2 Years After Katrina: Still Weathering the Storm

Summary:

Two years after Katrina: How much has really changed? How much has stayed the same?

Website:

http://www.radioproject.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Lisa Rudman, Executive Director; Tena Rubio, Senior Producer/Host; Puck Lo, Associate Producer; Matt Fidler, Sound Editor; Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino, Interns; Peggy Law, Founding Director;

This series was made possible in part by the PRX (Public Radio Exchange) Reversioning Project, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Open Society Institute.

Tones:

Informational, Provocative, Sound Rich

Language:

English

Description:

It's been two years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast.
Two years since the levees broke and changed the face of an entire city, state and region.
And despite hopeful signs of renewal, New Orleans and many parts of the Gulf Coast are still in disrepair. So how much has really changed? How much has stayed the same?

On this special one-hour edition, we'll meet day laborers, grassroots organizers, hear musicians, and we'll visit the lower 9th ward - the area most devastated by the floodwaters.


Featuring:

"Music Montage" - New Orleans voices gathered by producer George Ingmire and sound editor, Matt Fidler, composed music and put together piece

"Remembering New Orleans News Flash" - various news voices reporting on Hurricane Katrina

"Lower Ninth Ward" - Diamonds Eugene, Lower Ninth ward resident, takes us to his home six months after the flood

"Common Ground Collective" - Floyd Brooks, Ninth Ward homeowner; Malik Rahim, co-founder Common Ground; Gabriel Cohen, Common Ground volunteer

"Sit down with Malik Rahim" - producer George Ingmire talks with Common Ground's co-founder about New Orleans today

"Youth Radio's Angelica Robinson" - Angelica Robinson, narrator and lower ninth resident; Robert, Christopher, Raymond Robertson, brothers; Robert Sr. and Angelique, dad and mom

"Re-imagining the Shotgun" - Timothy Holmes, new homeowner; Emilie Taylor, design-build project leader; Charles Lucia, Tulane University architecture student; Lauren Anderson, neighborhood housing services

"Immigrant and Migrant Laborers" - Israel Lopez, Senor Jose Castillo, Manuel, Lorenzo Alvarado Duran, immigrant labor workers; Marco Amador, National Day Laborer Organizing Network member and New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice field worker

"Mexican Consulate" - Arturo Balderas and Mirella Rangea, consulate workers; Professor Elizabeth Fussell, Tulane University sociologist

"New Orleans Musicians" - Joe Cabral, Iguanas co-founder; Keith Frasier, Rebirth Brass Band drummer; Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu; Terence Blanchard, Trumpeter and New Orleans native

Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio, Open Society Institute Fellow
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Contributing Freelancers: George Ingmire, Matt Fidler, Justin Beck, Youth Radio's Angelica Robinson, Eve Troeh, Reese Erlich, Sarah Olson
Sound Editor: Matt Fidler
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino

Special thanks to all of those who made this show possible -- especially to Steve Masar, Phillip Babich and Mike Lamar.

Basic Rundown:
00:00-00:59-Segment 1
001:00-6:00-Segment 2 (5-minute optional music/sound interlude)
06:00-20:05-Segment 3
20:05-21:05-Segment 4 (1st break)
21:05-37:35-Segment 5
37:35-38:35-Segment 6 (2nd break)

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