PALAST,GREG - BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
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| Product Description"A standing ovation. Extraordinary. Astonishing." - Gil Noble, ABC TV
"Greg Palast is America's best investigative reporter." - Randi Rhodes, Air America
August 29th 2006 marked the one year anniversary of the devastation in New Orleans caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This Special Greg Palast Report brings you exclusive footage and the stories you won't hear on the other networks -- the hidden political agendas and the suppressed eyewitness reports.
In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last year. He examines why residents had to leave, what really caused the flood and why they aren't returning.
On August 22, 2006, reporter Greg Palast and producer Matt Pascarella were charged with criminal violations of the anti-terror laws by the Department of Homeland Security while making Big Easy to Big Empty. And there is no doubt, this film is dangerous - to the regime of Washington.
Here is the real story of Hurricane Katrina you won't get on CNN. You'll follow investigative reporter Palast ("a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes" - Jim Hightower) as he travels to New Orleans to investigate what has happened since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. On his visit, Palast discovers the population of New Orleans is minuscule, the reconstruction sparse, suicide rates climbing, and that many citizens have not, nor do they even know how to return to the city that care forgot. Palast exposes how:
-The White House would not tell the state police that the levees of the city were about to burst and drown the disabled residents left behind.
-How poor residents of the city were marched out of their houses at gunpoint-and now kept out by barbed wire in a scheme to turn New Orleans into a whiter, more Republican tourist town, "Six Flags Over Louisiana."
Palast takes you inside the offices of the political cronies of the Bush Administraion who planned the evacuation-until he's thrown out by perps. You'll get a look inside FEMA's "Guantanamo on wheels" for Katrina survivors.
Extras include:
* Tomorrow's New Orleans: Whose City Will it Be? A no-holds-barred, half-hour conversation with Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!); Greg and Amy discuss who is accountable for the ongoing disastrous situation in New Orleans and Washington's continuing attack on the survivors of Katrina.
* An audio excerpt on Katrina and New Orleans from Palast's New York Times Bestseller, Armed Madhouse.
* Special extended interviews from Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center and the inspiring crew that is fighting to rebuild their city against the odds.
* Crescent City Music, The "New Orleans Comes Alive-One Year Later" slideshow and more.
* Contains a Collector's Edition booklet with the exclusive essay "Busted" by Greg Palast. - Actors: Greg Palast
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- Audience Rating: Unrated
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Region Code: 0
- Release Date: 2007-06-05
- Running Time: 30 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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