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In South Central chile indigenous communities are fighting to reclaim their Ancestral Lands and the conflict is becoming increasingly violent talk to us you see our travels to the region to see why the mcclatchy people are rising up and asks is there a path to peaceful coexistence on aljazeera. A welcome to the stream of im josh rushing sitting in for me ok today they were talking about gentrification you know how it impacts a culture in a community and its really kind of at the forefront of our minds right now because the stream staff and myself we saw this fantastic artfully done film on netflix called residue here i want to share the trailer with you right now check this out. Michaels not paying over the city like we never existed to. Pay for it over trying to restore it for you im trying to restore it to tear down the region and you know for a safe. Damn sure easy. To let go of say. Like grow into the chance of that. You come back and sit in there with the beaches. Yes so good so good so were going to talk about this up so the stream is the issue kind of behind the film gentrification but were lucky enough to be joined by the director writer the film a conversation about the film itself the art of it the making of it all that kind of stuff joins me live on instagram after this about a half hour after the show it would be a. J. Shereen minister graham were going to great conversation there look if youre watching this be you tube right now see that box over there to the right now those are live thats a live chat those are live questions and comments and we have a producer in there right now way to get your comments to me so i can get into our guest today so help me out be a part of the show and join in right there now speaking of our guests im going to ask them to introduce themselves for you were all week we begin with. Thank you for having me many of them arrive in your email or a writer and director from washington d. C. They were over the moon to have you writer and director of president which we just saw that the climate rather brady yeah brady jump and i thank you for having me on brandi summer as an assistant professor of geography of a match a potted studies that you see berkeley and i rip up that focuses on attention to kesha in d. C. Dr them thank you for joining us and. Yes were going to monitor she very Small Community of the National CommunityReinvestment Coalition d have been focused on the race well the racial d have been were going to quote the last 15 or so years and ive been to some reports on racial inequality in different cities right thank you everyone for being with us now i want to bring in a video clip from someone in our community this is from an associate professor of urban studies and planning at the university of maryland at college park them with a long a mom she knows that the issue of course here. Urban development is any kind of social or economic or physical investment into a city or the neighborhood gentrification is a particular type of neighborhood change that results from mass and then flux the public and private dollars and higher income residents into lower income neighborhoods particularly communities of color its difficult to imagine this process happening without some displacement of a stop less trans nets but there are Equitable Development strategies such as investments and Affordable HousingSmall Business sense and community and Cultural Amenities that can mitigate these impacts. Are youre from d. C. You have roots here you went away to school and came back was it the leaving and coming back to did you since gentrification d. C. Which is by the way d. C. Is one of the most intricate cities in the country and you talk about that experience and maybe that is what led to the film yeah i mean you know basic came back to a desolate place you know that i totally you know was at a loss on identify where i couldnt find places that are gods who you know i was on my street looking for a nice street you know me which is like if you if you know you know kind of the whole section of d. C. You know kind of you know how much has changed to the point where you dont you recognize the street that youre looking for even if youre standing on that street you know so to me it was just a moment for for me to kind of just kind of take hold in any way that i could you know and really who you know you know really nobody really wants to feel powerless like that and they all city for me was like the only way i could wear one you know was you know my my you know the best weapon i was happy to be film and so you know reza was kind of just born out of the not of that is are enough powerless in d. C. And brit is d. C. Different in some way when it comes to the whats happening which interpretation. No i actually think its a great example of the violence honestly of gentrification and specifically black neighborhoods and black president s and so theres this way in just a clip of dr long to kind of really talk about what gentrification is its this influx of capital in this previously these previously just infested neighborhoods that most often have black and latino x. Populations in them but gentrification doesnt have to happen and youre seeing it of course in large metropolitan cities that also happens on a smaller scale in smaller cities but ultimately will ends up happening is this physical displaced and as well as a cultural displacement and i think residue just so its so beautifully and its really kind of about how it feels oftentimes beyond the Economic Impact of it. Can you kind of walk me through a little bit of of how we found ourselves here like it begins with red lining right and then just going to steps to where but to how it ends up in a disney 5 neighborhood. Here so you know if we think historically a number of black impoverished neighborhoods in cities like d. C. Or chicago or Brooklyn Oakland they were formed in a lot of ways by government policy so if we think about the period after the Great Depression the government was trying to enlarge the middle class and so what they try to do is encourage homeownership through these you know 30 year mortgages but restrictive covenants prohibited black people specifically from buying houses in certain neighborhoods and more limitations lank redlining which are prospective buyers in these areas with larger numbers of black people and other people of color from receiving these federally insured so you see this way that it wasnt just about white people sleeping in the city it was more so that they were driven and invited to come and we see suburbanization which ultimately to the disinvestment of these urban cores you see large scale abandoned men and then this transition with reinvestment with these Public Private partnerships and and in a lot of ways we see how this city changes impacted by anomic conditions like you know sessions or depression but also there is this form of displacement that occurs again specifically targeting black and brown and Indigenous People but its moved on so much for there even the present day sense the foreclosure crisis and 20072008 were seeing these extreme ways that theres an affordability crisis and people are able to stay in their homes. Its not just d. C. Right this is happening a across the country im curious to you see how cold it is impacting this really even before we get to cooper you know youre saying you know goes back to d red lining i would say to go back much for who did that and say you know directors very familiar with the famous film i believe it was that coco really does go back to in slave minutes this idea of White Supremacy in a really you think that were powerlessness really is presented throughout the show and i think it kind of shows the powerlessness you know black communities that have historically been economic be disenfranchised most of you know i was watching about menaces aside do you think that talked a lot about what happened to the urban centers when the jobs had left and black said that. Theyre kind of the next generation coming without jobs are going to be left to the drug trade and the powerlessness in that snow and i think that this film shows the powerlessness in gentrification and whats so kind of stark about this is the neighborhood is Getting Better but the people who are living there is lives is it and you know i think that is something that we really need to talk about that were trying to actually address racial economic inequality or trying just to create new places for higher income people. And for other ignore the history of racial inequality and to temper reality over a short while. It can really kind of a race a culture right in fact we have a clip that that i want to share with you and this is about a place over on a street. Can we pull that up. Well the different clientele the flood cell that. They call it the gentrification i call it cultural genocide and thats all they do is you know. I have. No problem youll just get the facts out just before you form a says life like. Now youve got a whole foods in walmart you take a neighborhood with a black business and as a child when i came out that gave me a sense of who are. Now these kids have nothing to look up to. But the fish place or so there is a service there for 30 years and i believe they shut their doors in february thats part of a documentary is being put together right now a cultural genocide as somebody said it really caught my ears in d. C. The black community has a specific music that came out of that neighborhood called go go music so this is this gathering here we have that dont you d. C. You know pull pull this. Pretty you touch on dont you d. C. In the gogos scene in d. C. And how was that much interpretation. So i said oh and i want to again encourage everyone to see residue because some of the opening scene it seems is that theyre still it. And that neighborhood during the time you see movement that was taking place last year you know its this prime example of this black Cultural Property existed that was bred in d. C. That was discordant that was noisy that was too much for the new president s who came in to the neighborhood so the story is that you know theres a location shot essential Communication Service t. V. Of a store and the owner Donna Campbell will play go go music for the last 20 years every single day from 10 to 7 and there were complaints were made nearby residential building where there was a white president who basically kept calling the cops kept calling the department of consumer and Regulatory Affairs basically saying we want to set this status to elaborate and so there is this wave that go go is d. C. But goes black d. C. And so when you see i am somehow calming and saying that the music needs to species shut down and you did unfortunately. The team mobile or i can revise and call don and basically told him to shut the music down and he did and it was silent so the movement was really organized around this meeting in d. C. That it wasnt just the music that it was the culture and that we needed to address gentrification and as they were connecting it to so many other areas and black like specifically in d. C. And how dispossession shows up it brought black folks to the street and actually thats what i want to say in response to this idea of a spinning powerless i dont know that thats necessarily the case right i think movements like dont mean d. C. Where black people stay in the streets stay in place so that there is this resilience its just that its not necessarily recognized by the state there are ways of black folks are doing all kinds of things to remain in place despite the fact that we may not own as much property have as much of land but certainly movements like these are making a difference in changing how we see the violence of gentrification every day lives where theres a clear hero ilm when you say divorce a voice listen he says you know whose voice whats. Its got her when shes right you know youre 0. You know i agree a 1000 percent to me like my favorite part about this whole you know explosion issues that you know she was describing for you when those why folks call you know whoever they kicked up a hornets nest i had no idea what was about to happen and it was a massive explosion as a massive cultural reaction you know i mean it was a massive massive you know cultural response to the issue at hand it to me it was. Singularly specific to d. C. Because all these cities that are really undergone intentions of occasion are fighting in many different ways but i just felt that the specific cause or response that d. C. Came up with was unique to our city because google really stood as a spearhead that everybody could get behind you know because it is you know its far more than just the music theres a whole fashion mind you know the you know the music itself the dance you know but also the music itself and you know that it is extremely irreverent you know i mean it really doesnt that. You know does not respond well to authority or be its what to do and also comes out of this whole history of being criminalized by the city itself and so i think all of this you know kind of accumulated you know. You know kind of history in kind of emotion behind the culture so really created this amazing display and pushback from the city in and i agree with you i think theyre like what we find is that we are not powerless you know but i think these these reactions come from you know. A feeling of our you know our claim our stake our you know ability so i maintain our home being talents you know and i think that like its only through like you know resistance to these types of aggressions that like you know we see these incredible displays of like you know these these displays of light popular reaction the response you know which i think is the way forward anyway sides felt like the sea go go really joseki for these you know me and well see what it is for the cities as well but like really like you know even with the film itself is that like culture our best weapon you know i mean one of our best weapons against this this thing because it entails everything our history our economics everything kind of comes out of this you know. And so yeah so i just thought that it was so beautiful so it was important to open the film with actually in that clip that you show there front to back our back because i was like i got there early to be. In their face with the camera yeah i had 2 questions for you on that one so were you already filming residue when that happened and you thought i just got to get down there and to did you have the opening scene of residue already film where he pulls up and hes unloading the car in a white neighbor says a youre playing your music too loud or did that come as a reaction to that hello no i mean the metro p. C. S. Thing that you know that was all like people they have is all the time you know like. This hasnt risen or response to music you know i mean im not surprise you know theyre like you know this thing happened in the same way that it happened in the film even though we shot the scene you know 2 years earlier that was in the script row back into the 16th. Because something similar happened to me in my day you know years ago so you know the title why focus is not the new and the way they tell you to turn you down or to do this or do that is you know its moves but you know the thing about the scene at that moment kicked off in 2019 we had finished filming in 2018 i was in the middle of editing you know but we had developed the style of this you know filming everything that we could every bit of evidence of gentrification that we could as you know as we were making the film so that i was just in my mind didnt know how i was going to use it but knew that i had to get it on camera one for the film but to also for the you know this this other purpose of ours which was literally document black d. C. You know as best we could you know thats really the drive in this netflix is very cool but really the main purpose of the project was to create a record of our existence you know i mean in the city and especially in these neighborhoods slated for for demolition to really just get as much of the camera as we possibly can or d you know before its too late and ive got to tell everybody right now hold on to do let me let me do this i want you guys to make sure everyone whos watching us on you tube that you follow a. J. Stream on instagram because were going to talk a lot more about the movie residue right after this every bought half an hour after the show and im really excited again just i want you to join us there that