The heat deaths were in poor neighborhoods that had once been redlined and where disinvestment had been practiced for decades. It reminds us that a systematic 'Poverty Emergency Plan' would be more effective and pre-emptive than a 'Heat Emergency Plan' and so-called 'natural' disasters are anything but natural, representing instead our collective failure to address poverty and inequality as an everyday crisis.' Cooked is a film that gives names and faces to the concept of environmental racism. COOKED is an adaptation of 'HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago' (2002), Eric Klinenberg's groundbreaking book. April 17 - First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist - Hyde Park, MA, April 17 - First Church in Jamaica Plain - Jamaica Plain, MA, March 7 - 8 - One Earth Film Festival - Oak Park, IL, February 28 - Transitions Film Festival - Melbourne, AUS, February 27 - Fleetwood-Jourdain Center - Evanston, IL, February 15 - Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater - Chicago, IL, February 12 - Penn State - Centre County, PA, February 10 - Vermont PBS Sunday Best Series - Burlington, VT, February 8 - Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach - West Palm Beach, FL, February 1 - Lower East Side Girls Club - New York, NY, January 15 - Meaningful Movies - Tacoma, Washington, January 28 - Northeastern Illinois University - Chicago, IL, January 30 - Antioch M.B. In 2007, Judith received a United States Artist Fellowship, one of 50 awarded annually to Americas finest living artists, and in 2016 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. . Help bring programs like Independent Lens to your PBS station. See the recorded conversation here. Transcript; Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents mostly elderly and black died over the course of one week. All rights reserved. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 2019 1 h 16 m IMDb RATING 7.2 /10 86 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code. By what name was Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019) officially released in Canada in English? MPH, F.A.C.P. Uploaded by Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Viewfinders 76 min. He is currently at work onCity so Real, an episodic series directed by Steve James, that paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of Chicago through the lens of the 2019 mayoral election. His work has been included and listed as notable in Best American anthologies. 288 pages. August 21: The (In)Justice For All Film Festival. Existing customers, please log in to view this film. COOKED: Survival by Zip Code is adapted from Eric Klinenbergs ground-breaking book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic 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,. In the last third of the film, Helfand attends a conference for disaster preparedness, where people warn of 69 lightning deaths in the US, and other things that might not happen in our lifetimes. COOKED: Survival By Zip Code Screening and Panel Discussion : Cook County Government : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Cook County hosted a limited public screening of the documentary, COOKED: Survival By Zip Code, with a panel discussion and live Q&A on Thursday, September 17. By JDavidson | January 13, 2023. 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. Bullfrog Films presentsCooked: Survival By Zip Code from Bullfrog Films on Vimeo . We could call it a Poverty Emergency Plan instead, or the Remedying Social Evils Plan. She lives in NYC with her five-year-old daughter Theodora and their beta-fish MaxiTaxI. The discussion as a means of engagement with social issues following a documentary was incredibly valuable and something that the Green Film Festival, alongside the BAME student network, were glad to host. Listen to the discussionhere. Cooked focuses on the deadliest heat wave in U.S. history, in 1995, when 739 people in Chicago mostly Black and elderly died in one week. May 10: Temple Israel Center screening and discussion with Judith Helfand. Life expectancy is lowest in the city. That is, until an extreme weather event hits and they are made exponentially more deadly and visible. By Linda Villarosa. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); A collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change Your email address will not be published. The Switzer Network Race and Equity Discussion Group hosted a viewing and discussion of COOKED: Survival By Zip Code, a short documentary film that takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into a rapidly growing industry of disaster preparedness.The event included remarks and Q&A with Judith Helfand, the director of the film, and DeAngelo Mack, director of state policy . Helfand says, [O]ne thing was pretty clear: disaster preparedness is a luxury. See the virtual panel discussion with filmmakers here. The underlying dynamic in those same communities, which determined who would live and die during the heat wave, of course continue to exist now., He has a hard time not laughing bitterly. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). "40800:21:19,470 --> 00:21:22,009And so never would the word heat40900:21:22,010 --> 00:21:24,699appear anywhere onthe death certificate.41000:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,061[Judith] So are yousuggesting that there were41100:21:27,085 --> 00:21:29,179actually more deathsthan are accounted for?41200:21:29,180 --> 00:21:30,569Oh yes.41300:21:30,570 --> 00:21:33,470I couldn't see how the numberwouldn't be bigger than 525.41400:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,219So we added up thetotal number of people41500:21:38,220 --> 00:21:42,089who died during July,and we subtracted this baseline41600:21:42,090 --> 00:21:45,069of the expected numberof deaths per day,41700:21:45,070 --> 00:21:48,453and the numbercame out to be 726,41800:21:50,490 --> 00:21:55,419And so, they're arguing aboutwhether 525 was too big,41900:21:55,420 --> 00:21:58,737and I now am saying,"It's much too small. But whether it was the heat wave in Chicago or Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, Irma and Maria, all of these disasters share something key: they reveal the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine who was living on the edge to start with, who gets hurt the worst, who recovers and bounces back--and who doesn't. 989 Roundelay Dr. L1J 7S5. "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. Along the way, Helfand forges inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme disparity, and extreme racism, daring to ask: what if a zip code was just a routing number and not a life-or-death sentence? Finally, she came to understand that her thesis was actually something like this: Policies should be changed so government can direct more of its tremendous resources from natural-disaster preparedness to alleviation of unnatural disastersthe inequality, poverty, and health issues that kill 3,000 people in one year in Chicago alone (1,833 died in Katrina). In 2007, Helfand received a United States Artist Fellowship, one of 50 awarded annually to Americas finest living artists. In 2016 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Share. But Helfand does much more than tell this story although she does tell it, and tells it powerfully. His previous collection wasPirates You Dont Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life. June 11 -University of Michigans School of Public Health, Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments, and the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center host a virtual screening and talk back with environmental justice advocates and public health experts. Helfand is currently the Bob Allison (Allesee) Endowed Chair in Media at Wayne State University. Please complete the form below to connect with the COOKED team. 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. Lorry Kikta, Film Threat'Cooked: Survival by Zip Code shines a light on the issues of poverty, race, class, and education that underlie how natural disasters take lives.' Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. [1][2] It was released through video on demand on August 28, 2019, by Journeyman Pictures. Helfands question, Why did people die in these particular Chicago neighborhoods?, suggests the outlines of a potential trial role play: Who or what is to blame? Chicago and Cook County: Today and Moving Forward, Opening Night Q&A with COOKED Filmmakers & Film Subjects, Social Determinants of Health: Closing the Life Expectancy Gap, From A Social Autopsy to A Palace for the People, Radical Resilience: The Art and Soul of Place Making, Place Taking-back and Transformation, Reframing the Disaster: Language and Messaging Around Systemic Poverty, Racism, and Climate Crisis, Environmental Justice from Resilience to Resistance, Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR) 2020-2021 Film Series, Panel at Milwaukee International Film Festival, Global Symposium on Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods, Reframing the Disaster: Language and Messaging Around Systemic Poverty, Racism and our Climate Crisis, Social Determinants of Health: Closing the Life Expectancy Gap - Part 1, Social Determinants of Health: Closing the Life Expectancy Gap - Part 2, From A Social Autopsy to A Palace for the People: A conversation with filmmaker Judith Helfand and author, Eric Klinenberg about the value of social capital and community-based institutions as life saving forces. "49100:25:46,140 --> 00:25:48,019{\an8}And that was the point ofdoing a social autopsy,49200:25:48,468 --> 00:25:51,680to study this caseof catastrophic death49300:25:51,714 --> 00:25:53,919in order to betterprotect the lives49400:25:53,944 --> 00:25:57,817of people in Chicago and thenpeople in cities everywhere.49500:26:00,460 --> 00:26:02,119[Judith] Whileresearching his book,49600:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,379Eric Klinenberg discoveredthat Cook County49700:26:04,380 --> 00:26:06,689had collected thepersonal effects49800:26:06,690 --> 00:26:07,950of the unclaimed heat victims.49900:26:07,951 --> 00:26:08,941Thanks.50000:26:11,449 --> 00:26:13,655[Judith] Their thingsare now kept in boxes50100:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,923in a sprawling storagefacility and auction house.50200:26:20,010 --> 00:26:21,749One of the thingsthat was so devastating50300:26:21,750 --> 00:26:23,459about the heat waveis, not just simply50400:26:23,460 --> 00:26:26,519that so many people died,it's the way that they died,50500:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,183alone and isolated.50600:26:32,290 --> 00:26:36,063There's a small desk,and a chair, a little rug,50700:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,793a very small bed,I don't see any windows.50800:26:41,660 --> 00:26:43,423You can tell it'sa very tiny room.50900:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,960I remember this file, EmilioAguirre, awarded a Bronze Star.51000:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,719He served for almost twoyears in World War II51100:26:54,720 --> 00:26:55,620and was a private.51200:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,600And look at this contrastof the decorated war veteran51300:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,163and the 85-year-oldsenior citizen.51400:27:06,810 --> 00:27:09,749It reminds us howeasy it is in some way51500:27:09,750 --> 00:27:13,357to fall through thecracks and go from being51600:27:13,358 --> 00:27:17,419an honored soldier,or a close relative,51700:27:17,420 --> 00:27:20,959to being someone whois discovered alone51800:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,233on a hot summer day.51900:27:24,330 --> 00:27:27,623But this box and these filesare full of stories like this.52000:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,909[Judith] When it came timefor Mayor Daley and his team52100:27:35,910 --> 00:27:39,763to take the life and deathlessons from the 1995 heat wave,52200:27:39,788 --> 00:27:42,499they didn't concernthemselves with human stories52300:27:42,510 --> 00:27:44,389or data-driven maps.52400:27:44,390 --> 00:27:48,149Instead,they created a task force.52500:27:48,150 --> 00:27:49,699No one everappoints a task force52600:27:49,700 --> 00:27:51,399to find out what's going on.52700:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,339They always appointthe task force52800:27:53,340 --> 00:27:55,519to make the problem go away.52900:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,029And the problem in this casemight be seen as the heat,53000:27:59,030 --> 00:28:00,636but you didn't haveto make that go53100:28:00,660 --> 00:28:02,149away 'cause thatwas already gone.53200:28:02,150 --> 00:28:03,339So what would the problem be?53300:28:03,340 --> 00:28:05,023Well, it would be allthe people who were53400:28:05,047 --> 00:28:06,607asking all thesetroublesome questions.53500:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,829[Judith] Along withmeteorologist Paul Dailey,53600:28:09,830 --> 00:28:13,029no relation to the mayor,the extreme weather task force53700:28:13,030 --> 00:28:16,199included a detective,a gerontologist,53800:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,469and the Deputy Commissionerof Public Health53900:28:18,470 --> 00:28:19,923for the city of Chicago.54000:28:22,410 --> 00:28:24,766{\an8}The commission was setup to try to figure out54100:28:24,791 --> 00:28:28,336{\an8}what went wrong,why so many people were killed54200:28:28,350 --> 00:28:31,683{\an8}in the 1995 heatwave, and whatcan they do to correct it.54300:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,959And they're still using thenumbers that I put together54400:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,245for the warnings.54500:28:37,060 --> 00:28:39,639So the warning goes out,the city jumps into their54600:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,109they do their thing,which is contacting people,54700:28:42,110 --> 00:28:43,577making sure everybody's set up,54800:28:43,602 --> 00:28:46,475the cooling centers are setup, everything like that.54900:28:48,110 --> 00:28:50,913There was a final bookletput out from the commission.55000:28:52,319 --> 00:28:53,732[Judith] Let's see the cover.55100:28:55,390 --> 00:28:59,749Now, my only question is,the snowflake and the sun,55200:28:59,750 --> 00:29:05,495doesn't seem as scaryas 739 people dying.55300:29:05,790 --> 00:29:09,127What he wanted to do was tryto cover everything in this.55400:29:09,140 --> 00:29:12,772Whether it's hot in the summeror heavy snow in the winter.55500:29:12,797 --> 00:29:15,047[Judith] What if youput a picture of all those55600:29:15,050 --> 00:29:16,85918-wheel refrigerated trucks?55700:29:16,860 --> 00:29:17,903Oh yeah, (laughing)55800:29:17,927 --> 00:29:19,637- they don't- Now, that's pretty extreme.55900:29:19,679 --> 00:29:21,752Yeah, they don't wannado that though, you know.56000:29:22,987 --> 00:29:24,642They don't wannaremind people of it.56100:29:24,650 --> 00:29:26,119They want people to remember,56200:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,083but they don't wanna remind'em of it, in so many words.56300:29:30,170 --> 00:29:33,789So, remember,but let's not keep throwing it56400:29:33,790 --> 00:29:35,604in front of their faces.56500:29:35,605 --> 00:29:39,059(slow, somber music)56600:29:39,060 --> 00:29:41,468[Judith] I could seehow a refrigerated truck56700:29:41,493 --> 00:29:44,746filled with poor,deceased city residents56800:29:44,750 --> 00:29:46,519was not exactly an image Chicago56900:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,663would want to be remindedof, or remembered for.57000:29:51,170 --> 00:29:54,519But the sunbeams andsnowflakes effectively reduced57100:29:54,520 --> 00:29:59,083the tragic loss of life in 1995to an extreme weather event.57200:30:00,710 --> 00:30:02,421When the mayororganized a commission to57300:30:02,445 --> 00:30:04,859study the heatwaveand release a report,57400:30:04,860 --> 00:30:07,829it said things like,"every neighbourhood in Chicago57500:30:07,830 --> 00:30:09,809was affected by the heatwave. 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"57600:30:09,810 --> 00:30:13,239It's true, but it's farmore true for some areas57700:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,429than others,and that kind of language57800:30:15,430 --> 00:30:17,939just obscures what'shappening in the city.57900:30:17,940 --> 00:30:21,089It makes it impossiblefor us to understand58000:30:21,090 --> 00:30:22,229what happened here.58100:30:22,230 --> 00:30:25,189If this were a storyabout what cities can do58200:30:25,190 --> 00:30:29,479in an acute emergency toprevent heatwave deaths,58300:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,409it'd be an open and shut case.58400:30:31,410 --> 00:30:33,059But it's a much deeperstory than that.58500:30:33,060 --> 00:30:36,559It's a story about thesedeeper social fault lines58600:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,559that make some membersof a city vulnerable58700:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,819and keep others protectedand blissfully ignorant58800:30:42,820 --> 00:30:45,329about what's happeningto people who live58900:30:45,330 --> 00:30:47,131quite close to them.59000:30:47,132 --> 00:30:50,299(light digital music)59100:30:56,910 --> 00:30:59,349We want to make surethat all Chicagoans59200:30:59,350 --> 00:31:01,860take appropriateprecautions for dealing with59300:31:01,861 --> 00:31:04,711extreme heat and humidity.59400:31:04,712 --> 00:31:07,159(people chattering)59500:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,779[Judith] Ever since1995, when the temperatures59600:31:09,780 --> 00:31:13,819start to rise, the city rollsout its heat emergency plan,59700:31:13,820 --> 00:31:16,979which over the years hasbecome a model for other cities59800:31:16,980 --> 00:31:20,719also struggling to adaptto an ever-warming world.59900:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,659The plan includes amulti-million dollar60000:31:22,660 --> 00:31:26,479emergency command center,reverse-911 calls,60100:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,379and vigorous public messaging.60200:31:28,380 --> 00:31:31,239We really need eachand every neighbour,60300:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,099every single personon every single block,60400:31:34,100 --> 00:31:36,439you know wherethese seniors are.60500:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,479If you cannot reach out to them,would you please call 3-1-160600:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,189and give us their address,we will go and help them.60700:31:44,190 --> 00:31:47,603You could literally save alife, so thank you so much.60800:31:49,110 --> 00:31:51,710{\an8}[Judith] What do you thinkof the heat emergency plan?60900:31:52,666 --> 00:31:56,175{\an8}I don't know whatI think of that.61000:31:59,622 --> 00:32:00,840(laughing)61100:32:00,865 --> 00:32:03,989We could call it a povertyemergency plan instead61200:32:03,990 --> 00:32:07,433or a remedyingsocial evils plan,61300:32:08,306 --> 00:32:10,435I wouldn't mind those things61400:32:10,460 --> 00:32:14,283that got more to the rootcauses of the situation.61500:32:15,210 --> 00:32:18,989The underlying dynamic inthose same communities,61600:32:18,990 --> 00:32:20,959things like racism and poverty,61700:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,909which determined who would liveand die during the heatwave,61800:32:24,910 --> 00:32:27,213of course continue to exist now.61900:32:27,909 --> 00:32:29,827[Judith] Do you thinkthey're addressing that?62000:32:29,828 --> 00:32:33,849Do I think the city isaddressing the extreme poverty62100:32:33,850 --> 00:32:36,399in communities ofcolor in Chicago,62200:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,168is that what you're asking me?62300:32:38,169 --> 00:32:39,292(laughing)62400:32:40,372 --> 00:32:41,697Don't be ridiculous.62500:32:44,390 --> 00:32:47,557(children chattering)62600:32:52,330 --> 00:32:55,580(relaxed upbeat music)62700:33:19,424 --> 00:33:22,321[Man] Gonna stayout of the water now.62800:33:22,322 --> 00:33:23,905Well that's good.62900:33:24,925 --> 00:33:26,386[Man] Please don't write me up.63000:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,328[Officer] Please back away.63100:33:31,329 --> 00:33:34,279Everybody back upoff each other.63200:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,665[Child] Why y'allwanna turn it off for?63300:33:36,666 --> 00:33:38,835(people chattering)63400:33:38,836 --> 00:33:40,795[Woman] It's low, it'slow, that's what it is.63500:33:45,605 --> 00:33:48,855(light, serious music)63600:33:55,956 --> 00:33:58,750[Judith] A decade afterthe heatwave, Eric Klinenberg63700:33:58,770 --> 00:34:01,290was still trying to get peopleto learn the core lesson63800:34:01,294 --> 00:34:02,667of that disaster.63900:34:03,310 --> 00:34:07,025{\an8}10 years ago, more than 700Chicagoans died in the heatwave.64000:34:07,050 --> 00:34:09,469{\an8}But you say that's notreally the entire story.64100:34:09,511 --> 00:34:12,825{\an8}What you wanted to knowwere the underlying social,64200:34:12,850 --> 00:34:14,175{\an8}human dimensions to this, right?64300:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,867{\an8}That's right,we have this term, a natural64400:34:15,891 --> 00:34:17,370{\an8}disaster that we'reall familiar with.64500:34:17,394 --> 00:34:20,105{\an8}There's certainly nothingnatural about the way they died.64600:34:20,105 --> 00:34:23,076{\an8}What I'm more concerned aboutis our collective failure64700:34:23,100 --> 00:34:25,999{\an8}to address the everyday crisis,64800:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,399{\an8}the disaster in slowmotion if you will.64900:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,209{\an8}If we look too muchfor the scapegoat65000:34:30,210 --> 00:34:31,849{\an8}we'll misleadourselves into thinking65100:34:31,850 --> 00:34:33,784{\an8}we're not all kind ofaccountable in some way.65200:34:34,191 --> 00:34:36,809And my biggest concernnow is that if we refuse65300:34:36,810 --> 00:34:38,859to come to termswith this crisis,65400:34:38,860 --> 00:34:41,869we'll doom ourselvesto experience it again.65500:34:41,870 --> 00:34:43,469(deep, somber music)65600:34:43,470 --> 00:34:45,059[Judith] And we did.65700:34:45,060 --> 00:34:47,409Just six weeks afterthat interview,65800:34:47,410 --> 00:34:50,909the crisis we refused tocome to terms with in Chicago65900:34:50,910 --> 00:34:54,879repeated itself in New Orleansand all along the Gulf Coast66000:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,873while the whole country,and much of the world, watched.66100:35:00,346 --> 00:35:03,545{\an8}(slow, somber music)66200:35:03,570 --> 00:35:06,459{\an8}Like millions of others,I spent that Labor Day weekend66300:35:06,460 --> 00:35:09,789{\an8}glued to the television set,watching whole neighborhoods66400:35:09,790 --> 00:35:11,593{\an8}disappear under water.66500:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,249One natural disaster,plus crumbling flood walls66600:35:18,250 --> 00:35:20,859in the city's mostvulnerable neighborhoods,66700:35:20,860 --> 00:35:24,687added up to one bignational revelation.66800:35:24,711 --> 00:35:26,091We're gonna talk about something66900:35:26,115 --> 00:35:27,349else before the show's over too,67000:35:27,350 --> 00:35:29,599and that's the bigelephant in the room,67100:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,729the race and economic classof most of the victims,67200:35:32,730 --> 00:35:35,689which the media hasn'tdiscussed much at all,67300:35:35,690 --> 00:35:37,003but we will a bit later.67400:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,559[Judith] What had seemed tome to be a one-time tragedy67500:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,623in Chicago, all at oncebecame an appalling trend.67600:35:48,050 --> 00:35:50,393Life and deathdetermined by zip code.67700:35:52,780 --> 00:35:55,439And this movie,which started out being about67800:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,599one specific heat disaster,turned into something else,67900:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,850something more complicatedand uncomfortable.68000:36:03,260 --> 00:36:06,803About the impact of generationsworth of racism and denial.68100:36:08,910 --> 00:36:13,019Denial that even after Katrina,was still going strong.68200:36:13,020 --> 00:36:15,869What's the guesstimate costof rebuilding those levies?68300:36:15,870 --> 00:36:20,479The bill is $2.9 billion,which will give us,68400:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,579send us a long way to repairingand upgrading the levies,68500:36:23,580 --> 00:36:25,569making them real categorythree protection,68600:36:25,570 --> 00:36:28,233which apparently they weren't,we learned the hard way.68700:36:29,499 --> 00:36:32,582(slow, somber music)68800:36:34,940 --> 00:36:37,289[Judith] Back in Chicago,where it was predicted68900:36:37,290 --> 00:36:41,199that by 2050 the weather wouldfeel more like Baton Rouge,69000:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,759Mayor Daley inaugurated hisofficial climate action plan,69100:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,519starting with a $2.5million project,69200:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,026built on top of city hall.69300:36:50,590 --> 00:36:53,089{\an8}So what you'll seebehind me here is actually69400:36:53,090 --> 00:36:54,699{\an8}the green roof on city hall.69500:36:54,700 --> 00:36:58,359{\an8}We're 12 stories above thecity, and as you can tell,69600:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,559{\an8}it's kinda like a prairie,you can hear the crickets,69700:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,109{\an8}you can see the butterflies,69800:37:02,110 --> 00:37:03,810{\an8}there are birdsthat live up here.69900:37:05,088 --> 00:37:07,839So what we've donehere, and I'll show you,70000:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,539we've created anurban heat island map.70100:37:10,540 --> 00:37:12,539We can see the hot spots70200:37:12,540 --> 00:37:14,869and then we planttrees in those areas.70300:37:14,870 --> 00:37:17,469'Cause one mature tree hasthe air conditioning effect70400:37:17,470 --> 00:37:20,889of 12 room-sizeair conditioners.70500:37:20,890 --> 00:37:23,479So these strategiesprovide a huge impact70600:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,069in actually realcooling of the city.70700:37:27,070 --> 00:37:30,237(light digital music)70800:37:40,980 --> 00:37:43,053We're pretty faraway from city hall.70900:37:46,650 --> 00:37:49,050{\an8}I don't know about anyrooftop gardens out here.71000:37:50,489 --> 00:37:53,656(light digital music)71100:37:57,810 --> 00:38:00,269This is the blockthat I lived on71200:38:00,270 --> 00:38:03,119from the time I wasone or two years old71300:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,713till I was about 14.71400:38:05,690 --> 00:38:08,273Used to be a churchhere that burned down.71500:38:09,518 --> 00:38:10,903Used to be a house here.71600:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,593This house was nextdoor to where we lived,71700:38:17,630 --> 00:38:19,623and we lived right here.71800:38:21,540 --> 00:38:24,687And this whole blockwas full of houses.71900:38:27,230 --> 00:38:30,859I can start to evensee the faces of people72000:38:30,860 --> 00:38:32,033that I grew up with.72100:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,029Summer day like today, whenI was growing up around here,72200:38:37,030 --> 00:38:39,939would be full ofpeople out and about.72300:38:39,940 --> 00:38:44,123Kids playing,adults coming to and from work.72400:38:50,410 --> 00:38:53,023There were all kinds ofthings up and down Halsted.72500:38:55,130 --> 00:38:57,529It was this vibrant place to be,72600:38:57,530 --> 00:38:59,253there were two movie theaters.72700:39:01,032 --> 00:39:03,959There was a Sears store,and in the basement,72800:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,210Hellmann's grocery store.72900:39:06,470 --> 00:39:08,939I used to get thelist from my mom,73000:39:08,940 --> 00:39:11,553and then I'd walk up hereand get whatever she wanted.73100:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,409Only downtown hadmore economic activity73200:39:17,410 --> 00:39:19,983than the 63rd andHalsted Street corridor.73300:39:21,740 --> 00:39:25,719It's just been anincredible 50 plus years73400:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,153of watching whathappens to a community.73500:39:35,370 --> 00:39:37,819If the heatwave happenedwhen I was growing up,73600:39:37,820 --> 00:39:40,373I think the outcome would'vebeen a lot different.73700:39:41,860 --> 00:39:45,109When it got really hot, peoplewould sleep on the back porch73800:39:45,110 --> 00:39:46,293or sleep in the park.73900:39:47,520 --> 00:39:48,993People felt much safer.74000:39:50,050 --> 00:39:51,809I mean,imagine going from feeling like74100:39:51,810 --> 00:39:53,239you can go sleep in the park,74200:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,040to feeling like you can'teven put a fan in your window.74300:40:02,030 --> 00:40:03,740Yeah, and some ofthis is privately owned74400:40:03,750 --> 00:40:08,750but a lot of this land isowned in fact by the city.74500:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,903Just acres of vacant land.74600:40:16,590 --> 00:40:18,013Acres of potential.74700:40:21,702 --> 00:40:24,952(gentle, solemn music)74800:40:46,570 --> 00:40:49,733Every day I cutbetween 25 to 30 lots.74900:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,640Rats and mice and people canhide off in these bushes.75000:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,440{\an8}And this type ofneighbourhood over here,75100:40:58,430 --> 00:41:00,483{\an8}they can break outand get a hold of you.75200:41:04,180 --> 00:41:07,199The richer theneighbourhood, the less lots.75300:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,759Like in Pill Hill,there's no lots.75400:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,569Maybe two or three,but over here,75500:41:12,570 --> 00:41:14,533we got maybe about 2,000 lots.75600:41:15,770 --> 00:41:18,539[Judith] Since 2005,the city of Chicago75700:41:18,540 --> 00:41:21,019has spent well over $20 million75800:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,943on maintaining overgrownand abandoned lots.75900:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,529I have one question.76000:41:28,530 --> 00:41:31,459What can you imagine themdoing with these empty lots?76100:41:31,460 --> 00:41:33,893Honestly,around my house they rebuild.76200:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,233Put Section 8s back up.76300:41:37,070 --> 00:41:38,613But that's the bestI could think of.76400:41:39,620 --> 00:41:41,719All right, but I got toget back to work, you all.76500:41:41,720 --> 00:41:42,820Y'all have a nice one.76600:41:47,822 --> 00:41:49,093I see you getting out that way.76700:41:49,118 --> 00:41:50,155(laughing)76800:41:52,307 --> 00:41:53,350All right.76900:42:02,332 --> 00:42:05,415(slow, somber music)77000:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,919[Judith] Orrin told methat much of the vacant land77100:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,179on the south and westsides of the city,77200:42:13,180 --> 00:42:15,759and the slow motiondisaster that's unfolding77300:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,423in those communities, can betraced back to another map.77400:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,729This one, created by theFederal Housing Administration77500:42:23,730 --> 00:42:24,883in 1940.77600:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,109The neighborhoods whereblack people had settled77700:42:28,110 --> 00:42:31,369were shaded in red,and declared ineligible77800:42:31,370 --> 00:42:34,019for federally-insured loans.77900:42:34,020 --> 00:42:36,349The only way peoplecould buy a home78000:42:36,350 --> 00:42:39,149was through a practicecalled contract buying,78100:42:39,150 --> 00:42:41,249which was essentiallya high risk,78200:42:41,250 --> 00:42:43,351and usurious installment plan.78300:42:43,352 --> 00:42:46,269(person whistling)78400:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,109[Orrin] Whitespeculators bought homes78500:42:49,110 --> 00:42:51,469and then resold themto black families78600:42:51,470 --> 00:42:53,959for two or threetimes their value.78700:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,149But the black familydidn't own the house78800:42:56,150 --> 00:42:57,823until they fully paid it off.78900:42:59,610 --> 00:43:02,539If I have you in a contract79000:43:02,540 --> 00:43:05,989and things go along and youget laid off from your job79100:43:05,990 --> 00:43:08,079or you miss a month,you could do it on one month,79200:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,209or miss two months,then you're outta that house,79300:43:10,210 --> 00:43:13,479I evict you, and then I canrecontract that same house79400:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,523to another family.79500:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,719[Orrin] Most people hadto work two or three jobs79600:43:20,720 --> 00:43:21,903to make the payments.79700:43:23,370 --> 00:43:26,410Often, they couldn't affordto maintain the houses79800:43:27,652 --> 00:43:31,226so a lot of those structuresneeded to be torn down.79900:43:32,970 --> 00:43:35,259So when the federalgovernment made it illegal80000:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,909to give mortgages inthe black communities,80100:43:37,910 --> 00:43:39,369it was a political decision80200:43:39,370 --> 00:43:41,327to disinvest fromthose communities.80300:43:42,410 --> 00:43:44,539You have banksmaking the decision,80400:43:44,540 --> 00:43:46,849your house isn't worthreplacing the windows,80500:43:46,850 --> 00:43:49,468so we're not gonna give you aloan to replace your windows.80600:43:52,420 --> 00:43:54,219We're not gonnagive anyone a loan80700:43:54,220 --> 00:43:56,923to buy your house from you,that's a disinvestment.80800:43:58,370 --> 00:44:00,269We're gonna close thesestores and move them.80900:44:00,270 --> 00:44:01,709And that disinvestment happened81000:44:01,710 --> 00:44:03,410with the changesin manufacturing.81100:44:04,930 --> 00:44:07,803You don't have steel workersin Englewood anymore.81200:44:09,630 --> 00:44:12,733You don't have people working atCampbell Soup factory anymore.81300:44:14,230 --> 00:44:16,529Then what happens is,your community sinks.81400:44:16,530 --> 00:44:17,709It doesn't happen overnight,81500:44:17,710 --> 00:44:22,333but it happens,certainly, at a pace.81600:44:27,060 --> 00:44:28,870[Jeremiah] Come on'round here, Cass.81700:44:28,871 --> 00:44:29,871Come on.81800:44:32,903 --> 00:44:34,398[Colleen] All right, you ready?81900:44:34,399 --> 00:44:35,816[Child] Mm-hmm.82000:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,839[Judith] Colleen and JeremiahScott were not even born82100:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,589when the red lines were drawnaround their neighbourhood.82200:44:44,590 --> 00:44:46,803But the repercussionsare all around them.82300:44:49,875 --> 00:44:51,806{\an8}- This is the first one.- This is the first one.82400:44:51,830 --> 00:44:53,164{\an8}- Right here.- It's the first one.82500:44:53,188 --> 00:44:55,107{\an8}- That's the second one.- This is the second one.82600:44:55,131 --> 00:44:56,796{\an8}And then you can justcount 'em as you go.82700:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,592That's number three.82800:45:01,162 --> 00:45:05,029This is number four, and it'sright next to the school.82900:45:05,054 --> 00:45:07,229If my daughter wasto go to school here,83000:45:07,230 --> 00:45:09,922she would have to walk pastall these abandoned buildings.83100:45:09,923 --> 00:45:12,279- Just to get to school.- Just to get to the school.83200:45:13,675 --> 00:45:15,177- Wait a minute.- This one right here.83300:45:15,201 --> 00:45:16,486Now, did you see that?83400:45:16,510 --> 00:45:20,679This building righthere, come on now,83500:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,387a school surrounded byabandoned buildings?83600:45:25,437 --> 00:45:27,600That don't make no damn sense.83700:45:28,542 --> 00:45:31,625(slow, somber music)83800:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,783It's just you don't reallyeven think about it,83900:45:49,002 --> 00:45:52,759or really comprehend it I guess,84000:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,029until you have to explainit to somebody else.84100:45:56,030 --> 00:45:59,933Then it's like,it's just right in your face.84200:46:02,349 --> 00:46:05,141I was upset aboutthose right there.84300:46:05,159 --> 00:46:08,023Look at that, boarded up.84400:46:09,180 --> 00:46:11,939All, the school is surrounded.84500:46:11,940 --> 00:46:15,029What do you think about whenyou see abandoned property?84600:46:15,030 --> 00:46:18,253It's abandoned,forgot about, left out.84700:46:32,890 --> 00:46:35,419None of this is rocket science.84800:46:35,420 --> 00:46:39,729We all know what it takes tomake a healthy neighbourhood.84900:46:39,730 --> 00:46:42,359It doesn't require you tohave mansions on the street.85000:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,889It requires you to havethe grocery stores,85100:46:44,890 --> 00:46:47,259the coffee shops,the restaurants,85200:46:47,260 --> 00:46:49,509the beauty parlors,the barbershops.85300:46:49,510 --> 00:46:52,669These are all institutionsthat help make streets safe,85400:46:52,670 --> 00:46:54,839they provide places forpeople to go for help.85500:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,139They provide places,certainly in the wintertime85600:46:57,140 --> 00:46:59,899and summertime,for cooling and heating.85700:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,983(slow, somber music)85800:47:10,130 --> 00:47:15,156This map is in a sense,an exemplar or a model85900:47:15,180 --> 00:47:20,099of all of those issuescoming together in one place.86000:47:20,100 --> 00:47:23,553For example, communities thathave no supermarkets in them.86100:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,769If you map out vacantlots, violent crime rates,86200:47:28,770 --> 00:47:33,770was it diabetes, breastcancer, and on and on and on.86300:47:35,390 --> 00:47:40,099And so, map after map aftermap shows the distribution86400:47:40,100 --> 00:47:43,403of the highest mortality andmorbidity throughout the city.86500:47:46,530 --> 00:47:49,109These are thingshuman beings created.86600:47:49,110 --> 00:47:52,709Let me be really clear,racism is not a disaster,86700:47:52,710 --> 00:47:55,949it's something that humanbeings invented and created86800:47:55,950 --> 00:47:57,489and keep healthy.86900:47:57,490 --> 00:48:00,229Segregation is somethinghuman beings invented,87000:48:00,230 --> 00:48:02,953specific human beingsfor specific purposes.87100:48:03,820 --> 00:48:05,609The health inequities that exist87200:48:05,610 --> 00:48:07,860are not accidents,they're created by people.87300:48:11,590 --> 00:48:14,409[Judith] So the slowmotion disaster in Chicago87400:48:14,410 --> 00:48:17,249was the direct resultof public policies87500:48:17,250 --> 00:48:21,573that effectively divided thecity into haves and have nots.87600:48:22,670 --> 00:48:26,349And it was precisely theselife and death inequalities87700:48:26,350 --> 00:48:29,869that motivated Dr. Whitmanto step down from his post87800:48:29,870 --> 00:48:32,789as the city's chiefepidemiologist,87900:48:32,790 --> 00:48:35,529to lead the SinaiUrban Health Institute.88000:48:35,530 --> 00:48:38,853His goal, to close thehealth disparity gap.88100:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,219We've done study afterstudy and published it88200:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,409in all of our mostprestigious journals,88300:48:45,410 --> 00:48:50,099showing not only that blackpeople and other poor people88400:48:50,100 --> 00:48:53,249have much worse health,but in fact that the differences88500:48:53,250 --> 00:48:56,379in health and measures ofhealth are growing worse88600:48:56,380 --> 00:48:59,019everywhere we look in Chicago.88700:48:59,020 --> 00:49:01,087And, the reason that'shappening is because88800:49:01,111 --> 00:49:03,280the rich are getting richer,the poor are getting poorer.88900:49:03,300 --> 00:49:05,079And the poor are notonly getting poorer,89000:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,889but they're gettingsicker as well.89100:49:07,890 --> 00:49:11,170Life expectancy in the loop,where we're sitting now,89200:49:11,580 --> 00:49:14,709{\an8}is 81 years,and for black communities89300:49:14,734 --> 00:49:17,326{\an8}throughout Chicagoit was 65 years.89400:49:17,649 --> 00:49:21,16316 years differencein life expectancy89500:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,399and you could walk fromone community to the other.89600:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,809One of the strongestcorrelates of bad health89700:49:26,810 --> 00:49:28,929for black people,it's been shown over and over89800:49:28,930 --> 00:49:32,119in the literature,is segregation.89900:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,669We are one of themost segregated cities90000:49:34,670 --> 00:49:35,773in the United States.90100:49:36,610 --> 00:49:40,369If black people in Chicagohad the same death rates90200:49:40,370 --> 00:49:44,649as white people,3,200 fewer black people90300:49:44,650 --> 00:49:47,369in just one yearwould have died.90400:49:47,370 --> 00:49:49,819What number is 3,200 like?90500:49:49,820 --> 00:49:54,307A very prominent number incurrency in this country.90600:49:54,331 --> 00:49:56,708[Woman] Number of people whodied at the World Trade Center.90700:49:56,750 --> 00:49:58,418Thank you very much,the number of people90800:49:58,442 --> 00:50:00,309who died on 9/11.90900:50:00,310 --> 00:50:04,569Now just think aboutour response to 9/11.91000:50:04,570 --> 00:50:08,419Literally billions,even trillions of dollars spent,91100:50:08,420 --> 00:50:12,379and yet, here's 3,000deaths in just one year.91200:50:12,380 --> 00:50:15,65910 years, that's 32,000 deaths,91300:50:15,660 --> 00:50:18,616just from racism inthe city of Chicago.91400:50:18,617 --> 00:50:21,950(plane engines roaring)91500:50:36,122 --> 00:50:37,624[Judith] Watchingthe annual air show91600:50:37,625 --> 00:50:40,229along Chicago'smajestic skyline,91700:50:40,230 --> 00:50:42,369celebrating themilitary daredevils91800:50:42,370 --> 00:50:44,829who are poised to protect us,91900:50:44,830 --> 00:50:47,269I couldn't help butthink about the disparity92000:50:47,270 --> 00:50:48,773Dr.

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