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[Jamie] Ladies and gentlemen
please take your seats,
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we have an amazing show tonight,
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you are gonna do something
good while feeling good,
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we are doing good
in the world tonight.
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Please make some noise Sean
Penn, this beautiful night,
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- let's get it going.
- [audience clapping]
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Oh, come on, loosen it all,
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y'all can do better
than that, man,
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see I know y'all in the 47.5%
tax bracket but come on.
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The Russians are testing
hypersonic nuclear weapons,
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impulsive, populous leaders
are playing politics
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with a global economy
while alienating allies
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and climatologists
give us about 11 years,
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before global
catastrophic failure.
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Lies, greed, rage,
sexism, racism,
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threaten to induce further
violence in our own streets.
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Fentanyl and heroin are
functioning as rabid assassins,
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across the country and
meanwhile we here in Hollywood,
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we cannibalize each
other on social media,
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often under the guise
of taking a stand,
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while too often taking
no stand on the ground.
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It's my wish for us to get
grounded together tonight.
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Now, there are cardinal
rules in fundraising,
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don't bum out the crowd.
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[audience laugh]
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Let's party.
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Family gun dad.
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[reporter] The
public was fascinated,
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by Madonna's turbulent
marriage to Sean Penn
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and the attention
wasn't always welcome.
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[reporter] The headlines
told a familiar story,
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actor in conflict
with photographer,
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Penn, pleaded no
contest, was fined $100
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and given a 90-day sentence.
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[glass shatters]
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What difference you
think you can make,
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one single man in
all this madness?
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Thank you for loving me.
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[reporter 2] As the
UN's inspectors hunt
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for weapons of mass destruction
and the US threatens war,
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to disarm Saddam Hussein
quietly and discreetly,
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one of Hollywood's
hottest actors Sean Penn,
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has arrived in Baghdad
without an entourage.
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[reporter 3] Hollywood's
former bad boy,
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was welcomed in
Baghdad with open arms.
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[reporter] Not for a movie
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but to visit a Baghdad
children's hospital
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"saying he is there for
a "deeper understanding
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"of the crisis with the US,"
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Sean Penn, the
diplomat, who knew?
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This is one big publicity stunt
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on the behalf of Sean Penn.
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What exactly did
Sean Penn expect?
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Just showing up in Iraq
implies that he's on their side.
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There's a fine
tradition in this country
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of American celebrities making
themselves a useful idiots
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for anti US dictators.
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It is our opinion
that Hollywood stars,
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who come off as strident and
uninformed in political matters
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risk hurting their
careers if they speak out.
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Say what you will about
Penn the guy went out in a boat
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and actually pulled
people to safety,
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so, to recap this guy
came down four days later,
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to mourn the loss of
Trent Lott's house,
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well, "I am Sam" waited
through toxic sludge in a dinghy.
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George Kennan and Dick
Cheney and Condoleezza Rice
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and George Bush et al
should be in fucking jail.
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[audience applaud]
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You've been an actor since
you were very, very young,
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have you been committing
treason since you were young?
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[audience laugh]
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[reporter] Penn, has
called for the impeachment
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of just about everybody in
the Bush administration,
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Sean Penn you are this
week's enemy of the state.
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Anti-American Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez
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has a brand new American pal,
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this time it is actor Sean Penn.
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[woman] The criticism
could be heard echoing,
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throughout Washington.
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They lambasted him
for allowing himself,
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to be paraded around by Chavez
as an anti-American puppet.
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And the Oscar goes to Sean Penn.
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[audience clapping]
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I think that it is a good
time for those who voted
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for the ban against gay
marriage to sit and reflect
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and anticipate their great shame
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and the shame in their
grandchildren's eyes,
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we've got to have equal
rights for everyone
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[audience applaud]
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And I wanted to be very clear,
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that I do know how hard I
make it to appreciate me often.
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[audience laugh]
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[Don] And A, B, C mark, marker,
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place to start is probably
January 12th, 2010.
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How did you first
find out what happened
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and I guess get inspired to act?
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Well, I had been
single parenting my son
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for about eight months after
divorce with my kid's mother.
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In that time period he had a
terrible skateboard accident
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and had to have
emergency brain surgery.
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Afterwards he was
in enormous pain,
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when they put morphine in
him and I saw him get relief,
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that had sort of been
locked in my head.
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Now, he had a really
extraordinarily fast recovery
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just kind of a miracle
within a couple of months,
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he was 100% and by that time
his mother had found a place
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and wanted to spend
some time with him
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and my daughter was already
living on her own at that time,
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So, I found myself for
the first time in 20 years
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without kids in the
house or a wife.
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The first four days of that,
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you know, pursued what one
might think I would pursue
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and in that effort found
myself striking out
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and instead getting home to
this house drunk and exhausted
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and passing out and
coming to in the morning
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and trying it all over
again the next day,
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that went on for
about four days,
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when I just realized
I'm just too tired
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and this is all too
new and too much.
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The other freedom I now have,
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that I'm alone,
single in the world
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is I can turn the television
on in the middle of the day
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and nobody's going
to gripe at me
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and I turned it on and it
was the Haiti earthquake.
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[glass shattering]
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[cars honking]
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We're following the
breaking news out of Haiti,
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the largest, most
powerful earthquake
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in the region's history
has crippled the country,
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measuring 7.0.
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[reporter 4] Center just West
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of densely populated
Port-au-Prince,
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a city of 2 million people
now largely in ruins,
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bodies are reportedly
stacked in the streets,
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schools, hospitals, churches
and homes have collapsed.
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The first black Republic
in the Western hemisphere,
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born of a slave uprising
Haiti has been the epicenter
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of natural and political crisis.
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[Obama] For a
country and a people,
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who are no strangers to
hardship and suffering,
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this tragedy seems especially
cruel and incomprehensible.
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[man 2] With hospitals collapsed
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and no doctors or
ambulances in the streets,
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people realized
it was up to them.
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There's no help, no
hospital, no electricity nothing.
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[man 3] It's worse than
anyone could have imagined.
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[man 4] Search and rescue
efforts are severely hampered,
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food, shelter, water and
especially medical care,
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all in short supply.
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Immediately, the
reports I was seeing
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were of traumatic injuries
that required amputations
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and no intravenous
pain medication.
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I had had some experience in
areas of natural disaster,
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particular in new
Orleans post-Katrina
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and what that had taught me
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was that you can never get
enough help in these situations.
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I got in touch with Paul Farmer,
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through my first wife Madonna,
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who had worked
with him in Malawi.
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He was in Port-au-Prince
trying to help the effort
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at university hospital and
I asked him what was needed
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and he said 350,000
vials of morphine.
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And I thought that sounds
like a lot of morphine,
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the way that I've
always joked about it,
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is that an actor in Hollywood
knows how to find drugs
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but not bulk narcotics
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but I had done some
work in Venezuela,
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where I knew that
president Chavez,
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could expedite something
into civilian hands,
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unlike in the United
States system.
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I called president
Chavez and I said,
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if I get a few guys together
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and we go rent some trucks
to be a distribution service,
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will you send 350,000 bottles
of morphine and ketamine?
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And he did it.
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[helicopter rotors chuffing]
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- Holy moly!
- Holy moly.
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[Paul] We got
some supplies here.
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[Sean] We went there
with the intention
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of distributing this
for about two weeks
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and then hightailing
it back to California.
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But over the course of the
several days that it took,
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to organize all the logistics,
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medical supplies, food supplies,
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we started accumulating other
volunteers who wanted to help.
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There were a total of 30 of
us by the time we went in,
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seven of whom were doctors.
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Many of you know better than
I do what we're about to face,
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which is likely total chaos.
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When we get into this place,
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the first thing that
happens is that,
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everybody needs you most.
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There'll be an immediate
attempt to absorb,
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particularly doctors,
from the time
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we get into Port-au-Prince,
to the time we have
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any semblance of organization,
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imagine very little
sleep in 48 hours pass.
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How long are we
prepared to be there?
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[Sean] That's an answer
everybody has for themself.
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Now I have no exit strategy.
If anybody needs certainty
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on when and how they're
getting out of Haiti,
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maybe not a good idea to go.
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- [plane engine roars]
- [upbeat music]
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Can't wait to get there
that's what is on my mind
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and scared also what
we're gonna find.
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From the moment we
landed it was chaotic.
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So, right now I'm just
offering drives to people,
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who wants to get in the
car, get in the car now.
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[upbeat music]
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[Sean] It's kind
of like a heavyweight
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just punched a lightweight
with everything he's got,
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that was what that earthquake
did to a whole population
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for a while there people
were just in another place
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and then you had the constant
the thickness of the air
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and that smell of dead bodies
is a very particular smell,
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and you're traveling over
rubble and downed power lines
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and the whole city
was torn to shreds.
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We found a house that was
deserted, set up camp there.
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This is gonna be our home,
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basically this is where
everybody's gonna sleep
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because it's unsafe to
stay under any walls
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We were a plan without a
plan 'cause we had to go fast
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and I had bought 14,000
Chinese water purifiers,
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so, we had one volunteer
whose job was to get a truck
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with a local pastor and go
to all the church groups,
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that would teach
them how to use it
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and then spread them to
the different villages.
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So, one person was doing that
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and then we had our
medical personnel,
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setting up with a medical
coordinator, Dr. Raul Reese
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and there was Edna Nonez,
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former Haitian national
police officer,
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who was doing some
private security work,
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then there was captain Barry,
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who'd go anywhere do
anything, anytime of day,
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hysterical, great
sense of humor,
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he was certainly one of
our gold standard guys,
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through those first many months.
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On the menu this evening,
I'll be catering the fair,
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we're going to have
pasta linguine,
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cooked al dente
with a Ragu sauce
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and garlic bread on the side.
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[man 5] How about little wine?
246
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I've heard we had a bottle
of wine or two on this location
247
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and for dessert we're
gonna have breakfast bars.
248
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[man 5] Okay, great.
249
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[Sean] He was also like
an in-house videographer,
250
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I forbade any kind of
coverage photography,
251
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by any of our staff with the
exception of Captain Barry
252
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because I knew that if people
saw me being photographed,
253
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it was gonna add to this idea,
254
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that I was there
to self-promote.
255
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Captain Barry was the one guy,
256
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who I trusted a
camera in his hand,
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that he'd know
when to walk away.
258
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So, the lights are
gonna go out pretty soon
259
00:15:21,107 --> 00:15:22,574
and the reason why
they're gonna go out soon
260
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is we have very little
fuel in our generator
261
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but at least we
have some lights on
262
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and there is a sense
of security here.
263
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[Sean] We got the news that
the shipment was gonna come in
264
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from the Venezuelans,
265
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we grabbed one of our trucks
to go and pick it all up
266
00:15:38,258 --> 00:15:40,659
and a couple of weapons
'cause we were gonna be carrying
267
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in the back of an open
truck, you know morphine.
268
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We're here collecting
our distribution,
269
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to bring it back to our doctors
270
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and to the areas that we've
targeted that need it.
271
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We got lidocaine,
ketamine, IV morphine,
272
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so, that's a lot of
people out of pain
273
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in a second and a half.
274
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We didn't have any proper
place to store them,
275
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so, I had it all in my tent
and it's quite a thing,
276
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to have a tent with
hundreds of thousands
277
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of vials of morphine in it.
278
00:16:37,017 --> 00:16:39,918
Watching these amputations
happen with saws,
279
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that were taken out of hardware
stores or whatever it was,
280
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I mean, virtually civil
war medicine stuff,
281
00:16:45,125 --> 00:16:46,425
that was going on.
282
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You're registering
faces of human beings,
283
00:16:50,163 --> 00:16:52,164
that have just taken
this incredible hit
284
00:16:52,198 --> 00:16:54,733
and they could be like
I'm looking at you,
285
00:16:54,768 --> 00:16:56,101
another adult right now
286
00:16:56,136 --> 00:16:58,103
but you can also be
looking at a small child
287
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in that situation
288
00:16:59,672 --> 00:17:02,107
and you're of course
thinking of your own kids.
289
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Our philosophy was
pretty simple,
290
00:17:05,745 --> 00:17:07,079
if a kid's in the
middle of the road,
291
00:17:07,113 --> 00:17:09,081
a truck is gonna hit that kid
292
00:17:09,115 --> 00:17:12,051
and you may have a
sidewalk full of pedophiles
293
00:17:13,553 --> 00:17:16,221
but you're gonna get that kid
and put them on the sidewalk.
294
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You deal with the other
problem afterwards
295
00:17:18,391 --> 00:17:21,193
and too many organizations
were covering step two,
296
00:17:21,227 --> 00:17:24,663
step three, step four and in
an emergency you can't do that,
297
00:17:24,697 --> 00:17:27,232
You have to stop a bleeding
298
00:17:27,267 --> 00:17:30,069
and then deal with
whatever the recovery is.
299
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Every day you would notice
military helicopters,
300
00:17:38,278 --> 00:17:40,312
going over and landing
somewhere close,
301
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to where we were camped,
302
00:17:42,415 --> 00:17:44,983
so, one of the fellas
that was with us,
303
00:17:45,018 --> 00:17:48,520
he saw that the US
military was up there.
304
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[military man speaking]
305
00:17:52,358 --> 00:17:53,859
[speaking]
306
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That's probably it.
307
00:17:57,530 --> 00:17:59,731
Do you need anything?
308
00:17:59,766 --> 00:18:00,966
[Sean] He came down and said,
309
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,068
wait till you see
what's right up here.
310
00:18:03,103 --> 00:18:05,671
[suspenseful music]
311
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[speaking]
312
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[Sean speaking]
313
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There's one golf
course in all of Haiti
314
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and a big Stonewall around it,
probably those neighborhoods,
315
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which we would associate
in the United States
316
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with slum neighborhoods
317
00:18:39,005 --> 00:18:41,406
but they were kind of
Haitian middle-class
318
00:18:41,441 --> 00:18:44,109
and most of those people
probably never seen the golf course
319
00:18:44,144 --> 00:18:45,477
because there's this
big high wall around.
320
00:18:45,512 --> 00:18:48,213
The wall fell down
in two parts of it
321
00:18:48,248 --> 00:18:49,748
and it was the only
empty green space
322
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for people to go from
their collapsed houses,
323
00:18:52,318 --> 00:18:55,587
and 35,000 people were
there within days.
324
00:18:55,622 --> 00:18:56,822
Hello.
325
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[Sean] I'm Sean.
326
00:19:04,464 --> 00:19:07,499
I think this is probably a
great way to start every day,
327
00:19:07,534 --> 00:19:12,838
just sit here and see average
people just like ourselves
328
00:19:14,340 --> 00:19:17,543
and friends back home except
in a national disaster,
329
00:19:17,577 --> 00:19:21,113
just knock the shit out
of their homes.
330
00:19:21,147 --> 00:19:23,382
They don't have them anymore
331
00:19:23,416 --> 00:19:27,519
and they don't have any money
to be able to do anything,
332
00:19:27,554 --> 00:19:32,524
get out of here, everyone
here lost somebody
333
00:19:33,626 --> 00:19:35,194
and many are continuing
to lose people.
334
00:19:36,462 --> 00:19:41,033
It's not something
little, it's too big.
335
00:19:42,569 --> 00:19:47,139
But it's probably the best
church to check in with every day,
336
00:19:47,173 --> 00:19:49,374
before we go do what
we're trying to do.
337
00:19:54,547 --> 00:19:57,449
The Lieutenant Colonel
in command there onsite,
338
00:19:57,483 --> 00:19:59,818
was Lieutenant
Colonel, Mike Foster,
339
00:19:59,852 --> 00:20:03,755
he says you can stay here as
long as you're productive,
340
00:20:03,790 --> 00:20:06,758
the second you're not
productive, you go.
341
00:20:06,793 --> 00:20:08,160
[Barry] Good morning everybody,
342
00:20:08,194 --> 00:20:09,494
- good morning, good morning.
- Good morning.
343
00:20:10,997 --> 00:20:12,331
Trying to make base camp.
344
00:20:13,533 --> 00:20:16,535
Sean, I see that you're
really busy texting right now.
345
00:20:18,004 --> 00:20:20,505
Oh no, no, you gotta be
kidding. I'm not doing...
346
00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:22,374
[Barry] What do you got there?
347
00:20:22,408 --> 00:20:23,775
Got a few extra tents.
348
00:20:23,810 --> 00:20:27,312
Our camp's changing every
day, we move things every day.
349
00:20:29,082 --> 00:20:30,315
We're seeing a lot of patients
350
00:20:30,350 --> 00:20:34,152
with the orthopedic
injuries, infection, sepsis,
351
00:20:34,187 --> 00:20:37,322
crush injuries. We're seeing
actually a lot of tetanus now.
352
00:20:37,357 --> 00:20:41,493
We had the great day
today, I feel re-pumped,
353
00:20:41,527 --> 00:20:43,762
we saw about almost
350 patients,
354
00:20:43,796 --> 00:20:45,430
[Barry] Wow, that's
the day so far.
355
00:20:45,465 --> 00:20:48,333
The best day so far and
tomorrow's gonna be a better day.
356
00:20:50,136 --> 00:20:51,937
[Sean] The federalized doctors,
357
00:20:51,971 --> 00:20:55,140
who are sent to
supplement military medics
358
00:20:55,174 --> 00:20:56,541
called DMAT,
359
00:20:56,576 --> 00:21:00,746
they set up a tent hospital
and after only a few weeks,
360
00:21:02,548 --> 00:21:04,783
they were going
to pull up stakes.
361
00:21:04,817 --> 00:21:06,618
The financing had
run out on the DMATs,
362
00:21:08,254 --> 00:21:10,422
you know, they'd done
your first responder stuff
363
00:21:11,958 --> 00:21:15,894
and here's this tent hospital
with all kinds of equipment
364
00:21:15,928 --> 00:21:20,932
and medications and everything
and they were gonna take it.
365
00:21:23,236 --> 00:21:28,140
And you can't. We've got
doctors that can run this
366
00:21:29,809 --> 00:21:33,312
and everybody held hands
including some of them DMAT doctors
367
00:21:35,081 --> 00:21:37,416
and circled it and refused
to let it get pulled up
368
00:21:39,052 --> 00:21:42,387
and Lieutenant Colonel Foster
got on the phone with Pentagon
369
00:21:42,422 --> 00:21:44,556
and said, I agree with them.
370
00:21:45,591 --> 00:21:47,826
They ultimately agreed
to leave it behind,
371
00:21:47,860 --> 00:21:50,729
that became the JP hospital.
We stole it from the government,
372
00:21:50,763 --> 00:21:52,631
[laughs] We stole it basically.
373
00:21:54,901 --> 00:21:56,902
Doctors all took off
and our doctors went in,
374
00:21:56,936 --> 00:21:58,236
that became our hospital.
375
00:21:59,605 --> 00:22:04,109
- [nurse] You want to have the line in?
- Yes.
376
00:22:04,143 --> 00:22:05,310
We're gonna deliver a baby here,
377
00:22:05,345 --> 00:22:07,479
this is our first day as
an operational hospital,
378
00:22:07,513 --> 00:22:09,181
even though we
haven't even started
379
00:22:09,215 --> 00:22:11,416
but we're gonna continue to
work through the transition.
380
00:22:11,451 --> 00:22:14,686
- First baby.
- This is their first baby. Okay.
381
00:22:16,656 --> 00:22:20,292
It was free and it began
the top hospital for the camp
382
00:22:20,326 --> 00:22:22,527
and for all the
surrounding communities.
383
00:22:28,868 --> 00:22:31,937
People from around the
world wanted to help
384
00:22:31,971 --> 00:22:34,406
in Haiti who were
identifying us.
385
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,809
Not only individuals, we
would get a lot of hospitals
386
00:22:37,844 --> 00:22:40,779
from Canada, the US,
doctors or nurses
387
00:22:40,813 --> 00:22:42,981
and they'd come down
for a two week stint
388
00:22:43,015 --> 00:22:46,418
and we would rotate one out
and then put another one in,
389
00:22:46,452 --> 00:22:49,388
when they left and so on.
We had them coming, going,
390
00:22:49,422 --> 00:22:52,457
you know, all the time.
Even gunshot victims
391
00:22:52,492 --> 00:22:53,792
and stabbings,
392
00:22:53,826 --> 00:22:55,293
those kinds of
things would happen.
393
00:22:55,328 --> 00:22:57,262
A lot of gastrointestinal stuff.
394
00:22:59,098 --> 00:23:00,732
We delivered a lot of babies
395
00:23:00,767 --> 00:23:05,670
and we had a zero
maternal mortality rate.
396
00:23:07,206 --> 00:23:10,175
Our hospital was about a
hundred meters from my tent,
397
00:23:10,209 --> 00:23:12,677
so, before I'd go to bed,
I'd always go and check in,
398
00:23:12,712 --> 00:23:16,815
if the hospital needed
anything and you never knew,
399
00:23:16,849 --> 00:23:19,317
you know, what was going on.
400
00:23:19,352 --> 00:23:23,522
The mother was acting
very out of sorts,
401
00:23:23,556 --> 00:23:26,291
she must have a psych or
post-traumatic stress disorder,
402
00:23:26,325 --> 00:23:29,127
She was feeding the
baby and the bottle,
403
00:23:29,162 --> 00:23:31,496
some kind of bleach
404
00:23:31,531 --> 00:23:33,465
but we don't know how
much the baby ingested,
405
00:23:33,499 --> 00:23:35,534
The aunt saved the baby's life,
406
00:23:35,568 --> 00:23:39,671
by grabbing it from the
mother, it's horrible.
407
00:23:40,706 --> 00:23:42,073
He's got a good pulse
can you feel it?
408
00:23:42,108 --> 00:23:44,776
I'll just do it a little bit
harder and just take over.
409
00:23:45,678 --> 00:23:46,711
Kinda like that.
410
00:23:49,382 --> 00:23:53,418
We could take people up
to a certain degree of care,
411
00:23:53,453 --> 00:23:55,053
we could do minor surgeries
412
00:23:56,022 --> 00:23:58,990
but once you had
something that required,
413
00:23:59,025 --> 00:24:01,092
you know, something
more sophisticated,
414
00:24:01,127 --> 00:24:03,261
we had to transport
them somewhere.
415
00:24:06,165 --> 00:24:09,401
- We got it, Sean, we go it, Sean.
- You got one here?
416
00:24:16,509 --> 00:24:17,542
Okay, good luck.
417
00:24:17,577 --> 00:24:19,511
Uh, right now we're in transit
418
00:24:20,746 --> 00:24:21,947
and we might be
delivering a baby.
419
00:24:21,981 --> 00:24:23,648
Let's pray that
it doesn't happen
420
00:24:23,683 --> 00:24:25,450
in the back of
this pickup truck.
421
00:24:26,586 --> 00:24:29,221
It's rush hour now so
we hope we get there,
422
00:24:29,255 --> 00:24:31,523
we're driving like a
hundred miles an hour,
423
00:24:31,557 --> 00:24:33,592
around the slippery
old turn-iest old roads.
424
00:24:39,632 --> 00:24:40,999
She's starting to scream now.
425
00:24:47,006 --> 00:24:50,442
We got security clearing
the streets for us.
426
00:24:50,476 --> 00:24:53,144
Oh man, I could hear her
voice over all this traffic.
427
00:25:02,321 --> 00:25:04,322
A few more minutes
and we'll be there.
428
00:25:05,658 --> 00:25:07,692
So, we got a young guy on a
motorcycle ahead of us now,
429
00:25:07,727 --> 00:25:10,729
telling everybody to clear the
way. We now have an escort.
430
00:25:12,832 --> 00:25:15,300
Hold on, hold on, hold
on, hold on, hold on.
431
00:25:16,469 --> 00:25:18,436
[Barry] We got the
driver doing a good job.
432
00:25:18,471 --> 00:25:21,840
Great job, great job.
You are the man today bro.
433
00:25:21,874 --> 00:25:24,476
I'm trying to show you
speedometer but it's broken.
434
00:25:25,811 --> 00:25:28,113
All right this is like home
sweet home Saint Damien,
435
00:25:28,147 --> 00:25:29,648
we've been here a
couple of times.
436
00:25:29,682 --> 00:25:31,816
Closest main
hospital that we got.
437
00:25:31,851 --> 00:25:32,751
Let's go!
438
00:25:35,154 --> 00:25:38,990
[crowd applauding and singing]
439
00:25:40,860 --> 00:25:44,129
[speaking in Creole]
440
00:25:47,033 --> 00:25:49,668
[woman screaming]
441
00:25:54,674 --> 00:25:57,742
[indistinct chatter]
442
00:26:13,092 --> 00:26:15,827
[Raul] But she's
one centimeter vertex
443
00:26:15,861 --> 00:26:17,762
and I was told that she
was eight centimeters
444
00:26:17,797 --> 00:26:19,431
and she was a breech pregnancy,
445
00:26:19,465 --> 00:26:21,833
so in that regards we
put her on the truck
446
00:26:21,867 --> 00:26:25,737
and we came immediately and
with a more controlled exam,
447
00:26:25,771 --> 00:26:29,841
that was in this hospital with
the appropriate equipment,
448
00:26:29,875 --> 00:26:31,943
that we do not have
available in the camp,
449
00:26:31,978 --> 00:26:34,879
this is the information we
found and she's gonna be okay.
450
00:26:35,982 --> 00:26:37,682
We improvised a lot,
451
00:26:37,717 --> 00:26:39,584
you know, it was a good
thing the first year,
452
00:26:39,619 --> 00:26:43,688
that I had no awareness of
Haitian or international law.
453
00:26:43,723 --> 00:26:47,892
[laughs] I just didn't know.
454
00:26:47,927 --> 00:26:50,528
[gentle music]
455
00:27:00,106 --> 00:27:03,942
I was born in Haiti and lived
there until I was about 11,
456
00:27:03,976 --> 00:27:05,276
now, I'm here in Kansas,
457
00:27:05,311 --> 00:27:08,747
to direct the institute
of Haitian studies.
458
00:27:08,781 --> 00:27:13,551
Sometimes people forget that
Haiti has a complex rapport
459
00:27:14,854 --> 00:27:18,823
with the US, with France, with
the international community,
460
00:27:20,159 --> 00:27:23,428
Back to becoming the first
successful, documented,
461
00:27:23,462 --> 00:27:26,431
slave revolt Haitian fought
for their independence,
462
00:27:26,465 --> 00:27:30,568
they are proud of that.
The US colonized Haiti,
463
00:27:30,603 --> 00:27:33,505
you know, call it the
American occupation,
464
00:27:33,539 --> 00:27:35,607
so, when you go into that space,
465
00:27:35,641 --> 00:27:39,244
acting as if that
never happened,
466
00:27:39,278 --> 00:27:43,782
there's that weariness,
that lack of trust.
467
00:27:43,816 --> 00:27:46,818
I remember hearing about
Sean Penn's being there
468
00:27:46,852 --> 00:27:51,823
and for me, I have very
mixed feelings about people,
469
00:27:52,925 --> 00:27:54,459
who go into these spaces,
470
00:27:54,493 --> 00:27:58,830
when they go without talking
to people who know the history.
471
00:27:58,864 --> 00:28:03,068
This is what was happening
with a lot of well-meaning people.
472
00:28:03,102 --> 00:28:05,837
If you wanna help someone
shut up and listen.
473
00:28:05,871 --> 00:28:08,206
[laughs] I mean, it
sounds very simplistic
474
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,209
but so many times,
well-meaning people,
475
00:28:11,243 --> 00:28:15,013
well-meaning organizations,
they don't know how to do that
476
00:28:15,047 --> 00:28:17,982
and it goes back to
this idea of power.
477
00:28:18,017 --> 00:28:22,854
Who has power, how is
power seen, who has control
478
00:28:22,888 --> 00:28:25,990
and a lot of time,
they see it as,
479
00:28:26,025 --> 00:28:28,393
even at a subconscious level,
480
00:28:28,427 --> 00:28:32,330
I am superior than you
are, I am here to help you
481
00:28:32,364 --> 00:28:34,332
and by helping what I mean is,
482
00:28:34,366 --> 00:28:35,867
I'm here to tell you what to do
483
00:28:35,901 --> 00:28:38,403
and you need to
do things my way.
484
00:28:38,437 --> 00:28:42,173
I don't mean to sound like
all aid organization are bad,
485
00:28:42,208 --> 00:28:44,809
there are some organization,
486
00:28:44,844 --> 00:28:47,011
that are doing
incredible work in Haiti.
487
00:28:47,046 --> 00:28:48,546
I have a lot of
respect for them.
488
00:28:48,581 --> 00:28:51,015
And the difference
between this organization
489
00:28:51,050 --> 00:28:53,051
and so many others is
that they're working
490
00:28:53,085 --> 00:28:54,853
with people on the ground.
491
00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:04,896
[car engine revving]
492
00:29:06,332 --> 00:29:07,565
[Sean] We got very encouraged,
493
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,968
we could immediately
see is effectiveness
494
00:29:10,002 --> 00:29:12,237
but then the young
Haitians that saw,
495
00:29:12,271 --> 00:29:15,940
that we were being effective
came and became the lead
496
00:29:15,975 --> 00:29:19,577
in the organization, so
it became a Haitian born
497
00:29:19,612 --> 00:29:22,881
and formed organization
from the beginning.
498
00:29:22,915 --> 00:29:25,583
[speaks Creole]
499
00:29:31,257 --> 00:29:34,759
I don't call J/P HRO,
"Sean Penn organization,"
500
00:29:34,794 --> 00:29:36,060
I don't see that,
501
00:29:36,095 --> 00:29:40,365
I see it as us, as our
organization as a team.
502
00:29:40,399 --> 00:29:44,602
Faine was... He was a battery.
503
00:29:45,905 --> 00:29:47,872
Like a battery
with a smile on it.
504
00:29:47,907 --> 00:29:50,675
And he basically
came to the camp
505
00:29:51,777 --> 00:29:53,578
and said he wanted
to talk to me.
506
00:29:53,612 --> 00:29:55,046
I came up and this guy says,
507
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,081
you know, "You're
helping my country."
508
00:29:57,116 --> 00:29:58,616
"I wanna help you
help my country,"
509
00:29:58,651 --> 00:30:01,786
And then I don't think he
went to bed for the next year.
510
00:30:03,889 --> 00:30:05,723
[Faine] I was working
in Dominican Republic
511
00:30:05,758 --> 00:30:09,093
and four days after the
earthquake I come back home
512
00:30:09,128 --> 00:30:11,095
because I've been trying to
reach my family on the phone,
513
00:30:11,130 --> 00:30:15,033
I couldn't reach nobody. My
mom's house collapsed completely
514
00:30:15,067 --> 00:30:18,036
but no one died, but I
have a lot of good friends,
515
00:30:18,070 --> 00:30:20,872
that passed away
in that tragedy.
516
00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:24,108
It is very important
for us, as Haitians
517
00:30:24,143 --> 00:30:26,110
to put hands together,
518
00:30:26,145 --> 00:30:27,478
to rebuild this country.
519
00:30:30,649 --> 00:30:33,218
[Sean] There was also the
young Haitian doctor Jean Marc
520
00:30:33,252 --> 00:30:35,453
and he was saving a
lot of people's lives.
521
00:30:36,622 --> 00:30:39,224
I worked for at
least six or seven,
522
00:30:39,258 --> 00:30:41,459
different other organizations
523
00:30:41,493 --> 00:30:45,029
and I don't see some
of those organizations,
524
00:30:45,064 --> 00:30:47,131
most of them really concerned.
525
00:30:47,166 --> 00:30:51,302
But if I work for six
or seven hours for J/P,
526
00:30:51,337 --> 00:30:55,640
it seems like I work for
24 hours, I work so much,
527
00:30:55,674 --> 00:30:58,977
there were so many things
to do and we had to do them
528
00:30:59,011 --> 00:31:01,679
and we did it for my people.
529
00:31:01,714 --> 00:31:06,017
Haitian doctors have the
will, they have the will
530
00:31:06,051 --> 00:31:09,053
and they do what they can
but they have some limits
531
00:31:10,055 --> 00:31:13,291
and when we find what we
need, we have no limits.
532
00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:15,593
Believe it.
533
00:31:15,628 --> 00:31:18,329
[helicopter rotors chuffing]
534
00:31:18,364 --> 00:31:23,034
[Sean] I remember I had
never seen it from the air
535
00:31:23,068 --> 00:31:26,204
and I had not gotten
emotional once.
536
00:31:26,238 --> 00:31:27,906
You know, I saw horrible things
537
00:31:29,341 --> 00:31:32,944
but I had gotten in that
head you know, it's fixable.
538
00:31:32,978 --> 00:31:36,314
I can't bring back this
life knew that coming in
539
00:31:36,348 --> 00:31:41,219
but this situation, this
big picture is fixable
540
00:31:43,122 --> 00:31:45,456
and then the
helicopter took off.
541
00:31:45,491 --> 00:31:49,661
Once I got a thousand feet
over the city of Port-au-Prince,
542
00:31:49,695 --> 00:31:52,830
the devastation is too big.
543
00:31:54,033 --> 00:31:56,968
I don't know if this
can ever, ever heal.
544
00:31:58,003 --> 00:32:00,471
And it tore my guts out to see
545
00:32:00,506 --> 00:32:04,175
because what had looked so
fixable big but fixable,
546
00:32:04,209 --> 00:32:08,212
my arrogance was we can fix
it. I was humbled immediately
547
00:32:08,247 --> 00:32:12,250
and I guess almost losing faith.
548
00:32:14,153 --> 00:32:16,821
But then you know,
we took on our area,
549
00:32:16,855 --> 00:32:20,158
others took on their areas,
all those areas come together,
550
00:32:20,192 --> 00:32:21,526
voom.
551
00:32:22,561 --> 00:32:24,929
[upbeat music]
552
00:32:25,931 --> 00:32:28,533
We gotta load it
up, we're on the way.
553
00:32:28,567 --> 00:32:32,270
I'm Alvin, from
upstate New York, Fort Bragg.
554
00:32:32,304 --> 00:32:36,107
Specialist Bill from
Washington, Illinois,
555
00:32:36,141 --> 00:32:37,475
coming out of Fort Bragg.
556
00:32:39,044 --> 00:32:40,845
[Sean] Without question
in my experience to date,
557
00:32:40,879 --> 00:32:45,249
the best humanitarian aid
organization ever built
558
00:32:45,284 --> 00:32:47,018
is the US military.
559
00:32:47,052 --> 00:32:50,521
They, like those of us
who came from movies,
560
00:32:50,556 --> 00:32:52,357
want the mission
accomplished yesterday
561
00:32:53,192 --> 00:32:55,360
and make your apologies later.
562
00:32:55,394 --> 00:32:58,463
Sending out MREs 'cause
it's safe to leave the camp.
563
00:33:00,199 --> 00:33:02,200
Approximately 2,000 MREs.
564
00:33:04,970 --> 00:33:06,604
They're helping, the
82nd airborne today,
565
00:33:06,638 --> 00:33:08,940
which is making it
a lot less chaotic.
566
00:33:10,275 --> 00:33:13,244
This is very common,
everything's working out sweet.
567
00:33:13,278 --> 00:33:15,179
They're the ones who
told us you watch,
568
00:33:15,214 --> 00:33:19,484
we've got hard deployments
in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
569
00:33:19,518 --> 00:33:22,887
These were teams that were
already set to head down there,
570
00:33:22,955 --> 00:33:24,756
when this earthquake
suddenly had them deployed,
571
00:33:24,790 --> 00:33:29,160
initially 22,000 troops
President Obama sent to Haiti.
572
00:33:30,262 --> 00:33:32,263
And they said, "tops
we were gonna be here"
573
00:33:32,297 --> 00:33:33,564
"about three months,"
574
00:33:33,599 --> 00:33:36,300
I said, no, no, I couldn't
imagine them leaving.
575
00:33:36,335 --> 00:33:37,935
And these guys would say,
576
00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:40,571
yeah, you're gonna end up
managing this whole freaking thing
577
00:33:40,606 --> 00:33:41,773
and I'm thinking no,
578
00:33:41,807 --> 00:33:44,776
I mean, you think you're
talking to an adult
579
00:33:46,378 --> 00:33:49,747
and the next thing
you know, they're gone
580
00:33:49,782 --> 00:33:53,151
and a UN organization
made us camp managers.
581
00:33:56,155 --> 00:34:00,258
What was the initial numbers
about 35,000 displaced people
582
00:34:00,292 --> 00:34:03,628
had expanded to 60,000 people.
583
00:34:03,662 --> 00:34:07,331
It was the highest density
population camp in Port-au-Prince.
584
00:34:08,367 --> 00:34:11,035
Each night the only
thing I could say
585
00:34:11,070 --> 00:34:15,106
as I went to bed
was, "oh, shit."
586
00:34:21,613 --> 00:34:23,548
[Barry] Good morning
everybody, good morning.
587
00:34:26,251 --> 00:34:28,319
What's the deal? Everybody's
having coffee and breakfast
588
00:34:28,353 --> 00:34:30,288
and you're out here working
what's up with that?
589
00:34:30,322 --> 00:34:32,190
Sometimes it's them
while I'm having coffee.
590
00:34:32,224 --> 00:34:33,491
[Barry laughs]
591
00:34:33,525 --> 00:34:36,461
We're all doing the same
thing and alternating shifts.
592
00:34:36,495 --> 00:34:37,895
Did you hear about the discovery
593
00:34:37,930 --> 00:34:40,832
of the flesh-eating disease
in our water system?
594
00:34:40,866 --> 00:34:42,133
[Barry] No, give me an update.
595
00:34:42,167 --> 00:34:43,568
- Just kidding.
- [Barry laughs]
596
00:34:43,602 --> 00:34:47,705
Usually started the day
around 6:30 in the morning.
597
00:34:47,739 --> 00:34:50,208
A remodel period!
598
00:34:50,242 --> 00:34:53,744
And we usually wrapped it up
about three in the morning.
599
00:34:58,450 --> 00:35:03,221
People were suspicious.
600
00:35:04,323 --> 00:35:08,292
Was I there to you know,
pick up a baby and kiss it
601
00:35:08,327 --> 00:35:10,862
in front of a camera
and then leave?
602
00:35:10,896 --> 00:35:12,196
What was I doing?
603
00:35:12,231 --> 00:35:14,866
There was the issue that
none of the other NGOs,
604
00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:16,868
were living in a camp.
605
00:35:16,902 --> 00:35:20,438
Their organizations paid for
nice hotels or apartments
606
00:35:20,472 --> 00:35:23,708
and things like that for
all of their foreign staff
607
00:35:23,742 --> 00:35:27,245
and we were living in a camp.
608
00:35:27,279 --> 00:35:29,580
I gotta be honest, I'm always
weary about celebrities,
609
00:35:29,615 --> 00:35:31,582
who come to disaster zones
610
00:35:31,617 --> 00:35:34,819
and they usually stay for
very short periods of time,
611
00:35:34,853 --> 00:35:36,787
appear before the
cameras and then take off
612
00:35:36,822 --> 00:35:38,122
but actor, director Sean Penn
613
00:35:38,156 --> 00:35:40,057
has been here now for
almost three weeks,
614
00:35:40,092 --> 00:35:41,792
why have you stay so long?
615
00:35:41,827 --> 00:35:46,831
Because our organization
J/P HRO was being so effective.
616
00:35:47,666 --> 00:35:48,699
In a situation like that,
617
00:35:48,734 --> 00:35:51,068
especially early on the
first couple of weeks,
618
00:35:51,103 --> 00:35:53,371
you know, it's like
all hands on deck,
619
00:35:53,405 --> 00:35:56,240
it's like whatever anybody
can do to help anybody
620
00:35:56,275 --> 00:36:00,077
is worthwhile and good
and it just surprised me,
621
00:36:00,112 --> 00:36:05,183
that this guy who has just
arrived with a desire to help,
622
00:36:06,151 --> 00:36:07,351
where now all of a sudden,
623
00:36:07,386 --> 00:36:08,586
there's tens of
thousands of people
624
00:36:08,654 --> 00:36:11,155
and he is caring for them.
625
00:36:11,190 --> 00:36:16,027
It shows you also how, how
truly fucked up things were,
626
00:36:16,061 --> 00:36:18,162
you know, if you're
thinking to yourself,
627
00:36:18,197 --> 00:36:21,365
huh, who can I get to run a camp
628
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:26,504
for you know what 50,000
people, 60,000 people in Haiti?
629
00:36:26,538 --> 00:36:30,308
Oh yeah, Sean Penn, that'll
be the guy, that'll be it.
630
00:36:30,342 --> 00:36:32,343
You know, you'd be
laughed out of the room
631
00:36:32,377 --> 00:36:34,278
but you know what? He did.
632
00:36:34,313 --> 00:36:36,347
What needs to change
on the ground now,
633
00:36:36,381 --> 00:36:39,550
what do people in America
need to know, what can they do?
634
00:36:39,585 --> 00:36:41,052
I started doing a
lot of interviews
635
00:36:41,086 --> 00:36:42,853
with Sean on my broadcast.
636
00:36:42,888 --> 00:36:45,289
He's obviously
extraordinarily compelling
637
00:36:45,324 --> 00:36:48,659
but then there's also his
ability to get across the urgency
638
00:36:48,694 --> 00:36:50,328
of the situation.
639
00:36:50,362 --> 00:36:52,363
One missionary once said,
something to me about,
640
00:36:52,397 --> 00:36:54,432
you know, Haiti, when
it gets you, it gets you.
641
00:36:54,466 --> 00:36:56,934
What about Haiti has got you?
642
00:36:56,969 --> 00:37:00,404
You're only flying 90
minutes from your own country
643
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,676
and to land in a world
that has been so neglected
644
00:37:05,711 --> 00:37:08,512
with people who have
had so little experience
645
00:37:08,547 --> 00:37:10,948
with any of the
comforts that we know
646
00:37:10,983 --> 00:37:13,284
and to see their
strength of character
647
00:37:13,318 --> 00:37:17,221
and to see this incredible
possibility within our reach
648
00:37:17,256 --> 00:37:19,223
in terms of our will to help
649
00:37:19,258 --> 00:37:21,759
and our ability to do what
we've shown it already.
650
00:37:21,793 --> 00:37:24,929
We could actually have the
example of what happens,
651
00:37:24,963 --> 00:37:29,734
when the developing world is
given the productive support,
652
00:37:29,768 --> 00:37:31,702
to become the developed world.
653
00:37:31,737 --> 00:37:35,339
He was able to raise the
profile of what was happening
654
00:37:35,374 --> 00:37:37,408
and probably get
people interested,
655
00:37:37,442 --> 00:37:40,077
who may not have paid
attention to it previously.
656
00:37:40,112 --> 00:37:41,279
So, to people in
the States that say,
657
00:37:41,313 --> 00:37:44,048
well, look I gave money
it's all still the same
658
00:37:44,082 --> 00:37:46,517
and I shouldn't
give any more money.
659
00:37:46,551 --> 00:37:49,754
If you don't trust an
NGO, find a family to adopt,
660
00:37:49,788 --> 00:37:51,355
get in touch with our NGO.
661
00:37:51,390 --> 00:37:52,723
You don't have to
get us the money,
662
00:37:52,758 --> 00:37:54,659
I'll find you family to adopt
I can give you their number,
663
00:37:54,693 --> 00:37:56,494
you can talk to them
and find out what it is
664
00:37:56,528 --> 00:37:58,029
but don't stop giving.
665
00:37:58,063 --> 00:38:02,333
Anderson Cooper gave me
the mic for kind of calls to action
666
00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:03,467
and to call people out,
667
00:38:04,870 --> 00:38:09,840
I never was ashamed to
blackmail organizations,
668
00:38:11,343 --> 00:38:13,311
basically saying, I'll
get on Anderson's show
669
00:38:13,345 --> 00:38:15,313
and I'll tell the world
that you didn't do this,
670
00:38:15,347 --> 00:38:17,181
and that you're
storing these things,
671
00:38:17,215 --> 00:38:19,483
that needed to be
distributed whatever.
672
00:38:19,518 --> 00:38:24,255
So much show so that I
heard people mimicking me,
673
00:38:24,289 --> 00:38:25,489
you know, mocking
me for doing it
674
00:38:25,524 --> 00:38:27,325
in restaurants in Petion-Ville.
675
00:38:28,126 --> 00:38:29,960
Not knowing I was there.
676
00:38:29,995 --> 00:38:31,996
And they could laugh
all they wanted
677
00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:33,431
but it would never not work
678
00:38:33,465 --> 00:38:34,765
because the easiest
thing in the world
679
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,334
was to get on television
and convince people
680
00:38:36,368 --> 00:38:37,635
not to write a check.
681
00:38:41,039 --> 00:38:43,908
I was up at the camp
and on my walkie,
682
00:38:43,942 --> 00:38:47,445
I got word from a hospital
there was a problem.
683
00:38:47,479 --> 00:38:50,314
A doctor met me outside
the tent and said,
684
00:38:50,349 --> 00:38:52,817
this 14 year old had been
sick for a couple of days,
685
00:38:52,851 --> 00:38:55,586
thought he had like a
fever and he'd get over it.
686
00:38:55,654 --> 00:38:57,755
But he was starting to
get a little unresponsive,
687
00:38:57,789 --> 00:39:00,157
Father brought him in.
His name was Oriel.
688
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,595
And she diagnosed
him with diptheria,
689
00:39:05,697 --> 00:39:07,698
so, I made a couple of calls
690
00:39:07,733 --> 00:39:09,667
and found out there
hadn't been any diphtheria
691
00:39:09,701 --> 00:39:11,535
and what are the chances.
692
00:39:11,570 --> 00:39:13,804
They had just gotten
hit with an earthquake,
693
00:39:13,839 --> 00:39:17,074
they're going to suddenly
get hit with diptheria now?
694
00:39:17,109 --> 00:39:19,043
Come on.
695
00:39:19,077 --> 00:39:20,878
And everybody's
telling me no way.
696
00:39:20,912 --> 00:39:24,181
But I thought she knew
what she was talking about
697
00:39:24,216 --> 00:39:26,317
and so I said, what
do we gotta do?
698
00:39:26,351 --> 00:39:28,552
She says, "This is the
medication we need,"
699
00:39:30,822 --> 00:39:35,926
and it turned into
a day in hell.
700
00:39:38,530 --> 00:39:41,665
We knew we needed
to get him isolated
701
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:45,002
and in a sterile
atmosphere in a hospital,
702
00:39:45,036 --> 00:39:47,138
a proper hospital not a tent.
703
00:39:47,172 --> 00:39:49,073
If she's right,
he's dying right now.
704
00:39:50,575 --> 00:39:54,712
We drove from one
hospital to another,
705
00:39:54,746 --> 00:39:57,415
getting rejected and
the first case rejected
706
00:39:57,449 --> 00:40:00,651
because they refused to
acknowledge it was diptheria,
707
00:40:00,685 --> 00:40:03,654
the second one because it
was a children's hospital
708
00:40:03,688 --> 00:40:07,792
and he was one year too old
and they again also said,
709
00:40:07,826 --> 00:40:09,660
that they don't
believe it's diptheria.
710
00:40:10,695 --> 00:40:13,230
Our ambulance breaks down,
711
00:40:13,265 --> 00:40:15,232
one of our other
trucks makes its way,
712
00:40:15,267 --> 00:40:17,535
so, now we're in the back
of an open pickup truck
713
00:40:17,569 --> 00:40:19,837
with a kid who now can't talk.
714
00:40:19,871 --> 00:40:22,740
I'm holding on to the kid's legs
715
00:40:22,774 --> 00:40:24,708
on the phone keeping
him stabilized
716
00:40:24,743 --> 00:40:28,212
and nobody could locate this
drug anywhere in the city.
717
00:40:28,246 --> 00:40:30,981
We've been here for three months
718
00:40:31,016 --> 00:40:32,817
and we had the
commanding general
719
00:40:32,851 --> 00:40:35,019
of the United States military,
720
00:40:35,053 --> 00:40:38,522
we had the head of the
American Red Cross,
721
00:40:40,158 --> 00:40:42,860
we had one of the
most important,
722
00:40:42,894 --> 00:40:47,898
television documentary
doctors, Dr. Bob Arnot,
723
00:40:48,834 --> 00:40:50,835
all for the last two hours,
724
00:40:50,869 --> 00:40:54,472
searching the entire
city of Port-au-Prince,
725
00:40:54,506 --> 00:41:00,511
three months into this for
one treatment for diptheria
726
00:41:01,813 --> 00:41:06,250
and we just located it we think.
727
00:41:06,284 --> 00:41:08,719
The CDC are leaving their
dinner, paying their bill
728
00:41:08,753 --> 00:41:11,021
and driving down here to
get us into the premise,
729
00:41:11,056 --> 00:41:13,057
at nine o'clock at night.
730
00:41:13,091 --> 00:41:16,360
And one of our staff
who had gotten the message
731
00:41:16,394 --> 00:41:18,429
and was at a restaurant,
732
00:41:18,463 --> 00:41:23,267
recognized somebody from
CDC at another table,
733
00:41:23,301 --> 00:41:25,636
who happened to be the
one who knew where it was.
734
00:41:26,771 --> 00:41:28,806
I get a call, "We've got it,"
735
00:41:30,509 --> 00:41:33,544
so, we needed to drop him
and go get the medicine.
736
00:41:33,578 --> 00:41:36,747
We forced ourselves
into university hospital
737
00:41:36,781 --> 00:41:38,449
and made them take him.
738
00:41:38,483 --> 00:41:40,751
At that point the father
connected with us,
739
00:41:40,785 --> 00:41:44,054
he got in the back of the truck
with us and we hauled ass.
740
00:41:46,258 --> 00:41:49,293
- 2.5...
- 2.5 is the prophylaxis. So it's 20 doses.
741
00:41:50,896 --> 00:41:53,531
We fucking got it and I
don't mind saying right now,
742
00:41:53,565 --> 00:41:55,900
that I was so irate
that while our guys
743
00:41:55,934 --> 00:41:58,302
were going back to the
cold section to get it,
744
00:41:58,336 --> 00:42:00,371
I'm looking around his
warehouse there's no cameras
745
00:42:00,405 --> 00:42:03,674
and I start taking everything
we'd been needing for months,
746
00:42:03,708 --> 00:42:05,342
I'm like, you know, putting
shit under my shirt,
747
00:42:05,377 --> 00:42:07,044
I go back to the
cold chain area.
748
00:42:07,078 --> 00:42:08,712
I stole some rabies vaccination
749
00:42:08,747 --> 00:42:10,281
in case one of our
people got bit by a--
750
00:42:10,315 --> 00:42:12,616
Like I said... everything
at this stage,
751
00:42:12,651 --> 00:42:17,955
you know, I got $30,000 worth
of medicine out of there
752
00:42:19,457 --> 00:42:21,358
and they came said, we're
ready we jumped in the truck.
753
00:42:21,393 --> 00:42:22,660
[car honks]
754
00:42:24,296 --> 00:42:25,262
[Barry] Where are we at?
755
00:42:25,297 --> 00:42:26,463
General hospital.
756
00:42:38,076 --> 00:42:40,811
We stood there to make sure,
757
00:42:40,845 --> 00:42:42,746
that they put this
medicine in this kid
758
00:42:45,083 --> 00:42:47,351
and I saw that medicine go
in there and I said yes,
759
00:42:48,553 --> 00:42:51,188
you know, it was
fucking thrilling.
760
00:42:52,691 --> 00:42:54,725
[Barry] If something
happens to that kid,
761
00:42:56,328 --> 00:42:57,661
I'll be like fucking pissed.
762
00:42:59,364 --> 00:43:04,068
It's three months and a
warehouse has the medicine
763
00:43:07,138 --> 00:43:09,907
and this is the biggest
hospital in the biggest city
764
00:43:09,941 --> 00:43:12,543
of a country that had the
worst humanitarian disaster
765
00:43:12,577 --> 00:43:17,681
of all time and nobody
bothered to come down here
766
00:43:17,716 --> 00:43:20,351
and tell the administration
where they can find the medicine
767
00:43:20,385 --> 00:43:22,486
much less give it to
them in case it happened.
768
00:43:27,258 --> 00:43:31,829
We get back up to our camp and
you know, there was some rum.
769
00:43:31,863 --> 00:43:35,432
- Cheers everyone, cheers.
- Cheers to Haiti.
770
00:43:35,467 --> 00:43:38,435
[All] Cheers to Haiti.
771
00:43:39,604 --> 00:43:45,476
And I had that first
rum punch thinking,
772
00:43:45,543 --> 00:43:50,648
oh, we saved a life today,
I mean like tangible.
773
00:44:09,501 --> 00:44:11,001
We got up to the news he'd died,
774
00:44:13,271 --> 00:44:14,672
and that was...
775
00:44:21,346 --> 00:44:24,181
I remember being in the truck...
776
00:44:24,215 --> 00:44:25,883
And this is the father.
777
00:44:27,352 --> 00:44:30,154
...on the way back to the
hospital with the medication
778
00:44:30,188 --> 00:44:32,890
and looking into
that father's eyes
779
00:44:32,924 --> 00:44:35,159
and telling him we got
it. Your son's gonna live.
780
00:44:36,461 --> 00:44:40,898
Thank you very much for your
help because I have my son.
781
00:44:40,932 --> 00:44:44,168
You know, I don't have the
possibility to go to the hospice.
782
00:44:44,202 --> 00:44:47,938
You know, I come to the camp,
783
00:44:47,972 --> 00:44:50,607
I saw that you give me your help
784
00:44:52,010 --> 00:44:54,645
and God bless you
and your family,
785
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:58,749
to give your power
to give me my son,
786
00:44:58,783 --> 00:45:01,719
you know, I like my
son, I love my son,
787
00:45:01,753 --> 00:45:03,887
you know, I thank you very much.
788
00:45:09,928 --> 00:45:10,928
That was a bad day.
789
00:45:32,550 --> 00:45:34,985
Now, imagine that you're
not under this beautiful tent
790
00:45:35,019 --> 00:45:37,087
but you're sitting
down there in the tarp,
791
00:45:38,656 --> 00:45:39,690
I could cry every time.
792
00:45:45,530 --> 00:45:47,531
This is where the
next major catastrophe,
793
00:45:47,565 --> 00:45:50,000
is when it begins
right now, phase two.
794
00:45:57,675 --> 00:45:59,209
[Sean] The UN had determined,
795
00:45:59,244 --> 00:46:02,780
that our camp had the
highest life threat,
796
00:46:02,814 --> 00:46:05,315
relative to mudslide
or flooding,
797
00:46:05,350 --> 00:46:08,285
so, we were gonna have to
organize voluntary relocation.
798
00:46:09,754 --> 00:46:12,055
And the first wave of
relocation to save lives,
799
00:46:12,090 --> 00:46:16,727
we cumulatively need to decompress
the camp by 7,500 persons.
800
00:46:16,761 --> 00:46:18,462
The idea was a planned camp,
801
00:46:18,496 --> 00:46:20,264
where you have a certain
amount of space between tents
802
00:46:20,298 --> 00:46:22,966
if this person cooking
outside with their oil,
803
00:46:23,001 --> 00:46:24,301
you know, lights
their tent on fire,
804
00:46:24,335 --> 00:46:26,036
it's not gonna catch
this one on fire,
805
00:46:26,070 --> 00:46:27,704
you're not gonna
spread disease as much,
806
00:46:27,739 --> 00:46:30,240
you're gonna have all
this kind of stuff.
807
00:46:30,275 --> 00:46:33,110
This is before there were
any plans or resources,
808
00:46:33,144 --> 00:46:36,046
to actually rebuild the city,
permanent housing, or anything.
809
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,348
It's emergency relocation.
810
00:46:40,652 --> 00:46:42,286
They need to start
loading their stuff,
811
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:43,754
at least an hour before.
812
00:46:43,788 --> 00:46:45,956
[Sean] We figured out a system.
813
00:46:45,990 --> 00:46:48,992
They come for check-in,
we tag them stuff,
814
00:46:50,461 --> 00:46:52,362
we set them up at the gate,
815
00:46:52,397 --> 00:46:53,764
we have a lot of people come in.
816
00:46:59,804 --> 00:47:01,538
[Sean] It's very
important that you didn't
817
00:47:01,573 --> 00:47:03,307
separate families.
818
00:47:03,341 --> 00:47:05,175
That you didn't have
kids taken by somebody,
819
00:47:05,210 --> 00:47:06,443
they weren't supposed to be with
820
00:47:06,477 --> 00:47:08,178
once they started
getting on the buses.
821
00:47:09,180 --> 00:47:10,380
[man 6] After the earthquake,
822
00:47:10,415 --> 00:47:11,782
I seen a lot of people
traumatized and I said,
823
00:47:11,816 --> 00:47:14,985
let me come up by the
camp see how people do
824
00:47:15,019 --> 00:47:18,021
and J/P was just
starting to function.
825
00:47:18,056 --> 00:47:20,324
The earthquake
affected everybody,
826
00:47:20,358 --> 00:47:23,660
the poor, the rich,
white, black, whatever.
827
00:47:23,695 --> 00:47:26,129
We will learn a lesson from
that so in the near future,
828
00:47:26,164 --> 00:47:27,698
if something like
that occurred again,
829
00:47:27,732 --> 00:47:30,634
everything could be
done in a way that,
830
00:47:30,668 --> 00:47:33,136
we'd be able to the
help one another out.
831
00:47:33,171 --> 00:47:36,173
It's like love one another
you know what I mean?
832
00:47:36,207 --> 00:47:39,076
[car engine roars]
833
00:47:44,048 --> 00:47:45,816
[Barry] What did
you write there?
834
00:47:45,850 --> 00:47:46,917
New beginnings.
835
00:47:48,219 --> 00:47:51,054
[car engine roars]
836
00:47:55,026 --> 00:47:59,162
[helicopter rotors chuffing]
837
00:47:59,197 --> 00:48:02,566
[Sean] The relocation camp
was a piece of land chosen
838
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,001
by the Haitian government.
839
00:48:04,035 --> 00:48:05,836
It was right at the
foot of the hills
840
00:48:05,870 --> 00:48:07,437
on the outside of
Port-au-Prince.
841
00:48:18,449 --> 00:48:21,551
For some reason, somebody
had it in their heads
842
00:48:21,586 --> 00:48:24,755
that they wanted it to have
gravel laid out over it
843
00:48:24,789 --> 00:48:26,390
before the camp was built,
844
00:48:26,424 --> 00:48:29,226
which was very odd because
it was a pale gravel,
845
00:48:29,260 --> 00:48:33,764
and it reflected
the sunlight a lot.
846
00:48:33,798 --> 00:48:35,198
And there were no
trees out there at all,
847
00:48:35,233 --> 00:48:37,100
and it was part of the
bigger problem in Haiti,
848
00:48:37,135 --> 00:48:39,069
the deforestation.
849
00:48:39,103 --> 00:48:42,572
And it was also in a kind
of a bad flood plain,
850
00:48:42,607 --> 00:48:44,541
but it was what was available,
851
00:48:44,575 --> 00:48:48,779
and we had what was a very
successful relocation.
852
00:48:52,317 --> 00:48:53,884
Then it became
very controversial.
853
00:48:53,918 --> 00:48:55,552
[reporter 5] In
Corail the government's
854
00:48:55,586 --> 00:48:59,589
primary relocation camps, some
15 miles from Port-au-Prince,
855
00:48:59,624 --> 00:49:03,160
a storm on Monday
collapsed at least 94 tents
856
00:49:03,194 --> 00:49:06,997
and sent hundreds of
residents fleeing to find shelter.
857
00:49:08,132 --> 00:49:09,666
[Sean] I went straight out there
858
00:49:09,701 --> 00:49:13,503
because I was hearing
hell raising is going on,
859
00:49:13,538 --> 00:49:16,173
and I could see the tires
were burning across the city
860
00:49:17,375 --> 00:49:19,476
which is a sign
of social unrest.
861
00:49:20,979 --> 00:49:25,015
And hell yeah, people were
upset, but I went tent to tent
862
00:49:25,049 --> 00:49:26,950
and asked them if they
wanted to come back,
863
00:49:26,985 --> 00:49:28,618
and nobody wanted to come back.
864
00:49:28,653 --> 00:49:30,654
They wanted to stay there
but they were pissed off
865
00:49:30,688 --> 00:49:32,823
and they wanted help
rebuilding these tents.
866
00:49:34,158 --> 00:49:37,260
[plane engine roaring]
867
00:49:46,337 --> 00:49:51,441
What's amazing now is that
turned into its own city.
868
00:49:51,476 --> 00:49:53,243
An area that had
almost no population
869
00:49:53,277 --> 00:49:55,278
has got about 250,000 people.
870
00:50:00,618 --> 00:50:05,789
- [woman singing in Creole]
- [indistinct chatter]
871
00:50:16,801 --> 00:50:18,602
We did a census in our camp,
872
00:50:18,636 --> 00:50:21,004
where did these
people come from?
873
00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:23,140
Almost everybody came
from one neighborhood
874
00:50:23,174 --> 00:50:24,641
which was the one
that had the access
875
00:50:24,675 --> 00:50:27,277
through the break in
the wall, Delmas 32.
876
00:50:28,646 --> 00:50:31,148
So we went and did a site
visit down that community.
877
00:50:34,986 --> 00:50:38,889
Virtually, Delmas had overhead
rubble covering the streets
878
00:50:38,923 --> 00:50:40,490
for miles.
879
00:50:40,525 --> 00:50:44,594
Am I exaggerating?
Miles of just rubble.
880
00:50:48,166 --> 00:50:52,169
This corner was just
like a bar. People stayed here
881
00:50:52,203 --> 00:50:56,506
late at night, having fun here.
882
00:50:56,541 --> 00:50:59,109
There was a TV here,
there was water here.
883
00:50:59,143 --> 00:51:06,116
This corner there was a
cement all the way down there
884
00:51:07,618 --> 00:51:11,021
but most of the people in the
area we used to hang out here.
885
00:51:11,055 --> 00:51:12,456
So this was like
the town square.
886
00:51:12,490 --> 00:51:13,323
Exactly.
887
00:51:14,725 --> 00:51:17,661
[car engine roars]
888
00:51:34,212 --> 00:51:35,979
I said, I wanna
clear this rubble.
889
00:51:36,013 --> 00:51:37,747
We have to be very, very clear.
890
00:51:37,782 --> 00:51:39,649
[Sean] And so we started
an engineering Corps.
891
00:51:39,684 --> 00:51:42,486
Got a civil engineer, a
former military engineer,
892
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,820
from the British forces.
893
00:51:43,855 --> 00:51:46,823
And the truck was
being loaded here. Yeah?
894
00:51:46,858 --> 00:51:50,360
[Sean] And a country
director, also a Brit,
895
00:51:50,394 --> 00:51:52,496
also former military.
896
00:51:52,530 --> 00:51:55,165
They developed a
rubble removal plan.
897
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:59,536
And this fella up in
Seattle, Richard Hots,
898
00:51:59,570 --> 00:52:02,105
who had a company called
Alaska structures,
899
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:05,041
every tent the US military
puts up on any branch
900
00:52:05,076 --> 00:52:07,077
in the military,
around the world,
901
00:52:07,111 --> 00:52:09,112
almost all of them come
from Alaska Structures.
902
00:52:09,147 --> 00:52:11,581
So this was a guy who
started camping tent business
903
00:52:11,616 --> 00:52:15,385
and became a very
wealthy philanthropist.
904
00:52:15,419 --> 00:52:20,590
Agreed with me politically
on not one thing ever.
905
00:52:20,625 --> 00:52:23,226
You're the first person I've
seen really get on the ground
906
00:52:23,261 --> 00:52:25,262
and stay on the ground.
907
00:52:25,296 --> 00:52:27,931
[Sean] But he saw me on
the Anderson Cooper show
908
00:52:27,965 --> 00:52:30,300
and he saw that we
agreed on Haiti.
909
00:52:30,334 --> 00:52:35,338
He came in and gave us our
first rubble removal grant
910
00:52:36,307 --> 00:52:38,141
of a quarter of a
million dollars.
911
00:52:42,580 --> 00:52:45,982
Today, you find us at
Rue Petion in Delmas 32
912
00:52:46,017 --> 00:52:50,187
which is our primary
rubble removal site.
913
00:52:50,221 --> 00:52:52,122
You can see the CAT
behind me operating
914
00:52:52,156 --> 00:52:54,457
and we have two of them
operating at the moment
915
00:52:54,492 --> 00:52:58,128
and they can move 140 cubic
meters of rubble a day.
916
00:52:58,162 --> 00:53:01,198
We have a team of Haitian
and international volunteers
917
00:53:01,232 --> 00:53:03,466
running it, but
with one of these,
918
00:53:03,501 --> 00:53:06,636
we clear 140 cubic meters a day
919
00:53:06,704 --> 00:53:09,539
and we have 200,000
cubic meters to clear.
920
00:53:10,808 --> 00:53:13,009
[Sean] We became the
principal in that area,
921
00:53:14,178 --> 00:53:16,179
and there were
bodies in that rubble
922
00:53:16,214 --> 00:53:21,218
and that was another sensitive
issue, at a certain point.
923
00:53:23,187 --> 00:53:27,891
You don't have the
sophisticated stuff or the money
924
00:53:29,327 --> 00:53:31,361
or the time to
surgically take care
925
00:53:31,395 --> 00:53:34,798
and do a forensic on this
thing for the family.
926
00:53:34,832 --> 00:53:37,167
So you have to go to
the family and say,
927
00:53:37,201 --> 00:53:39,102
"Do you have a loved
one in that house?"
928
00:53:39,136 --> 00:53:40,537
You know 'cause this
is now months later.
929
00:53:40,571 --> 00:53:43,473
There's no search and rescue
going on at this point,
930
00:53:45,476 --> 00:53:47,344
all there's gonna be is bones.
931
00:53:49,347 --> 00:53:52,549
And so when you were doing
a rubble removal on a site
932
00:53:52,583 --> 00:53:56,219
where there was likely a body,
the community leaders agreed
933
00:53:56,254 --> 00:53:58,021
that the way they would do
it, you let the family come,
934
00:53:58,055 --> 00:54:03,293
they pour little gasoline
through the fissures and light it.
935
00:54:05,930 --> 00:54:08,932
[singing in Creole]
936
00:55:17,468 --> 00:55:19,569
That's not an easy life
for those men and women
937
00:55:19,603 --> 00:55:22,439
that work in those teams
because you take it home.
938
00:55:23,774 --> 00:55:28,311
During the earthquake, the
front of this actually killed
939
00:55:28,346 --> 00:55:30,647
a number of individuals who
were running down this corridor
940
00:55:30,681 --> 00:55:33,783
to escape from the
inside of this area.
941
00:55:35,019 --> 00:55:36,986
As you can see right
here, this wall is,
942
00:55:37,021 --> 00:55:39,089
it's just kinda,
it's just there.
943
00:55:40,524 --> 00:55:42,792
It's a recipe for a very
dangerous situation.
944
00:55:51,268 --> 00:55:53,336
When it's a dangerous
house, we'll put caution tape
945
00:55:53,371 --> 00:55:56,272
and then we keep people
away from passing.
946
00:55:56,307 --> 00:55:58,508
So we never know when
things can happen.
947
00:56:00,478 --> 00:56:01,745
[Jeff] This is a property
948
00:56:01,779 --> 00:56:03,580
that we've been
doing demolition on,
949
00:56:03,614 --> 00:56:05,382
it was a three-story property
950
00:56:05,416 --> 00:56:08,418
and right now we're
on the first floor
951
00:56:08,452 --> 00:56:10,820
which actually was
the second floor.
952
00:56:10,855 --> 00:56:14,491
The property collapsed
crushing the first floor
953
00:56:14,525 --> 00:56:18,695
and now it's just a matter
of bringing the rubble
954
00:56:18,729 --> 00:56:20,697
from inside the property,
out to the street.
955
00:56:27,505 --> 00:56:31,808
When you see the
devastation that this earthquake
956
00:56:31,842 --> 00:56:34,577
has caused this country, and
when you see the degradation
957
00:56:34,612 --> 00:56:36,980
of just about everything
that you can think of,
958
00:56:37,014 --> 00:56:39,916
what people have lost
in a matter of seconds,
959
00:56:39,950 --> 00:56:44,854
and here you are fortunate
enough to be able to help,
960
00:56:44,889 --> 00:56:46,623
and if you come and do
it, you're not doing it
961
00:56:46,657 --> 00:56:48,858
with your heart, man,
you know what I'm saying,
962
00:56:48,893 --> 00:56:51,194
there's nothing that
you will be able to do.
963
00:56:59,036 --> 00:57:00,570
[Sean] As soon as
that rubble was cleared
964
00:57:00,604 --> 00:57:04,274
in various sections, people
started moving back on their own
965
00:57:04,308 --> 00:57:06,142
to the houses that
were not destroyed,
966
00:57:06,177 --> 00:57:09,679
or moving back and setting up
a tent on their old property.
967
00:57:11,148 --> 00:57:13,049
Businesses started cropping
up on the street again
968
00:57:13,083 --> 00:57:15,084
and you felt this
vibrancy building up
969
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:18,121
that they were doing on
their own without any help.
970
00:57:18,155 --> 00:57:21,458
So we took what had
been our camp services
971
00:57:21,492 --> 00:57:24,594
and lessons learned and
transferred them to the area
972
00:57:24,628 --> 00:57:25,929
that these camp
residence came from,
973
00:57:25,963 --> 00:57:29,032
and it was in that
step-by-step way,
974
00:57:29,066 --> 00:57:32,769
we would get people starting
to get out of the camp.
975
00:57:32,803 --> 00:57:35,672
[indistinct chatter]
976
00:57:42,513 --> 00:57:44,414
So you can see,
you can follow me.
977
00:57:47,284 --> 00:57:50,086
All this, this is
our prenatal section.
978
00:57:50,154 --> 00:57:52,222
All the women, they
stay here and wait.
979
00:57:52,256 --> 00:57:54,858
Once their vital sign is done
here, this is this Desiah.
980
00:57:54,892 --> 00:57:56,459
- Desiah say hello.
- Hello.
981
00:57:56,494 --> 00:57:59,429
Desiah is one of our
newly graduated EMT.
982
00:57:59,463 --> 00:58:01,264
He was in the EMT program.
983
00:58:01,298 --> 00:58:06,302
I was born in Delmas and
then my father passed away
984
00:58:07,505 --> 00:58:09,806
and my mom couldn't
stay here any longer,
985
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,876
so she decided we should
move to New York for a better life.
986
00:58:12,910 --> 00:58:16,446
I assimilated to the American
culture, went to nice schools,
987
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,782
I got a great education,
had a fantastic job
988
00:58:19,817 --> 00:58:21,851
at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
989
00:58:21,886 --> 00:58:25,455
for many, many years
and then I got married,
990
00:58:25,489 --> 00:58:30,960
had three kids and had
the American dream.
991
00:58:30,995 --> 00:58:32,862
And then a friend
of mine called me.
992
00:58:32,897 --> 00:58:36,866
It was on January
12th, around like 4:55,
993
00:58:36,901 --> 00:58:40,403
check CNN, the end of the
world is happening in Haiti.
994
00:58:42,573 --> 00:58:44,974
You could hear the screaming.
995
00:58:46,844 --> 00:58:50,813
This cry was different,
it was like painful cries.
996
00:58:52,816 --> 00:58:55,785
Right then, then I said,
I'm moving back to Haiti.
997
00:58:55,819 --> 00:58:57,320
Our prenatal clinic
is right here.
998
00:58:57,354 --> 00:58:59,455
We see all the pregnant
women from the beginning
999
00:58:59,490 --> 00:59:03,092
of a positive pregnancy test,
all the way until they deliver.
1000
00:59:03,127 --> 00:59:05,428
We do all their care
for them free of charge.
1001
00:59:05,462 --> 00:59:09,098
We have over a thousand
babies born, no death.
1002
00:59:09,133 --> 00:59:11,834
Thank God. So far,
knock on wood.
1003
00:59:11,869 --> 00:59:14,938
We started with her 30
international volunteers,
1004
00:59:14,972 --> 00:59:18,841
now we have more than 100
Haitian medical professionals
1005
00:59:18,876 --> 00:59:20,710
providing quality care.
1006
00:59:20,744 --> 00:59:23,413
If we weren't there, I
guarantee you a lot of patients
1007
00:59:23,447 --> 00:59:26,316
would have died from
preventable and treatable illnesses.
1008
00:59:29,053 --> 00:59:31,521
[car engine roars]
1009
00:59:31,555 --> 00:59:34,757
[indistinct chatter]
1010
00:59:34,792 --> 00:59:37,060
[Sean] For who don't
know in that first year,
1011
00:59:37,094 --> 00:59:41,164
7,000 people died an hour
and a half from Miami beach
1012
00:59:41,198 --> 00:59:43,733
of a disease you
cannot die from here.
1013
00:59:47,304 --> 00:59:51,207
If you get cholera and
you don't treat it in time
1014
00:59:51,241 --> 00:59:52,775
you're gonna die, period.
1015
00:59:52,810 --> 00:59:54,777
It takes all the water
out of your body.
1016
00:59:57,081 --> 00:59:58,715
15 boxes of ORS.
1017
01:00:00,084 --> 01:00:02,185
[Sean] We ended up getting
a warehouse down Cite Solei
1018
01:00:02,219 --> 01:00:05,688
and got a hundred thousand
units of Ringer's lactate
1019
01:00:05,723 --> 01:00:06,556
and supplies.
1020
01:00:08,092 --> 01:00:10,059
Right now they're loading
the tents that are gonna
1021
01:00:10,094 --> 01:00:13,363
be used to create the
cholera treatment centers.
1022
01:00:13,397 --> 01:00:18,034
Self-contained units so that
the patients are isolated
1023
01:00:18,068 --> 01:00:20,903
and can be treated
specifically for cholera.
1024
01:00:20,938 --> 01:00:23,539
[Sean] And we were starting
to track the breakouts.
1025
01:00:23,574 --> 01:00:26,075
Coordinating with the
cellular phone companies.
1026
01:00:26,110 --> 01:00:28,044
You could track migrations,
1027
01:00:28,078 --> 01:00:29,712
so you could see that
large amounts people
1028
01:00:29,747 --> 01:00:31,514
were moving away from an area,
1029
01:00:31,548 --> 01:00:34,684
and you knew immediately
that that area had cholera.
1030
01:00:34,718 --> 01:00:36,753
So we started working
with the Cuban doctors
1031
01:00:36,787 --> 01:00:38,655
'cause they had a brigade
there and they had donkeys,
1032
01:00:38,689 --> 01:00:42,091
so they could go up in the
areas that we couldn't get to.
1033
01:00:42,126 --> 01:00:44,227
And then we had the
elections coming up
1034
01:00:44,261 --> 01:00:46,562
and when elections
come up, traditionally,
1035
01:00:46,597 --> 01:00:48,398
you get social unrest.
1036
01:00:48,432 --> 01:00:51,501
The last thing in the world
that we needed was gun battles
1037
01:00:51,535 --> 01:00:53,736
in the streets while people
were dying of cholera
1038
01:00:53,771 --> 01:00:56,706
and while they had no hard
shelter, they're in camps.
1039
01:00:56,740 --> 01:00:58,374
Everybody's in camps.
1040
01:00:58,409 --> 01:01:00,677
We cannot rule out the
possibility of violence in our camp.
1041
01:01:00,711 --> 01:01:03,646
For the next 48 hours,
I would request that
1042
01:01:03,681 --> 01:01:07,150
no one enter the camp
unless it's absolutely necessary
1043
01:01:07,184 --> 01:01:08,651
to your job.
1044
01:01:08,686 --> 01:01:11,320
So now we started
paying for helicopters
1045
01:01:11,355 --> 01:01:14,590
and then mixing that
with working with
1046
01:01:14,625 --> 01:01:17,060
the UN humanitarian air service,
1047
01:01:17,094 --> 01:01:20,129
and that way we could,
by air, bring our doctors
1048
01:01:20,164 --> 01:01:22,965
and the medication out
to all these hotspots
1049
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,734
throughout the country.
1050
01:01:24,768 --> 01:01:30,039
- [gentle music]
- [plane engine roars]
1051
01:01:32,476 --> 01:01:35,344
[speaking in Creole]
1052
01:02:03,073 --> 01:02:05,575
I never believed something
like this could happen
1053
01:02:05,609 --> 01:02:06,576
in my country.
1054
01:02:07,878 --> 01:02:09,679
I feel so low, I feel so down.
1055
01:02:11,849 --> 01:02:12,949
It's too much.
1056
01:02:18,222 --> 01:02:22,091
It's too much. [sighs heavily]
1057
01:02:27,598 --> 01:02:30,533
[plane engine roars]
1058
01:02:39,376 --> 01:02:41,043
You know I think in one
year we might've spent
1059
01:02:41,078 --> 01:02:45,214
as much as $25 million,
but that's when you were
1060
01:02:45,249 --> 01:02:47,817
in the emergency phase and
big grants were coming in.
1061
01:02:47,851 --> 01:02:50,286
So that was, you know, then.
1062
01:02:51,755 --> 01:02:55,158
As time went on, I had
to pay for all that stuff
1063
01:02:55,926 --> 01:02:57,460
with private money.
1064
01:02:57,494 --> 01:03:02,098
So then we had to do the gala.
1065
01:03:02,132 --> 01:03:07,136
- [camera clicks] -
[reporters shout indistinctly]
1066
01:03:07,171 --> 01:03:11,474
Tonight we're here to celebrate
Sean Penn and J/P HRO
1067
01:03:11,508 --> 01:03:14,110
and the great work they've
been doing for Haiti.
1068
01:03:14,144 --> 01:03:16,813
With such star
names helping Haiti.
1069
01:03:16,847 --> 01:03:19,782
These events are key
to Haiti's recovery.
1070
01:03:19,817 --> 01:03:22,285
[Sean] It's the
worst part of it.
1071
01:03:22,319 --> 01:03:23,653
It's the thing
that'll burn you out
1072
01:03:23,687 --> 01:03:25,721
faster than anything else.
1073
01:03:25,756 --> 01:03:28,591
The hat in handness of it.
1074
01:03:28,625 --> 01:03:31,627
We're ready to rock
and we need you badly.
1075
01:03:31,662 --> 01:03:34,463
You know, it's always a
struggle of calling friends
1076
01:03:34,498 --> 01:03:38,868
and enemies [audience laughs]
1077
01:03:38,902 --> 01:03:40,903
and telling them
they're your friends.
1078
01:03:40,938 --> 01:03:43,472
- [Sean laughs]
- [audience laughs]
1079
01:03:43,507 --> 01:03:46,108
You're just begging
because the people there
1080
01:03:46,143 --> 01:03:48,578
are working so hard
and heroically.
1081
01:03:48,612 --> 01:03:53,082
We've had extraordinary
people help us in two ways.
1082
01:03:53,116 --> 01:03:54,884
One of those, you know,
you'll have an art auction
1083
01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:58,888
and who are willing
to pony up big bids
1084
01:03:58,922 --> 01:04:00,823
to help out the organization.
1085
01:04:00,858 --> 01:04:02,992
The artists who
contribute the art,
1086
01:04:03,026 --> 01:04:04,760
then we have musical guests.
1087
01:04:04,795 --> 01:04:07,096
And the musical guests have
been the greatest bands
1088
01:04:07,130 --> 01:04:09,665
in the world, really
extraordinary.
1089
01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:11,701
So you have to work
very hard to make sure
1090
01:04:11,735 --> 01:04:13,436
that it's a good night for them.
1091
01:04:13,470 --> 01:04:14,971
You want that.
1092
01:04:15,005 --> 01:04:18,374
And so there's that pressure.
1093
01:04:18,442 --> 01:04:21,477
And then there's the pressure
of how much are you gonna pull.
1094
01:04:21,511 --> 01:04:24,547
Who's gonna start any number
you can do in this room.
1095
01:04:24,581 --> 01:04:26,015
Let's just start adding it up.
1096
01:04:26,049 --> 01:04:28,885
Everybody in here can
vote for the future.
1097
01:04:28,919 --> 01:04:32,421
Just give me a number
5,000, 10,000, 20,000.
1098
01:04:32,456 --> 01:04:34,290
Just give me a number. Who?
1099
01:04:34,324 --> 01:04:38,761
You've got 300 people in a
room. By the end of that night,
1100
01:04:38,795 --> 01:04:42,899
if you make $6 million
out of those 300 people
1101
01:04:42,933 --> 01:04:45,635
it's probably coming
out of five pockets.
1102
01:04:47,037 --> 01:04:49,138
And you're looking around
the room wondering,
1103
01:04:50,807 --> 01:04:54,310
if you're here in Beverly Hills,
1104
01:04:54,344 --> 01:04:56,545
and you're watching
this entertainment,
1105
01:04:56,580 --> 01:05:00,082
you're watching YouTube and
they're pouring their hearts out
1106
01:05:02,286 --> 01:05:05,855
you don't have $500
to donate? [laughs]
1107
01:05:05,889 --> 01:05:08,224
And I know a lot of
people in that room,
1108
01:05:08,258 --> 01:05:10,693
they have a lot more
than $500 to donate,
1109
01:05:12,262 --> 01:05:16,198
and they come year after
year to these things
1110
01:05:16,233 --> 01:05:22,538
and never put up anything,
and it's pretty infuriating.
1111
01:05:24,541 --> 01:05:27,677
Okay, I'm just gonna really
look around this room.
1112
01:05:27,711 --> 01:05:29,745
Come on, man.
1113
01:05:29,780 --> 01:05:32,748
These people are dying over
there, we need your help,
1114
01:05:32,783 --> 01:05:35,518
I've already given millions
of dollars, it's time.
1115
01:05:35,552 --> 01:05:38,154
I've gotten worse
and worse at it.
1116
01:05:38,188 --> 01:05:39,522
I quit every year.
1117
01:05:39,556 --> 01:05:43,092
Quite frankly, the bottom
line is, they're waiting now,
1118
01:05:43,126 --> 01:05:45,928
young brains are starving
for education now,
1119
01:05:45,963 --> 01:05:49,165
there's malnutrition now as
we're sitting here tonight
1120
01:05:49,199 --> 01:05:53,102
and I trust that you don't
need me to be very charming
1121
01:05:53,136 --> 01:05:55,771
to tell you that what
we've got to do is raise
1122
01:05:55,806 --> 01:05:57,239
a lot of money tonight.
1123
01:05:57,274 --> 01:05:59,041
Everybody in this room,
1124
01:05:59,076 --> 01:06:02,111
every one of you can
contribute to this.
1125
01:06:02,145 --> 01:06:04,613
And you know, you know from
the people who were up here,
1126
01:06:04,648 --> 01:06:05,848
I'm not fucking around.
1127
01:06:05,882 --> 01:06:08,184
We're gonna make your money
work, give us that money.
1128
01:06:08,218 --> 01:06:09,819
We need the goddamn money.
1129
01:06:09,853 --> 01:06:11,988
We need the support now.
1130
01:06:12,022 --> 01:06:14,790
[sighs heavily] Help
us finish this job.
1131
01:06:15,959 --> 01:06:18,561
Reach deep, then reach deeper.
1132
01:06:18,595 --> 01:06:21,364
We share one second
on Earth together.
1133
01:06:22,666 --> 01:06:24,233
Let's do it right.
1134
01:06:24,267 --> 01:06:26,802
I know these evenings can
be long, but trust me.
1135
01:06:26,837 --> 01:06:30,106
And then there's the people
who are so supportive,
1136
01:06:30,140 --> 01:06:33,476
and you can get champions
in a lot of corners,
1137
01:06:33,510 --> 01:06:36,812
people who contribute
in a lot of ways to it.
1138
01:06:36,847 --> 01:06:40,082
-Sold to--[audience claps]
1139
01:06:40,117 --> 01:06:41,984
But it's a beast.
1140
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,956
We're constantly looking for
new ways to sustain things.
1141
01:06:46,990 --> 01:06:50,559
If there's one true lesson
that I myself have learned
1142
01:06:50,594 --> 01:06:55,231
from Haitians is that if you
are shoved down to the ground
1143
01:06:55,265 --> 01:06:59,769
wounded, hurt really bad,
there's only one thing to do,
1144
01:06:59,803 --> 01:07:02,338
get back up.
1145
01:07:02,372 --> 01:07:05,207
[audience clap]
1146
01:07:09,379 --> 01:07:11,080
The rubble is mostly gone.
1147
01:07:11,114 --> 01:07:16,185
Sean's organization, cleaned
500,000 cubic meters.
1148
01:07:16,219 --> 01:07:18,354
He has carried off one
of the most successful
1149
01:07:18,388 --> 01:07:20,990
camp evacuations ever.
1150
01:07:21,024 --> 01:07:23,959
60,000 people moved from camp.
1151
01:07:23,994 --> 01:07:27,329
[audience claps]
1152
01:07:27,364 --> 01:07:32,368
- [gentle music]
- [thunder rumbles]
1153
01:07:50,954 --> 01:07:53,489
[Sean] I remember I
walked down the hill
1154
01:07:53,523 --> 01:07:57,960
and I see this incredible space,
1155
01:07:57,994 --> 01:08:00,729
this golf course that
they talked about.
1156
01:08:00,764 --> 01:08:04,233
I never understood how it
could have been a golf course.
1157
01:08:04,267 --> 01:08:06,102
It seemed like too
much of a hill,
1158
01:08:07,604 --> 01:08:09,972
but all of a sudden, now
the tents are all clear
1159
01:08:10,006 --> 01:08:10,940
and I'm seeing it.
1160
01:08:11,908 --> 01:08:13,609
And I see it for the first time.
1161
01:08:15,011 --> 01:08:17,313
I went back to that
first day in my head
1162
01:08:18,849 --> 01:08:21,717
and remembering all those
nights and the screaming
1163
01:08:21,751 --> 01:08:26,589
and the, sometimes the
violence and sometimes the party.
1164
01:08:28,325 --> 01:08:31,327
All the stuff that life is that
that camp had represented.
1165
01:08:32,462 --> 01:08:34,463
And those original volunteers
1166
01:08:34,498 --> 01:08:36,398
that had long since gone away.
1167
01:08:36,433 --> 01:08:39,135
All the experiences
that had been that camp.
1168
01:08:41,338 --> 01:08:43,839
There were people who told
us you'll never get it done,
1169
01:08:45,575 --> 01:08:49,812
all that but, that was big day.
1170
01:08:49,846 --> 01:08:51,280
Really, really big day.
1171
01:09:05,195 --> 01:09:08,364
There came a time when you
move from emergency relief
1172
01:09:08,398 --> 01:09:11,834
into development where yours
truly has to fire himself
1173
01:09:11,868 --> 01:09:15,137
because making movies and
emergencies are the same thing,
1174
01:09:15,172 --> 01:09:17,506
the stakes are different, but
when it came to development
1175
01:09:17,541 --> 01:09:20,376
you needed much more
knowledgeable, thoughtful
1176
01:09:20,410 --> 01:09:22,678
and patient people
than myself running it.
1177
01:09:23,413 --> 01:09:24,780
[Don] Roll sound.
1178
01:09:24,814 --> 01:09:25,881
Sound speeds.
1179
01:09:27,384 --> 01:09:29,218
Okay, good to go.
1180
01:09:29,252 --> 01:09:31,487
I remember after the
earthquake, when we were going
1181
01:09:31,521 --> 01:09:32,988
to all these meetings,
1182
01:09:33,023 --> 01:09:37,993
I was called on by the US
government to talk to Sean
1183
01:09:38,028 --> 01:09:41,430
because he was managing the
biggest displacement camp.
1184
01:09:41,464 --> 01:09:43,299
And I think they were
concerned about him
1185
01:09:43,333 --> 01:09:45,434
having enough support
and experience
1186
01:09:45,468 --> 01:09:52,308
and kind of help guide him on
ways that looking at the camp.
1187
01:09:52,342 --> 01:09:54,476
Sean was saying, you
know how he was worried
1188
01:09:54,511 --> 01:09:56,979
about the drainage
because it was very hilly,
1189
01:09:57,013 --> 01:09:59,982
and because of the rains
there was a lot of issues
1190
01:10:00,016 --> 01:10:02,017
with the tents getting flooded.
1191
01:10:02,052 --> 01:10:06,622
My boss very quickly
volunteered my team
1192
01:10:06,656 --> 01:10:10,192
to provide the heavy equipment,
to help with the drainage.
1193
01:10:10,227 --> 01:10:12,628
Which was very frustrating
because at the time
1194
01:10:12,662 --> 01:10:14,196
I did not take him seriously.
1195
01:10:14,231 --> 01:10:16,465
I did not think he was
gonna stay for very long.
1196
01:10:16,499 --> 01:10:19,868
I just figured he's
going to take pictures,
1197
01:10:19,903 --> 01:10:22,371
he's gonna do his thing
and then he's gonna leave
1198
01:10:22,405 --> 01:10:25,908
because that's what we had
been seeing of other people.
1199
01:10:27,410 --> 01:10:31,680
There is this natural competition
between organizations
1200
01:10:31,715 --> 01:10:34,149
that is so toxic.
1201
01:10:34,184 --> 01:10:37,920
And I think it was
just realizing that,
1202
01:10:37,954 --> 01:10:42,491
wait a second we're all
trying to do the same thing,
1203
01:10:42,525 --> 01:10:46,996
and if we don't work together
then what the fuck am I doing?
1204
01:10:47,030 --> 01:10:48,264
He was actually committed.
1205
01:10:48,298 --> 01:10:52,101
He was actually like on
the ground doing stuff.
1206
01:10:52,135 --> 01:10:55,671
That changed my
attitude towards him.
1207
01:10:55,739 --> 01:11:00,776
And then in 2015, Sean asked
me to join the organization.
1208
01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:06,515
I gave it maybe a week's
thought and quit my job at the UN
1209
01:11:06,549 --> 01:11:08,083
and jumped right on board.
1210
01:11:08,118 --> 01:11:10,886
And the first thing that
I did was to go with him
1211
01:11:10,954 --> 01:11:14,056
to COP 21 in France.
1212
01:11:14,090 --> 01:11:16,558
[gentle music]
1213
01:11:36,446 --> 01:11:38,514
Sean met with the
French president.
1214
01:11:38,548 --> 01:11:41,250
They discussed what the
biggest difficulties were
1215
01:11:41,284 --> 01:11:44,898
in Haiti and reforestation
and climate change
1216
01:11:44,922 --> 01:11:47,056
were the two biggest
things that they decided
1217
01:11:47,090 --> 01:11:50,092
were critically
important to address.
1218
01:11:50,126 --> 01:11:54,363
And the French president
said, "I'm gonna work with you."
1219
01:11:54,397 --> 01:11:57,199
"We're gonna allocate,
millions of dollars"
1220
01:11:57,233 --> 01:11:58,667
"towards reforestation."
1221
01:11:58,702 --> 01:12:01,503
We have a ten-year
plan to mobilize
1222
01:12:01,538 --> 01:12:03,639
a civilian conservation Corps,
1223
01:12:05,442 --> 01:12:10,012
to incentivize the protection
of trees by the resourcing
1224
01:12:10,046 --> 01:12:11,680
of agriculture.
1225
01:12:12,882 --> 01:12:16,251
When we presented this
to the French government
1226
01:12:16,286 --> 01:12:19,655
we presented it as a
dream, but we were greeted
1227
01:12:20,623 --> 01:12:22,791
with a relative acknowledgement
1228
01:12:22,826 --> 01:12:24,760
that it's no longer
time for dreaming.
1229
01:12:32,469 --> 01:12:35,904
With an initial plan
of a pledge from France
1230
01:12:35,939 --> 01:12:38,674
of a hundred million
dollars over 10 years
1231
01:12:38,708 --> 01:12:41,276
matched by the World Bank,
another hundred million
1232
01:12:41,311 --> 01:12:44,646
over 10 years and
then private funds,
1233
01:12:44,681 --> 01:12:45,781
we have Haiti Takes Root,
1234
01:12:45,815 --> 01:12:48,484
which is a massive
reforestation project.
1235
01:12:48,518 --> 01:12:53,489
We are here tonight with
you and by with you, I mean
1236
01:12:53,523 --> 01:12:56,825
with your commitment, we
share it to make this happen.
1237
01:12:59,529 --> 01:13:02,831
[Ann] Now, translating
that vision into reality
1238
01:13:02,866 --> 01:13:06,034
on the ground, however,
is a very different thing.
1239
01:13:07,670 --> 01:13:10,706
We've spent about $2 million
over the last two years
1240
01:13:10,740 --> 01:13:14,309
on getting actual physical
activities on the ground.
1241
01:13:14,344 --> 01:13:16,879
But we are the only ones
who've been spending money
1242
01:13:16,913 --> 01:13:20,549
because World Bank is not
allowed to spend money
1243
01:13:20,583 --> 01:13:23,218
except through the
Haitian government.
1244
01:13:23,252 --> 01:13:25,721
Given the political
situation in Haiti
1245
01:13:25,755 --> 01:13:28,123
that has been very difficult.
1246
01:13:28,158 --> 01:13:30,659
[TV reporter] Protesters
running from tear gas...
1247
01:13:30,693 --> 01:13:31,727
[gun shots]
1248
01:13:31,761 --> 01:13:36,331
...clashes with police,
barricades and fires.
1249
01:13:36,366 --> 01:13:37,833
These are the scenes of anger
1250
01:13:37,867 --> 01:13:40,502
paralyzing Haiti's largest
cities after more than a week
1251
01:13:40,537 --> 01:13:42,337
of deadly unrest.
1252
01:13:42,372 --> 01:13:43,472
The demonstrators are demanding
1253
01:13:43,506 --> 01:13:45,641
their president's resignation.
1254
01:13:45,675 --> 01:13:47,509
Many people are very
discouraged especially
1255
01:13:47,544 --> 01:13:49,578
if they in Port-au-Prince.
1256
01:13:49,612 --> 01:13:50,612
Haiti exists.
1257
01:13:50,647 --> 01:13:53,182
People exist, people
or in their community
1258
01:13:53,216 --> 01:13:55,884
they are surviving in
spite of the government,
1259
01:13:55,919 --> 01:13:57,953
not because of the government.
1260
01:13:57,987 --> 01:14:00,289
In many ways we are
going backwards,
1261
01:14:00,323 --> 01:14:02,357
instead of moving forward.
1262
01:14:02,392 --> 01:14:07,196
It's super frustrating,
but having worked, jeez,
1263
01:14:07,230 --> 01:14:14,570
14 years in Haiti, it's also
not surprising, unfortunately.
1264
01:14:14,604 --> 01:14:17,973
So we're gonna continue on
working with the farmers,
1265
01:14:18,007 --> 01:14:20,542
to grow more productive trees
1266
01:14:20,577 --> 01:14:22,578
and increase their
wages, their earnings
1267
01:14:22,612 --> 01:14:26,648
but Haiti Takes Root as
imagined is on hold for now.
1268
01:14:39,796 --> 01:14:44,066
This organization's
lifeblood is this gala.
1269
01:14:44,100 --> 01:14:46,435
We're trying to change
that, but for right now
1270
01:14:46,469 --> 01:14:50,539
it's very reliant on
this gala for funding.
1271
01:14:50,573 --> 01:14:52,908
It's what separates us out from
1272
01:14:52,942 --> 01:14:55,244
the majority of
organizations out there.
1273
01:14:55,278 --> 01:14:58,080
Welcome to the 5th
annual Help Haiti event.
1274
01:14:58,114 --> 01:14:59,948
[Ann] When we have
flexible funding
1275
01:14:59,983 --> 01:15:03,552
and we can spend it in ways
that most organizations can't,
1276
01:15:03,586 --> 01:15:05,454
it just means that we can
get work done on the ground
1277
01:15:05,488 --> 01:15:07,155
a lot quicker.
1278
01:15:07,190 --> 01:15:09,591
[TV reporter] Hurricane
Matthew slammed into Haiti
1279
01:15:09,626 --> 01:15:13,095
on Tuesday only now are we
starting to see the extent
1280
01:15:13,129 --> 01:15:14,429
of the damage.
1281
01:15:14,464 --> 01:15:16,698
And while the Capital
city largely dodged a bullet
1282
01:15:16,733 --> 01:15:18,634
there are some rural
areas here that are just
1283
01:15:18,668 --> 01:15:21,803
absolutely devastated and
fears remain for flooding,
1284
01:15:21,838 --> 01:15:24,606
mudslides and possibly cholera.
1285
01:15:24,641 --> 01:15:27,276
When hurricane Matthew
happened, we already
1286
01:15:27,310 --> 01:15:28,710
had our programs planned,
1287
01:15:30,213 --> 01:15:32,481
but philosophically,
we must respond.
1288
01:15:39,322 --> 01:15:42,457
[Ann] Our team who had
experience from the earthquake
1289
01:15:42,491 --> 01:15:46,328
jumped right in and went
into disaster response mode.
1290
01:15:47,497 --> 01:15:50,832
To be able to even
get medical, food,
1291
01:15:50,867 --> 01:15:53,335
any of those things anywhere
you need to have access.
1292
01:15:53,369 --> 01:15:55,671
So we did that immediately.
1293
01:15:55,705 --> 01:15:57,172
[woman speaks Creole]
1294
01:15:57,206 --> 01:15:58,974
You get to know the
community and you can see
1295
01:15:59,008 --> 01:16:01,677
what else is needed,
and they tell us,
1296
01:16:01,711 --> 01:16:03,211
okay we need money for this now,
1297
01:16:03,246 --> 01:16:04,746
and we need to do this next.
1298
01:16:06,482 --> 01:16:10,552
Our teams were all Haitian
and the local mayors
1299
01:16:10,587 --> 01:16:12,888
were saying you have no
idea how good it feels
1300
01:16:12,922 --> 01:16:16,758
to see one of our own
responding, speaking our language,
1301
01:16:16,793 --> 01:16:20,062
and it's amazing to see
that we're able to do this
1302
01:16:20,096 --> 01:16:21,463
for ourselves.
1303
01:16:22,465 --> 01:16:24,900
Haitians aren't just victims.
1304
01:16:24,934 --> 01:16:26,835
They're not just
like helpless people
1305
01:16:26,869 --> 01:16:30,739
that need help all the
time, they're bad-ass.
1306
01:16:32,041 --> 01:16:34,910
Food, water, all those
things are necessary.
1307
01:16:34,944 --> 01:16:36,712
That's short-term stuff
1308
01:16:36,746 --> 01:16:38,580
but let's start
investing immediately now
1309
01:16:38,615 --> 01:16:41,917
on things that are going to
prevent the next hurricane
1310
01:16:41,951 --> 01:16:44,786
to completely knock
out these communities.
1311
01:16:47,290 --> 01:16:50,092
So we had a $7
million annual budget
1312
01:16:51,027 --> 01:16:52,794
and we had raised $7 million.
1313
01:16:54,564 --> 01:16:59,668
And within five weeks we
spent $3 million responding
1314
01:16:59,702 --> 01:17:00,969
to Matthew.
1315
01:17:01,671 --> 01:17:03,572
That was an unforeseen cost.
1316
01:17:03,606 --> 01:17:06,441
[Don] Does that make
you wanna think about
1317
01:17:06,476 --> 01:17:09,878
scaling back or you
keep pushing forward?
1318
01:17:10,980 --> 01:17:12,381
Well, what I wanna to do
1319
01:17:13,650 --> 01:17:17,252
is I don't wanna leave
anybody high and dry,
1320
01:17:17,286 --> 01:17:18,687
including our employees,
1321
01:17:19,922 --> 01:17:24,493
and in the education
area, certainly not kids.
1322
01:17:24,527 --> 01:17:26,595
So we're just going to figure
out a way to keep it financed
1323
01:17:26,629 --> 01:17:28,163
as long as we have it.
1324
01:17:28,197 --> 01:17:31,099
If I can offload education onto
1325
01:17:31,134 --> 01:17:32,968
another philanthropic
organization
1326
01:17:33,002 --> 01:17:37,172
that we share a philosophy
with who will either improve it
1327
01:17:37,206 --> 01:17:40,609
or at least maintain it
as it is, I'll do that.
1328
01:17:40,643 --> 01:17:44,479
What I would like to be left
with is what we started with
1329
01:17:44,514 --> 01:17:46,782
because the storms
aren't gonna get less.
1330
01:17:48,384 --> 01:17:51,720
We're a humanitarian
emergency organization,
1331
01:17:51,754 --> 01:17:55,924
and to bring that outside
of Haiti is valuable.
1332
01:17:57,193 --> 01:18:00,295
When you look at the hurricane
belt of the United States
1333
01:18:00,329 --> 01:18:02,731
it's not rocket
science to know where
1334
01:18:02,765 --> 01:18:04,533
a lot of these
disasters are gonna hit.
1335
01:18:04,567 --> 01:18:08,170
It's basically the convergence
of poverty, racial inequality
1336
01:18:08,204 --> 01:18:13,108
and riskier areas that are
more prone to the elements.
1337
01:18:14,711 --> 01:18:16,378
What we're starting now
is our first pilot project
1338
01:18:16,412 --> 01:18:18,580
in Savannah, Georgia.
1339
01:18:35,898 --> 01:18:39,668
[indistinct chatter]
1340
01:18:39,702 --> 01:18:43,472
What we do is we go to
disadvantaged neighborhoods
1341
01:18:43,506 --> 01:18:46,074
and areas that have
serious racial tension
1342
01:18:46,109 --> 01:18:48,510
between the police
and the residents.
1343
01:18:48,544 --> 01:18:51,680
And you get the young men and
women from 16 to 25 years old
1344
01:18:51,714 --> 01:18:53,081
and start training them.
1345
01:18:54,450 --> 01:18:57,552
Today is graduation day
for our community emergency
1346
01:18:57,587 --> 01:18:59,087
response team program training.
1347
01:18:59,121 --> 01:19:00,722
I'm really excited.
1348
01:19:02,225 --> 01:19:05,794
[Sean] And working with the
governor and the universities.
1349
01:19:05,828 --> 01:19:10,265
Make it so that those credits
matter as university credits.
1350
01:19:10,299 --> 01:19:12,234
That the cert training is a
certification that matters,
1351
01:19:12,268 --> 01:19:17,038
that it has a presence
on a CV in getting a job.
1352
01:19:17,073 --> 01:19:18,440
Well, I think my
classmates are pretty proud
1353
01:19:18,474 --> 01:19:22,210
and excited that we get
to have this opportunity
1354
01:19:22,245 --> 01:19:25,447
to all be together and
accomplish something.
1355
01:19:25,481 --> 01:19:27,649
For me to graduate
out of this program
1356
01:19:27,683 --> 01:19:30,218
to give me the opportunities
that it's giving me,
1357
01:19:30,253 --> 01:19:31,686
it's a good feeling.
1358
01:19:31,754 --> 01:19:34,856
It means a lot to me
to help other people,
1359
01:19:34,891 --> 01:19:36,057
and to know that I can.
1360
01:19:37,894 --> 01:19:39,928
[Sean] If you have six
locations from Houston
1361
01:19:39,962 --> 01:19:42,631
to the Southern
Atlantic seaboard,
1362
01:19:42,665 --> 01:19:44,633
you've got the entire
hurricane belt covered
1363
01:19:44,667 --> 01:19:45,901
with trained young people.
1364
01:19:45,935 --> 01:19:49,104
[Trainee] Hands on the
wall, hands on the wall.
1365
01:19:49,138 --> 01:19:51,540
[Sean] And then if
the emergency happens
1366
01:19:51,574 --> 01:19:55,043
within say 250 miles, they
are obligated to deploy
1367
01:19:55,077 --> 01:19:56,478
to that area also.
1368
01:19:56,512 --> 01:19:57,979
First to their own community,
1369
01:19:58,014 --> 01:19:59,915
but if it doesn't
hit their community
1370
01:19:59,949 --> 01:20:02,784
then they can be
activated for other areas.
1371
01:20:04,287 --> 01:20:07,389
[TV reporter 1] Florence
raging ashore before dawn.
1372
01:20:07,423 --> 01:20:10,892
Hurricane-force winds
turning debris into projectiles.
1373
01:20:10,927 --> 01:20:12,928
[TV reporter 2] Fierce
winds and relentless waves
1374
01:20:12,962 --> 01:20:15,263
bearing down on the Carolinas.
1375
01:20:15,298 --> 01:20:19,301
We knew hurricane Florence
is gonna hit Robertson County
1376
01:20:19,335 --> 01:20:21,102
'cause it's the poorest county,
1377
01:20:21,137 --> 01:20:24,906
and it was in an area where
there this massive river
1378
01:20:24,941 --> 01:20:27,008
that flooded all the time.
1379
01:20:28,611 --> 01:20:33,315
We brought about 15 kids and
they spent a long weekend
1380
01:20:34,450 --> 01:20:36,785
just mucking out these
houses of families
1381
01:20:36,819 --> 01:20:40,689
that had water halfway
up their walls.
1382
01:20:40,723 --> 01:20:42,524
Thanks for coming in
this is absolutely huge
1383
01:20:42,558 --> 01:20:43,959
to have you all involved.
1384
01:20:43,993 --> 01:20:45,861
Couldn't be more
thankful that you're here
1385
01:20:45,895 --> 01:20:47,629
and let's get to work.
1386
01:20:55,938 --> 01:21:00,141
[Ann] Those kids worked
in the North Carolina heat
1387
01:21:00,176 --> 01:21:05,247
but we're just so happy and
excited to be doing something
1388
01:21:06,315 --> 01:21:08,049
and to put their
training to use.
1389
01:21:09,485 --> 01:21:13,255
They actually saw the impact
that they had on these families
1390
01:21:13,289 --> 01:21:16,791
who were so grateful who would
come by and bring them water
1391
01:21:16,826 --> 01:21:18,793
and just inspire them.
1392
01:21:19,996 --> 01:21:22,664
One, two, three cheese.
1393
01:21:24,467 --> 01:21:27,669
I felt a long time
ago that J/P HRO
1394
01:21:29,071 --> 01:21:33,174
is a name that only
Haitians and people in Haiti
1395
01:21:33,209 --> 01:21:36,144
can actually remember,
nobody ever gets it right.
1396
01:21:36,178 --> 01:21:39,848
Also in terms of the
direction we were going
1397
01:21:39,882 --> 01:21:42,217
we changed J/P HRO into CORE.
1398
01:21:42,251 --> 01:21:44,586
It's Community
Organized Relief Effort.
1399
01:21:44,654 --> 01:21:45,854
[thunder rumbling]
1400
01:21:45,888 --> 01:21:47,689
[TV reporter 3] We wanna
get right to hurricane Dorian
1401
01:21:47,723 --> 01:21:49,190
category five storm
hitting, The Bahamas,
1402
01:21:49,225 --> 01:21:50,825
heading for the Southeast.
1403
01:21:54,297 --> 01:21:56,998
Wind gusts of
200 miles per hour.
1404
01:21:57,033 --> 01:22:00,135
You can see what it's doing
here and off in the distance,
1405
01:22:00,169 --> 01:22:02,771
those waves crashing
against the pier.
1406
01:22:02,805 --> 01:22:05,607
[wind gusts]
1407
01:22:05,641 --> 01:22:07,208
[Ann] The Bahamas happens.
1408
01:22:07,243 --> 01:22:09,911
We have a relationship
with the mayor of San Juan,
1409
01:22:09,946 --> 01:22:14,249
where she sends out with us,
her team of search and rescue
1410
01:22:14,283 --> 01:22:16,985
and medical staff to
respond to an emergency.
1411
01:22:18,721 --> 01:22:21,389
So as soon as the
medical teams were done
1412
01:22:21,424 --> 01:22:24,359
then our teams brought
in the debris removal.
1413
01:22:27,396 --> 01:22:30,665
While we're doing that, we
have a team that's getting
1414
01:22:30,700 --> 01:22:34,469
businesses back up and running
again, as well as households
1415
01:22:36,038 --> 01:22:38,873
get cash to people so that
they can rebuild their lives.
1416
01:22:40,409 --> 01:22:43,178
We're not a massively
huge organization,
1417
01:22:43,212 --> 01:22:44,746
we have a lot of heart.
1418
01:22:44,780 --> 01:22:47,682
But here's the vision we're
gonna make this community
1419
01:22:47,717 --> 01:22:51,086
healthier, stronger,
and happier.
1420
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,855
And we got to sell that
to other organizations
1421
01:22:53,889 --> 01:22:57,225
to inspire them, to just
throw in what they can.
1422
01:22:57,259 --> 01:23:00,128
[gentle music]
1423
01:23:28,991 --> 01:23:31,259
After so many years,
you just get numb to it.
1424
01:23:31,293 --> 01:23:34,329
You know, the same images,
you see all the destruction,
1425
01:23:34,363 --> 01:23:37,399
you hear the same stories, you
remember what you remember.
1426
01:23:37,433 --> 01:23:41,436
I think this one, because it's
10 years, hit me a lot harder
1427
01:23:41,470 --> 01:23:43,938
than it does usually.
1428
01:23:43,973 --> 01:23:47,675
Remembering the people
that you've left behind
1429
01:23:47,710 --> 01:23:49,511
and the life that
you left behind.
1430
01:23:54,050 --> 01:23:57,485
I see a lot of personality
driven organizations
1431
01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:00,255
that start out with big ideas
1432
01:24:00,289 --> 01:24:03,024
and a lot of energy
for fundraising
1433
01:24:03,059 --> 01:24:05,627
that gets real
tiring real quick,
1434
01:24:05,661 --> 01:24:08,830
and you'll see those
organizations close their doors.
1435
01:24:10,099 --> 01:24:13,902
We've been trying to
alleviate some of that pressure
1436
01:24:13,936 --> 01:24:14,903
from Sean.
1437
01:24:14,937 --> 01:24:18,006
He opens doors for us, for sure.
1438
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:21,176
He is not as much a
deal closer anymore.
1439
01:24:23,279 --> 01:24:26,347
There's this story that I've
loved ever since I was a kid.
1440
01:24:26,382 --> 01:24:29,150
And it's about this guy
who comes into a village
1441
01:24:29,185 --> 01:24:30,652
and he's a vagabond,
1442
01:24:30,686 --> 01:24:33,721
and this village is
very, very suspicious.
1443
01:24:33,756 --> 01:24:36,658
Everyone runs into their
houses and closes their door
1444
01:24:36,692 --> 01:24:39,294
and he sets up in the
center of the village,
1445
01:24:39,328 --> 01:24:42,163
he pulls out his
stone and his pot
1446
01:24:42,198 --> 01:24:43,832
and he starts building a fire,
1447
01:24:43,866 --> 01:24:46,835
filling his pot up with
water, sticks a stone in,
1448
01:24:46,869 --> 01:24:48,703
and he's just cooking away.
1449
01:24:48,737 --> 01:24:50,238
The villages are very curious,
1450
01:24:50,272 --> 01:24:53,007
so they're coming out one by
one and they're asking him,
1451
01:24:53,042 --> 01:24:54,209
"What are you making?
What is that?"
1452
01:24:54,243 --> 01:24:58,379
"And he says, " This is
the most delicious soup
1453
01:24:58,414 --> 01:25:00,949
"that you will ever
taste. It is so hardy.
1454
01:25:00,983 --> 01:25:02,951
"You will never taste
anything like it"
1455
01:25:02,985 --> 01:25:06,788
"but it would just be even
better if we could add"
1456
01:25:06,822 --> 01:25:08,923
"a few more carrots in there."
1457
01:25:08,958 --> 01:25:11,226
The villager says, "I have
carrots, I'll bring some."
1458
01:25:11,260 --> 01:25:13,862
And then another villager
comes and he says,
1459
01:25:13,896 --> 01:25:17,932
"Oh it'd be so much better
if we just had onions."
1460
01:25:17,967 --> 01:25:22,737
And so at the end of it,
the vagabond actually makes
1461
01:25:22,771 --> 01:25:26,107
the most delicious
soup ever tasted.
1462
01:25:26,142 --> 01:25:28,376
To me, that is Sean.
1463
01:25:28,410 --> 01:25:32,547
He comes in with a fucking
bag and a fucking rock
1464
01:25:32,581 --> 01:25:35,717
and is like, "This is
the most amazing thing"
1465
01:25:35,751 --> 01:25:37,585
"we're gonna do ever."
1466
01:25:37,620 --> 01:25:42,423
And little by little
people make it happen.
1467
01:25:42,458 --> 01:25:45,260
[indistinct chatter]
1468
01:25:53,769 --> 01:25:55,270
[Sean] I'm just a guy who says,
1469
01:25:55,304 --> 01:25:56,882
"Okay, I think I can do this."
1470
01:25:56,906 --> 01:25:58,806
"I think I can do
something good here."
1471
01:26:00,676 --> 01:26:02,177
I don't fancy myself,
1472
01:26:05,181 --> 01:26:09,450
a good doer or a bad doer.
Like here's a project,
1473
01:26:09,485 --> 01:26:10,852
and I keep my head in there
1474
01:26:10,886 --> 01:26:13,288
'cause I have great
humanitarians that I work with.
1475
01:26:14,490 --> 01:26:19,027
Five times a month, I
say to myself out loud,
1476
01:26:19,061 --> 01:26:21,229
thank God that I went.
1477
01:26:22,364 --> 01:26:23,898
The life experience of it,
1478
01:26:25,234 --> 01:26:28,469
the people that I met, both
Haitian and non Haitian,
1479
01:26:28,504 --> 01:26:29,370
the things I learned about
1480
01:26:29,405 --> 01:26:31,673
that I never would
have understood.
1481
01:26:33,008 --> 01:26:36,010
I wouldn't miss this for
my life for anything.
1482
01:26:38,881 --> 01:26:42,150
There were so many people
whose names I won't remember
1483
01:26:42,184 --> 01:26:44,485
without whom J/P
HR would not exist.
1484
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,121
Maybe tomorrow I'll
flash on a face and go,
1485
01:26:47,156 --> 01:26:49,023
"Oh, what was her name?
What was his name?"
1486
01:26:50,192 --> 01:26:52,193
They might've just done
one thing on one day
1487
01:26:52,228 --> 01:26:56,598
that changed everything
because we were an airplane
1488
01:26:56,632 --> 01:26:59,267
that built itself after takeoff.
1489
01:26:59,301 --> 01:27:03,137
And that's a perilous
ride in so many ways.
1490
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:08,576
And how it ended up surviving
was the force of will
1491
01:27:08,611 --> 01:27:10,478
of hundreds of people.
1492
01:27:12,781 --> 01:27:15,583
We need citizen activism.
1493
01:27:15,618 --> 01:27:18,353
We need citizen participation.
1494
01:27:18,387 --> 01:27:22,657
And that's all I can claim
to be, is as a citizen
1495
01:27:22,691 --> 01:27:25,460
who tries to participate
and that's it.
1496
01:27:26,395 --> 01:27:28,062
[woman] Do you have
your glasses Sean?
1497
01:27:33,569 --> 01:27:35,570
I used to say about
directing a film
1498
01:27:35,604 --> 01:27:39,407
that at a certain point, you're
running down a train track
1499
01:27:39,441 --> 01:27:41,276
and now you're in a tunnel
and the trains coming
1500
01:27:41,310 --> 01:27:43,945
and you only have one choice,
you gotta keep running.
1501
01:27:43,979 --> 01:27:46,080
There's no room on
the sides, right?
1502
01:27:50,919 --> 01:27:53,421
For me, there were
two daylights.
1503
01:27:53,455 --> 01:27:56,190
There was the daylight came
after about nine months
1504
01:27:56,225 --> 01:27:58,559
which was a daylight
enough that said,
1505
01:27:58,594 --> 01:28:02,297
"I've got people here I can
trust to keep this going,"
1506
01:28:02,331 --> 01:28:04,666
and then there's that
most distant daylight
1507
01:28:04,700 --> 01:28:09,137
which is how to really feel
that we made a lasting impact
1508
01:28:09,171 --> 01:28:10,805
on people's lives.
1509
01:28:12,141 --> 01:28:13,107
[Don] You're optimistic?
1510
01:28:13,142 --> 01:28:15,843
Well I have no choice,
there's no choice.
1511
01:28:15,878 --> 01:28:17,578
I've told too many
people it's gonna work.
1512
01:28:17,613 --> 01:28:19,280
[laughs] I'm in the tunnel.
1513
01:28:22,651 --> 01:28:25,987
[Host] And now the
founder of CORE, Sean Penn.
1514
01:28:26,021 --> 01:28:28,956
[audience applaud]
1515
01:28:46,508 --> 01:28:48,176
♪ It's part of the attraction ♪
1516
01:28:48,210 --> 01:28:49,844
♪ You wanna be destroyed ♪
1517
01:28:49,878 --> 01:28:51,446
♪ And the spirit on the water ♪
1518
01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:53,648
♪ And you're the farmer's boy ♪
1519
01:28:53,682 --> 01:28:55,316
♪ When I heard your voice ♪
1520
01:28:55,351 --> 01:28:57,352
♪ At first I was annoyed ♪
1521
01:28:57,386 --> 01:29:00,421
♪ You woke me ♪
1522
01:29:00,456 --> 01:29:02,557
♪ From the beginning of time ♪
1523
01:29:02,591 --> 01:29:04,659
♪ I had so little grace ♪
1524
01:29:04,693 --> 01:29:08,496
♪ After while not a
freckle on your face ♪
1525
01:29:08,530 --> 01:29:11,899
♪ I was looking for the
rhyme in time and space ♪
1526
01:29:11,934 --> 01:29:15,803
♪ And you broke me ♪
1527
01:29:15,838 --> 01:29:19,574
♪ You are walking now naked
with your pants not on ♪
1528
01:29:19,608 --> 01:29:23,244
♪ At the gates of Eden
with no sins to pardon ♪
1529
01:29:23,278 --> 01:29:26,748
♪ It was Adam not Eve who
threw God out of the garden ♪
1530
01:29:26,782 --> 01:29:29,851
♪ You rock me ♪
1531
01:29:29,885 --> 01:29:33,554
♪ Let's not get clever
with this stuff ♪
1532
01:29:33,589 --> 01:29:38,860
♪ Well are you
ready to give up ♪
1533
01:29:39,528 --> 01:29:42,463
♪ To find love ♪
1534
01:29:42,498 --> 01:29:46,134
♪ To find love ♪
1535
01:29:46,168 --> 01:29:50,338
♪ To find love ♪
1536
01:29:50,372 --> 01:29:54,742
♪ To find love ♪
1537
01:29:54,777 --> 01:29:58,479
♪ When you're climbing rom
the wreckage of a burnout star ♪
1538
01:29:58,547 --> 01:30:02,049
♪ And the old neon looks
like the counting bar ♪
1539
01:30:02,084 --> 01:30:03,651
♪ Asked where I was going ♪
1540
01:30:03,685 --> 01:30:08,489
♪ I answered how
far you wanna go ♪
1541
01:30:09,825 --> 01:30:13,227
♪ American male,
teary-eyed knight ♪
1542
01:30:13,262 --> 01:30:16,397
♪ The cigarette smokers
going to find his light ♪
1543
01:30:16,432 --> 01:30:18,733
♪ If you repeat
it often enough ♪
1544
01:30:18,767 --> 01:30:20,735
♪ Wrong looks right ♪
1545
01:30:20,769 --> 01:30:23,037
♪ But deep down you know ♪
1546
01:30:23,105 --> 01:30:27,008
♪ The smooth will make
excuses for the rough ♪
1547
01:30:27,042 --> 01:30:32,847
♪ Yeah, no, it shouldn't
be this tough ♪
1548
01:30:32,881 --> 01:30:36,651
♪ To find love ♪
1549
01:30:36,685 --> 01:30:39,520
♪ To find love ♪
1550
01:30:39,555 --> 01:30:43,624
♪ To find love ♪
1551
01:30:43,659 --> 01:30:46,828
♪ To find love ♪
1552
01:30:49,598 --> 01:30:52,834
♪ Tell the oceans ♪
1553
01:30:52,868 --> 01:30:56,671
♪ Tell the sun ♪
1554
01:30:56,705 --> 01:30:59,807
♪ Tell the weatherman ♪
1555
01:30:59,842 --> 01:31:03,244
♪ Tell everyone ♪
1556
01:31:03,278 --> 01:31:06,781
♪ All money junkies are
running out of veins ♪
1557
01:31:06,815 --> 01:31:08,249
♪ If you're one
of them yourself ♪
1558
01:31:08,283 --> 01:31:10,485
♪ You got no one else to blame ♪
1559
01:31:10,519 --> 01:31:12,620
♪ You don't need any
more than you have ♪
1560
01:31:12,654 --> 01:31:17,191
♪ Except the shame
of feeling torn ♪
1561
01:31:17,226 --> 01:31:19,193
♪ Between the hungry
and the greedy ♪
1562
01:31:19,228 --> 01:31:21,429
♪ The hunted and the needy ♪
1563
01:31:21,463 --> 01:31:22,964
♪ If you wanted you can see me ♪
1564
01:31:22,998 --> 01:31:24,532
♪ When you serve the
poor you free me ♪
1565
01:31:24,566 --> 01:31:28,803
♪ Slaves have grown accustomed
to the weight of your chains ♪
1566
01:31:28,837 --> 01:31:32,139
♪ And your heads shone ♪
1567
01:31:32,174 --> 01:31:36,143
♪ Your eyes will find the
silence inside the hurricane ♪
1568
01:31:36,178 --> 01:31:39,914
♪ You know you must do
something other than complain ♪
1569
01:31:39,948 --> 01:31:43,384
♪ Or pray for mother Earth,
these are not more labor pains ♪
1570
01:31:43,418 --> 01:31:46,621
♪ Maybe you're being born ♪
1571
01:31:46,655 --> 01:31:49,924
♪ Out of the ash of the dust ♪
1572
01:31:49,958 --> 01:31:53,794
♪ The clever learn
who not to trust ♪
1573
01:31:53,829 --> 01:31:57,932
♪ The genius of belief
is that we must ♪
1574
01:31:57,966 --> 01:32:02,737
♪ Take a chance
sometimes on us ♪
1575
01:32:03,338 --> 01:32:06,707
♪ To find love ♪
1576
01:32:06,742 --> 01:32:10,478
♪ To find love ♪
1577
01:32:10,512 --> 01:32:14,048
♪ To find love ♪
1578
01:32:14,082 --> 01:32:17,685
♪ To find love ♪
1579
01:32:17,719 --> 01:32:21,155
♪ To find love ♪
1580
01:32:21,189 --> 01:32:25,493
♪ To find love ♪
1581
01:32:25,527 --> 01:32:28,462
♪ To find love ♪
1582
01:32:28,497 --> 01:32:31,532
♪ To find love ♪