Wow Molly....I've never even heard of this documentary, it sounds great though and I'm betting I will love the music!
As for the National Guard shooting that poor man's dog, that's awful, there was a lot of that sort of thing going on....I found myself in a protest against them...there were over 30,000(thirty-thousand) dead cows piled at the foot of the Gibbstown Bridge where the storm-surge had left them and a man from Creole found 2 dozen or so of his cows still alive, they somehow wound up across a bayou and up on a high spot(that's a tough concept here, Louisiana is flat) well, the man was overjoyed to see his cows and was trying to figure out how to get them back across the water when a helicopter carrying a now famous Col. of the Nat. Guard in it landed, the Col. stepped out, looked at the situation and shouted this order to his troops, "Kill them, shoot them and move on!", and the man just went ballistic, he said, "This is all I have left in the whole world and you say kill them?!"....so the protest began, we wre infuriated.... needless to say, the cows were not destroyed...
...I'm very interested in seeing this documentary Molly, I will seek this one out and hopefully add it to my DVD library, thanks for telling me about it....I saw your post on the fly yesterday but....yesterday was Fat Tuesday and I must say, it was quite a challenge to get to the parade route...I went downstairs and fought the crowd so that I could get up close enough to take pictures of the people on the floats so that yall can see the costumes...I got a few, I'll post them later..
Oh, the levees...not only are the levees not what they should be...they NEVER were...we discussed this openly in high school back in the late seventies....a project was slated to upgrade the levee system....Greenpeace was there protesting the disturbance that such work would create for the eco-system in the waters that the levees are built in....but there was a summit in New Orleans 2 years before Katrina at which Homeland Security, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and of course local government were told that if a Cat 3 or above hit the city, the levees would not hold and their predictions were that when the levees breached, the city would flood, there would be massive loss of life and there would be billions of dollars in damage....they did nothing.
Now they've been rebuilt to the same standard that they were....a Cat 3 or above and the levees will breach....
