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Powerful Hurricane Katrina Documentary
October 23rd, 2007
Desert Bayou is about how, without consent or notification, Katrina evacuees were shipped off to Utah.
At the time of the evaccuation I recognized that send people all out to the west coast and want not; especially without them choosing to go, was problematic. I had a friend, BlackPerspective contributor Tressie McMillan write a statement to the effect that the evacuees should be kept in the south or as close as possible to their support groups, culturally familiar surroundings and near were their friend’s and relatives could drive to go get them if necessary. I sent it out to a number of major media outlets, but got no response; and never saw any reporting that echoed or explored this sentiment.
I’ve taking the liberty of posting some of the most powerful clips right here for you. I think they’re in media player format. If you want another format you’ll have to go to the site’s link below and set it up that way:
http://www.desertbayoumovie.com/catalogFiles/cfil11348.wmv
http://www.desertbayoumovie.com/catalogFiles/cfil11527.wmv
http://www.desertbayoumovie.com/catalogFiles/cfil11519.wmv
Click on the following link for the documentaries home page, and click on Theatre information to see if it’s playing in your town: www.desertbayoumovie.com/index.php?tray=default&tid=top372&cid=3 It’s not playing here, but I might see about getting it here.
You can go here for more clips:http://www.desertbayoumovie.com/index.php?tray=gallery_inline&tid=top373&cid=4
Thanks to overanalyzeit for the heads up on this story.
Also read about my trip to the Gulf Coast this summer: Katrina: Nearly Two Years Later
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that was so sad what happen!!!!
that was so sad what happen cause my causein was in that in she had amost die but she had prayed to god and she did not die so i feel bad about the other people that die cause some of the people was my family……..
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