Teaching Activity. Posted on August 15, 2020 August 15, 2020 by . Time Periods: Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000 February 24: The Los Angeles Faith & Ecology Network and Sonia Cummings are hosting a conversation about extreme weather and climate preparedness, featuring Cooked: Survival By Zip Code. BLUE VINYL received the Sundance Excellence Award in Cinematography and two Emmy nominations and its prequel, A HEALTHY BABY GIRL, won a Peabody. They have high rates of gun-related death, diabetes, breast cancer, unemployment, heart disease, school closings, and high-school dropouts. With director Steve James, David co-editedLife Itself, about Roger Ebert, which screened at Cannes and Sundance, and won anEmmy for Outstanding Editing. Diana Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University'This searing, visceral post-mortem of the 1995 Chicago Heatwave reminds us of the painfully deep spatial inequities and injustices that are baked into the very DNA of US cities. Rethinking Schools. The film had its world premiere at DOC NYC on November 11, 2018. She has designed and implemented numerous successful outreach and engagement campaigns for many social issue documentaries, and has produced over 300 impact events across the country featuring films about economic and racial justice, mental health, women, civil discourse, juvenile justice, and Jewish identity. Directed by Judith Helfand. MPH, F.A.C.P. Additional selected credits include: editing on the documentary featuresWhen I Walk,Melting PlanetandBlue Vinylwhich premiered at Sundance in 2013, 2007 and 2002, respectively; editor and co-producer onMentor(Tribeca premier, 2006) and editor onChicks in White Satin, which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1994. Its for communities that are stable enough in the present to worry about the future., She also attends a FEMA/Army exercise for the next Great New Madrid Earthquake, in which 10,000 people participate, with seemingly unlimited resources and a commitment to housing, food, medical care, and restored infrastructure, as long as its in the wake of a natural disaster. Helfand tells the general in charge that with a minor tweak to the term disaster, maybe this well-funded federal agency could invest in the long-term resilience of the vulnerable communities theyre actually preparing to rescue. The general actually says that the crisis (not disaster) of systemic poverty might be solved better by the poor reaching down and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. She asks us to think about and re-define racism and poverty as, indeed, disasters.' It reminds us that a systematic Poverty Emergency Plan would be more effective and pre-emptive than a Heat Emergency Plan and that so called 'natural' disasters are anything but natural, representing instead our collective failure to address poverty and inequality as an everyday crisis.' The first woman to paint the official portrait of a U.S. president, Greta Kempton also painted Cabinet officials, governors, senators, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, two Postmasters General, a Supreme Court justice, several university presidents, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. We could call it a Poverty Emergency Plan instead, or the Remedying Social Evils Plan. Helfand looks finally at a Chicago neighborhood farm. He recently finished editing When We Walk, directed by Jason DaSilva, a follow-up to his award-winning filmWhen I Walk. He co-editedMaya Angelou: And Still I Rise, which premiered at Sundance, aired on American Masters and won a Peabody. His previous collection wasPirates You Dont Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life. Helfand focuses on Chicagos heat wave to look at how a weeklong tragedy is really a story about the slow-motion disaster caused by race and class inequality. Transition St Andrews Community Interest Company (CIC), Go St Andrews your hub for smarter travel, St AndReuse Garages, Behind University Hall, Kennedy Gardens, KY16 9DL, St Mary's Place, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9UY, Nisbet Room, David Russell Apartments, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews KY16 9LY,   7 Woodburn Place, St Andrews, KY16 8LA, Festive Fashion: the Weird and the Wonderful, Our New Skillshare Coordinator: Anya Hart-Dyke, Mycorrhizae Episode 4: Transition Christmas Dinner. He co-edited the recently releasedCooked: Survival by Zip Code; as well asAbacus: Small Enough to Jail, which received a2018 Oscar nomination, wonBest Documentary Editingat the Ashland Film Festival, and was termed an exemplary piece of filmmaking by Sight & Sound. June 23-25 - SUMMER OF EXTREMES:Racism, Health Inequity, and Heat COVID 19 Collides With Climate Crisis on the 25thAnniversary of Chicago Heat Wave [Multi-evening VIRTUAL convening]. Director Judith Helfand Stars Valerie Brown Richard M. Daley (archive footage) Michelle Landis Dauber See production, box office & company info Doremus lives in Chicago, is an active member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and serves on the Board of Kartemquin Films. By Linda Villarosa. The Daley administration made a City Emergency Heat Plan after the 1995 disaster. Helfand says, [O]ne thing was pretty clear: disaster preparedness is a luxury. She taught documentary production at NYUs undergraduate program for seven years, was filmmaker-in-residence at UW Madison in 2007 and 2009 where she taught environmental documentary production and co-taught and designed an intensive summer documentary boot camp for New School University. His most recent book is a collection of essays, The Age of Clear Profit: Essays on Home and the Narrow Road (UGA Press 2022). Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com'Helfand's brilliance in Cooked is precisely the way she shifts and re-orients our entire social mentality and approach to thinking about racism, poverty, and disaster. Existing customers, please log in to view this film. Cine-File'A much-needed slap in the face to the American peopleIt's time that those of us with privilege do something to help those who don't.' January 14: Philadelphias Academy of Natural Sciences Environmental Justice Week, 7 pm, EST, Watch the recording of the discussion, which includes Director Judith Helfand and special guests here. Her films include The Uprising of 34, the Sundance award-winning and Emmy-nominated Blue Vinyl, its Peabody Award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Girl, and Everythings Cool. "106600:57:43,175 --> 00:57:44,758[Judith] Buildingsare boarded up, there's106700:57:44,783 --> 00:57:46,701miles of empty lots,there's a lot of abandoned106800:57:46,726 --> 00:57:49,319I wondered about thatterm, like it was.106900:57:49,347 --> 00:57:53,310Why not better than before,or prepared for the future?107000:57:54,670 --> 00:57:56,799So when GeneralHeltzel invited me to107100:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,699a federally-funded,seven-state, week-long107200:57:59,700 --> 00:58:03,093disaster preparednessexercise, I went.107300:58:05,447 --> 00:58:08,619Oye. It can help students recognize that the climate crisis is also a racial justice crisis. Kartemquin is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization based in Chicago. For more information contact: mela.ace.ej@gmail.com, Manhattan JCC - Manhattan JCC - New York City, NY - September 24, Utah Film Center - Salt Lake City, UT - September 17, Director/producer Judith Helfand in-person, Gene Siskel Film Center - Chicago, IL - September 13-19, The Wilmette Theatre - Wilmette, IL - August 15-21, Producer Fenell Doremus in-person at August 15 screening, One Take Documentary at The Little Theatre - Rochester, NY - August 13, 17, Director/producer Judith Helfand in-person on August 13, Traverse City Film Festival - Traverse City, MI - August 1. April 29 -"Covering Communities in Crisis: "COOKED: Survival By Zip Code" and the COVID-19 Pandemic". By Alma Anderson McDonald. "42000:21:59,816 --> 00:22:02,659{\an8}(light, serious music)42100:22:02,660 --> 00:22:04,419{\an8}[Judith] The immensityof the death toll42200:22:04,420 --> 00:22:05,832{\an8}got summed up by this image,42300:22:06,454 --> 00:22:08,707which is not whatyou'd expect to see42400:22:08,732 --> 00:22:12,075in a suburban cemeteryin America's heartland.42500:22:13,450 --> 00:22:14,829[Announcer] 41people were buried42600:22:14,830 --> 00:22:17,079in a potter's fieldnear Chicago today,42700:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,359forgotten victims of thissummer's deadly heatwave.42800:22:20,360 --> 00:22:22,119Their bodies had lain since July42900:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,223in the county morgue, unclaimed.43000:22:25,940 --> 00:22:28,763We had the traditionalburial liturgy.43100:22:30,860 --> 00:22:33,123We had the memorialservice here.43200:22:35,770 --> 00:22:37,639{\an8}Starting up here,and coming down here,43300:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,420{\an8}past right up to themonument, yes.43400:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,700Claude Sanders,William Reedsville,43500:22:47,670 --> 00:22:50,763Lydia Payne, Ethel Young,43600:22:51,650 --> 00:22:56,399Michael Terino, John Kinsinger,43700:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,839Joe Stone, Helen Stegman,43800:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,959Richard Jones, Jose Molina,43900:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,203Mildred Kaldig, Robert Shaffer.44000:23:11,339 --> 00:23:13,039[Judith] It waspractically Fall,44100:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,349and for most Chicagoans,back to business as usual,44200:23:16,350 --> 00:23:17,984before the cityfinally announced44300:23:17,985 --> 00:23:20,053the official heat death numbers.44400:23:21,071 --> 00:23:22,989{\an8}There are some stunningnew figures from the44500:23:23,011 --> 00:23:25,329{\an8}Chicago Health Departmentdramatically increasing44600:23:25,354 --> 00:23:27,934{\an8}the already tragic deathtoll from July's heatwave.44700:23:28,251 --> 00:23:32,005The city now says 733Chicago residents died,44800:23:32,030 --> 00:23:34,819adding more than 200to the original total.44900:23:34,820 --> 00:23:37,119[Judith] And withinweeks, the final death tally45000:23:37,120 --> 00:23:40,646had to be adjusted yetagain, to 739,45100:23:40,647 --> 00:23:44,763the equivalent of two jumbojets crashing in mid-air.45200:23:45,900 --> 00:23:48,989Did you feel a sense ofoutrage at that number45300:23:48,990 --> 00:23:49,893when it came out?45400:23:50,930 --> 00:23:52,880I want to answerthis very carefully.45500:23:54,970 --> 00:23:57,456James Baldwin said,"To be black in America45600:23:57,457 --> 00:24:00,799is to be enragedalmost all of the time. " Cooked: Survival by Zip Code shines a light on the issues of poverty, race, class, and education that underlie how natural disasters take lives." Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com "Helfand's brilliance in Cooked is precisely the way she shifts and re-orients our entire social mentality and approach to thinking about racism, poverty, and disaster. "45700:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,799And so, in that spirit, I'menraged almost all of the time.45800:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,469I'm of that generation,so yes, I was enraged.45900:24:08,470 --> 00:24:10,649Was I surprised or shocked?46000:24:10,650 --> 00:24:13,259No, I know what happensduring heatwaves.46100:24:13,260 --> 00:24:15,989And I could see that the citywas not responding accordingly.46200:24:15,990 --> 00:24:18,409And even if thecity had responded46300:24:18,410 --> 00:24:22,679in a more appropriate way,we would've seen differences,46400:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,669hopefully not as great,between poor communities46500:24:25,670 --> 00:24:27,939that are under-resourcedand communities46600:24:27,940 --> 00:24:30,069that are better resourced.46700:24:30,070 --> 00:24:33,639This is a map thathas two things going on46800:24:33,640 --> 00:24:34,969at the same time.46900:24:34,970 --> 00:24:37,639We've put these circlesin those communities47000:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,209that have the highestpoverty rates.47100:24:40,210 --> 00:24:44,519And then what we've done is,we've shaded in the communities47200:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,349that had the highestmortality rates from the heat.47300:24:48,350 --> 00:24:51,399And as you can see,they're almost perfect overlaps.47400:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,499So the question is,did people die of the heat,47500:24:53,500 --> 00:24:55,449or did they die ofthe social conditions47600:24:55,450 --> 00:24:56,829in these neighborhoods?47700:24:56,830 --> 00:24:58,049And the answer is both.47800:24:58,050 --> 00:25:01,439Had the heat not occurred, theywouldn't have died that week47900:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,999that's for sure, but theywould've died too soon anyway,48000:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,790and the socialconditions place them48100:25:10,589 --> 00:25:14,899in a ambiance, or anenvironment in which the heat48200:25:14,900 --> 00:25:17,289would be most likelyto strike these people,48300:25:17,290 --> 00:25:18,910and to kill them.48400:25:18,911 --> 00:25:21,578(serious music)48500:25:32,322 --> 00:25:34,469The beginning ofthis project I decided48600:25:34,470 --> 00:25:36,429I was gonna kind ofadapt this phrase48700:25:36,430 --> 00:25:37,597that the coroners use,48800:25:37,841 --> 00:25:39,092{\an8}which is to say that,48900:25:39,117 --> 00:25:43,946{\an8}"We study death in orderto better understand49000:25:43,947 --> 00:25:46,139{\an8}and protect life. 99. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). on September 22, 2020. It follows the 1995 Chicago heat wave which resulted in the deaths of 739 people, primarily affecting poor and disadvantaged communities. Cooked: Survival by Zipcode is a 2018 American documentary film, directed and produced by Judith Helfand. Cooked tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.. He has also published a novel, A Democracy of Ghosts, and a narrative nonfiction book, Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City. This film can be used in a wide range of classrooms with social and ethnic studies and health policy as well as in public contexts of churches, community groups, and other venues.' 989 Basswood Ave. L1H 2G8. May 10: Temple Israel Center screening and discussion with Judith Helfand. Helfand is a field-builder who has helped reshape the documentary landscape by co-founding two critical organizations -- Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures. August 15, 2020 . November 26: Keep Scotland Beautiful, virtual screening and Q&A with Judith Helfand. SUMMER OF EXTREMES Night Three reimagined what a just and equitable heat emergency plan will need to look like. Cooked: Survival by Zipcode is a 2018 American documentary film, directed and produced by Judith Helfand. When peeled away from the shocking headlines the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation and racism. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, Everything's Cool), uses her signature serious-yet-quirky connect-the-dots-style to forge inextricable connections between the cataclysmic natural disasters we're willing to see and prepare for and the slow-motion disasters we're not. 2020. May 6 -Shelter in Place Virtual Film Series - Arkansas PBS, May 16 - First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist - Jamaica Plain, MA [VIRTUAL SCREENING]. Click here to watch. Use the HTML below. (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois School of Public Health), Orrin Williams (Food Systems Coordinator, Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion) | Moderator: Pamela Sherrod Anderson (Award-winning writer, filmmaker, playwright, journalist and educator), SATURDAY July 13th @ 5pm - Reframing the Disaster: Language and Messaging Around Systemic Poverty, Racism and our Climate Crisis, Panelists: Jahmal Cole (My Block My Hood My City), Juliana Pino (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization), Susy Schultz (Public Narrative) | Moderator: Sylvia Ewing (Elevate Energy), SUNDAY July 14th @ 2pm - Environmental Justice from Resilience to Resistance, Panelists: Kim Wasserman (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization), Joshi Radin, (Pilson Environmental Right and Reform Organization), Cheryl Johnson (People for Community Recovery), THURSDAY July 18th @ 8pm - Faith, Equity & Climate Justice, Panelists: Pastor Booker Vance (Elevate Energy), Rev. (laughing)107400:58:09,886 --> 00:58:12,845The mission, to be readyfor the massive earthquake107500:58:12,870 --> 00:58:14,999that's expected tohit the Midwest,107600:58:15,024 --> 00:58:17,707and simulate acoordinated response.107700:58:19,325 --> 00:58:22,298The last major earthquake, 1812.107800:58:23,730 --> 00:58:25,739[Man] Kilo YankeeFour Hotel Charlie.107900:58:25,740 --> 00:58:27,679K-Y-4-E-O-C.108000:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,109Kentucky joint forceheadquarters to Kentucky cab,108100:58:31,110 --> 00:58:33,679Alpha Foxtrot Alpha Fouris here, Whiskey, over.108200:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,729We've had a 7.7Richter scale earthquake.108300:58:36,730 --> 00:58:40,579You can see the damageis particularly intensive108400:58:40,580 --> 00:58:42,649west of the landbetween the lakes region108500:58:42,650 --> 00:58:44,799here in the JacksonPurchase region.108600:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,293The Cavalier CityFire Department is108700:58:46,317 --> 00:58:47,706inoperable becauseof the earthquake.108800:58:47,707 --> 00:58:51,189A 7,000 pound release ofchlorine that was near a school.108900:58:51,190 --> 00:58:54,266[Man Standing] We had625 casualties, 200 deaths,109000:58:54,267 --> 00:58:57,409275,000 seeking shelter.109100:58:57,410 --> 00:58:58,766So we're sending down a million109200:58:58,790 --> 00:59:00,199MREs and a millionbottles of water.109300:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,339Medical supplies,food, water, tinnage,109400:59:03,340 --> 00:59:05,549whatever the civilians need.109500:59:05,550 --> 00:59:08,189We got a notificationfrom one of our operators109600:59:08,218 --> 00:59:10,228saying that there was alot of damage in Memphis.109700:59:11,847 --> 00:59:12,798Exercise message.109800:59:14,224 --> 00:59:15,183Exercise message.109900:59:15,191 --> 00:59:16,139[Judith] OK.110000:59:16,140 --> 00:59:18,679I did forget,I was too busy marveling110100:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,209at our nation's ability110200:59:20,210 --> 00:59:22,869and seeminglyunconditional commitment110300:59:22,870 --> 00:59:26,079to marshal resources,rebuild infrastructure,110400:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,459save lives, and ensure thatcitizens are fed, housed,110500:59:30,460 --> 00:59:32,073and provided medical care.110600:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,359That is, as long as it's inthe wake of a natural disaster.110700:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,141(crowd applauding)110800:59:40,166 --> 00:59:41,251[Man] There you go.110900:59:41,260 --> 00:59:45,535So, response versusmitigation versus preparedness.111000:59:45,560 --> 00:59:50,560Could the recovery come in,in advance of the disaster?111100:59:51,570 --> 00:59:53,549And even in advanceof the preparedness,111200:59:53,550 --> 00:59:56,853because that's, maybe therecovery is preparedness.111300:59:56,892 --> 00:59:58,810But,how are you going to do that111400:59:58,830 --> 01:00:01,123being withoutpersonnel and funds?111501:00:02,370 --> 01:00:04,743You don't have no personneland you have no funds.111601:00:05,580 --> 01:00:07,793You only receive thatafter the disaster.111701:00:09,130 --> 01:00:12,319[Judith] My idea wasn't tosend in the National Guard.111801:00:12,320 --> 01:00:15,229We had more than10,000 people participate111901:00:15,230 --> 01:00:17,189in this exercise yesterday.112001:00:17,190 --> 01:00:19,909[Judith] But with a minortweak to the term disaster,112101:00:19,910 --> 01:00:22,739maybe this well-fundedfederal agency112201:00:22,740 --> 01:00:25,119could invest in thelong-term resilience112301:00:25,120 --> 01:00:26,769of the vulnerable communities112401:00:26,770 --> 01:00:28,983they're actuallypreparing to rescue.112501:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,819The trick ends up beingnot what you're chasing here112601:00:32,820 --> 01:00:35,499by turning that into adisaster, 'cause it's not112701:00:35,500 --> 01:00:36,819[Judith] Well it is a disaster.112801:00:36,820 --> 01:00:40,933No, it's a crisis andit's, (laughing)112901:00:40,957 --> 01:00:43,959it's one of the negativeparts of the real world.113001:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,829And where I come from,nobody gets a free pass.113101:00:46,830 --> 01:00:48,599You have to take,you reach down,113201:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,009grab yourself by thebootstraps, and let's go.113301:00:51,010 --> 01:00:53,469I wish I had abetter answer for ya.113401:00:53,470 --> 01:00:55,599I will say, you've piquedmy interest, I'm thinking,113501:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,759my brain is tryingto connect some dots,113601:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,449but I can't get to whereyou want to mobilize113701:01:01,450 --> 01:01:04,533this agency or thisorganization in advance.113801:01:06,020 --> 01:01:07,459It just doesn't work that way.113901:01:07,460 --> 01:01:10,299Now if you changed the laws,and we get people to agree114001:01:10,300 --> 01:01:12,553that we wanna changethe world we live in,114101:01:13,710 --> 01:01:15,509kinda the holy grail, right?114201:01:15,510 --> 01:01:17,823Go for it, I'm right behind you.114301:01:19,728 --> 01:01:22,311(gentle music)114401:01:23,850 --> 01:01:26,749[Judith] I left Frankfurt,Kentucky and headed south114501:01:26,750 --> 01:01:29,169towards the Tennesseeborder to get a good look114601:01:29,170 --> 01:01:30,620at the New Madrid fault line.114701:01:31,950 --> 01:01:34,369A disaster in waitingthat might not,114801:01:34,370 --> 01:01:36,479despite all of this preparation,114901:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,203even happen in our lifetime.115001:01:39,230 --> 01:01:41,803But of course,I couldn't see anything.115101:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,259How did we get here?115201:01:46,260 --> 01:01:49,689To a place where so many peoplebelieve that if you're poor,115301:01:49,690 --> 01:01:52,059it's because youdidn't pull hard enough115401:01:52,060 --> 01:01:53,453on your own bootstraps.115501:01:59,910 --> 01:02:01,179{\an8}So what you're struggling with115601:02:01,180 --> 01:02:03,929{\an8}is why are wespending so much money115701:02:03,930 --> 01:02:06,689{\an8}on these low-probability events115801:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,219when we have people dyinglike flies all around us?115901:02:10,220 --> 01:02:12,999And that money couldbe helping people now.116001:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,169- Is that it?- Yes.116101:02:14,170 --> 01:02:15,002Yeah.116201:02:15,003 --> 01:02:17,533Well, right.116301:02:18,783 --> 01:02:24,831Yeah, you're right to seethat as an unreasonable116401:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,269allocation ofresources, 'cause it is.116501:02:27,270 --> 01:02:29,669In order to get help fromthe federal government,116601:02:29,670 --> 01:02:32,639you typically haveto make some showing116701:02:32,640 --> 01:02:34,579that whatever it isthat has happened to you116801:02:34,580 --> 01:02:35,699is not your fault.116901:02:35,700 --> 01:02:40,639And, as a result of that,we pay a lot of attention117001:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,499in this country to howpeople came to be in need117101:02:43,500 --> 01:02:44,909in the first place.117201:02:44,910 --> 01:02:48,529And their claims arediscredited in our system117301:02:48,530 --> 01:02:50,859by the sense thatthey could have117401:02:50,860 --> 01:02:53,778or should havehelped themselves.117501:02:54,861 --> 01:02:57,864But that is our historyand our tradition.117601:02:57,866 --> 01:03:00,949(slow, somber music)117701:03:08,537 --> 01:03:09,545(people chattering)117801:03:09,546 --> 01:03:11,562[Woman] Number three.117901:03:11,586 --> 01:03:12,963[Man] What happenedto number one?118001:03:12,964 --> 01:03:14,422[Woman] Numberone is right here.118101:03:14,447 --> 01:03:15,361[Man] Open.118201:03:16,580 --> 01:03:18,299{\an8}Number one come right on in.118301:03:18,343 --> 01:03:19,335{\an8}- Two.- Hold on to that.118401:03:19,570 --> 01:03:21,949[Judith] Watching thisgroup of Englewood elders118501:03:21,950 --> 01:03:25,509line up at 7:00 a.m. to gethelp with their energy bills118601:03:25,510 --> 01:03:27,439made our historyand our tradition118701:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,563seem not only absurd tome, but criminal.118801:03:33,349 --> 01:03:35,182Sir, take your time.118901:03:37,670 --> 01:03:39,296[Judith] Every year, a one-time119001:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,257federally-funded subsidy of $150119101:03:42,281 --> 01:03:44,367is available forthose who qualify.119201:03:45,300 --> 01:03:47,854As long as the moneydoesn't run out.119301:03:47,855 --> 01:03:48,855Number 10.119401:03:52,836 --> 01:03:54,658Good morning everyone.119501:03:56,256 --> 01:04:01,178{\an8}You know you need yourlight bill, your gas bill,119601:04:01,190 --> 01:04:02,408{\an8}and they have to be current.119701:04:02,920 --> 01:04:06,699We need your income,social security card119801:04:06,700 --> 01:04:09,159for everyone that'sin the household.119901:04:09,160 --> 01:04:12,323A current rentreceipt if you rent.120001:04:13,350 --> 01:04:16,169So you can takethose documents out,120101:04:16,170 --> 01:04:17,773hold 'em in your hand now.120201:04:20,146 --> 01:04:24,188{\an8}They had a cooling programand then they ran out of money.120301:04:24,213 --> 01:04:28,629{\an8}So that cooling programlasted about two or three days.120401:04:28,630 --> 01:04:31,253{\an8}Many people did notget help who needed it.120501:04:32,450 --> 01:04:33,829The money wasn't there.120601:04:33,830 --> 01:04:36,492It wasn't that they did notapply, the money was not there.120701:04:36,493 --> 01:04:38,859See, that money comes fromthe federal government120801:04:38,860 --> 01:04:41,059to the state, then to the city.120901:04:41,060 --> 01:04:43,969But they're more than a hundredintake sites in the city121001:04:43,970 --> 01:04:45,509like ours here.121101:04:45,510 --> 01:04:49,429So there's hundreds of peopleapplying at the same time.121201:04:49,430 --> 01:04:51,163So that money justgoes like that.121301:04:55,232 --> 01:04:56,733- What was it, '85?- '95.121401:05:00,952 --> 01:05:03,119[Judith] How old was he?121501:05:04,170 --> 01:05:07,153He was 58, he was 58.121601:05:07,178 --> 01:05:08,522[Judith] I'm sorry.121701:05:08,523 --> 01:05:09,356Mm-hmm.121801:05:10,999 --> 01:05:13,652(people chattering)121901:05:13,653 --> 01:05:15,074[Woman] 17.122001:05:15,075 --> 01:05:16,158[Woman] 17.122101:05:17,104 --> 01:05:18,476Do you own or rent?122201:05:18,477 --> 01:05:19,418[Client] Own.122301:05:19,419 --> 01:05:21,202Own, OK.122401:05:21,203 --> 01:05:24,203(people chattering)122501:05:31,180 --> 01:05:33,099You can tell a lotabout what we care about122601:05:33,100 --> 01:05:34,750by where we'reputting our money.122701:05:36,460 --> 01:05:40,599People want thoseresources to be at standby122801:05:40,600 --> 01:05:45,600in case they are experiencingan earthquake or a fire122901:05:45,950 --> 01:05:48,349or a flood or hurricane.123001:05:48,350 --> 01:05:50,929Because they can imaginethat happening to them.123101:05:50,930 --> 01:05:54,079A white person cannoteasily imagine what it is123201:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,919to be a person ofcolor in a community123301:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,863that doesn't have access togood food or medical care.123401:06:05,555 --> 01:06:06,848{\an8}Have you ever had a mammogram?123501:06:06,872 --> 01:06:07,705{\an8}No, I have not.123601:06:07,721 --> 01:06:09,431{\an8}Are you interestedin having a mammogram?123701:06:09,439 --> 01:06:10,506{\an8}No, I'm not.123801:06:10,515 --> 01:06:13,057{\an8}OK, is there any specificreason, you mind me asking?123901:06:13,518 --> 01:06:18,565No, I just don't wanna have one.124001:06:18,590 --> 01:06:21,809I just, I got plentygoing in my life and124101:06:21,810 --> 01:06:23,880- [Oreletta] Too much already.- Yeah, that's enough.124201:06:23,904 --> 01:06:26,048OK, well do you mind ifI send you a reminder just to124301:06:26,072 --> 01:06:27,049A reminder is fine.124401:06:27,073 --> 01:06:28,617keep on encouragingyou to get one?124501:06:28,640 --> 01:06:29,832- Yes, no problem.- OK.124601:06:29,833 --> 01:06:32,299[Judith] What Icame to learn is this.124701:06:32,300 --> 01:06:35,449In the absence of anysignificant investment,124801:06:35,450 --> 01:06:38,479communities that are mostvulnerable every day,124901:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,939are forced to rely ontheir own ingenuity125001:06:40,940 --> 01:06:43,009and very meager resources125101:06:43,010 --> 01:06:47,299to respond to the crisis thatmost everyone else ignores.125201:06:47,300 --> 01:06:48,749Like the communityhealth workers125301:06:48,750 --> 01:06:51,059from the Sinai UrbanHealth Institute,125401:06:51,060 --> 01:06:53,049who spend their daysreaching out to women125501:06:53,050 --> 01:06:54,979who suffer breast cancer deaths125601:06:54,980 --> 01:06:58,349at a rate 40% higherthan the white women125701:06:58,350 --> 01:06:59,653on the other side of town.125801:07:00,069 --> 01:07:01,289{\an8}I'm uninsured.125901:07:01,290 --> 01:07:02,999{\an8}OK, you don't haveto worry about that.126001:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,122{\an8}We have a state-funded programso we pay for the cost.126101:07:05,690 --> 01:07:07,649Once we enter you intothe computer system126201:07:07,650 --> 01:07:09,784then I get you in,probably about a week's time.126301:07:09,785 --> 01:07:10,783OK.126401:07:10,784 --> 01:07:13,683Insurance, anytype, you got, put no.126501:07:15,030 --> 01:07:18,349Check there, and ah.126601:07:18,350 --> 01:07:19,929When the last timeyou had a mammogram?126701:07:19,930 --> 01:07:20,762Probably last year.126801:07:20,763 --> 01:07:22,569Last year,are you set for this year?126901:07:22,570 --> 01:07:23,551I need another one.127001:07:23,552 --> 01:07:24,649You need another, OK.127101:07:24,650 --> 01:07:26,809Every day,I go into an exam room127201:07:26,810 --> 01:07:29,679and I work with people thathave medical conditions,127301:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,109much of which could'vebeen prevented127401:07:32,110 --> 01:07:35,079or at least made mucheasier to deal with127501:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,409if they had thestructural conditions127601:07:37,410 --> 01:07:38,710they need to stay healthy.127701:07:39,646 --> 01:07:40,942People think that poor people127801:07:40,981 --> 01:07:43,275don't know how to eat healthyor don't wanna eat healthy.127901:07:43,650 --> 01:07:45,025{\an8}A lot of it ismore about access.128001:07:45,050 --> 01:07:46,176{\an8}They don't have access to it.128101:07:46,201 --> 01:07:47,761{\an8}It's difficult forthem to get to places.128201:07:48,363 --> 01:07:49,643The things thatthey have in their128301:07:49,685 --> 01:07:51,124neighbourhood are not healthy.128401:07:51,149 --> 01:07:52,049[Woman] We have food.128501:07:52,050 --> 01:07:56,392So that's our vision,bring the food to the people.128601:07:56,393 --> 01:07:59,643(gentle, bouncy music)128701:08:13,999 --> 01:08:15,402[Boy] I'll taste salad.128801:08:15,403 --> 01:08:18,035You'll taste salad,OK, salad is good,128901:08:18,059 --> 01:08:19,436it's a good start,what about like.129001:08:19,437 --> 01:08:21,969[Judith] Fresh Moves isa decommissioned city bus129101:08:21,970 --> 01:08:25,509turned mobile market, bringingaffordable fresh produce129201:08:25,510 --> 01:08:28,079to the neighborhoodsthat are often referred to129301:08:28,080 --> 01:08:29,183as food deserts.129401:08:29,863 --> 01:08:31,072Have you ever tried a pear?129501:08:31,073 --> 01:08:32,573Do you wanna try one?129601:08:32,574 --> 01:08:34,237What if buy you anapple or a pear?129701:08:34,238 --> 01:08:35,070Apple.129801:08:35,071 --> 01:08:37,171You wanna try, OK,which one you want?129901:08:38,426 --> 01:08:40,269As a matter of fact, I'm,130001:08:40,270 --> 01:08:41,643is that the one you want, OK.130101:08:41,644 --> 01:08:43,354You got to wait tillthey check out up there.130201:08:43,378 --> 01:08:46,049Just hold on to it.That's a big thing.130301:08:46,050 --> 01:08:47,634[Sheelah] Yeah,you gonna eat it all.130401:08:49,674 --> 01:08:51,258[Woman] Come on,try it, just try it.130501:08:51,281 --> 01:08:52,362Come on.130601:08:52,385 --> 01:08:53,457- Please.- Do it, do it,130701:08:53,481 --> 01:08:56,056do it, do it, do it. 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