Home » Zero Evictions Campaign » The 2008 World Zero Evictions Days Video Contest » Video: Coming Home

Mostra/Nascondi il menu

Zero Evictions Campaign

Video: Coming Home

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Rating: 3/5 (3930 votes cast)

Video: Coming Home
Video project follows public housing rights activist, Sam Jackson, as he struggles to retain his community's right to return home after the Katrina hurricane tragedy.
Zero Evictions Day 2008 Video Festival Submission.
www.nesri.org
  • Author(s) of the work: Michele Stephenson , Jon Stuyvesant
  • Published: Monday 06 October 2008
  • Principal themes: Right to housing
  • The country or countries of provenance: United States
  • Key words, tags: Zero Evictions Day 2008, New Orleans, public housing, Katrina Hurricane, Louisiana
  • Social action methodology used by the protagonists: Protagonist uses social and economic rights language in his grassroots community work to protest the demolition of public housing and promote his community's right to return to New Orleans public housing after the Katrina Hurricane.

Comments

comming home

Thursday 25 December 2008 6:49:35 pm

sam jacksom

katrine anniversary; the floodwaters rushed in the new orleans area early morning of august 29 2005.the storm surge breached the city's levees at multiple.points leaving 80 percent of the city submerged.forcing thousand of victims from theirs home and clinging to rooftops.has been called the greatest disaster in our nation's history.

comming home

Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:51:33 pm

grazie!gracias

this is a real touching storiers to see how the u.s.a. had such disater and left the poors peoples displace and no where to live. Living on the streets in new orleans after katrine diaster.Causeing the demolition of the big 4 compelx.Ruining folks live.