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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
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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
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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
00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,897
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
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that was going on.
282
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You're registering
faces of human beings,
283
00:16:50,142 --> 00:16:52,143
that have just taken
this incredible hit
284
00:16:52,177 --> 00:16:54,712
and they could be like
I'm looking at you,
285
00:16:54,747 --> 00:16:56,080
another adult right now
286
00:16:56,115 --> 00:16:58,082
but you can also be
looking at a small child
287
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in that situation
288
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and you're of course
thinking of your own kids.
289
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Our philosophy was
pretty simple,
290
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if a kid's in the
middle of the road,
291
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a truck is gonna hit that kid
292
00:17:09,094 --> 00:17:12,030
and you may have a
sidewalk full of pedophiles
293
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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
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and too many organizations
were covering step two,
296
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step three, step four and in
an emergency you can't do that,
297
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You have to stop a bleeding
298
00:17:27,246 --> 00:17:30,048
and then deal with
whatever the recovery is.
299
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Every day you would notice
military helicopters,
300
00:17:38,257 --> 00:17:40,291
going over and landing
somewhere close,
301
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to where we were camped,
302
00:17:42,394 --> 00:17:44,962
so, one of the fellas
that was with us,
303
00:17:44,997 --> 00:17:48,499
he saw that the US
military was up there.
304
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[military man speaking]
305
00:17:52,337 --> 00:17:53,838
[speaking]
306
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That's probably it.
307
00:17:57,509 --> 00:17:59,710
Do you need anything?
308
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[Sean] He came down and said,
309
00:18:00,979 --> 00:18:03,047
wait till you see
what's right up here.
310
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[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
00:18:38,984 --> 00:18:41,385
but they were kind of
Haitian middle-class
318
00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:44,088
and most of those people
probably never seen the golf course
319
00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:45,456
because there's this
big high wall around.
320
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The wall fell down
in two parts of it
321
00:18:48,227 --> 00:18:49,727
and it was the only
empty green space
322
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for people to go from
their collapsed houses,
323
00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:55,566
and 35,000 people were
there within days.
324
00:18:55,601 --> 00:18:56,801
Hello.
325
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[Sean] I'm Sean.
326
00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:07,478
I think this is probably a
great way to start every day,
327
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just sit here and see average
people just like ourselves
328
00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:17,522
and friends back home except
in a national disaster,
329
00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:21,092
just knock the shit out
of their homes.
330
00:19:21,126 --> 00:19:23,361
They don't have them anymore
331
00:19:23,395 --> 00:19:27,498
and they don't have any money
to be able to do anything,
332
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get out of here, everyone
here lost somebody
333
00:19:33,605 --> 00:19:35,173
and many are continuing
to lose people.
334
00:19:36,441 --> 00:19:41,012
It's not something
little, it's too big.
335
00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:47,118
But it's probably the best
church to check in with every day,
336
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before we go do what
we're trying to do.
337
00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:57,428
The Lieutenant Colonel
in command there onsite,
338
00:19:57,462 --> 00:19:59,797
was Lieutenant
Colonel, Mike Foster,
339
00:19:59,831 --> 00:20:03,734
he says you can stay here as
long as you're productive,
340
00:20:03,769 --> 00:20:06,737
the second you're not
productive, you go.
341
00:20:06,772 --> 00:20:08,139
[Barry] Good morning everybody,
342
00:20:08,173 --> 00:20:09,473
- good morning, good morning.
- Good morning.
343
00:20:10,976 --> 00:20:12,310
Trying to make base camp.
344
00:20:13,512 --> 00:20:16,514
Sean, I see that you're
really busy texting right now.
345
00:20:17,983 --> 00:20:20,484
Oh no, no, you gotta be
kidding. I'm not doing...
346
00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:22,353
[Barry] What do you got there?
347
00:20:22,387 --> 00:20:23,754
Got a few extra tents.
348
00:20:23,789 --> 00:20:27,291
Our camp's changing every
day, we move things every day.
349
00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:30,294
We're seeing a lot of patients
350
00:20:30,329 --> 00:20:34,131
with the orthopedic
injuries, infection, sepsis,
351
00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:37,301
crush injuries. We're seeing
actually a lot of tetanus now.
352
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:41,472
We had the great day
today, I feel re-pumped,
353
00:20:41,506 --> 00:20:43,741
we saw about almost
350 patients,
354
00:20:43,775 --> 00:20:45,409
[Barry] Wow, that's
the day so far.
355
00:20:45,444 --> 00:20:48,312
The best day so far and
tomorrow's gonna be a better day.
356
00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:51,916
[Sean] The federalized doctors,
357
00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:55,119
who are sent to
supplement military medics
358
00:20:55,153 --> 00:20:56,520
called DMAT,
359
00:20:56,555 --> 00:21:00,725
they set up a tent hospital
and after only a few weeks,
360
00:21:02,527 --> 00:21:04,762
they were going
to pull up stakes.
361
00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:06,597
The financing had
run out on the DMATs,
362
00:21:08,233 --> 00:21:10,401
you know, they'd done
your first responder stuff
363
00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:15,873
and here's this tent hospital
with all kinds of equipment
364
00:21:15,907 --> 00:21:20,911
and medications and everything
and they were gonna take it.
365
00:21:23,215 --> 00:21:28,119
And you can't. We've got
doctors that can run this
366
00:21:29,788 --> 00:21:33,291
and everybody held hands
including some of them DMAT doctors
367
00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:37,395
and circled it and refused
to let it get pulled up
368
00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:42,366
and Lieutenant Colonel Foster
got on the phone with Pentagon
369
00:21:42,401 --> 00:21:44,535
and said, I agree with them.
370
00:21:45,570 --> 00:21:47,805
They ultimately agreed
to leave it behind,
371
00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:50,708
that became the JP hospital.
We stole it from the government,
372
00:21:50,742 --> 00:21:52,610
[laughs] We stole it basically.
373
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,881
Doctors all took off
and our doctors went in,
374
00:21:56,915 --> 00:21:58,215
that became our hospital.
375
00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:04,088
- [nurse] You want to have the line in?
- Yes.
376
00:22:04,122 --> 00:22:05,289
We're gonna deliver a baby here,
377
00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,458
this is our first day as
an operational hospital,
378
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,160
even though we
haven't even started
379
00:22:09,194 --> 00:22:11,395
but we're gonna continue to
work through the transition.
380
00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:14,665
- First baby.
- This is their first baby. Okay.
381
00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:20,271
It was free and it began
the top hospital for the camp
382
00:22:20,305 --> 00:22:22,506
and for all the
surrounding communities.
383
00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:31,916
People from around the
world wanted to help
384
00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:34,385
in Haiti who were
identifying us.
385
00:22:34,419 --> 00:22:37,788
Not only individuals, we
would get a lot of hospitals
386
00:22:37,823 --> 00:22:40,758
from Canada, the US,
doctors or nurses
387
00:22:40,792 --> 00:22:42,960
and they'd come down
for a two week stint
388
00:22:42,994 --> 00:22:46,397
and we would rotate one out
and then put another one in,
389
00:22:46,431 --> 00:22:49,367
when they left and so on.
We had them coming, going,
390
00:22:49,401 --> 00:22:52,436
you know, all the time.
Even gunshot victims
391
00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:53,771
and stabbings,
392
00:22:53,805 --> 00:22:55,272
those kinds of
things would happen.
393
00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:57,241
A lot of gastrointestinal stuff.
394
00:22:59,077 --> 00:23:00,711
We delivered a lot of babies
395
00:23:00,746 --> 00:23:05,649
and we had a zero
maternal mortality rate.
396
00:23:07,185 --> 00:23:10,154
Our hospital was about a
hundred meters from my tent,
397
00:23:10,188 --> 00:23:12,656
so, before I'd go to bed,
I'd always go and check in,
398
00:23:12,691 --> 00:23:16,794
if the hospital needed
anything and you never knew,
399
00:23:16,828 --> 00:23:19,296
you know, what was going on.
400
00:23:19,331 --> 00:23:23,501
The mother was acting
very out of sorts,
401
00:23:23,535 --> 00:23:26,270
she must have a psych or
post-traumatic stress disorder,
402
00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:29,106
She was feeding the
baby and the bottle,
403
00:23:29,141 --> 00:23:31,475
some kind of bleach
404
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:33,444
but we don't know how
much the baby ingested,
405
00:23:33,478 --> 00:23:35,513
The aunt saved the baby's life,
406
00:23:35,547 --> 00:23:39,650
by grabbing it from the
mother, it's horrible.
407
00:23:40,685 --> 00:23:42,052
He's got a good pulse
can you feel it?
408
00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:44,755
I'll just do it a little bit
harder and just take over.
409
00:23:45,657 --> 00:23:46,690
Kinda like that.
410
00:23:49,361 --> 00:23:53,397
We could take people up
to a certain degree of care,
411
00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:55,032
we could do minor surgeries
412
00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:58,969
but once you had
something that required,
413
00:23:59,004 --> 00:24:01,071
you know, something
more sophisticated,
414
00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:03,240
we had to transport
them somewhere.
415
00:24:06,144 --> 00:24:09,380
- We got it, Sean, we go it, Sean.
- You got one here?
416
00:24:16,488 --> 00:24:17,521
Okay, good luck.
417
00:24:17,556 --> 00:24:19,490
Uh, right now we're in transit
418
00:24:20,725 --> 00:24:21,926
and we might be
delivering a baby.
419
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,627
Let's pray that
it doesn't happen
420
00:24:23,662 --> 00:24:25,429
in the back of
this pickup truck.
421
00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:29,200
It's rush hour now so
we hope we get there,
422
00:24:29,234 --> 00:24:31,502
we're driving like a
hundred miles an hour,
423
00:24:31,536 --> 00:24:33,571
around the slippery
old turn-iest old roads.
424
00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:40,978
She's starting to scream now.
425
00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:50,421
We got security clearing
the streets for us.
426
00:24:50,455 --> 00:24:53,123
Oh man, I could hear her
voice over all this traffic.
427
00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:04,301
A few more minutes
and we'll be there.
428
00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:07,671
So, we got a young guy on a
motorcycle ahead of us now,
429
00:25:07,706 --> 00:25:10,708
telling everybody to clear the
way. We now have an escort.
430
00:25:12,811 --> 00:25:15,279
Hold on, hold on, hold
on, hold on, hold on.
431
00:25:16,448 --> 00:25:18,415
[Barry] We got the
driver doing a good job.
432
00:25:18,450 --> 00:25:21,819
Great job, great job.
You are the man today bro.
433
00:25:21,853 --> 00:25:24,455
I'm trying to show you
speedometer but it's broken.
434
00:25:25,790 --> 00:25:28,092
All right this is like home
sweet home Saint Damien,
435
00:25:28,126 --> 00:25:29,627
we've been here a
couple of times.
436
00:25:29,661 --> 00:25:31,795
Closest main
hospital that we got.
437
00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:32,730
Let's go!
438
00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:38,969
[crowd applauding and singing]
439
00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:44,108
[speaking in Creole]
440
00:25:47,012 --> 00:25:49,647
[woman screaming]
441
00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:57,721
[indistinct chatter]
442
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:15,806
[Raul] But she's
one centimeter vertex
443
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,741
and I was told that she
was eight centimeters
444
00:26:17,776 --> 00:26:19,410
and she was a breech pregnancy,
445
00:26:19,444 --> 00:26:21,812
so in that regards we
put her on the truck
446
00:26:21,846 --> 00:26:25,716
and we came immediately and
with a more controlled exam,
447
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:29,820
that was in this hospital with
the appropriate equipment,
448
00:26:29,854 --> 00:26:31,922
that we do not have
available in the camp,
449
00:26:31,957 --> 00:26:34,858
this is the information we
found and she's gonna be okay.
450
00:26:35,961 --> 00:26:37,661
We improvised a lot,
451
00:26:37,696 --> 00:26:39,563
you know, it was a good
thing the first year,
452
00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:43,667
that I had no awareness of
Haitian or international law.
453
00:26:43,702 --> 00:26:47,871
[laughs] I just didn't know.
454
00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:50,507
[gentle music]
455
00:27:00,085 --> 00:27:03,921
I was born in Haiti and lived
there until I was about 11,
456
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,255
now, I'm here in Kansas,
457
00:27:05,290 --> 00:27:08,726
to direct the institute
of Haitian studies.
458
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,530
Sometimes people forget that
Haiti has a complex rapport
459
00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:18,802
with the US, with France, with
the international community,
460
00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:23,407
Back to becoming the first
successful, documented,
461
00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:26,410
slave revolt Haitian fought
for their independence,
462
00:27:26,444 --> 00:27:30,547
they are proud of that.
The US colonized Haiti,
463
00:27:30,582 --> 00:27:33,484
you know, call it the
American occupation,
464
00:27:33,518 --> 00:27:35,586
so, when you go into that space,
465
00:27:35,620 --> 00:27:39,223
acting as if that
never happened,
466
00:27:39,257 --> 00:27:43,761
there's that weariness,
that lack of trust.
467
00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:46,797
I remember hearing about
Sean Penn's being there
468
00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:51,802
and for me, I have very
mixed feelings about people,
469
00:27:52,904 --> 00:27:54,438
who go into these spaces,
470
00:27:54,472 --> 00:27:58,809
when they go without talking
to people who know the history.
471
00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:03,047
This is what was happening
with a lot of well-meaning people.
472
00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:05,816
If you wanna help someone
shut up and listen.
473
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:08,185
[laughs] I mean, it
sounds very simplistic
474
00:28:08,219 --> 00:28:11,188
but so many times,
well-meaning people,
475
00:28:11,222 --> 00:28:14,992
well-meaning organizations,
they don't know how to do that
476
00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:17,961
and it goes back to
this idea of power.
477
00:28:17,996 --> 00:28:22,833
Who has power, how is
power seen, who has control
478
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:25,969
and a lot of time,
they see it as,
479
00:28:26,004 --> 00:28:28,372
even at a subconscious level,
480
00:28:28,406 --> 00:28:32,309
I am superior than you
are, I am here to help you
481
00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:34,311
and by helping what I mean is,
482
00:28:34,345 --> 00:28:35,846
I'm here to tell you what to do
483
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,382
and you need to
do things my way.
484
00:28:38,416 --> 00:28:42,152
I don't mean to sound like
all aid organization are bad,
485
00:28:42,187 --> 00:28:44,788
there are some organization,
486
00:28:44,823 --> 00:28:46,990
that are doing
incredible work in Haiti.
487
00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:48,525
I have a lot of
respect for them.
488
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,994
And the difference
between this organization
489
00:28:51,029 --> 00:28:53,030
and so many others is
that they're working
490
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:54,832
with people on the ground.
491
00:29:01,806 --> 00:29:04,875
[car engine revving]
492
00:29:06,311 --> 00:29:07,544
[Sean] We got very encouraged,
493
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:09,947
we could immediately
see is effectiveness
494
00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:12,216
but then the young
Haitians that saw,
495
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:15,919
that we were being effective
came and became the lead
496
00:29:15,954 --> 00:29:19,556
in the organization, so
it became a Haitian born
497
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:22,860
and formed organization
from the beginning.
498
00:29:22,894 --> 00:29:25,562
[speaks Creole]
499
00:29:31,236 --> 00:29:34,738
I don't call J/P HRO,
"Sean Penn organization,"
500
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,039
I don't see that,
501
00:29:36,074 --> 00:29:40,344
I see it as us, as our
organization as a team.
502
00:29:40,378 --> 00:29:44,581
Faine was... He was a battery.
503
00:29:45,884 --> 00:29:47,851
Like a battery
with a smile on it.
504
00:29:47,886 --> 00:29:50,654
And he basically
came to the camp
505
00:29:51,756 --> 00:29:53,557
and said he wanted
to talk to me.
506
00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:55,025
I came up and this guy says,
507
00:29:55,059 --> 00:29:57,060
you know, "You're
helping my country."
508
00:29:57,095 --> 00:29:58,595
"I wanna help you
help my country,"
509
00:29:58,630 --> 00:30:01,765
And then I don't think he
went to bed for the next year.
510
00:30:03,868 --> 00:30:05,702
[Faine] I was working
in Dominican Republic
511
00:30:05,737 --> 00:30:09,072
and four days after the
earthquake I come back home
512
00:30:09,107 --> 00:30:11,074
because I've been trying to
reach my family on the phone,
513
00:30:11,109 --> 00:30:15,012
I couldn't reach nobody. My
mom's house collapsed completely
514
00:30:15,046 --> 00:30:18,015
but no one died, but I
have a lot of good friends,
515
00:30:18,049 --> 00:30:20,851
that passed away
in that tragedy.
516
00:30:20,885 --> 00:30:24,087
It is very important
for us, as Haitians
517
00:30:24,122 --> 00:30:26,089
to put hands together,
518
00:30:26,124 --> 00:30:27,457
to rebuild this country.
519
00:30:30,628 --> 00:30:33,197
[Sean] There was also the
young Haitian doctor Jean Marc
520
00:30:33,231 --> 00:30:35,432
and he was saving a
lot of people's lives.
521
00:30:36,601 --> 00:30:39,203
I worked for at
least six or seven,
522
00:30:39,237 --> 00:30:41,438
different other organizations
523
00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:45,008
and I don't see some
of those organizations,
524
00:30:45,043 --> 00:30:47,110
most of them really concerned.
525
00:30:47,145 --> 00:30:51,281
But if I work for six
or seven hours for J/P,
526
00:30:51,316 --> 00:30:55,619
it seems like I work for
24 hours, I work so much,
527
00:30:55,653 --> 00:30:58,956
there were so many things
to do and we had to do them
528
00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:01,658
and we did it for my people.
529
00:31:01,693 --> 00:31:05,996
Haitian doctors have the
will, they have the will
530
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:09,032
and they do what they can
but they have some limits
531
00:31:10,034 --> 00:31:13,270
and when we find what we
need, we have no limits.
532
00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:15,572
Believe it.
533
00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:18,308
[helicopter rotors chuffing]
534
00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:23,013
[Sean] I remember I had
never seen it from the air
535
00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:26,183
and I had not gotten
emotional once.
536
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:27,885
You know, I saw horrible things
537
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,923
but I had gotten in that
head you know, it's fixable.
538
00:31:32,957 --> 00:31:36,293
I can't bring back this
life knew that coming in
539
00:31:36,327 --> 00:31:41,198
but this situation, this
big picture is fixable
540
00:31:43,101 --> 00:31:45,435
and then the
helicopter took off.
541
00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:49,640
Once I got a thousand feet
over the city of Port-au-Prince,
542
00:31:49,674 --> 00:31:52,809
the devastation is too big.
543
00:31:54,012 --> 00:31:56,947
I don't know if this
can ever, ever heal.
544
00:31:57,982 --> 00:32:00,450
And it tore my guts out to see
545
00:32:00,485 --> 00:32:04,154
because what had looked so
fixable big but fixable,
546
00:32:04,188 --> 00:32:08,191
my arrogance was we can fix
it. I was humbled immediately
547
00:32:08,226 --> 00:32:12,229
and I guess almost losing faith.
548
00:32:14,132 --> 00:32:16,800
But then you know,
we took on our area,
549
00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:20,137
others took on their areas,
all those areas come together,
550
00:32:20,171 --> 00:32:21,505
voom.
551
00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:24,908
[upbeat music]
552
00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:28,512
We gotta load it
up, we're on the way.
553
00:32:28,546 --> 00:32:32,249
I'm Alvin, from
upstate New York, Fort Bragg.
554
00:32:32,283 --> 00:32:36,086
Specialist Bill from
Washington, Illinois,
555
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,454
coming out of Fort Bragg.
556
00:32:39,023 --> 00:32:40,824
[Sean] Without question
in my experience to date,
557
00:32:40,858 --> 00:32:45,228
the best humanitarian aid
organization ever built
558
00:32:45,263 --> 00:32:46,997
is the US military.
559
00:32:47,031 --> 00:32:50,500
They, like those of us
who came from movies,
560
00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:52,336
want the mission
accomplished yesterday
561
00:32:53,171 --> 00:32:55,339
and make your apologies later.
562
00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:58,442
Sending out MREs 'cause
it's safe to leave the camp.
563
00:33:00,178 --> 00:33:02,179
Approximately 2,000 MREs.
564
00:33:04,949 --> 00:33:06,583
They're helping, the
82nd airborne today,
565
00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:08,919
which is making it
a lot less chaotic.
566
00:33:10,254 --> 00:33:13,223
This is very common,
everything's working out sweet.
567
00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:15,158
They're the ones who
told us you watch,
568
00:33:15,193 --> 00:33:19,463
we've got hard deployments
in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
569
00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:22,866
These were teams that were
already set to head down there,
570
00:33:22,934 --> 00:33:24,735
when this earthquake
suddenly had them deployed,
571
00:33:24,769 --> 00:33:29,139
initially 22,000 troops
President Obama sent to Haiti.
572
00:33:30,241 --> 00:33:32,242
And they said, "tops
we were gonna be here"
573
00:33:32,276 --> 00:33:33,543
"about three months,"
574
00:33:33,578 --> 00:33:36,279
I said, no, no, I couldn't
imagine them leaving.
575
00:33:36,314 --> 00:33:37,914
And these guys would say,
576
00:33:37,949 --> 00:33:40,550
yeah, you're gonna end up
managing this whole freaking thing
577
00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:41,752
and I'm thinking no,
578
00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:44,755
I mean, you think you're
talking to an adult
579
00:33:46,357 --> 00:33:49,726
and the next thing
you know, they're gone
580
00:33:49,761 --> 00:33:53,130
and a UN organization
made us camp managers.
581
00:33:56,134 --> 00:34:00,237
What was the initial numbers
about 35,000 displaced people
582
00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:03,607
had expanded to 60,000 people.
583
00:34:03,641 --> 00:34:07,310
It was the highest density
population camp in Port-au-Prince.
584
00:34:08,346 --> 00:34:11,014
Each night the only
thing I could say
585
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:15,085
as I went to bed
was, "oh, shit."
586
00:34:21,592 --> 00:34:23,527
[Barry] Good morning
everybody, good morning.
587
00:34:26,230 --> 00:34:28,298
What's the deal? Everybody's
having coffee and breakfast
588
00:34:28,332 --> 00:34:30,267
and you're out here working
what's up with that?
589
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:32,169
Sometimes it's them
while I'm having coffee.
590
00:34:32,203 --> 00:34:33,470
[Barry laughs]
591
00:34:33,504 --> 00:34:36,440
We're all doing the same
thing and alternating shifts.
592
00:34:36,474 --> 00:34:37,874
Did you hear about the discovery
593
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:40,811
of the flesh-eating disease
in our water system?
594
00:34:40,845 --> 00:34:42,112
[Barry] No, give me an update.
595
00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:43,547
- Just kidding.
- [Barry laughs]
596
00:34:43,581 --> 00:34:47,684
Usually started the day
around 6:30 in the morning.
597
00:34:47,718 --> 00:34:50,187
A remodel period!
598
00:34:50,221 --> 00:34:53,723
And we usually wrapped it up
about three in the morning.
599
00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:03,200
People were suspicious.
600
00:35:04,302 --> 00:35:08,271
Was I there to you know,
pick up a baby and kiss it
601
00:35:08,306 --> 00:35:10,841
in front of a camera
and then leave?
602
00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:12,175
What was I doing?
603
00:35:12,210 --> 00:35:14,845
There was the issue that
none of the other NGOs,
604
00:35:14,879 --> 00:35:16,847
were living in a camp.
605
00:35:16,881 --> 00:35:20,417
Their organizations paid for
nice hotels or apartments
606
00:35:20,451 --> 00:35:23,687
and things like that for
all of their foreign staff
607
00:35:23,721 --> 00:35:27,224
and we were living in a camp.
608
00:35:27,258 --> 00:35:29,559
I gotta be honest, I'm always
weary about celebrities,
609
00:35:29,594 --> 00:35:31,561
who come to disaster zones
610
00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:34,798
and they usually stay for
very short periods of time,
611
00:35:34,832 --> 00:35:36,766
appear before the
cameras and then take off
612
00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:38,101
but actor, director Sean Penn
613
00:35:38,135 --> 00:35:40,036
has been here now for
almost three weeks,
614
00:35:40,071 --> 00:35:41,771
why have you stay so long?
615
00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:46,810
Because our organization
J/P HRO was being so effective.
616
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:48,678
In a situation like that,
617
00:35:48,713 --> 00:35:51,047
especially early on the
first couple of weeks,
618
00:35:51,082 --> 00:35:53,350
you know, it's like
all hands on deck,
619
00:35:53,384 --> 00:35:56,219
it's like whatever anybody
can do to help anybody
620
00:35:56,254 --> 00:36:00,056
is worthwhile and good
and it just surprised me,
621
00:36:00,091 --> 00:36:05,162
that this guy who has just
arrived with a desire to help,
622
00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:07,330
where now all of a sudden,
623
00:36:07,365 --> 00:36:08,565
there's tens of
thousands of people
624
00:36:08,633 --> 00:36:11,134
and he is caring for them.
625
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:16,006
It shows you also how, how
truly fucked up things were,
626
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,141
you know, if you're
thinking to yourself,
627
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:21,344
huh, who can I get to run a camp
628
00:36:21,379 --> 00:36:26,483
for you know what 50,000
people, 60,000 people in Haiti?
629
00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:30,287
Oh yeah, Sean Penn, that'll
be the guy, that'll be it.
630
00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:32,322
You know, you'd be
laughed out of the room
631
00:36:32,356 --> 00:36:34,257
but you know what? He did.
632
00:36:34,292 --> 00:36:36,326
What needs to change
on the ground now,
633
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,529
what do people in America
need to know, what can they do?
634
00:36:39,564 --> 00:36:41,031
I started doing a
lot of interviews
635
00:36:41,065 --> 00:36:42,832
with Sean on my broadcast.
636
00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:45,268
He's obviously
extraordinarily compelling
637
00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:48,638
but then there's also his
ability to get across the urgency
638
00:36:48,673 --> 00:36:50,307
of the situation.
639
00:36:50,341 --> 00:36:52,342
One missionary once said,
something to me about,
640
00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:54,411
you know, Haiti, when
it gets you, it gets you.
641
00:36:54,445 --> 00:36:56,913
What about Haiti has got you?
642
00:36:56,948 --> 00:37:00,383
You're only flying 90
minutes from your own country
643
00:37:01,619 --> 00:37:05,655
and to land in a world
that has been so neglected
644
00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:08,491
with people who have
had so little experience
645
00:37:08,526 --> 00:37:10,927
with any of the
comforts that we know
646
00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:13,263
and to see their
strength of character
647
00:37:13,297 --> 00:37:17,200
and to see this incredible
possibility within our reach
648
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,202
in terms of our will to help
649
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,738
and our ability to do what
we've shown it already.
650
00:37:21,772 --> 00:37:24,908
We could actually have the
example of what happens,
651
00:37:24,942 --> 00:37:29,713
when the developing world is
given the productive support,
652
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:31,681
to become the developed world.
653
00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:35,318
He was able to raise the
profile of what was happening
654
00:37:35,353 --> 00:37:37,387
and probably get
people interested,
655
00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:40,056
who may not have paid
attention to it previously.
656
00:37:40,091 --> 00:37:41,258
So, to people in
the States that say,
657
00:37:41,292 --> 00:37:44,027
well, look I gave money
it's all still the same
658
00:37:44,061 --> 00:37:46,496
and I shouldn't
give any more money.
659
00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:49,733
If you don't trust an
NGO, find a family to adopt,
660
00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:51,334
get in touch with our NGO.
661
00:37:51,369 --> 00:37:52,702
You don't have to
get us the money,
662
00:37:52,737 --> 00:37:54,638
I'll find you family to adopt
I can give you their number,
663
00:37:54,672 --> 00:37:56,473
you can talk to them
and find out what it is
664
00:37:56,507 --> 00:37:58,008
but don't stop giving.
665
00:37:58,042 --> 00:38:02,312
Anderson Cooper gave me
the mic for kind of calls to action
666
00:38:02,346 --> 00:38:03,446
and to call people out,
667
00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:09,819
I never was ashamed to
blackmail organizations,
668
00:38:11,322 --> 00:38:13,290
basically saying, I'll
get on Anderson's show
669
00:38:13,324 --> 00:38:15,292
and I'll tell the world
that you didn't do this,
670
00:38:15,326 --> 00:38:17,160
and that you're
storing these things,
671
00:38:17,194 --> 00:38:19,462
that needed to be
distributed whatever.
672
00:38:19,497 --> 00:38:24,234
So much show so that I
heard people mimicking me,
673
00:38:24,268 --> 00:38:25,468
you know, mocking
me for doing it
674
00:38:25,503 --> 00:38:27,304
in restaurants in Petion-Ville.
675
00:38:28,105 --> 00:38:29,939
Not knowing I was there.
676
00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:31,975
And they could laugh
all they wanted
677
00:38:32,009 --> 00:38:33,410
but it would never not work
678
00:38:33,444 --> 00:38:34,744
because the easiest
thing in the world
679
00:38:34,779 --> 00:38:36,313
was to get on television
and convince people
680
00:38:36,347 --> 00:38:37,614
not to write a check.
681
00:38:41,018 --> 00:38:43,887
I was up at the camp
and on my walkie,
682
00:38:43,921 --> 00:38:47,424
I got word from a hospital
there was a problem.
683
00:38:47,458 --> 00:38:50,293
A doctor met me outside
the tent and said,
684
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:52,796
this 14 year old had been
sick for a couple of days,
685
00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:55,565
thought he had like a
fever and he'd get over it.
686
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:57,734
But he was starting to
get a little unresponsive,
687
00:38:57,768 --> 00:39:00,136
Father brought him in.
His name was Oriel.
688
00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:04,574
And she diagnosed
him with diptheria,
689
00:39:05,676 --> 00:39:07,677
so, I made a couple of calls
690
00:39:07,712 --> 00:39:09,646
and found out there
hadn't been any diphtheria
691
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,514
and what are the chances.
692
00:39:11,549 --> 00:39:13,783
They had just gotten
hit with an earthquake,
693
00:39:13,818 --> 00:39:17,053
they're going to suddenly
get hit with diptheria now?
694
00:39:17,088 --> 00:39:19,022
Come on.
695
00:39:19,056 --> 00:39:20,857
And everybody's
telling me no way.
696
00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:24,160
But I thought she knew
what she was talking about
697
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:26,296
and so I said, what
do we gotta do?
698
00:39:26,330 --> 00:39:28,531
She says, "This is the
medication we need,"
699
00:39:30,801 --> 00:39:35,905
and it turned into
a day in hell.
700
00:39:38,509 --> 00:39:41,644
We knew we needed
to get him isolated
701
00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:44,981
and in a sterile
atmosphere in a hospital,
702
00:39:45,015 --> 00:39:47,117
a proper hospital not a tent.
703
00:39:47,151 --> 00:39:49,052
If she's right,
he's dying right now.
704
00:39:50,554 --> 00:39:54,691
We drove from one
hospital to another,
705
00:39:54,725 --> 00:39:57,394
getting rejected and
the first case rejected
706
00:39:57,428 --> 00:40:00,630
because they refused to
acknowledge it was diptheria,
707
00:40:00,664 --> 00:40:03,633
the second one because it
was a children's hospital
708
00:40:03,667 --> 00:40:07,771
and he was one year too old
and they again also said,
709
00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,639
that they don't
believe it's diptheria.
710
00:40:10,674 --> 00:40:13,209
Our ambulance breaks down,
711
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,211
one of our other
trucks makes its way,
712
00:40:15,246 --> 00:40:17,514
so, now we're in the back
of an open pickup truck
713
00:40:17,548 --> 00:40:19,816
with a kid who now can't talk.
714
00:40:19,850 --> 00:40:22,719
I'm holding on to the kid's legs
715
00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:24,687
on the phone keeping
him stabilized
716
00:40:24,722 --> 00:40:28,191
and nobody could locate this
drug anywhere in the city.
717
00:40:28,225 --> 00:40:30,960
We've been here for three months
718
00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:32,796
and we had the
commanding general
719
00:40:32,830 --> 00:40:34,998
of the United States military,
720
00:40:35,032 --> 00:40:38,501
we had the head of the
American Red Cross,
721
00:40:40,137 --> 00:40:42,839
we had one of the
most important,
722
00:40:42,873 --> 00:40:47,877
television documentary
doctors, Dr. Bob Arnot,
723
00:40:48,813 --> 00:40:50,814
all for the last two hours,
724
00:40:50,848 --> 00:40:54,451
searching the entire
city of Port-au-Prince,
725
00:40:54,485 --> 00:41:00,490
three months into this for
one treatment for diptheria
726
00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:06,229
and we just located it we think.
727
00:41:06,263 --> 00:41:08,698
The CDC are leaving their
dinner, paying their bill
728
00:41:08,732 --> 00:41:11,000
and driving down here to
get us into the premise,
729
00:41:11,035 --> 00:41:13,036
at nine o'clock at night.
730
00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:16,339
And one of our staff
who had gotten the message
731
00:41:16,373 --> 00:41:18,408
and was at a restaurant,
732
00:41:18,442 --> 00:41:23,246
recognized somebody from
CDC at another table,
733
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,615
who happened to be the
one who knew where it was.
734
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:28,785
I get a call, "We've got it,"
735
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:33,523
so, we needed to drop him
and go get the medicine.
736
00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:36,726
We forced ourselves
into university hospital
737
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,428
and made them take him.
738
00:41:38,462 --> 00:41:40,730
At that point the father
connected with us,
739
00:41:40,764 --> 00:41:44,033
he got in the back of the truck
with us and we hauled ass.
740
00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:49,272
- 2.5...
- 2.5 is the prophylaxis. So it's 20 doses.
741
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:53,510
We fucking got it and I
don't mind saying right now,
742
00:41:53,544 --> 00:41:55,879
that I was so irate
that while our guys
743
00:41:55,913 --> 00:41:58,281
were going back to the
cold section to get it,
744
00:41:58,315 --> 00:42:00,350
I'm looking around his
warehouse there's no cameras
745
00:42:00,384 --> 00:42:03,653
and I start taking everything
we'd been needing for months,
746
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:05,321
I'm like, you know, putting
shit under my shirt,
747
00:42:05,356 --> 00:42:07,023
I go back to the
cold chain area.
748
00:42:07,057 --> 00:42:08,691
I stole some rabies vaccination
749
00:42:08,726 --> 00:42:10,260
in case one of our
people got bit by a--
750
00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:12,595
Like I said... everything
at this stage,
751
00:42:12,630 --> 00:42:17,934
you know, I got $30,000 worth
of medicine out of there
752
00:42:19,436 --> 00:42:21,337
and they came said, we're
ready we jumped in the truck.
753
00:42:21,372 --> 00:42:22,639
[car honks]
754
00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:25,241
[Barry] Where are we at?
755
00:42:25,276 --> 00:42:26,442
General hospital.
756
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:40,790
We stood there to make sure,
757
00:42:40,824 --> 00:42:42,725
that they put this
medicine in this kid
758
00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:47,330
and I saw that medicine go
in there and I said yes,
759
00:42:48,532 --> 00:42:51,167
you know, it was
fucking thrilling.
760
00:42:52,670 --> 00:42:54,704
[Barry] If something
happens to that kid,
761
00:42:56,307 --> 00:42:57,640
I'll be like fucking pissed.
762
00:42:59,343 --> 00:43:04,047
It's three months and a
warehouse has the medicine
763
00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:09,886
and this is the biggest
hospital in the biggest city
764
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,522
of a country that had the
worst humanitarian disaster
765
00:43:12,556 --> 00:43:17,660
of all time and nobody
bothered to come down here
766
00:43:17,695 --> 00:43:20,330
and tell the administration
where they can find the medicine
767
00:43:20,364 --> 00:43:22,465
much less give it to
them in case it happened.
768
00:43:27,237 --> 00:43:31,808
We get back up to our camp and
you know, there was some rum.
769
00:43:31,842 --> 00:43:35,411
- Cheers everyone, cheers.
- Cheers to Haiti.
770
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:38,414
[All] Cheers to Haiti.
771
00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:45,455
And I had that first
rum punch thinking,
772
00:43:45,522 --> 00:43:50,627
oh, we saved a life today,
I mean like tangible.
773
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:10,980
We got up to the news he'd died,
774
00:44:13,250 --> 00:44:14,651
and that was...
775
00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:24,160
I remember being in the truck...
776
00:44:24,194 --> 00:44:25,862
And this is the father.
777
00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:30,133
...on the way back to the
hospital with the medication
778
00:44:30,167 --> 00:44:32,869
and looking into
that father's eyes
779
00:44:32,903 --> 00:44:35,138
and telling him we got
it. Your son's gonna live.
780
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,877
Thank you very much for your
help because I have my son.
781
00:44:40,911 --> 00:44:44,147
You know, I don't have the
possibility to go to the hospice.
782
00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:47,917
You know, I come to the camp,
783
00:44:47,951 --> 00:44:50,586
I saw that you give me your help
784
00:44:51,989 --> 00:44:54,624
and God bless you
and your family,
785
00:44:54,658 --> 00:44:58,728
to give your power
to give me my son,
786
00:44:58,762 --> 00:45:01,698
you know, I like my
son, I love my son,
787
00:45:01,732 --> 00:45:03,866
you know, I thank you very much.
788
00:45:09,907 --> 00:45:10,907
That was a bad day.
789
00:45:32,529 --> 00:45:34,964
Now, imagine that you're
not under this beautiful tent
790
00:45:34,998 --> 00:45:37,066
but you're sitting
down there in the tarp,
791
00:45:38,635 --> 00:45:39,669
I could cry every time.
792
00:45:45,509 --> 00:45:47,510
This is where the
next major catastrophe,
793
00:45:47,544 --> 00:45:49,979
is when it begins
right now, phase two.
794
00:45:57,654 --> 00:45:59,188
[Sean] The UN had determined,
795
00:45:59,223 --> 00:46:02,759
that our camp had the
highest life threat,
796
00:46:02,793 --> 00:46:05,294
relative to mudslide
or flooding,
797
00:46:05,329 --> 00:46:08,264
so, we were gonna have to
organize voluntary relocation.
798
00:46:09,733 --> 00:46:12,034
And the first wave of
relocation to save lives,
799
00:46:12,069 --> 00:46:16,706
we cumulatively need to decompress
the camp by 7,500 persons.
800
00:46:16,740 --> 00:46:18,441
The idea was a planned camp,
801
00:46:18,475 --> 00:46:20,243
where you have a certain
amount of space between tents
802
00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:22,945
if this person cooking
outside with their oil,
803
00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:24,280
you know, lights
their tent on fire,
804
00:46:24,314 --> 00:46:26,015
it's not gonna catch
this one on fire,
805
00:46:26,049 --> 00:46:27,683
you're not gonna
spread disease as much,
806
00:46:27,718 --> 00:46:30,219
you're gonna have all
this kind of stuff.
807
00:46:30,254 --> 00:46:33,089
This is before there were
any plans or resources,
808
00:46:33,123 --> 00:46:36,025
to actually rebuild the city,
permanent housing, or anything.
809
00:46:36,059 --> 00:46:38,327
It's emergency relocation.
810
00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,265
They need to start
loading their stuff,
811
00:46:42,299 --> 00:46:43,733
at least an hour before.
812
00:46:43,767 --> 00:46:45,935
[Sean] We figured out a system.
813
00:46:45,969 --> 00:46:48,971
They come for check-in,
we tag them stuff,
814
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,341
we set them up at the gate,
815
00:46:52,376 --> 00:46:53,743
we have a lot of people come in.
816
00:46:59,783 --> 00:47:01,517
[Sean] It's very
important that you didn't
817
00:47:01,552 --> 00:47:03,286
separate families.
818
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,154
That you didn't have
kids taken by somebody,
819
00:47:05,189 --> 00:47:06,422
they weren't supposed to be with
820
00:47:06,456 --> 00:47:08,157
once they started
getting on the buses.
821
00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:10,359
[man 6] After the earthquake,
822
00:47:10,394 --> 00:47:11,761
I seen a lot of people
traumatized and I said,
823
00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:14,964
let me come up by the
camp see how people do
824
00:47:14,998 --> 00:47:18,000
and J/P was just
starting to function.
825
00:47:18,035 --> 00:47:20,303
The earthquake
affected everybody,
826
00:47:20,337 --> 00:47:23,639
the poor, the rich,
white, black, whatever.
827
00:47:23,674 --> 00:47:26,108
We will learn a lesson from
that so in the near future,
828
00:47:26,143 --> 00:47:27,677
if something like
that occurred again,
829
00:47:27,711 --> 00:47:30,613
everything could be
done in a way that,
830
00:47:30,647 --> 00:47:33,115
we'd be able to the
help one another out.
831
00:47:33,150 --> 00:47:36,152
It's like love one another
you know what I mean?
832
00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:39,055
[car engine roars]
833
00:47:44,027 --> 00:47:45,795
[Barry] What did
you write there?
834
00:47:45,829 --> 00:47:46,896
New beginnings.
835
00:47:48,198 --> 00:47:51,033
[car engine roars]
836
00:47:55,005 --> 00:47:59,141
[helicopter rotors chuffing]
837
00:47:59,176 --> 00:48:02,545
[Sean] The relocation camp
was a piece of land chosen
838
00:48:02,579 --> 00:48:03,980
by the Haitian government.
839
00:48:04,014 --> 00:48:05,815
It was right at the
foot of the hills
840
00:48:05,849 --> 00:48:07,416
on the outside of
Port-au-Prince.
841
00:48:18,428 --> 00:48:21,530
For some reason, somebody
had it in their heads
842
00:48:21,565 --> 00:48:24,734
that they wanted it to have
gravel laid out over it
843
00:48:24,768 --> 00:48:26,369
before the camp was built,
844
00:48:26,403 --> 00:48:29,205
which was very odd because
it was a pale gravel,
845
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,743
and it reflected
the sunlight a lot.
846
00:48:33,777 --> 00:48:35,177
And there were no
trees out there at all,
847
00:48:35,212 --> 00:48:37,079
and it was part of the
bigger problem in Haiti,
848
00:48:37,114 --> 00:48:39,048
the deforestation.
849
00:48:39,082 --> 00:48:42,551
And it was also in a kind
of a bad flood plain,
850
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,520
but it was what was available,
851
00:48:44,554 --> 00:48:48,758
and we had what was a very
successful relocation.
852
00:48:52,296 --> 00:48:53,863
Then it became
very controversial.
853
00:48:53,897 --> 00:48:55,531
[reporter 5] In
Corail the government's
854
00:48:55,565 --> 00:48:59,568
primary relocation camps, some
15 miles from Port-au-Prince,
855
00:48:59,603 --> 00:49:03,139
a storm on Monday
collapsed at least 94 tents
856
00:49:03,173 --> 00:49:06,976
and sent hundreds of
residents fleeing to find shelter.
857
00:49:08,111 --> 00:49:09,645
[Sean] I went straight out there
858
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,482
because I was hearing
hell raising is going on,
859
00:49:13,517 --> 00:49:16,152
and I could see the tires
were burning across the city
860
00:49:17,354 --> 00:49:19,455
which is a sign
of social unrest.
861
00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:24,994
And hell yeah, people were
upset, but I went tent to tent
862
00:49:25,028 --> 00:49:26,929
and asked them if they
wanted to come back,
863
00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:28,597
and nobody wanted to come back.
864
00:49:28,632 --> 00:49:30,633
They wanted to stay there
but they were pissed off
865
00:49:30,667 --> 00:49:32,802
and they wanted help
rebuilding these tents.
866
00:49:34,137 --> 00:49:37,239
[plane engine roaring]
867
00:49:46,316 --> 00:49:51,420
What's amazing now is that
turned into its own city.
868
00:49:51,455 --> 00:49:53,222
An area that had
almost no population
869
00:49:53,256 --> 00:49:55,257
has got about 250,000 people.
870
00:50:00,597 --> 00:50:05,768
- [woman singing in Creole]
- [indistinct chatter]
871
00:50:16,780 --> 00:50:18,581
We did a census in our camp,
872
00:50:18,615 --> 00:50:20,983
where did these
people come from?
873
00:50:21,018 --> 00:50:23,119
Almost everybody came
from one neighborhood
874
00:50:23,153 --> 00:50:24,620
which was the one
that had the access
875
00:50:24,654 --> 00:50:27,256
through the break in
the wall, Delmas 32.
876
00:50:28,625 --> 00:50:31,127
So we went and did a site
visit down that community.
877
00:50:34,965 --> 00:50:38,868
Virtually, Delmas had overhead
rubble covering the streets
878
00:50:38,902 --> 00:50:40,469
for miles.
879
00:50:40,504 --> 00:50:44,573
Am I exaggerating?
Miles of just rubble.
880
00:50:48,145 --> 00:50:52,148
This corner was just
like a bar. People stayed here
881
00:50:52,182 --> 00:50:56,485
late at night, having fun here.
882
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,088
There was a TV here,
there was water here.
883
00:50:59,122 --> 00:51:06,095
This corner there was a
cement all the way down there
884
00:51:07,597 --> 00:51:11,000
but most of the people in the
area we used to hang out here.
885
00:51:11,034 --> 00:51:12,435
So this was like
the town square.
886
00:51:12,469 --> 00:51:13,302
Exactly.
887
00:51:14,704 --> 00:51:17,640
[car engine roars]
888
00:51:34,191 --> 00:51:35,958
I said, I wanna
clear this rubble.
889
00:51:35,992 --> 00:51:37,726
We have to be very, very clear.
890
00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:39,628
[Sean] And so we started
an engineering Corps.
891
00:51:39,663 --> 00:51:42,465
Got a civil engineer, a
former military engineer,
892
00:51:42,499 --> 00:51:43,799
from the British forces.
893
00:51:43,834 --> 00:51:46,802
And the truck was
being loaded here. Yeah?
894
00:51:46,837 --> 00:51:50,339
[Sean] And a country
director, also a Brit,
895
00:51:50,373 --> 00:51:52,475
also former military.
896
00:51:52,509 --> 00:51:55,144
They developed a
rubble removal plan.
897
00:51:55,178 --> 00:51:59,515
And this fella up in
Seattle, Richard Hots,
898
00:51:59,549 --> 00:52:02,084
who had a company called
Alaska structures,
899
00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:05,020
every tent the US military
puts up on any branch
900
00:52:05,055 --> 00:52:07,056
in the military,
around the world,
901
00:52:07,090 --> 00:52:09,091
almost all of them come
from Alaska Structures.
902
00:52:09,126 --> 00:52:11,560
So this was a guy who
started camping tent business
903
00:52:11,595 --> 00:52:15,364
and became a very
wealthy philanthropist.
904
00:52:15,398 --> 00:52:20,569
Agreed with me politically
on not one thing ever.
905
00:52:20,604 --> 00:52:23,205
You're the first person I've
seen really get on the ground
906
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:25,241
and stay on the ground.
907
00:52:25,275 --> 00:52:27,910
[Sean] But he saw me on
the Anderson Cooper show
908
00:52:27,944 --> 00:52:30,279
and he saw that we
agreed on Haiti.
909
00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:35,317
He came in and gave us our
first rubble removal grant
910
00:52:36,286 --> 00:52:38,120
of a quarter of a
million dollars.
911
00:52:42,559 --> 00:52:45,961
Today, you find us at
Rue Petion in Delmas 32
912
00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:50,166
which is our primary
rubble removal site.
913
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,101
You can see the CAT
behind me operating
914
00:52:52,135 --> 00:52:54,436
and we have two of them
operating at the moment
915
00:52:54,471 --> 00:52:58,107
and they can move 140 cubic
meters of rubble a day.
916
00:52:58,141 --> 00:53:01,177
We have a team of Haitian
and international volunteers
917
00:53:01,211 --> 00:53:03,445
running it, but
with one of these,
918
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,615
we clear 140 cubic meters a day
919
00:53:06,683 --> 00:53:09,518
and we have 200,000
cubic meters to clear.
920
00:53:10,787 --> 00:53:12,988
[Sean] We became the
principal in that area,
921
00:53:14,157 --> 00:53:16,158
and there were
bodies in that rubble
922
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:21,197
and that was another sensitive
issue, at a certain point.
923
00:53:23,166 --> 00:53:27,870
You don't have the
sophisticated stuff or the money
924
00:53:29,306 --> 00:53:31,340
or the time to
surgically take care
925
00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:34,777
and do a forensic on this
thing for the family.
926
00:53:34,811 --> 00:53:37,146
So you have to go to
the family and say,
927
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,081
"Do you have a loved
one in that house?"
928
00:53:39,115 --> 00:53:40,516
You know 'cause this
is now months later.
929
00:53:40,550 --> 00:53:43,452
There's no search and rescue
going on at this point,
930
00:53:45,455 --> 00:53:47,323
all there's gonna be is bones.
931
00:53:49,326 --> 00:53:52,528
And so when you were doing
a rubble removal on a site
932
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:56,198
where there was likely a body,
the community leaders agreed
933
00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:58,000
that the way they would do
it, you let the family come,
934
00:53:58,034 --> 00:54:03,272
they pour little gasoline
through the fissures and light it.
935
00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:08,911
[singing in Creole]
936
00:55:17,447 --> 00:55:19,548
That's not an easy life
for those men and women
937
00:55:19,582 --> 00:55:22,418
that work in those teams
because you take it home.
938
00:55:23,753 --> 00:55:28,290
During the earthquake, the
front of this actually killed
939
00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:30,626
a number of individuals who
were running down this corridor
940
00:55:30,660 --> 00:55:33,762
to escape from the
inside of this area.
941
00:55:34,998 --> 00:55:36,965
As you can see right
here, this wall is,
942
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,068
it's just kinda,
it's just there.
943
00:55:40,503 --> 00:55:42,771
It's a recipe for a very
dangerous situation.
944
00:55:51,247 --> 00:55:53,315
When it's a dangerous
house, we'll put caution tape
945
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:56,251
and then we keep people
away from passing.
946
00:55:56,286 --> 00:55:58,487
So we never know when
things can happen.
947
00:56:00,457 --> 00:56:01,724
[Jeff] This is a property
948
00:56:01,758 --> 00:56:03,559
that we've been
doing demolition on,
949
00:56:03,593 --> 00:56:05,361
it was a three-story property
950
00:56:05,395 --> 00:56:08,397
and right now we're
on the first floor
951
00:56:08,431 --> 00:56:10,799
which actually was
the second floor.
952
00:56:10,834 --> 00:56:14,470
The property collapsed
crushing the first floor
953
00:56:14,504 --> 00:56:18,674
and now it's just a matter
of bringing the rubble
954
00:56:18,708 --> 00:56:20,676
from inside the property,
out to the street.
955
00:56:27,484 --> 00:56:31,787
When you see the
devastation that this earthquake
956
00:56:31,821 --> 00:56:34,556
has caused this country, and
when you see the degradation
957
00:56:34,591 --> 00:56:36,959
of just about everything
that you can think of,
958
00:56:36,993 --> 00:56:39,895
what people have lost
in a matter of seconds,
959
00:56:39,929 --> 00:56:44,833
and here you are fortunate
enough to be able to help,
960
00:56:44,868 --> 00:56:46,602
and if you come and do
it, you're not doing it
961
00:56:46,636 --> 00:56:48,837
with your heart, man,
you know what I'm saying,
962
00:56:48,872 --> 00:56:51,173
there's nothing that
you will be able to do.
963
00:56:59,015 --> 00:57:00,549
[Sean] As soon as
that rubble was cleared
964
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:04,253
in various sections, people
started moving back on their own
965
00:57:04,287 --> 00:57:06,121
to the houses that
were not destroyed,
966
00:57:06,156 --> 00:57:09,658
or moving back and setting up
a tent on their old property.
967
00:57:11,127 --> 00:57:13,028
Businesses started cropping
up on the street again
968
00:57:13,062 --> 00:57:15,063
and you felt this
vibrancy building up
969
00:57:15,098 --> 00:57:18,100
that they were doing on
their own without any help.
970
00:57:18,134 --> 00:57:21,437
So we took what had
been our camp services
971
00:57:21,471 --> 00:57:24,573
and lessons learned and
transferred them to the area
972
00:57:24,607 --> 00:57:25,908
that these camp
residence came from,
973
00:57:25,942 --> 00:57:29,011
and it was in that
step-by-step way,
974
00:57:29,045 --> 00:57:32,748
we would get people starting
to get out of the camp.
975
00:57:32,782 --> 00:57:35,651
[indistinct chatter]
976
00:57:42,492 --> 00:57:44,393
So you can see,
you can follow me.
977
00:57:47,263 --> 00:57:50,065
All this, this is
our prenatal section.
978
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:52,201
All the women, they
stay here and wait.
979
00:57:52,235 --> 00:57:54,837
Once their vital sign is done
here, this is this Desiah.
980
00:57:54,871 --> 00:57:56,438
- Desiah say hello.
- Hello.
981
00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:59,408
Desiah is one of our
newly graduated EMT.
982
00:57:59,442 --> 00:58:01,243
He was in the EMT program.
983
00:58:01,277 --> 00:58:06,281
I was born in Delmas and
then my father passed away
984
00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:09,785
and my mom couldn't
stay here any longer,
985
00:58:09,819 --> 00:58:12,855
so she decided we should
move to New York for a better life.
986
00:58:12,889 --> 00:58:16,425
I assimilated to the American
culture, went to nice schools,
987
00:58:16,459 --> 00:58:19,761
I got a great education,
had a fantastic job
988
00:58:19,796 --> 00:58:21,830
at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
989
00:58:21,865 --> 00:58:25,434
for many, many years
and then I got married,
990
00:58:25,468 --> 00:58:30,939
had three kids and had
the American dream.
991
00:58:30,974 --> 00:58:32,841
And then a friend
of mine called me.
992
00:58:32,876 --> 00:58:36,845
It was on January
12th, around like 4:55,
993
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,382
check CNN, the end of the
world is happening in Haiti.
994
00:58:42,552 --> 00:58:44,953
You could hear the screaming.
995
00:58:46,823 --> 00:58:50,792
This cry was different,
it was like painful cries.
996
00:58:52,795 --> 00:58:55,764
Right then, then I said,
I'm moving back to Haiti.
997
00:58:55,798 --> 00:58:57,299
Our prenatal clinic
is right here.
998
00:58:57,333 --> 00:58:59,434
We see all the pregnant
women from the beginning
999
00:58:59,469 --> 00:59:03,071
of a positive pregnancy test,
all the way until they deliver.
1000
00:59:03,106 --> 00:59:05,407
We do all their care
for them free of charge.
1001
00:59:05,441 --> 00:59:09,077
We have over a thousand
babies born, no death.
1002
00:59:09,112 --> 00:59:11,813
Thank God. So far,
knock on wood.
1003
00:59:11,848 --> 00:59:14,917
We started with her 30
international volunteers,
1004
00:59:14,951 --> 00:59:18,820
now we have more than 100
Haitian medical professionals
1005
00:59:18,855 --> 00:59:20,689
providing quality care.
1006
00:59:20,723 --> 00:59:23,392
If we weren't there, I
guarantee you a lot of patients
1007
00:59:23,426 --> 00:59:26,295
would have died from
preventable and treatable illnesses.
1008
00:59:29,032 --> 00:59:31,500
[car engine roars]
1009
00:59:31,534 --> 00:59:34,736
[indistinct chatter]
1010
00:59:34,771 --> 00:59:37,039
[Sean] For who don't
know in that first year,
1011
00:59:37,073 --> 00:59:41,143
7,000 people died an hour
and a half from Miami beach
1012
00:59:41,177 --> 00:59:43,712
of a disease you
cannot die from here.
1013
00:59:47,283 --> 00:59:51,186
If you get cholera and
you don't treat it in time
1014
00:59:51,220 --> 00:59:52,754
you're gonna die, period.
1015
00:59:52,789 --> 00:59:54,756
It takes all the water
out of your body.
1016
00:59:57,060 --> 00:59:58,694
15 boxes of ORS.
1017
01:00:00,063 --> 01:00:02,164
[Sean] We ended up getting
a warehouse down Cite Solei
1018
01:00:02,198 --> 01:00:05,667
and got a hundred thousand
units of Ringer's lactate
1019
01:00:05,702 --> 01:00:06,535
and supplies.
1020
01:00:08,071 --> 01:00:10,038
Right now they're loading
the tents that are gonna
1021
01:00:10,073 --> 01:00:13,342
be used to create the
cholera treatment centers.
1022
01:00:13,376 --> 01:00:18,013
Self-contained units so that
the patients are isolated
1023
01:00:18,047 --> 01:00:20,882
and can be treated
specifically for cholera.
1024
01:00:20,917 --> 01:00:23,518
[Sean] And we were starting
to track the breakouts.
1025
01:00:23,553 --> 01:00:26,054
Coordinating with the
cellular phone companies.
1026
01:00:26,089 --> 01:00:28,023
You could track migrations,
1027
01:00:28,057 --> 01:00:29,691
so you could see that
large amounts people
1028
01:00:29,726 --> 01:00:31,493
were moving away from an area,
1029
01:00:31,527 --> 01:00:34,663
and you knew immediately
that that area had cholera.
1030
01:00:34,697 --> 01:00:36,732
So we started working
with the Cuban doctors
1031
01:00:36,766 --> 01:00:38,634
'cause they had a brigade
there and they had donkeys,
1032
01:00:38,668 --> 01:00:42,070
so they could go up in the
areas that we couldn't get to.
1033
01:00:42,105 --> 01:00:44,206
And then we had the
elections coming up
1034
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,541
and when elections
come up, traditionally,
1035
01:00:46,576 --> 01:00:48,377
you get social unrest.
1036
01:00:48,411 --> 01:00:51,480
The last thing in the world
that we needed was gun battles
1037
01:00:51,514 --> 01:00:53,715
in the streets while people
were dying of cholera
1038
01:00:53,750 --> 01:00:56,685
and while they had no hard
shelter, they're in camps.
1039
01:00:56,719 --> 01:00:58,353
Everybody's in camps.
1040
01:00:58,388 --> 01:01:00,656
We cannot rule out the
possibility of violence in our camp.
1041
01:01:00,690 --> 01:01:03,625
For the next 48 hours,
I would request that
1042
01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:07,129
no one enter the camp
unless it's absolutely necessary
1043
01:01:07,163 --> 01:01:08,630
to your job.
1044
01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:11,299
So now we started
paying for helicopters
1045
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:14,569
and then mixing that
with working with
1046
01:01:14,604 --> 01:01:17,039
the UN humanitarian air service,
1047
01:01:17,073 --> 01:01:20,108
and that way we could,
by air, bring our doctors
1048
01:01:20,143 --> 01:01:22,944
and the medication out
to all these hotspots
1049
01:01:22,979 --> 01:01:24,713
throughout the country.
1050
01:01:24,747 --> 01:01:30,018
- [gentle music]
- [plane engine roars]
1051
01:01:32,455 --> 01:01:35,323
[speaking in Creole]
1052
01:02:03,052 --> 01:02:05,554
I never believed something
like this could happen
1053
01:02:05,588 --> 01:02:06,555
in my country.
1054
01:02:07,857 --> 01:02:09,658
I feel so low, I feel so down.
1055
01:02:11,828 --> 01:02:12,928
It's too much.
1056
01:02:18,201 --> 01:02:22,070
It's too much. [sighs heavily]
1057
01:02:27,577 --> 01:02:30,512
[plane engine roars]
1058
01:02:39,355 --> 01:02:41,022
You know I think in one
year we might've spent
1059
01:02:41,057 --> 01:02:45,193
as much as $25 million,
but that's when you were
1060
01:02:45,228 --> 01:02:47,796
in the emergency phase and
big grants were coming in.
1061
01:02:47,830 --> 01:02:50,265
So that was, you know, then.
1062
01:02:51,734 --> 01:02:55,137
As time went on, I had
to pay for all that stuff
1063
01:02:55,905 --> 01:02:57,439
with private money.
1064
01:02:57,473 --> 01:03:02,077
So then we had to do the gala.
1065
01:03:02,111 --> 01:03:07,115
- [camera clicks] -
[reporters shout indistinctly]
1066
01:03:07,150 --> 01:03:11,453
Tonight we're here to celebrate
Sean Penn and J/P HRO
1067
01:03:11,487 --> 01:03:14,089
and the great work they've
been doing for Haiti.
1068
01:03:14,123 --> 01:03:16,792
With such star
names helping Haiti.
1069
01:03:16,826 --> 01:03:19,761
These events are key
to Haiti's recovery.
1070
01:03:19,796 --> 01:03:22,264
[Sean] It's the
worst part of it.
1071
01:03:22,298 --> 01:03:23,632
It's the thing
that'll burn you out
1072
01:03:23,666 --> 01:03:25,700
faster than anything else.
1073
01:03:25,735 --> 01:03:28,570
The hat in handness of it.
1074
01:03:28,604 --> 01:03:31,606
We're ready to rock
and we need you badly.
1075
01:03:31,641 --> 01:03:34,442
You know, it's always a
struggle of calling friends
1076
01:03:34,477 --> 01:03:38,847
and enemies [audience laughs]
1077
01:03:38,881 --> 01:03:40,882
and telling them
they're your friends.
1078
01:03:40,917 --> 01:03:43,451
- [Sean laughs]
- [audience laughs]
1079
01:03:43,486 --> 01:03:46,087
You're just begging
because the people there
1080
01:03:46,122 --> 01:03:48,557
are working so hard
and heroically.
1081
01:03:48,591 --> 01:03:53,061
We've had extraordinary
people help us in two ways.
1082
01:03:53,095 --> 01:03:54,863
One of those, you know,
you'll have an art auction
1083
01:03:54,897 --> 01:03:58,867
and who are willing
to pony up big bids
1084
01:03:58,901 --> 01:04:00,802
to help out the organization.
1085
01:04:00,837 --> 01:04:02,971
The artists who
contribute the art,
1086
01:04:03,005 --> 01:04:04,739
then we have musical guests.
1087
01:04:04,774 --> 01:04:07,075
And the musical guests have
been the greatest bands
1088
01:04:07,109 --> 01:04:09,644
in the world, really
extraordinary.
1089
01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:11,680
So you have to work
very hard to make sure
1090
01:04:11,714 --> 01:04:13,415
that it's a good night for them.
1091
01:04:13,449 --> 01:04:14,950
You want that.
1092
01:04:14,984 --> 01:04:18,353
And so there's that pressure.
1093
01:04:18,421 --> 01:04:21,456
And then there's the pressure
of how much are you gonna pull.
1094
01:04:21,490 --> 01:04:24,526
Who's gonna start any number
you can do in this room.
1095
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,994
Let's just start adding it up.
1096
01:04:26,028 --> 01:04:28,864
Everybody in here can
vote for the future.
1097
01:04:28,898 --> 01:04:32,400
Just give me a number
5,000, 10,000, 20,000.
1098
01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:34,269
Just give me a number. Who?
1099
01:04:34,303 --> 01:04:38,740
You've got 300 people in a
room. By the end of that night,
1100
01:04:38,774 --> 01:04:42,878
if you make $6 million
out of those 300 people
1101
01:04:42,912 --> 01:04:45,614
it's probably coming
out of five pockets.
1102
01:04:47,016 --> 01:04:49,117
And you're looking around
the room wondering,
1103
01:04:50,786 --> 01:04:54,289
if you're here in Beverly Hills,
1104
01:04:54,323 --> 01:04:56,524
and you're watching
this entertainment,
1105
01:04:56,559 --> 01:05:00,061
you're watching YouTube and
they're pouring their hearts out
1106
01:05:02,265 --> 01:05:05,834
you don't have $500
to donate? [laughs]
1107
01:05:05,868 --> 01:05:08,203
And I know a lot of
people in that room,
1108
01:05:08,237 --> 01:05:10,672
they have a lot more
than $500 to donate,
1109
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:16,177
and they come year after
year to these things
1110
01:05:16,212 --> 01:05:22,517
and never put up anything,
and it's pretty infuriating.
1111
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,656
Okay, I'm just gonna really
look around this room.
1112
01:05:27,690 --> 01:05:29,724
Come on, man.
1113
01:05:29,759 --> 01:05:32,727
These people are dying over
there, we need your help,
1114
01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:35,497
I've already given millions
of dollars, it's time.
1115
01:05:35,531 --> 01:05:38,133
I've gotten worse
and worse at it.
1116
01:05:38,167 --> 01:05:39,501
I quit every year.
1117
01:05:39,535 --> 01:05:43,071
Quite frankly, the bottom
line is, they're waiting now,
1118
01:05:43,105 --> 01:05:45,907
young brains are starving
for education now,
1119
01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:49,144
there's malnutrition now as
we're sitting here tonight
1120
01:05:49,178 --> 01:05:53,081
and I trust that you don't
need me to be very charming
1121
01:05:53,115 --> 01:05:55,750
to tell you that what
we've got to do is raise
1122
01:05:55,785 --> 01:05:57,218
a lot of money tonight.
1123
01:05:57,253 --> 01:05:59,020
Everybody in this room,
1124
01:05:59,055 --> 01:06:02,090
every one of you can
contribute to this.
1125
01:06:02,124 --> 01:06:04,592
And you know, you know from
the people who were up here,
1126
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:05,827
I'm not fucking around.
1127
01:06:05,861 --> 01:06:08,163
We're gonna make your money
work, give us that money.
1128
01:06:08,197 --> 01:06:09,798
We need the goddamn money.
1129
01:06:09,832 --> 01:06:11,967
We need the support now.
1130
01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:14,769
[sighs heavily] Help
us finish this job.
1131
01:06:15,938 --> 01:06:18,540
Reach deep, then reach deeper.
1132
01:06:18,574 --> 01:06:21,343
We share one second
on Earth together.
1133
01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,212
Let's do it right.
1134
01:06:24,246 --> 01:06:26,781
I know these evenings can
be long, but trust me.
1135
01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:30,085
And then there's the people
who are so supportive,
1136
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:33,455
and you can get champions
in a lot of corners,
1137
01:06:33,489 --> 01:06:36,791
people who contribute
in a lot of ways to it.
1138
01:06:36,826 --> 01:06:40,061
-Sold to--[audience claps]
1139
01:06:40,096 --> 01:06:41,963
But it's a beast.
1140
01:06:43,299 --> 01:06:46,935
We're constantly looking for
new ways to sustain things.
1141
01:06:46,969 --> 01:06:50,538
If there's one true lesson
that I myself have learned
1142
01:06:50,573 --> 01:06:55,210
from Haitians is that if you
are shoved down to the ground
1143
01:06:55,244 --> 01:06:59,748
wounded, hurt really bad,
there's only one thing to do,
1144
01:06:59,782 --> 01:07:02,317
get back up.
1145
01:07:02,351 --> 01:07:05,186
[audience clap]
1146
01:07:09,358 --> 01:07:11,059
The rubble is mostly gone.
1147
01:07:11,093 --> 01:07:16,164
Sean's organization, cleaned
500,000 cubic meters.
1148
01:07:16,198 --> 01:07:18,333
He has carried off one
of the most successful
1149
01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:20,969
camp evacuations ever.
1150
01:07:21,003 --> 01:07:23,938
60,000 people moved from camp.
1151
01:07:23,973 --> 01:07:27,308
[audience claps]
1152
01:07:27,343 --> 01:07:32,347
- [gentle music]
- [thunder rumbles]
1153
01:07:50,933 --> 01:07:53,468
[Sean] I remember I
walked down the hill
1154
01:07:53,502 --> 01:07:57,939
and I see this incredible space,
1155
01:07:57,973 --> 01:08:00,708
this golf course that
they talked about.
1156
01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:04,212
I never understood how it
could have been a golf course.
1157
01:08:04,246 --> 01:08:06,081
It seemed like too
much of a hill,
1158
01:08:07,583 --> 01:08:09,951
but all of a sudden, now
the tents are all clear
1159
01:08:09,985 --> 01:08:10,919
and I'm seeing it.
1160
01:08:11,887 --> 01:08:13,588
And I see it for the first time.
1161
01:08:14,990 --> 01:08:17,292
I went back to that
first day in my head
1162
01:08:18,828 --> 01:08:21,696
and remembering all those
nights and the screaming
1163
01:08:21,730 --> 01:08:26,568
and the, sometimes the
violence and sometimes the party.
1164
01:08:28,304 --> 01:08:31,306
All the stuff that life is that
that camp had represented.
1165
01:08:32,441 --> 01:08:34,442
And those original volunteers
1166
01:08:34,477 --> 01:08:36,377
that had long since gone away.
1167
01:08:36,412 --> 01:08:39,114
All the experiences
that had been that camp.
1168
01:08:41,317 --> 01:08:43,818
There were people who told
us you'll never get it done,
1169
01:08:45,554 --> 01:08:49,791
all that but, that was big day.
1170
01:08:49,825 --> 01:08:51,259
Really, really big day.
1171
01:09:05,174 --> 01:09:08,343
There came a time when you
move from emergency relief
1172
01:09:08,377 --> 01:09:11,813
into development where yours
truly has to fire himself
1173
01:09:11,847 --> 01:09:15,116
because making movies and
emergencies are the same thing,
1174
01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:17,485
the stakes are different, but
when it came to development
1175
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,355
you needed much more
knowledgeable, thoughtful
1176
01:09:20,389 --> 01:09:22,657
and patient people
than myself running it.
1177
01:09:23,392 --> 01:09:24,759
[Don] Roll sound.
1178
01:09:24,793 --> 01:09:25,860
Sound speeds.
1179
01:09:27,363 --> 01:09:29,197
Okay, good to go.
1180
01:09:29,231 --> 01:09:31,466
I remember after the
earthquake, when we were going
1181
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:32,967
to all these meetings,
1182
01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:37,972
I was called on by the US
government to talk to Sean
1183
01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:41,409
because he was managing the
biggest displacement camp.
1184
01:09:41,443 --> 01:09:43,278
And I think they were
concerned about him
1185
01:09:43,312 --> 01:09:45,413
having enough support
and experience
1186
01:09:45,447 --> 01:09:52,287
and kind of help guide him on
ways that looking at the camp.
1187
01:09:52,321 --> 01:09:54,455
Sean was saying, you
know how he was worried
1188
01:09:54,490 --> 01:09:56,958
about the drainage
because it was very hilly,
1189
01:09:56,992 --> 01:09:59,961
and because of the rains
there was a lot of issues
1190
01:09:59,995 --> 01:10:01,996
with the tents getting flooded.
1191
01:10:02,031 --> 01:10:06,601
My boss very quickly
volunteered my team
1192
01:10:06,635 --> 01:10:10,171
to provide the heavy equipment,
to help with the drainage.
1193
01:10:10,206 --> 01:10:12,607
Which was very frustrating
because at the time
1194
01:10:12,641 --> 01:10:14,175
I did not take him seriously.
1195
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:16,444
I did not think he was
gonna stay for very long.
1196
01:10:16,478 --> 01:10:19,847
I just figured he's
going to take pictures,
1197
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:22,350
he's gonna do his thing
and then he's gonna leave
1198
01:10:22,384 --> 01:10:25,887
because that's what we had
been seeing of other people.
1199
01:10:27,389 --> 01:10:31,659
There is this natural competition
between organizations
1200
01:10:31,694 --> 01:10:34,128
that is so toxic.
1201
01:10:34,163 --> 01:10:37,899
And I think it was
just realizing that,
1202
01:10:37,933 --> 01:10:42,470
wait a second we're all
trying to do the same thing,
1203
01:10:42,504 --> 01:10:46,975
and if we don't work together
then what the fuck am I doing?
1204
01:10:47,009 --> 01:10:48,243
He was actually committed.
1205
01:10:48,277 --> 01:10:52,080
He was actually like on
the ground doing stuff.
1206
01:10:52,114 --> 01:10:55,650
That changed my
attitude towards him.
1207
01:10:55,718 --> 01:11:00,755
And then in 2015, Sean asked
me to join the organization.
1208
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:06,494
I gave it maybe a week's
thought and quit my job at the UN
1209
01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:08,062
and jumped right on board.
1210
01:11:08,097 --> 01:11:10,865
And the first thing that
I did was to go with him
1211
01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:14,035
to COP 21 in France.
1212
01:11:14,069 --> 01:11:16,537
[gentle music]
1213
01:11:36,425 --> 01:11:38,493
Sean met with the
French president.
1214
01:11:38,527 --> 01:11:41,229
They discussed what the
biggest difficulties were
1215
01:11:41,263 --> 01:11:44,877
in Haiti and reforestation
and climate change
1216
01:11:44,901 --> 01:11:47,035
were the two biggest
things that they decided
1217
01:11:47,069 --> 01:11:50,071
were critically
important to address.
1218
01:11:50,105 --> 01:11:54,342
And the French president
said, "I'm gonna work with you."
1219
01:11:54,376 --> 01:11:57,178
"We're gonna allocate,
millions of dollars"
1220
01:11:57,212 --> 01:11:58,646
"towards reforestation."
1221
01:11:58,681 --> 01:12:01,482
We have a ten-year
plan to mobilize
1222
01:12:01,517 --> 01:12:03,618
a civilian conservation Corps,
1223
01:12:05,421 --> 01:12:09,991
to incentivize the protection
of trees by the resourcing
1224
01:12:10,025 --> 01:12:11,659
of agriculture.
1225
01:12:12,861 --> 01:12:16,230
When we presented this
to the French government
1226
01:12:16,265 --> 01:12:19,634
we presented it as a
dream, but we were greeted
1227
01:12:20,602 --> 01:12:22,770
with a relative acknowledgement
1228
01:12:22,805 --> 01:12:24,739
that it's no longer
time for dreaming.
1229
01:12:32,448 --> 01:12:35,883
With an initial plan
of a pledge from France
1230
01:12:35,918 --> 01:12:38,653
of a hundred million
dollars over 10 years
1231
01:12:38,687 --> 01:12:41,255
matched by the World Bank,
another hundred million
1232
01:12:41,290 --> 01:12:44,625
over 10 years and
then private funds,
1233
01:12:44,660 --> 01:12:45,760
we have Haiti Takes Root,
1234
01:12:45,794 --> 01:12:48,463
which is a massive
reforestation project.
1235
01:12:48,497 --> 01:12:53,468
We are here tonight with
you and by with you, I mean
1236
01:12:53,502 --> 01:12:56,804
with your commitment, we
share it to make this happen.
1237
01:12:59,508 --> 01:13:02,810
[Ann] Now, translating
that vision into reality
1238
01:13:02,845 --> 01:13:06,013
on the ground, however,
is a very different thing.
1239
01:13:07,649 --> 01:13:10,685
We've spent about $2 million
over the last two years
1240
01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:14,288
on getting actual physical
activities on the ground.
1241
01:13:14,323 --> 01:13:16,858
But we are the only ones
who've been spending money
1242
01:13:16,892 --> 01:13:20,528
because World Bank is not
allowed to spend money
1243
01:13:20,562 --> 01:13:23,197
except through the
Haitian government.
1244
01:13:23,231 --> 01:13:25,700
Given the political
situation in Haiti
1245
01:13:25,734 --> 01:13:28,102
that has been very difficult.
1246
01:13:28,137 --> 01:13:30,638
[TV reporter] Protesters
running from tear gas...
1247
01:13:30,672 --> 01:13:31,706
[gun shots]
1248
01:13:31,740 --> 01:13:36,310
...clashes with police,
barricades and fires.
1249
01:13:36,345 --> 01:13:37,812
These are the scenes of anger
1250
01:13:37,846 --> 01:13:40,481
paralyzing Haiti's largest
cities after more than a week
1251
01:13:40,516 --> 01:13:42,316
of deadly unrest.
1252
01:13:42,351 --> 01:13:43,451
The demonstrators are demanding
1253
01:13:43,485 --> 01:13:45,620
their president's resignation.
1254
01:13:45,654 --> 01:13:47,488
Many people are very
discouraged especially
1255
01:13:47,523 --> 01:13:49,557
if they in Port-au-Prince.
1256
01:13:49,591 --> 01:13:50,591
Haiti exists.
1257
01:13:50,626 --> 01:13:53,161
People exist, people
or in their community
1258
01:13:53,195 --> 01:13:55,863
they are surviving in
spite of the government,
1259
01:13:55,898 --> 01:13:57,932
not because of the government.
1260
01:13:57,966 --> 01:14:00,268
In many ways we are
going backwards,
1261
01:14:00,302 --> 01:14:02,336
instead of moving forward.
1262
01:14:02,371 --> 01:14:07,175
It's super frustrating,
but having worked, jeez,
1263
01:14:07,209 --> 01:14:14,549
14 years in Haiti, it's also
not surprising, unfortunately.
1264
01:14:14,583 --> 01:14:17,952
So we're gonna continue on
working with the farmers,
1265
01:14:17,986 --> 01:14:20,521
to grow more productive trees
1266
01:14:20,556 --> 01:14:22,557
and increase their
wages, their earnings
1267
01:14:22,591 --> 01:14:26,627
but Haiti Takes Root as
imagined is on hold for now.
1268
01:14:39,775 --> 01:14:44,045
This organization's
lifeblood is this gala.
1269
01:14:44,079 --> 01:14:46,414
We're trying to change
that, but for right now
1270
01:14:46,448 --> 01:14:50,518
it's very reliant on
this gala for funding.
1271
01:14:50,552 --> 01:14:52,887
It's what separates us out from
1272
01:14:52,921 --> 01:14:55,223
the majority of
organizations out there.
1273
01:14:55,257 --> 01:14:58,059
Welcome to the 5th
annual Help Haiti event.
1274
01:14:58,093 --> 01:14:59,927
[Ann] When we have
flexible funding
1275
01:14:59,962 --> 01:15:03,531
and we can spend it in ways
that most organizations can't,
1276
01:15:03,565 --> 01:15:05,433
it just means that we can
get work done on the ground
1277
01:15:05,467 --> 01:15:07,134
a lot quicker.
1278
01:15:07,169 --> 01:15:09,570
[TV reporter] Hurricane
Matthew slammed into Haiti
1279
01:15:09,605 --> 01:15:13,074
on Tuesday only now are we
starting to see the extent
1280
01:15:13,108 --> 01:15:14,408
of the damage.
1281
01:15:14,443 --> 01:15:16,677
And while the Capital
city largely dodged a bullet
1282
01:15:16,712 --> 01:15:18,613
there are some rural
areas here that are just
1283
01:15:18,647 --> 01:15:21,782
absolutely devastated and
fears remain for flooding,
1284
01:15:21,817 --> 01:15:24,585
mudslides and possibly cholera.
1285
01:15:24,620 --> 01:15:27,255
When hurricane Matthew
happened, we already
1286
01:15:27,289 --> 01:15:28,689
had our programs planned,
1287
01:15:30,192 --> 01:15:32,460
but philosophically,
we must respond.
1288
01:15:39,301 --> 01:15:42,436
[Ann] Our team who had
experience from the earthquake
1289
01:15:42,470 --> 01:15:46,307
jumped right in and went
into disaster response mode.
1290
01:15:47,476 --> 01:15:50,811
To be able to even
get medical, food,
1291
01:15:50,846 --> 01:15:53,314
any of those things anywhere
you need to have access.
1292
01:15:53,348 --> 01:15:55,650
So we did that immediately.
1293
01:15:55,684 --> 01:15:57,151
[woman speaks Creole]
1294
01:15:57,185 --> 01:15:58,953
You get to know the
community and you can see
1295
01:15:58,987 --> 01:16:01,656
what else is needed,
and they tell us,
1296
01:16:01,690 --> 01:16:03,190
okay we need money for this now,
1297
01:16:03,225 --> 01:16:04,725
and we need to do this next.
1298
01:16:06,461 --> 01:16:10,531
Our teams were all Haitian
and the local mayors
1299
01:16:10,566 --> 01:16:12,867
were saying you have no
idea how good it feels
1300
01:16:12,901 --> 01:16:16,737
to see one of our own
responding, speaking our language,
1301
01:16:16,772 --> 01:16:20,041
and it's amazing to see
that we're able to do this
1302
01:16:20,075 --> 01:16:21,442
for ourselves.
1303
01:16:22,444 --> 01:16:24,879
Haitians aren't just victims.
1304
01:16:24,913 --> 01:16:26,814
They're not just
like helpless people
1305
01:16:26,848 --> 01:16:30,718
that need help all the
time, they're bad-ass.
1306
01:16:32,020 --> 01:16:34,889
Food, water, all those
things are necessary.
1307
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:36,691
That's short-term stuff
1308
01:16:36,725 --> 01:16:38,559
but let's start
investing immediately now
1309
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:41,896
on things that are going to
prevent the next hurricane
1310
01:16:41,930 --> 01:16:44,765
to completely knock
out these communities.
1311
01:16:47,269 --> 01:16:50,071
So we had a $7
million annual budget
1312
01:16:51,006 --> 01:16:52,773
and we had raised $7 million.
1313
01:16:54,543 --> 01:16:59,647
And within five weeks we
spent $3 million responding
1314
01:16:59,681 --> 01:17:00,948
to Matthew.
1315
01:17:01,650 --> 01:17:03,551
That was an unforeseen cost.
1316
01:17:03,585 --> 01:17:06,420
[Don] Does that make
you wanna think about
1317
01:17:06,455 --> 01:17:09,857
scaling back or you
keep pushing forward?
1318
01:17:10,959 --> 01:17:12,360
Well, what I wanna to do
1319
01:17:13,629 --> 01:17:17,231
is I don't wanna leave
anybody high and dry,
1320
01:17:17,265 --> 01:17:18,666
including our employees,
1321
01:17:19,901 --> 01:17:24,472
and in the education
area, certainly not kids.
1322
01:17:24,506 --> 01:17:26,574
So we're just going to figure
out a way to keep it financed
1323
01:17:26,608 --> 01:17:28,142
as long as we have it.
1324
01:17:28,176 --> 01:17:31,078
If I can offload education onto
1325
01:17:31,113 --> 01:17:32,947
another philanthropic
organization
1326
01:17:32,981 --> 01:17:37,151
that we share a philosophy
with who will either improve it
1327
01:17:37,185 --> 01:17:40,588
or at least maintain it
as it is, I'll do that.
1328
01:17:40,622 --> 01:17:44,458
What I would like to be left
with is what we started with
1329
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:46,761
because the storms
aren't gonna get less.
1330
01:17:48,363 --> 01:17:51,699
We're a humanitarian
emergency organization,
1331
01:17:51,733 --> 01:17:55,903
and to bring that outside
of Haiti is valuable.
1332
01:17:57,172 --> 01:18:00,274
When you look at the hurricane
belt of the United States
1333
01:18:00,308 --> 01:18:02,710
it's not rocket
science to know where
1334
01:18:02,744 --> 01:18:04,512
a lot of these
disasters are gonna hit.
1335
01:18:04,546 --> 01:18:08,149
It's basically the convergence
of poverty, racial inequality
1336
01:18:08,183 --> 01:18:13,087
and riskier areas that are
more prone to the elements.
1337
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:16,357
What we're starting now
is our first pilot project
1338
01:18:16,391 --> 01:18:18,559
in Savannah, Georgia.
1339
01:18:35,877 --> 01:18:39,647
[indistinct chatter]
1340
01:18:39,681 --> 01:18:43,451
What we do is we go to
disadvantaged neighborhoods
1341
01:18:43,485 --> 01:18:46,053
and areas that have
serious racial tension
1342
01:18:46,088 --> 01:18:48,489
between the police
and the residents.
1343
01:18:48,523 --> 01:18:51,659
And you get the young men and
women from 16 to 25 years old
1344
01:18:51,693 --> 01:18:53,060
and start training them.
1345
01:18:54,429 --> 01:18:57,531
Today is graduation day
for our community emergency
1346
01:18:57,566 --> 01:18:59,066
response team program training.
1347
01:18:59,100 --> 01:19:00,701
I'm really excited.
1348
01:19:02,204 --> 01:19:05,773
[Sean] And working with the
governor and the universities.
1349
01:19:05,807 --> 01:19:10,244
Make it so that those credits
matter as university credits.
1350
01:19:10,278 --> 01:19:12,213
That the cert training is a
certification that matters,
1351
01:19:12,247 --> 01:19:17,017
that it has a presence
on a CV in getting a job.
1352
01:19:17,052 --> 01:19:18,419
Well, I think my
classmates are pretty proud
1353
01:19:18,453 --> 01:19:22,189
and excited that we get
to have this opportunity
1354
01:19:22,224 --> 01:19:25,426
to all be together and
accomplish something.
1355
01:19:25,460 --> 01:19:27,628
For me to graduate
out of this program
1356
01:19:27,662 --> 01:19:30,197
to give me the opportunities
that it's giving me,
1357
01:19:30,232 --> 01:19:31,665
it's a good feeling.
1358
01:19:31,733 --> 01:19:34,835
It means a lot to me
to help other people,
1359
01:19:34,870 --> 01:19:36,036
and to know that I can.
1360
01:19:37,873 --> 01:19:39,907
[Sean] If you have six
locations from Houston
1361
01:19:39,941 --> 01:19:42,610
to the Southern
Atlantic seaboard,
1362
01:19:42,644 --> 01:19:44,612
you've got the entire
hurricane belt covered
1363
01:19:44,646 --> 01:19:45,880
with trained young people.
1364
01:19:45,914 --> 01:19:49,083
[Trainee] Hands on the
wall, hands on the wall.
1365
01:19:49,117 --> 01:19:51,519
[Sean] And then if
the emergency happens
1366
01:19:51,553 --> 01:19:55,022
within say 250 miles, they
are obligated to deploy
1367
01:19:55,056 --> 01:19:56,457
to that area also.
1368
01:19:56,491 --> 01:19:57,958
First to their own community,
1369
01:19:57,993 --> 01:19:59,894
but if it doesn't
hit their community
1370
01:19:59,928 --> 01:20:02,763
then they can be
activated for other areas.
1371
01:20:04,266 --> 01:20:07,368
[TV reporter 1] Florence
raging ashore before dawn.
1372
01:20:07,402 --> 01:20:10,871
Hurricane-force winds
turning debris into projectiles.
1373
01:20:10,906 --> 01:20:12,907
[TV reporter 2] Fierce
winds and relentless waves
1374
01:20:12,941 --> 01:20:15,242
bearing down on the Carolinas.
1375
01:20:15,277 --> 01:20:19,280
We knew hurricane Florence
is gonna hit Robertson County
1376
01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:21,081
'cause it's the poorest county,
1377
01:20:21,116 --> 01:20:24,885
and it was in an area where
there this massive river
1378
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:26,987
that flooded all the time.
1379
01:20:28,590 --> 01:20:33,294
We brought about 15 kids and
they spent a long weekend
1380
01:20:34,429 --> 01:20:36,764
just mucking out these
houses of families
1381
01:20:36,798 --> 01:20:40,668
that had water halfway
up their walls.
1382
01:20:40,702 --> 01:20:42,503
Thanks for coming in
this is absolutely huge
1383
01:20:42,537 --> 01:20:43,938
to have you all involved.
1384
01:20:43,972 --> 01:20:45,840
Couldn't be more
thankful that you're here
1385
01:20:45,874 --> 01:20:47,608
and let's get to work.
1386
01:20:55,917 --> 01:21:00,120
[Ann] Those kids worked
in the North Carolina heat
1387
01:21:00,155 --> 01:21:05,226
but we're just so happy and
excited to be doing something
1388
01:21:06,294 --> 01:21:08,028
and to put their
training to use.
1389
01:21:09,464 --> 01:21:13,234
They actually saw the impact
that they had on these families
1390
01:21:13,268 --> 01:21:16,770
who were so grateful who would
come by and bring them water
1391
01:21:16,805 --> 01:21:18,772
and just inspire them.
1392
01:21:19,975 --> 01:21:22,643
One, two, three cheese.
1393
01:21:24,446 --> 01:21:27,648
I felt a long time
ago that J/P HRO
1394
01:21:29,050 --> 01:21:33,153
is a name that only
Haitians and people in Haiti
1395
01:21:33,188 --> 01:21:36,123
can actually remember,
nobody ever gets it right.
1396
01:21:36,157 --> 01:21:39,827
Also in terms of the
direction we were going
1397
01:21:39,861 --> 01:21:42,196
we changed J/P HRO into CORE.
1398
01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:44,565
It's Community
Organized Relief Effort.
1399
01:21:44,633 --> 01:21:45,833
[thunder rumbling]
1400
01:21:45,867 --> 01:21:47,668
[TV reporter 3] We wanna
get right to hurricane Dorian
1401
01:21:47,702 --> 01:21:49,169
category five storm
hitting, The Bahamas,
1402
01:21:49,204 --> 01:21:50,804
heading for the Southeast.
1403
01:21:54,276 --> 01:21:56,977
Wind gusts of
200 miles per hour.
1404
01:21:57,012 --> 01:22:00,114
You can see what it's doing
here and off in the distance,
1405
01:22:00,148 --> 01:22:02,750
those waves crashing
against the pier.
1406
01:22:02,784 --> 01:22:05,586
[wind gusts]
1407
01:22:05,620 --> 01:22:07,187
[Ann] The Bahamas happens.
1408
01:22:07,222 --> 01:22:09,890
We have a relationship
with the mayor of San Juan,
1409
01:22:09,925 --> 01:22:14,228
where she sends out with us,
her team of search and rescue
1410
01:22:14,262 --> 01:22:16,964
and medical staff to
respond to an emergency.
1411
01:22:18,700 --> 01:22:21,368
So as soon as the
medical teams were done
1412
01:22:21,403 --> 01:22:24,338
then our teams brought
in the debris removal.
1413
01:22:27,375 --> 01:22:30,644
While we're doing that, we
have a team that's getting
1414
01:22:30,679 --> 01:22:34,448
businesses back up and running
again, as well as households
1415
01:22:36,017 --> 01:22:38,852
get cash to people so that
they can rebuild their lives.
1416
01:22:40,388 --> 01:22:43,157
We're not a massively
huge organization,
1417
01:22:43,191 --> 01:22:44,725
we have a lot of heart.
1418
01:22:44,759 --> 01:22:47,661
But here's the vision we're
gonna make this community
1419
01:22:47,696 --> 01:22:51,065
healthier, stronger,
and happier.
1420
01:22:51,099 --> 01:22:53,834
And we got to sell that
to other organizations
1421
01:22:53,868 --> 01:22:57,204
to inspire them, to just
throw in what they can.
1422
01:22:57,238 --> 01:23:00,107
[gentle music]
1423
01:23:28,970 --> 01:23:31,238
After so many years,
you just get numb to it.
1424
01:23:31,272 --> 01:23:34,308
You know, the same images,
you see all the destruction,
1425
01:23:34,342 --> 01:23:37,378
you hear the same stories, you
remember what you remember.
1426
01:23:37,412 --> 01:23:41,415
I think this one, because it's
10 years, hit me a lot harder
1427
01:23:41,449 --> 01:23:43,917
than it does usually.
1428
01:23:43,952 --> 01:23:47,654
Remembering the people
that you've left behind
1429
01:23:47,689 --> 01:23:49,490
and the life that
you left behind.
1430
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:57,464
I see a lot of personality
driven organizations
1431
01:23:57,499 --> 01:24:00,234
that start out with big ideas
1432
01:24:00,268 --> 01:24:03,003
and a lot of energy
for fundraising
1433
01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:05,606
that gets real
tiring real quick,
1434
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,809
and you'll see those
organizations close their doors.
1435
01:24:10,078 --> 01:24:13,881
We've been trying to
alleviate some of that pressure
1436
01:24:13,915 --> 01:24:14,882
from Sean.
1437
01:24:14,916 --> 01:24:17,985
He opens doors for us, for sure.
1438
01:24:18,019 --> 01:24:21,155
He is not as much a
deal closer anymore.
1439
01:24:23,258 --> 01:24:26,326
There's this story that I've
loved ever since I was a kid.
1440
01:24:26,361 --> 01:24:29,129
And it's about this guy
who comes into a village
1441
01:24:29,164 --> 01:24:30,631
and he's a vagabond,
1442
01:24:30,665 --> 01:24:33,700
and this village is
very, very suspicious.
1443
01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:36,637
Everyone runs into their
houses and closes their door
1444
01:24:36,671 --> 01:24:39,273
and he sets up in the
center of the village,
1445
01:24:39,307 --> 01:24:42,142
he pulls out his
stone and his pot
1446
01:24:42,177 --> 01:24:43,811
and he starts building a fire,
1447
01:24:43,845 --> 01:24:46,814
filling his pot up with
water, sticks a stone in,
1448
01:24:46,848 --> 01:24:48,682
and he's just cooking away.
1449
01:24:48,716 --> 01:24:50,217
The villages are very curious,
1450
01:24:50,251 --> 01:24:52,986
so they're coming out one by
one and they're asking him,
1451
01:24:53,021 --> 01:24:54,188
"What are you making?
What is that?"
1452
01:24:54,222 --> 01:24:58,358
"And he says, " This is
the most delicious soup
1453
01:24:58,393 --> 01:25:00,928
"that you will ever
taste. It is so hardy.
1454
01:25:00,962 --> 01:25:02,930
"You will never taste
anything like it"
1455
01:25:02,964 --> 01:25:06,767
"but it would just be even
better if we could add"
1456
01:25:06,801 --> 01:25:08,902
"a few more carrots in there."
1457
01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:11,205
The villager says, "I have
carrots, I'll bring some."
1458
01:25:11,239 --> 01:25:13,841
And then another villager
comes and he says,
1459
01:25:13,875 --> 01:25:17,911
"Oh it'd be so much better
if we just had onions."
1460
01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:22,716
And so at the end of it,
the vagabond actually makes
1461
01:25:22,750 --> 01:25:26,086
the most delicious
soup ever tasted.
1462
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:28,355
To me, that is Sean.
1463
01:25:28,389 --> 01:25:32,526
He comes in with a fucking
bag and a fucking rock
1464
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:35,696
and is like, "This is
the most amazing thing"
1465
01:25:35,730 --> 01:25:37,564
"we're gonna do ever."
1466
01:25:37,599 --> 01:25:42,402
And little by little
people make it happen.
1467
01:25:42,437 --> 01:25:45,239
[indistinct chatter]
1468
01:25:53,748 --> 01:25:55,249
[Sean] I'm just a guy who says,
1469
01:25:55,283 --> 01:25:56,861
"Okay, I think I can do this."
1470
01:25:56,885 --> 01:25:58,785
"I think I can do
something good here."
1471
01:26:00,655 --> 01:26:02,156
I don't fancy myself,
1472
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:09,429
a good doer or a bad doer.
Like here's a project,
1473
01:26:09,464 --> 01:26:10,831
and I keep my head in there
1474
01:26:10,865 --> 01:26:13,267
'cause I have great
humanitarians that I work with.
1475
01:26:14,469 --> 01:26:19,006
Five times a month, I
say to myself out loud,
1476
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,208
thank God that I went.
1477
01:26:22,343 --> 01:26:23,877
The life experience of it,
1478
01:26:25,213 --> 01:26:28,448
the people that I met, both
Haitian and non Haitian,
1479
01:26:28,483 --> 01:26:29,349
the things I learned about
1480
01:26:29,384 --> 01:26:31,652
that I never would
have understood.
1481
01:26:32,987 --> 01:26:35,989
I wouldn't miss this for
my life for anything.
1482
01:26:38,860 --> 01:26:42,129
There were so many people
whose names I won't remember
1483
01:26:42,163 --> 01:26:44,464
without whom J/P
HR would not exist.
1484
01:26:44,499 --> 01:26:47,100
Maybe tomorrow I'll
flash on a face and go,
1485
01:26:47,135 --> 01:26:49,002
"Oh, what was her name?
What was his name?"
1486
01:26:50,171 --> 01:26:52,172
They might've just done
one thing on one day
1487
01:26:52,207 --> 01:26:56,577
that changed everything
because we were an airplane
1488
01:26:56,611 --> 01:26:59,246
that built itself after takeoff.
1489
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:03,116
And that's a perilous
ride in so many ways.
1490
01:27:05,019 --> 01:27:08,555
And how it ended up surviving
was the force of will
1491
01:27:08,590 --> 01:27:10,457
of hundreds of people.
1492
01:27:12,760 --> 01:27:15,562
We need citizen activism.
1493
01:27:15,597 --> 01:27:18,332
We need citizen participation.
1494
01:27:18,366 --> 01:27:22,636
And that's all I can claim
to be, is as a citizen
1495
01:27:22,670 --> 01:27:25,439
who tries to participate
and that's it.
1496
01:27:26,374 --> 01:27:28,041
[woman] Do you have
your glasses Sean?
1497
01:27:33,548 --> 01:27:35,549
I used to say about
directing a film
1498
01:27:35,583 --> 01:27:39,386
that at a certain point, you're
running down a train track
1499
01:27:39,420 --> 01:27:41,255
and now you're in a tunnel
and the trains coming
1500
01:27:41,289 --> 01:27:43,924
and you only have one choice,
you gotta keep running.
1501
01:27:43,958 --> 01:27:46,059
There's no room on
the sides, right?
1502
01:27:50,898 --> 01:27:53,400
For me, there were
two daylights.
1503
01:27:53,434 --> 01:27:56,169
There was the daylight came
after about nine months
1504
01:27:56,204 --> 01:27:58,538
which was a daylight
enough that said,
1505
01:27:58,573 --> 01:28:02,276
"I've got people here I can
trust to keep this going,"
1506
01:28:02,310 --> 01:28:04,645
and then there's that
most distant daylight
1507
01:28:04,679 --> 01:28:09,116
which is how to really feel
that we made a lasting impact
1508
01:28:09,150 --> 01:28:10,784
on people's lives.
1509
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:13,086
[Don] You're optimistic?
1510
01:28:13,121 --> 01:28:15,822
Well I have no choice,
there's no choice.
1511
01:28:15,857 --> 01:28:17,557
I've told too many
people it's gonna work.
1512
01:28:17,592 --> 01:28:19,259
[laughs] I'm in the tunnel.
1513
01:28:22,630 --> 01:28:25,966
[Host] And now the
founder of CORE, Sean Penn.
1514
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,935
[audience applaud]
1515
01:28:46,487 --> 01:28:48,155
♪ It's part of the attraction ♪
1516
01:28:48,189 --> 01:28:49,823
♪ You wanna be destroyed ♪
1517
01:28:49,857 --> 01:28:51,425
♪ And the spirit on the water ♪
1518
01:28:51,459 --> 01:28:53,627
♪ And you're the farmer's boy ♪
1519
01:28:53,661 --> 01:28:55,295
♪ When I heard your voice ♪
1520
01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:57,331
♪ At first I was annoyed ♪
1521
01:28:57,365 --> 01:29:00,400
♪ You woke me ♪
1522
01:29:00,435 --> 01:29:02,536
♪ From the beginning of time ♪
1523
01:29:02,570 --> 01:29:04,638
♪ I had so little grace ♪
1524
01:29:04,672 --> 01:29:08,475
♪ After while not a
freckle on your face ♪
1525
01:29:08,509 --> 01:29:11,878
♪ I was looking for the
rhyme in time and space ♪
1526
01:29:11,913 --> 01:29:15,782
♪ And you broke me ♪
1527
01:29:15,817 --> 01:29:19,553
♪ You are walking now naked
with your pants not on ♪
1528
01:29:19,587 --> 01:29:23,223
♪ At the gates of Eden
with no sins to pardon ♪
1529
01:29:23,257 --> 01:29:26,727
♪ It was Adam not Eve who
threw God out of the garden ♪
1530
01:29:26,761 --> 01:29:29,830
♪ You rock me ♪
1531
01:29:29,864 --> 01:29:33,533
♪ Let's not get clever
with this stuff ♪
1532
01:29:33,568 --> 01:29:38,839
♪ Well are you
ready to give up ♪
1533
01:29:39,507 --> 01:29:42,442
♪ To find love ♪
1534
01:29:42,477 --> 01:29:46,113
♪ To find love ♪
1535
01:29:46,147 --> 01:29:50,317
♪ To find love ♪
1536
01:29:50,351 --> 01:29:54,721
♪ To find love ♪
1537
01:29:54,756 --> 01:29:58,458
♪ When you're climbing rom
the wreckage of a burnout star ♪
1538
01:29:58,526 --> 01:30:02,028
♪ And the old neon looks
like the counting bar ♪
1539
01:30:02,063 --> 01:30:03,630
♪ Asked where I was going ♪
1540
01:30:03,664 --> 01:30:08,468
♪ I answered how
far you wanna go ♪
1541
01:30:09,804 --> 01:30:13,206
♪ American male,
teary-eyed knight ♪
1542
01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:16,376
♪ The cigarette smokers
going to find his light ♪
1543
01:30:16,411 --> 01:30:18,712
♪ If you repeat
it often enough ♪
1544
01:30:18,746 --> 01:30:20,714
♪ Wrong looks right ♪
1545
01:30:20,748 --> 01:30:23,016
♪ But deep down you know ♪
1546
01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:26,987
♪ The smooth will make
excuses for the rough ♪
1547
01:30:27,021 --> 01:30:32,826
♪ Yeah, no, it shouldn't
be this tough ♪
1548
01:30:32,860 --> 01:30:36,630
♪ To find love ♪
1549
01:30:36,664 --> 01:30:39,499
♪ To find love ♪
1550
01:30:39,534 --> 01:30:43,603
♪ To find love ♪
1551
01:30:43,638 --> 01:30:46,807
♪ To find love ♪
1552
01:30:49,577 --> 01:30:52,813
♪ Tell the oceans ♪
1553
01:30:52,847 --> 01:30:56,650
♪ Tell the sun ♪
1554
01:30:56,684 --> 01:30:59,786
♪ Tell the weatherman ♪
1555
01:30:59,821 --> 01:31:03,223
♪ Tell everyone ♪
1556
01:31:03,257 --> 01:31:06,760
♪ All money junkies are
running out of veins ♪
1557
01:31:06,794 --> 01:31:08,228
♪ If you're one
of them yourself ♪
1558
01:31:08,262 --> 01:31:10,464
♪ You got no one else to blame ♪
1559
01:31:10,498 --> 01:31:12,599
♪ You don't need any
more than you have ♪
1560
01:31:12,633 --> 01:31:17,170
♪ Except the shame
of feeling torn ♪
1561
01:31:17,205 --> 01:31:19,172
♪ Between the hungry
and the greedy ♪
1562
01:31:19,207 --> 01:31:21,408
♪ The hunted and the needy ♪
1563
01:31:21,442 --> 01:31:22,943
♪ If you wanted you can see me ♪
1564
01:31:22,977 --> 01:31:24,511
♪ When you serve the
poor you free me ♪
1565
01:31:24,545 --> 01:31:28,782
♪ Slaves have grown accustomed
to the weight of your chains ♪
1566
01:31:28,816 --> 01:31:32,118
♪ And your heads shone ♪
1567
01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:36,122
♪ Your eyes will find the
silence inside the hurricane ♪
1568
01:31:36,157 --> 01:31:39,893
♪ You know you must do
something other than complain ♪
1569
01:31:39,927 --> 01:31:43,363
♪ Or pray for mother Earth,
these are not more labor pains ♪
1570
01:31:43,397 --> 01:31:46,600
♪ Maybe you're being born ♪
1571
01:31:46,634 --> 01:31:49,903
♪ Out of the ash of the dust ♪
1572
01:31:49,937 --> 01:31:53,773
♪ The clever learn
who not to trust ♪
1573
01:31:53,808 --> 01:31:57,911
♪ The genius of belief
is that we must ♪
1574
01:31:57,945 --> 01:32:02,716
♪ Take a chance
sometimes on us ♪
1575
01:32:03,317 --> 01:32:06,686
♪ To find love ♪
1576
01:32:06,721 --> 01:32:10,457
♪ To find love ♪
1577
01:32:10,491 --> 01:32:14,027
♪ To find love ♪
1578
01:32:14,061 --> 01:32:17,664
♪ To find love ♪
1579
01:32:17,698 --> 01:32:21,134
♪ To find love ♪
1580
01:32:21,168 --> 01:32:25,472
♪ To find love ♪
1581
01:32:25,506 --> 01:32:28,441
♪ To find love ♪
1582
01:32:28,476 --> 01:32:31,511
♪ To find love ♪