayview residents at the center of her documentary, telling their hard won story without the intrusion of a narrator. We see both the obstacles and victories, making this an inspiring primer of grassroots organizing from the bottom up. This film is truly an example of what REAL democracy looks like! ...this black soil honors the struggle of 'ordinary' people seeking economic justice, improving their lives and discovering their own power through activism.' Lydia Howell, Print/Radio Journalist
'A model for grassroots organizing, but it also speaks to the importance of local governance...This sort of human triumph makes for an inspiring experience, but Konechne ensures that her doc also provides the tools for others who wish to follow in the footsteps of Bayview's activists.' Caroline Palmer, City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
'A potentially incisive template for social activism, Teresa Konechne's This Black Soil spans almost a decade and stands as a heartening shot across the bow for everybody who imagines the poor can't come together to seize power.' Central Standard Film Festival Program
'This black soil is unique in that the filmmaker is able to document a decade long process of American activism at the grassroots level. It serves as a motivational and inspirational story for all social activists. Highly Recommended.' Monique Threatt, Educational Media Reviews Online
Citation
Main credits
Konechne, Teresa (film director)
Konechne, Teresa (film producer)
Konechne, Teresa (editor of moving image work)
Konechne, Teresa (composer)
Other credits
Editors, Teresa Konechne, Rebecca Parks; music/sound composition, Teresa Konechne.
Distributor subjects
Activism; Affordable Housing; African-American Studies; American Democracy; American Studies; Anthropology; Art/Architecture; Citizenship and Civics; Civil Rights; Community; Conflict Resolution; Design; Human Rights; Humanities; Poverty; Prisons; Race and Racism; Social Justice; Sociology; Urban Studies; Urban and Regional Planning; Women's StudiesKeywords
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The land is beautiful.
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There are lots of areas that people are
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just about the you don\'t see
unless you get off of 13 in humans
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the people the people are the harder
the shore for me watching them gather
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Earth and make teeth and
plant their gardens.
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But I also see struggles.
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The eastern shore is bordered
by the Chesapeake Bay and
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the Atlantic Ocean fishing has
been a long tradition there
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but that\'s changed and the client no
longer and vital ways to maintain
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your living Oyster shucking crap
picking getting the fish off the boat.
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All of that was very much a
part of the life on the shore.
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History on a shore has been small
farms and people on the shore working
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those farms and that\'s all changed now that
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people are not able to
sustain a quality of living.
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Just farming industries that use people as
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resources but you hear people now
talk about they don\'t need us
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anymore they\'ve got machines
to do that they grab
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machines to sort the beans
and pick the beginnings
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The issues on the shore seem so overwhelming
as they struggle with issues of
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isolation poverty opportunities
for their children and you
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talk to a young person did not
always sure what they\'re gonna do
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the educational benefits and
opportunities are limited
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and one of the common themes
has been an Italy the shore
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I have to leave the people
feel like there is no hope now
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the quest structure on the
shores that there are people
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who have money launched
stand and families who have
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a long history of being wealthy
and they have the power
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and the control People of color
who live on the issue of
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whether you\'re a migrant worker
or an African American whose been
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a four-man time struggled with
this day in and day out they may
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not call it racism but they know what\'s
happening they also another place
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goals de Gaulle stay
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and the goal stay
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And no words can mean no home.
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Gone stay apples in the kitchen cooking
chicken and I heard him say a maximum.
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Security prison will be built
on baby circle and thanks boo
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sad no fluidity is somewhere
right Zach LatMux Tola gada mcar
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will dance three sub h.
We\'ll take you circle
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right they don\'t deal more ran
across the street from the state
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bought an option on the land and North
Hampton mechanics And it looks like
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this president is going to
be built 200 years ago flats
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were sold along with the land
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because we will consider property and today
you\'re going to sell the land and in
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the steel cell in our body and
we don\'t know Come on you got to
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stop this has got to stop
it will add to our home
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they took three black communities right
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what you\'re gonna do with generations
of fam if you start separating
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them they\'re gonna dab
because will depend on
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what they are when they just take
domino effect that you\'re gonna get
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career you push one of us all of us go
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so we\'re not going to stay in
college you come in you brought us
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here and we paid our dues
we work in people But right
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now it\'s unfair to the whole
homes to put a prison Leah and
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when his site is unfair and
most of the hole almost be
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no elderly people and most of them
are black I don\'t like to make
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it an issue but has already as an
issue so that we don\'t know because
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some people don\'t want it in
North Hampton County and I
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would be interested to
know how many people is on
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I was sad period from that one and
then that just this little few TV in
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the neighborhood or the vast amount
of people that it would affect
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me such a county wide me tomorrow
night at six o\'clock in the sense
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that each motor launch conference
room with documents were
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prepared contracts to buy the land
they had Studies I mean they had made
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a deal with a local with the
accountant governmental
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how that thing was gonna work and
one day you pick up the newspaper
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and narratives non Monday room now that
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fight and I just verbally spread the word
and if you were concerned about this
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President made man that motel
19 and hundreds of people
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k log omega and man us
all-black quite me and women
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children educate the educators
is so whole fruitful
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favorable for common interests My
law what is gone and there were
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everybody from the folks in
Bay View two prominent local
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business people and
executives and laborers and
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farmers who was not complete cross
section of the community was there
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and the support was unanimous
nobody wanted this present.
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Again is fake wow we didn\'t wanna first
and then I got issues with real estate.
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There\'s seven they ran
ministry but the birds that
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migrate you know ego who benefited
from a tourist that was
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owl community and you can Al
is believing that we are being
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discriminated against at the
count H this to us without
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all the public theories Start
out to be an issue about
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black communities it started
out to be an issue in my mind
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about land use and local local issues being
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decided by the state so we organized
right because he didn\'t really have to
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go through this law or D.
Because these people already
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ready and educated and know the
ropes so again organised and
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they did it would take us months in years
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they lived 15 minutes you\'re
gonna Fresh Start it freezes and
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trying out what did he
is good and what ideas
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count and Warner prison yeah so we
found out the five things that this
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is the poorest county in the state The
only support that the Governor had for
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that facility was that we\'ll finally
get some jobs on the eastern shore.
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You I mean there was a 50 $6,100 million
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maximum security prison proposed for
that piece of property right there
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right there and the state was
lined up the county needed
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a more GeoSpace so they were
ready to go with it because they
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were going to get some money toward
a county jail and he was going to
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provide 500 jobs and who\'s gonna
save north hampton county and
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basically baby you said no They don\'t want
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a maximum state prison and
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their backyard hundreds of eastern shore
resident staged or rally fighting
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a proposed maximum security
prison John McCleskey where
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the state Corrections Department
tried to calm the protesters spears.
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He says a lot of the jobs that the
person will go to the locals but
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some say they don\'t want those
dead-end jobs to talking about
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jobs you\'d know that these
jobs are not going to go to
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these people it\'s going to be an effective
method of yielding a net prison than
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half home though he wouldn\'t
have the education or
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the training and the knowledge
they propagate go back to school
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because they get the G D
equivalent There you have a job
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coming right across from me basically
create House in a forgotten loosely.
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Please. Whenever you use
as oh yeah I my script.
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Unlike what might diligently
and was excited about
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it we don\'t get a job I think the
only thing you will get that
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present as a sale the
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sale Earth no jobs
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you\'re working paycheck to
paycheck paycheck to paycheck.
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When I first got back the head job
the people in this area was happier
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because they care some Ledoux way in the
last ten years didn\'t close they are
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five major factories all of
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those employees they want That was nothing
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didn\'t have no ownership
or no shares into there
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and thousands of people
left without anything
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disliked it took North African
American through and just choke on
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life and now the jobs that we do that you do
a little work minimum wage for six months in
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the outer work six months
It\'s not the same as what
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was there at the cracker I
worked with Margaret children
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which layers like seven months and after
they said was the amount of Java.
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Type of work here I\'m just conc houses
or farm work where there\'s Purdue
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they stand up when they work in an assembly
line and they work with their hands
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Constant stereotype is
that they all must be
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on public assistance they\'re not
working and you find out they
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work they work 14 hours a day they work two
jobs we\'re going to use ensure is quite.
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Or black blackmail a second.
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I do feel that blacks here to have a
hard time getting a better paying jobs
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I\'ve honestly I think I have
probably the best position that
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I\'m going to find your own
assure shift supervisor
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of this place here solar building systems
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and slack off pretty much
for each day glass ceiling.
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You begin studying to weigh out whether I\'m
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right or wrong because you\'d better
believe the flower would kill
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all falling into a bad job and want
to study No one of the m right
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along and I\'ve learned that
prisons to use and the
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last 100 years and not
only you couldn\'t miss.
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On me but on our children and our
children\'s children not even
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thinking what should do or
carry Crystal City California.
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Did a study on a prison there and
what they found was after a prison
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opened the grades in their local
schools began to decline.
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What they found was that the parents
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worked in the prison under
deplorable conditions in for
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eight hours a day you\'re subjected to
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the maximum and vulgarities
continual verbal assault.
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You\'re under threat of physical harm.
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All day long how do you treat your wife
and your kids when you go home after
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about six or eight months Year two
years of that what happens is it
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changes the way you treat your
family and it begins to trickle
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down they started out saying it was
going to be a 700 or so inmates.
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But that they could double it in other
communities it start with that size in
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double triple quadruple prisoners
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were released into the community where the
prison is not back where they were arrested.
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There was a real concern about
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groundwater resources impact on the
landscape and solid waste disposal
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the issue of aligning there\'s
gonna be a glow in the sky part
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of the beauty of living on the
eastern shore as night skies dark.
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Take me to green deal
What I didn\'t like was
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that it was just about sunset
and the lights came on and
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this garnish the police
pocket as the light came
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on April the sunglasses on and
the Walkman today without
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repose lights are gonna shine that write
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your level LCD stalls and you don\'t know
until it\'s taken away was threatened.
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What it will do to you to have
all of this noisy you use quads
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Governor allen had the most ambitious
prison building campaign in history in
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the United States I inquired to find out what
the state statute was deciding on prison
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found out there who wasn\'t a criteria
criteria there were no rules
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it is illegal as Marlin wrong
discriminated against people who
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had been a three hundred three
hundred Me Why would it put in
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place wherever I went 97%
of North Hampton County is
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empty and what the other site that
they had picked out Eileen was
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for all the able suddenly a wealthy whites
but the one show me missing a miss though.
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Reading black commandments.
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You nice day you probably have
justice Like no national institutes
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of correction and inflammation
grief issue on site in
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correctional facilities outward
they typically locate facilities in
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rural areas or urban nod era Neil low
income neighborhood that lack substantial.
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Political. I was going to
draft this document which had
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all the states that had statutes
that took something from
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every state and we turned it into
a proposed state statute we went
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enrichment we love it appeal we fill two
buses with people from Bay View and
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the surrounding area We went
to Richmond and we packed
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the halls of the General
Assembly mathy her.
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I think I were wrong kind of shoes for
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one thing when I went and I
you know like West named
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Ding Yu date you have to keep going up and
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down talking to this person and
talking to a net force to the right.
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And it seemed like they all
weigh was on day 15 or 16
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floor right Alice was very passionate
about this as was cozy him in
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a sort of just ended up being
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this dynamic duo baby right from the
very beginning we get up on is a flow of
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4 thousand balances and play I didn\'t see
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no place I see people walking around
with little napkins in the hand and
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toothpicks Pick a little of this
and is there another way that\'s
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an acute bleed is yes what else
do you see in a play she\'s
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even a place here and this old
lady she had me al-Azhar in
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one arm and she wanted to say now
you need the top the here we
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will react to every battle
before the night was over
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every bad it was agree a year
we\'ll vote for this bill
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and they did they didn\'t have any
family allows good in that budget.
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Thing on Beale that charisma
they push that thing solves
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layers and is in is gonna be
tomorrow morning you got to
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go back we gotta pull went back
so you can\'t speak uh let\'s show
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our face hours you can talk You really had
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some coaching to do to get one of them to
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the front of the room you told me
that I didn\'t ask them Alice and
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given us to up to it and tell
our labs to go to the mine
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told law like you always do
tell it like it always tell it
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because you can do it I can\'t do it again
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bandmaster they never listen to me
or put them to sleep they don\'t
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want to listen to these facts
and figures that I don\'t want
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to listen to what juicing
I can\'t tell a black
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person\'s store my present activity
store it\'s time to show you that they
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do it they got to a point
where Bring me the camera I
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got something to say and I are the
senators was down on the floor
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and we was upon this thing
up here right Yeah we\'ll be
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heard but we heard they went from
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an announcement that the governor was
going to break ground for a prison to
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an announcement that the governor was bailing
out of Eastern Shore driven him runny.
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It was worth it it\'s just the
beginning of the beginning and so
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what I\'m trying to tell you we
can\'t stop here we kick the doors
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open that people know that these
damn together a coalition of people.
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Black white young men women and children
have stood together and now proven that we
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can take power within our hands
Something path to peel back on there.
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This is just the beginning up
that begin it took me 43 years of
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my life the notice that difference about
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this neighborhood and it took a
prisoner dude there isn\'t a dude air
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as a Yao is not over which we\'ve defeated
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the prison but look at a neighborhood
look around at your neighborhood
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Like a using the ONC consists of hitting
some sadness for the three children a is
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man sale which lead without indoor plumbing
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no random water how Michael
how am I going to manage.
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Just a year ago.
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Almost 70 mathematically as raw
sewage was just rolling out in
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the open right Nike and Colorado and the
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pumps to hold down on the ground
in a Fugu joint referral.
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It\'ll end fatally Drake compare A cookie
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that needed kills clay and
on Monday to ban award
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or attack for houses lower down
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your window seals no back doors
or when the session steps don\'t
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even with Kathy He was the wind
launch to the cracks and every
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time they they were blessed this
year because the winner wasn\'t
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that bay the winner was lacking was less
warner allowed on when survive down
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there Afraid a given air
conditions fan stuff
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like this because they got one outlet and
some other places might burn it damn.
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That was a house right here and we
were all out on the summon lights and
00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:55.968
the little girl had a baby upstairs and
there was an electrical fire started.
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She\'s my baby because she
was just feel resistance in
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Baltimore by the time the little
girl ran upstairs the house
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ignited and burn like paper then onco when
a girl and he couldn\'t get back out and
00:20:07.940 --> 00:20:10.668
it was a little pups there
and let people cry until
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something due south in a
popular one stream one.
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Coming out from the bad myth on
Ikea says stood there quietly
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I\'m being mirrors when people
don\'t like kids would like
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it to go visit therefore hands but if the key
is they were we\'d have a sleepover Yeah no
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no mom mom there weren\'t
really low barricade come
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in and actually you can\'t
be a shame or which got
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right it can\'t be a shame
they do have they Bansoo.
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Thirdly address
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I just said keep going
because I was getting
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all this industry you kill off all
the jobs which are going to do they
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satisfy some that can sit down and I got
00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:21.634
a risk you\'ve got to believe
and want to make a difficult
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as a you want to continue
to meet and see can we do
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something because that lay
on a steal of a sale.
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These alphas steel bird flu is still
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a breeding ground somebody\'s going to badly
because some of the we like going to war
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as a less commonly you see
who will come back after
00:21:39.109 --> 00:21:43.339
the prisoners come about
for fairness compel So we
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mean madhouse Alice house in the
Iowa everywhere so we started
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doing productive things
in Dallas plants as I
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saw the player will come
in and then I had been
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told that the next president
I know that this turned into
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money we miss the Parker
he was like a great guy
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so I\'m gonna do some phi as oh here
we go again one of them was that
00:22:07.100 --> 00:22:12.349
we don\'t do satisfy you never hear from no
more he went to Washington came back and say
00:22:12.350 --> 00:22:17.794
you know what things I met a man from the EPA
and he explained about this little grant.
00:22:17.795 --> 00:22:21.739
What pivot work two-way we
worked on it and worked
00:22:21.740 --> 00:22:25.759
on it came up with what\'s called
well what\'s the biggest problem
00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:30.168
re here to GRC What people
don\'t know what they drink
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and so we plateau and got
it with flying colors and
00:22:34.609 --> 00:22:37.039
who\'s going to help us do
this I don\'t know anything
00:22:37.040 --> 00:22:40.068
about the walkout of water study
that they need now you\'ve
00:22:40.069 --> 00:22:42.648
only some yellow because it needs
some professional yell and they
00:22:42.649 --> 00:22:45.964
contacted me through Steve Parker.
00:22:45.965 --> 00:22:50.793
With The Nature Conservancy
without seeing houses community.
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I said sure I\'ll do it and
that\'s how I got involved.
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We add something about this
Easton showed that need to be
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corrected and now we\'ll see
in the people and groups and
00:23:01.189 --> 00:23:04.609
organizations that could
do it but they were
00:23:04.610 --> 00:23:08.929
in separate places some kind of way we had
to pull it together In order to trust
00:23:08.930 --> 00:23:13.698
people from the outside
like that you have to have
00:23:13.699 --> 00:23:18.754
a certain disposition for example
an agent Conservancy was also there
00:23:18.755 --> 00:23:21.439
for some other communities
African-American communities
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:25.309
ensure but they refused them they
refuse them because they were
00:23:25.310 --> 00:23:29.809
why\'d they were affluent they were
in this environmental agenda latency
00:23:29.810 --> 00:23:34.729
how related to their situation and
Alice Coase and their community
00:23:34.730 --> 00:23:37.848
accepted them then the Nature
Conservancy also knows the power of
00:23:37.849 --> 00:23:41.659
coalition Zai also said well
we know some folks and we can
00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:46.159
bring them in and that\'s when they
view began to separate themselves
00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:51.048
a little bit from the
typical community When
00:23:51.049 --> 00:23:56.584
we came to this community the
Environmental Protection Agency plan was
00:23:56.585 --> 00:24:02.779
to address the issue of clean
drinking water and wastewater issues.
00:24:02.780 --> 00:24:06.769
Well when we got there and
the first thing that I
00:24:06.770 --> 00:24:10.789
noticed was they were not
interested in talking about
00:24:10.790 --> 00:24:15.229
the long-term dog and about the here
and now and we started asking them
00:24:15.230 --> 00:24:20.209
well what do we do to improve this
community now clean up beautification.
00:24:20.210 --> 00:24:23.989
Where could we dig some wells how can
we locate some flung because though
00:24:23.990 --> 00:24:28.204
we\'ve been trying to explain to them
it\'s not gonna happen overnight.
00:24:28.205 --> 00:24:31.879
You have to wait for wow
right What we\'re gonna do
00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:35.628
is Sean change by infinite large change
in the real condition because as you
00:24:35.629 --> 00:24:40.309
can very well stdio. h papers
had been moved and there was
00:24:40.310 --> 00:24:45.424
a big help and enter the drinking
water and we can show them
00:24:45.425 --> 00:24:49.938
they can make small incremental changes
so each time they come back to a meeting
00:24:49.939 --> 00:24:54.738
latency but if we organize ourselves
00:24:54.739 --> 00:24:59.359
we can actually get something done and if we
succeed in these little task we can take on
00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:04.578
a bigger task so we really never started
talking about the new baby rural village.
00:25:04.579 --> 00:25:08.160
Until four or five months into the process
00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:18.669
One of the things that we
did at the first meeting
00:25:18.670 --> 00:25:21.158
was people to tell us what the community
00:25:21.159 --> 00:25:26.348
is to be close knit community space
character visibility visibility
00:25:26.349 --> 00:25:31.449
but was a store open-air barbershop was
00:25:31.450 --> 00:25:36.399
a post office across the street I screenshot
we have a restaurant in a service station
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:41.184
and a basketball court right over you wish
to play all day long term cern we had
00:25:41.185 --> 00:25:46.673
were about the status quo or lower layer or
you do just one play and be happy you know.
00:25:46.674 --> 00:25:50.934
Everybody loved everybody
baby was really a strong.
00:25:50.935 --> 00:25:56.648
Close knit community where everyone knows
everyone and everyone is close to kin
00:25:56.649 --> 00:25:59.619
to almost everyone And then
00:25:59.620 --> 00:26:03.233
what emerged was well you know what
we used to have was a village.
00:26:03.234 --> 00:26:06.098
So we could go back and start
doing our work what is
00:26:06.099 --> 00:26:08.978
a village made up of well
it\'s made up of stores homes
00:26:08.979 --> 00:26:11.768
are renters homeowners and
businesses and a lot of
00:26:11.769 --> 00:26:15.068
the things to people wanted to see
was spoken space this is a part
00:26:15.069 --> 00:26:17.768
of our past is something that you
don\'t really want to do away
00:26:17.769 --> 00:26:20.558
we don\'t want the cookie cut this
whole place up but the people
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:24.879
didn\'t rent houses all scap
the house close and they like
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:29.364
to be Collection and they\'ve
said in the past that blacks
00:26:29.365 --> 00:26:33.099
on the on the eastern shore have
been resistant to this concept of
00:26:33.100 --> 00:26:36.879
village because it felt
like the county was really
00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.909
trying to box them in and
make sure that they stayed on
00:26:39.910 --> 00:26:43.399
his little Landis Possible well
once they looked at it from
00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:47.329
their own history their own
perspective and now the champions of
00:26:47.330 --> 00:26:52.279
this village idea we\'re going to have
in that new village 52 new homes
00:26:52.280 --> 00:26:56.599
32 revenues in which low
income people can live with
00:26:56.600 --> 00:27:02.103
forgiven read until they are
able to pay our plan for baby is
00:27:02.104 --> 00:27:05.329
to protect our people we
might not be all they
00:27:05.330 --> 00:27:08.659
can afford to have a community center so we
00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:12.139
good unite our people
and educate and empower
00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:16.203
them we starting classes
like GED classes right.
00:27:16.204 --> 00:27:20.059
I\'m trying to get some computers
because I wanted a place
00:27:20.060 --> 00:27:24.049
big enough to perhaps like a
computer layer Where we can get some
00:27:24.050 --> 00:27:27.469
added come in and teach computers
right because they are
00:27:27.470 --> 00:27:31.369
amazing they Elon who man
that would be great for
00:27:31.370 --> 00:27:33.708
Diane Diane wash everyday or we
00:27:33.709 --> 00:27:37.158
everytime you look hello wash machine
just go in and go and end goal
00:27:37.159 --> 00:27:42.954
right that\'s a job for her right if
we decide let it be Organization on
00:27:42.955 --> 00:27:45.648
own way we can keep the price within
00:27:45.649 --> 00:27:49.923
reason we\'re gonna have a
daycare center and they got.
00:27:49.924 --> 00:27:52.818
Somewhere to put these children
somebody got cable while they
00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:57.228
were so it will work for a
day who don\'t need it I
00:27:57.229 --> 00:28:05.229
guess and we didn\'t need a laundromat stone
either store for a shop houses People
00:28:05.719 --> 00:28:09.694
could live in one plot and opened
the envelope Hoffman and thing
00:28:09.695 --> 00:28:14.614
we\'ll call a shot a bed or a CS alone.
00:28:14.615 --> 00:28:17.684
My niece she put she loved
the brain hey Monday
00:28:17.685 --> 00:28:21.109
biota how thick a bill those
shoutout hello shop where she
00:28:21.110 --> 00:28:29.110
can do a and we
00:28:30.964 --> 00:28:35.689
want to protect 80% about lanes
00:28:35.690 --> 00:28:41.044
open space and rule carrots because
our pets is in those fields
00:28:41.045 --> 00:28:43.549
we start in the fall we sent out cause for
00:28:43.550 --> 00:28:48.258
subscriptions You could sell it like
newspapers that\'ll be a job for
00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:51.918
some Addie did work on
a farm to deliver this
00:28:51.919 --> 00:28:56.943
the anarkhia how napping at Bresson
stay ideas I don\'t care how
00:28:56.944 --> 00:29:01.054
to Brahma their home is how
Reagan they\'re clones could
00:29:01.055 --> 00:29:06.109
be these people could have 30j
vision and dream and this
00:29:06.110 --> 00:29:10.429
is how we came about automation
to educate youth lack and
00:29:10.430 --> 00:29:14.779
empower residents that we
made take charge of our lives
00:29:14.780 --> 00:29:17.689
today and tomorrow and Lille to want
00:29:17.690 --> 00:29:23.710
a sustainable future that we are Dad
and God there is a community there
00:29:29.730 --> 00:29:34.718
The prison was a challenge but
it is not the greatest challenge
00:29:34.719 --> 00:29:39.999
a reopener maybe that was the hardest
day or staying you help change
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.538
the way people think and feel about
00:29:43.539 --> 00:29:48.338
themselves that really drove a lot of
the failure and the oppression came out
00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:51.519
took me three Muslim side come down X4
00:29:51.520 --> 00:29:58.209
job sides simultaneously
and in graduate but at MGD
00:29:58.210 --> 00:30:05.828
I am no college education what can I do then
I got all the reporter I forgot Dick and
00:30:05.829 --> 00:30:09.219
as nobody Dan I would call this
education if they can do it I can do
00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:13.513
it Six months ago I didn\'t know
how to turn a computer own.
00:30:13.514 --> 00:30:16.069
Man is my best friend.
00:30:16.070 --> 00:30:18.919
My challenge has been is to work with Alice
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.439
and developing other leaders
in the leadership role of
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:27.649
that community to build that organization
and to make it have a strong foundation.
00:30:27.650 --> 00:30:29.809
Not only for now but for the future.
00:30:29.810 --> 00:30:33.498
I remember our first gathering when we
brainstorm about all the things they
00:30:33.499 --> 00:30:37.519
wanted to learn a lot of the fear and
00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:42.648
the oppression that had been put on baby
came out as we\'ve developed that list of
00:30:42.649 --> 00:30:48.259
things they wanted to Lun Such as we gotta
go to meetings and know how it operates.
00:30:48.260 --> 00:30:50.869
I set with Alice and did an agenda with
00:30:50.870 --> 00:30:56.209
her I\'ve scripted at all out and
she I\'m not forget she was so
00:30:56.210 --> 00:30:58.729
proud that she meant to me and she said I
00:30:58.730 --> 00:31:01.699
did it just like we worked
on it and people were
00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:05.508
surprised there were times
where we realized we had
00:31:05.509 --> 00:31:09.453
to change the format to
accommodate how they gather.
00:31:09.454 --> 00:31:11.088
They like to come together to have
00:31:11.089 --> 00:31:16.609
a cook out fish sprite so when they
went out to announce that there will be
00:31:16.610 --> 00:31:20.659
a meeting they didn\'t say well you
got to come to the workshop and come
00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:24.874
to the fish guy named Maurice cancel V there
and we\'re gonna talk about plans baby.
00:31:24.875 --> 00:31:27.153
Our shops moist layer six.
00:31:27.154 --> 00:31:33.258
Some time now allows people ask
questions even 90% of the people
00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:36.278
which showed Several things
came out of and we are
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:39.708
the ballet and collectively
as an organization
00:31:39.709 --> 00:31:42.984
we should be able to Ballet again
are all of the water system in
00:31:42.985 --> 00:31:46.344
England and get us much
control that our community is
00:31:46.345 --> 00:31:51.739
speaking get once they made some decisions
we all kind of let our hair down and
00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:54.738
pigment and at that whole process of coming
00:31:54.739 --> 00:31:58.879
together and making decisions
is community building.
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:03.274
Begin to notice that the people
are pulling so much closer they
00:32:03.275 --> 00:32:07.368
gather rubber Cingular came
over across the Bay and a shift
00:32:07.369 --> 00:32:14.238
or a lack of elites who say one thing that
actor has changed and made the pivot change in
00:32:14.239 --> 00:32:22.239
that environment And in fact it was bad
00:32:53.950 --> 00:32:57.679
This is a community that
has been perceived to be
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.439
the powerless and because
they band together
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:03.543
52 families they have
become extremely powerful
00:33:03.544 --> 00:33:08.028
powerful or felonies after a
storm out emotion in his head it
00:33:08.029 --> 00:33:11.569
this way I was trying to
bridge a relationship to
00:33:11.570 --> 00:33:16.969
the NWA CP and when I came here
to cosine minium spaces Explore
00:33:16.970 --> 00:33:19.608
changing the people whom or
what are they broke down and
00:33:19.609 --> 00:33:23.088
cried stop in all the world
covered with a disaster to pivot
00:33:23.089 --> 00:33:25.758
and this is worse than parent
work conditions right back
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:28.909
here she call back the you know
how much I wanna do is get
00:33:28.910 --> 00:33:32.013
me pitches and Julian Barnes looking at
00:33:32.014 --> 00:33:36.093
all the things and try and
decide which direction would be.
00:33:36.094 --> 00:33:40.324
National NWA CP go but he
got the baby use pitches.
00:33:40.325 --> 00:33:44.659
He pushed very things Sally look
down he looked up to her is
00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:49.968
this place immobile letter and say
Bramson the minimum Cinnamon Right
00:33:49.969 --> 00:33:52.339
now basically Occam in any
and all they want to hear
00:33:52.340 --> 00:33:55.069
you talk about is racism they
don\'t try their core thing
00:33:55.070 --> 00:33:57.768
apart and I didn\'t want this
thing that looks like black and
00:33:57.769 --> 00:34:01.203
white Because it was it was deeply.
00:34:01.204 --> 00:34:05.188
Oh my god and we run these causes
of people read that happen to us
00:34:05.189 --> 00:34:09.214
and they just told No we don\'t have
many blacks on our side and open baby.
00:34:09.215 --> 00:34:17.208
So we run off and that is feed enough we
could just tear this whole thing apart
00:34:17.209 --> 00:34:25.209
right now they have
00:34:26.660 --> 00:34:28.354
this click with the media.
00:34:28.355 --> 00:34:32.500
The end of the National Girls
00:34:32.710 --> 00:34:38.118
laid in ambushes were all down yesterday
all of them are Baghdad they would jump
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:41.268
in and faces everywhere was limited Well
00:34:41.269 --> 00:34:45.363
about three months they couldn\'t sleep
or bring it up they were all My job
00:34:45.364 --> 00:34:47.808
they would feed them through the
windows but for balls threatened of
00:34:47.809 --> 00:34:55.809
family life in America at the
end of the 20th century.
00:34:57.935 --> 00:35:02.494
And baby Virginia the only water
comes from ancient hand pumps.
00:35:02.495 --> 00:35:05.628
But a 100 or so people who
live here call it the Third
00:35:05.629 --> 00:35:10.098
World and that\'s just 200
miles from Washington D.C.
00:35:10.099 --> 00:35:13.234
they use May the local press
and the national press
00:35:13.235 --> 00:35:15.378
the international press and it\'s
00:35:15.379 --> 00:35:18.738
an embarrassment to the state and
in some sense there\'s been to
00:35:18.739 --> 00:35:21.198
the country and exposure in the media and
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:26.929
their networking So much so the success
already the baby we have made and it
00:35:26.930 --> 00:35:32.418
carried us from a slow walk repaints almost
crowded base we up the running they\'re not
00:35:32.419 --> 00:35:34.339
earning any more money than they did
00:35:34.340 --> 00:35:38.149
two years ago and yet they\'re
walking with the governor.
00:35:38.150 --> 00:35:41.523
They got the state-centered uh
coming down to see what they want
00:35:41.524 --> 00:35:46.859
and this is very scary because
this is not supposed to hatch
00:35:56.620 --> 00:36:01.788
a development process is busy
too busy to process you have to
00:36:01.789 --> 00:36:06.618
go to all these different places to
get how much Recall the section far
00:36:06.619 --> 00:36:10.229
15 USDA current state and
the federal debt right now
00:36:10.230 --> 00:36:14.448
our setup where we started off
with know that two pin is
00:36:14.449 --> 00:36:18.019
the road together we don\'t
accumulate it almost
00:36:18.020 --> 00:36:22.369
six million dollars seven applications
seven sources of money that
00:36:22.370 --> 00:36:26.208
needs to be responded to reports
need to be sent to them are
00:36:26.209 --> 00:36:30.784
the money that is promised to us
get net is a condition we get.
00:36:30.785 --> 00:36:35.389
It\'s like not one is like
12 step program if you\'re
00:36:35.390 --> 00:36:40.008
alcohol that you gotta put the Army\'s
desk and audited either Q and it gets
00:36:40.009 --> 00:36:43.644
up and below that is an
immense amount of work
00:36:43.645 --> 00:36:47.899
the government doesn\'t understand it and
for the most part philanthropy Doesn\'t
00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:51.679
understand the full extent
of the burden that\'s the
00:36:51.680 --> 00:36:57.018
placed on the backs of poor people
who are trying to do this kind of
00:36:57.019 --> 00:36:58.559
stuff
00:37:04.830 --> 00:37:11.958
I remember Alice
00:37:11.959 --> 00:37:15.004
and places saying whoa we\'re dead and gone.
00:37:15.005 --> 00:37:17.838
We want our children to stay here and be
00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:22.668
proud of their heritage and live
here and floors Shear and I
00:37:22.669 --> 00:37:27.529
thought wow we\'ve got an
option on their data option on
00:37:27.530 --> 00:37:32.448
this and we get our own
Oh maybe we\'ll be able to
00:37:32.449 --> 00:37:35.599
control our neighborhood
and to say what we have in
00:37:35.600 --> 00:37:39.078
our neighborhood and what we don\'t
want in our neighborhood we were
00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:42.409
doing all of the pieces of what would be
00:37:42.410 --> 00:37:46.999
a normal community and that\'s one of
the things that\'s kind of setting
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:49.759
a new precedent for this kind of
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:56.193
low-income housing initiative it\'s a model
that the housing agencies simply have not
00:37:56.194 --> 00:38:01.578
explored in behavior you have
an innovative project as far
00:38:01.579 --> 00:38:04.159
as the USDA is concerned they\'re used to
00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:07.534
having bear moneys pay for
the entire development.
00:38:07.535 --> 00:38:10.684
Typically a community as a more passive.
00:38:10.685 --> 00:38:14.843
Approach Community development could
it permanently community in a
00:38:14.844 --> 00:38:18.908
typically tag what they can get
Service pick things that are
00:38:18.909 --> 00:38:22.208
interesting or different about
this process is one is you have
00:38:22.209 --> 00:38:27.894
a low-income community that
are asking for choices.
00:38:27.895 --> 00:38:31.974
This is not what poor people
had been taught that they had
00:38:31.975 --> 00:38:38.049
any choice urea in a desperate
situation therefore you have no choice
00:38:38.050 --> 00:38:42.128
therefore whenever we give you
will be enough but what you end up
00:38:42.129 --> 00:38:46.928
with those developments are a
number of vinyl boxes that
00:38:46.929 --> 00:38:50.888
are literally recognizable
and subsidized housing from
00:38:50.889 --> 00:38:54.948
a low flying an airplane and a
baby\'s case They wanted to much
00:38:54.949 --> 00:38:57.679
more and instead of taking
00:38:57.680 --> 00:39:00.078
the the $2 million worth of
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:04.879
state resources that we have for housing and
infrastructure development they went out
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.688
obtained $7 million worth
of resources they view is
00:39:08.689 --> 00:39:12.719
saying we don\'t want the volume boxes
we\'ve seen the violet boxes they know
00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:18.079
stigmatize communities they don\'t
last they also are saying we are in
00:39:18.080 --> 00:39:23.598
pursuit of quality and we we\'d want
to see our quality of life improve.
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:26.628
So when someone says Well
we\'ve got $25 thousand
00:39:26.629 --> 00:39:30.048
per house take it or leave
it there saying well is that
00:39:30.049 --> 00:39:32.869
going to appreciate am I
going to be able to leave
00:39:32.870 --> 00:39:35.898
something for my kids they
figure people don\'t expose
00:39:35.899 --> 00:39:42.228
the habit And we got this u r we want somatic
come in is to implement this vision.
00:39:42.229 --> 00:39:47.988
Not change it because this is the
exact same thing that the patron does
00:39:47.989 --> 00:39:54.649
that the client does even the consumer of
architecture does that but the victim.
00:39:54.650 --> 00:39:58.188
Never never asked for quality and
00:39:58.189 --> 00:40:02.088
air battle that comes in wants to say
no you should do it this way you
00:40:02.089 --> 00:40:05.208
should do it that way No we don\'t
want them well it done the way
00:40:05.209 --> 00:40:08.568
we want it done when we
talked about housing
00:40:08.569 --> 00:40:12.169
they say well first of all
we need jobs one idea
00:40:12.170 --> 00:40:17.629
was shop houses then you go to the
agencies Housing and they say
00:40:17.630 --> 00:40:21.049
well we don\'t do that
or into a housing unit
00:40:21.050 --> 00:40:25.068
can generate income I say
We\'ll see you have a problem
00:40:25.069 --> 00:40:28.219
because these folks need
income to be able to afford
00:40:28.220 --> 00:40:32.809
the house to me this system
don\'t protect the elderly.
00:40:32.810 --> 00:40:35.278
It don\'t protect the poor.
00:40:35.279 --> 00:40:40.363
Feel I could do everything
if you down keep you Daniel.
00:40:40.364 --> 00:40:44.208
Everyone wants the most
that they can get within
00:40:44.209 --> 00:40:47.938
the resources available and so
there\'s an expectation that you
00:40:47.939 --> 00:40:55.939
know that the housing is going to be the
greatest quality possible that the metadata
00:40:56.180 --> 00:41:00.259
is in the neighborhood will be there
and All those things cost money and
00:41:00.260 --> 00:41:04.923
resources are limited we get
$23 million a year from hug.
00:41:04.924 --> 00:41:08.179
To administer Housing and
Economic Development
00:41:08.180 --> 00:41:11.073
for the whole entire
Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:41:11.074 --> 00:41:14.238
We produce or rehabilitate
200 houses a year.
00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:16.579
Where we were to try to do that
the baby huge standards we\'d be
00:41:16.580 --> 00:41:19.098
lucky if we could produce or
where you have a 100 houses a
00:41:19.099 --> 00:41:22.684
year and I said I don\'t think
it\'s back out of full pool which
00:41:22.685 --> 00:41:26.599
and you can try it out because
it don\'t meet and you
00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:30.664
will replace it well we only
have a certain amount of money
00:41:30.665 --> 00:41:34.848
to work with so we do students
and this was the kind of
00:41:34.849 --> 00:41:39.289
resistance that wasn\'t malicious
who\'s just we don\'t do
00:41:39.290 --> 00:41:42.788
porches We\'ve got hundreds of people
00:41:42.789 --> 00:41:47.933
still in the year 2001 without
indoor plumbing or running water.
00:41:47.934 --> 00:41:53.229
There\'s just too much poverty and too
many needs for our resources to meet them
00:41:53.230 --> 00:42:00.998
all they know very well that if this project
succeeds then every community in Virginia.
00:42:00.999 --> 00:42:04.553
That has similar needs are going to say.
00:42:04.554 --> 00:42:09.204
How did they do that why now why do we
have to take these houses if they were
00:42:09.205 --> 00:42:14.869
able to do that and it just is like
a house a car at House of Cards
00:42:18.330 --> 00:42:22.488
tomorrow. Theory thing out there
if you don\'t have a hook overlap
00:42:22.489 --> 00:42:27.649
a little blank space It\'s fancy
or this battle Bay you to control
00:42:27.650 --> 00:42:30.198
your own destiny again self-sufficiency
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:33.229
independent self-reliant he\'s
gonna go every step away down
00:42:33.230 --> 00:42:39.918
the line there are different forces both on
the shore and enrichment in Washington DC.
00:42:39.919 --> 00:42:43.339
That are much more interested
in getting the you
00:42:43.340 --> 00:42:48.919
solved that problem when you
started out about chains and
00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:53.223
people not passively
receiving help but actually
00:42:53.224 --> 00:42:57.618
directing the hell didn\'t kind
of naturally clamped down and
00:42:57.619 --> 00:43:00.258
close up a lot of struggle with baby had
00:43:00.259 --> 00:43:04.218
been are fair that they lack
capacity to actually pull
00:43:04.219 --> 00:43:09.018
this thing off and
implemented Baby you may get
00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:13.849
some additional assistance if things
begin and go off track but it means
00:43:13.850 --> 00:43:19.069
that if they go off track government players
are going to step in and make sure this
00:43:19.070 --> 00:43:24.813
gets developed whether babies who is
driving the development process or not.
00:43:24.814 --> 00:43:29.059
If we someone to compute
community people can\'t maintain
00:43:29.060 --> 00:43:33.499
this office and it will be
turned over to somebody else and
00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:36.948
it\'s no guarantee that we will get
a job back here I now mission
00:43:36.949 --> 00:43:41.164
and everything is dead it rewind and a big
00:43:41.165 --> 00:43:45.138
community Yes you were born
in the private sector into
00:43:45.139 --> 00:43:47.778
one or 52 unit development it would be
00:43:47.779 --> 00:43:51.289
a significant scale project to
think that it\'s being done.
00:43:51.290 --> 00:43:55.099
Primarily under the leadership of a
non-profit organization that didn\'t exist
00:43:55.100 --> 00:43:59.554
two years ago that comma huge
distance but at the same time
00:43:59.555 --> 00:44:01.338
they have no track record and development
00:44:01.339 --> 00:44:04.579
and administering housing and
I think they will readily
00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:08.118
acknowledge that and so they
are having to learn as they do
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:11.869
and I think that is a significant
challenge and the future of this place
00:44:11.870 --> 00:44:15.304
do far worse than the
past because we act today
00:44:15.305 --> 00:44:19.789
many people had real money in many
people own they and only they have
00:44:19.790 --> 00:44:25.819
almost nothing to lose but our
fair thing out there Space
00:44:25.820 --> 00:44:33.820
more easy for me to see it I
can\'t do much about it right now
00:44:46.270 --> 00:44:50.089
we only have none of the
canopy when at the table and
00:44:50.090 --> 00:44:53.764
we know that we must meet certain things.
00:44:53.765 --> 00:44:58.308
Typically takes two weeks and signing
00:44:58.309 --> 00:45:03.948
a contract between a county and the
state took six months and baby and I
00:45:03.949 --> 00:45:07.219
keep going up to the counter
and I think to get out
00:45:07.220 --> 00:45:11.403
I went up the last mail of the
misses you held an important seafood
00:45:11.404 --> 00:45:14.013
release them small j i don\'t like come into
00:45:14.014 --> 00:45:16.818
in the one that you liked seeing
me who went out to the broader
00:45:16.819 --> 00:45:19.669
supervised me to see if we can encourage to
00:45:19.670 --> 00:45:23.824
boil the poor to sign a contract
between the county and the state.
00:45:23.825 --> 00:45:27.408
So that we can be good development
the county was fearful that if
00:45:27.409 --> 00:45:32.618
baby filled with air portion of it
and then essentially our portion and
00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:36.498
States portion is also
going to going to have
00:45:36.499 --> 00:45:38.988
failed and then the county
would be responsible for
00:45:38.989 --> 00:45:42.064
all of it the Commonwealth
inserting Bruce Jones.
00:45:42.065 --> 00:45:46.639
He got up and began to Describe
Baby\'s situation and why he
00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:51.378
thought we shouldn\'t be approved
if you fail the canopy responsible
00:45:51.379 --> 00:45:53.808
if big you want assistant
alternate we\'re supposed
00:45:53.809 --> 00:45:57.078
to be responsible so those are
some of the barriers that they
00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.049
face every day and you know for Alice to
00:46:00.050 --> 00:46:03.108
go to a meeting and someone
says oh who comes out as
00:46:03.109 --> 00:46:06.678
Coles and rather than just
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:10.833
argue over whether they had the
capacity what we\'ve actually done is.
00:46:10.834 --> 00:46:15.123
Bring together non-profits
in the state and consultants
00:46:15.124 --> 00:46:19.308
who can provide training in the
day-to-day types of tasks that
00:46:19.309 --> 00:46:23.478
they need to improve on thank
god for someone like Ms. cones
00:46:23.479 --> 00:46:28.129
OZ Law holds the others
They actually still in.
00:46:28.130 --> 00:46:31.938
Fourth for this community to
us one change that is kind of
00:46:31.939 --> 00:46:35.749
been influenced by the Bay View effort to
00:46:35.750 --> 00:46:38.434
struggle the hair sues
00:46:38.435 --> 00:46:45.933
the embarrassments that Liz coals cozy
lab work and others in the organization.
00:46:45.934 --> 00:46:49.679
Go to to actually make this thing happen
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:08.208
is allowing us not believe what
they believe in the people knapsack
00:47:08.209 --> 00:47:15.003
I was gonna say the day right now we
say that they are mu law MapMan moon.
00:47:15.004 --> 00:47:23.004
Light you have the discussion but no do it
until I actually went to a meeting muscle
00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:29.718
and saw where they didn\'t calendar and this
00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:34.159
takes this much time this takes this
much time this is going to be done by
00:47:34.160 --> 00:47:36.538
this time they wouldn\'t go then I
00:47:36.539 --> 00:47:40.899
believed it was gonna make a change
then what before that still had
00:47:40.900 --> 00:47:45.259
disbelief to let\'s just take
it too long they just want
00:47:45.260 --> 00:47:50.463
something to happen at all the
engineer we are two weeks ago
00:47:50.464 --> 00:47:55.909
If you don\'t have a good atmosphere won\'t
give me a Sherpa fascia and let people
00:47:55.910 --> 00:48:01.699
see some B and then you know
speak cobia victimization.
00:48:01.700 --> 00:48:09.700
From from nyam and is to have in this and they
allot of it\'s real real escape but it also
00:48:10.750 --> 00:48:14.989
must take gifts Catherine
you just get a taste of
00:48:14.990 --> 00:48:18.563
first if no more like when
first our first ask you Bill
00:48:18.564 --> 00:48:22.953
just under 40 and it just
looked around to see
00:48:22.954 --> 00:48:30.379
all God is going to be the biggest
change that would happen or to come.
00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:33.798
Will be the change that is here If one
00:48:33.799 --> 00:48:37.129
of them decide they want to lead our
trash in the front of the house in
00:48:37.130 --> 00:48:45.130
our new community do we have to have
rules regulations and restrictions is
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:53.920
dilapidated houses and you take a dishwasher
and there you have to just create
00:48:55.250 --> 00:48:58.279
a new homeowners were found
but folks were not well
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:03.079
equipped for maintenance and we\'ve developed
a homeowner education program beam coming
00:49:03.080 --> 00:49:06.183
in to tell us what we hadn\'t
00:49:06.184 --> 00:49:09.679
really even fill out a budget the
challenge is you know the saying that
00:49:09.680 --> 00:49:17.680
these people can be able to maintain
these new homes You got us.
00:49:17.870 --> 00:49:25.870
Help make them rules and regulations
and Liobang or facile way here
00:49:30.740 --> 00:49:34.248
before she graduated who
we\'ll be having a new home
00:49:34.249 --> 00:49:40.320
for employment or suddenly given Sagar who
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:52.440
live on known for games and stuff who
play like friends away is I want to have
00:49:55.039 --> 00:50:02.588
our own Sun Is June the 27
the day is the day that they
00:50:02.589 --> 00:50:06.008
view file a Gatwick we want permission to
00:50:06.009 --> 00:50:10.463
Beale we had people come into the
neighborhood as sand everything is gone.
00:50:10.464 --> 00:50:13.928
It took a long time you know how
many tabs are walked up and
00:50:13.929 --> 00:50:17.469
down and may cross the street
and tell me what we\'re
00:50:17.470 --> 00:50:25.470
gonna do some cell now like a teller and
really bring that term to celebrate.
00:50:27.710 --> 00:50:31.839
Being as been done in the first time
in India became known as adhere
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.633
down to and I think he\'s just really bad we
00:50:35.634 --> 00:50:42.350
come together to form a
barn raising There might be
00:50:44.670 --> 00:50:46.118
rebuilt
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:47.449
my
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:57.379
Spirit
00:50:58.230 --> 00:50:59.498
and
00:50:59.499 --> 00:51:04.074
you can\'t do that and you know you
00:51:04.075 --> 00:51:10.208
get when you go home.
00:51:10.209 --> 00:51:18.094
Look around and find ways to who then
00:51:18.095 --> 00:51:19.509
Amir
00:51:46.530 --> 00:51:47.739
Let
00:51:47.740 --> 00:51:48.279
the best thing
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:56.280
about giving I mean now we\'re in
a more inside braille through.
00:51:56.499 --> 00:52:00.728
Bear wound around you
know because we all like
00:52:00.729 --> 00:52:06.373
one-bedroom house you have a
lended one-day males living room
00:52:06.374 --> 00:52:14.374
What key is that we haven\'t yet run water
and we\'ll wash dishes I\'m going to say
00:52:15.409 --> 00:52:19.188
oh that\'s a little bit of a bagel
00:52:19.189 --> 00:52:25.979
because they see this here then I\'m saying
yes OKs as some males common alphabet
00:52:34.210 --> 00:52:39.979
and we\'ve become a model to other communities
the least we can do is help somebody else
00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:44.779
shadow mask dominant Boisselier mistakes
and what we do we\'re in a transitional
00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:48.348
state two we actually have
mixed emotions and everything
00:52:48.349 --> 00:52:52.834
Here it is in the feature baby
will be totally different
00:52:52.835 --> 00:52:56.868
not only with houses and everytime
make it but the community
00:52:56.869 --> 00:53:01.609
the community videos even more like
a village star what we play but I
00:53:01.610 --> 00:53:07.683
take its tariff which I didn\'t they were ready
for the way things are come alone they the
00:53:07.684 --> 00:53:14.299
people were asked to see the
whole Go and that the stone.
00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:16.770
Has almost gone
00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.970
Josh
00:54:36.090 --> 00:54:42.068
This all phone lines to pay in the
future when the latter word I never
00:54:42.069 --> 00:54:44.648
seem like much but hopefully
in the future you know maybe
00:54:44.649 --> 00:54:47.793
five years man could only
own amen potato chip.
00:54:47.794 --> 00:54:52.839
So you never know what\'s going
to help try they\'re just small.
00:54:52.840 --> 00:55:00.840
Work in small tank can be I can
be Alpha fabs struggling years
00:55:02.485 --> 00:55:05.619
the land and I\'m showing you in
the eye this is the Prison site
00:55:05.620 --> 00:55:09.159
this was the prisons I day right now
00:55:09.160 --> 00:55:12.919
baby\'s Citizens for social
justice own this land in
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:16.929
his now is own bye baby
citizen for social justice.
00:55:16.930 --> 00:55:21.249
Only needs 188 this is the land we fought
00:55:21.250 --> 00:55:26.829
the prisoner 108 acres of
land built into a community
00:55:26.830 --> 00:55:34.830
and today we own Gong Spain
00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:48.263
I\'m going to stay and
00:55:48.264 --> 00:55:54.590
the goal state j
00:55:58.560 --> 00:56:06.560
and k do me no hole.
00:56:09.090 --> 00:56:12.679
Gone stay.
00:56:16.770 --> 00:56:24.770
Gone a stay right on I\'m staying
00:56:27.354 --> 00:56:35.354
and while it is where OK do
00:56:36.189 --> 00:56:41.798
me no home go
00:56:41.799 --> 00:56:48.558
Gee I never fame.
00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:56.559
G St never pay in will have
00:56:59.380 --> 00:57:07.380
an air shell weighing But
00:57:09.010 --> 00:57:13.638
never never
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:15.420
thing
00:57:22.630 --> 00:57:25.140
again
00:57:25.330 --> 00:57:33.330
that we have to add it back
00:57:47.770 --> 00:57:50.130
Now
00:58:00.730 --> 00:58:03.300
after
00:58:07.270 --> 00:58:15.270
half a meter. Now