Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/18/2012 01:01 AM Report

This one I watched and it is very good:

The world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of catadores — or garbage pickers. The catadores are the ultimate marginalized population; unemployed in any traditional sense of the word, they resort to picking valuable recyclable materials from the garbage thrown away by those in Brazil more fortunate than themselves. But they display remarkably good spirits and camaraderie in the face of their lot in life, forming friendships and, in the case of the elderly Valter, declaring the crucial and meaningful role they play in remediating the results of the modern culture of overconsumption and careless disposal.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/waste-land/film.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 01:43 AM Report

"In Cairo's Trash City, School Teaches Reading, Recycling."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june10/egypt_02-16.html

The Zabbaleen (Egyptian Arabic: ??????) are a minority religious community of Coptic Christians who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors for approximately the past 70 to 80 years. Zabbaleen means "Garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic.[1] The Zabbaleen (singular: Zabbal) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 01:39 AM Report

Charlie, when you said this really is a remarkable achievement she really lit up.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 01:38 AM Report

Charlie--missed opportunity here. You had Charles Murray talk about marriage and you did NOT ask her about it.

She wrote The Marriage Cure in 2003.

The plan uses $300 million in federal funds to raise the marriage rate among the poor in an effort to complete the unfinished business of the 1996 federal-welfare-reform law. Marriage promoters also see matrimony as a means of decreasing crime and welfare dependence.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/06/060206fr_archive01#ixzz1m3I28JrF

Gelles  02/13/2012 07:46 PM Report

We have a female Dickens alive and well in our own time.

This represents a golden opportunity to learn that Dickens knew and taught -- but brought up to date. "Up to date", or NEWS drives our intellectual day. It may be that "the Eternities count more than the Times", as Thoreau (I think) remarked, but for almost all of us, the NEWS is what we crave -- and HISTORY needs to be reported (often imagined)in great detail to compete with it.

With an name like "Boo", it has to be to reading what Smuckers is to jam. And she is not yet into "acting" as good as she is to reporting. Still when I first listened to her on the TV Rose Show I knew she was a winner. She cared about poor people as much as we all care about celebrities. That is a mark of honor among our friends.

Not that we want the poor to always be there -- or the sick or crazy. We want to care enough to do enough to make all of us rich, healthy and clever as we can be. But, to do that task of making tomorrow more perfect we must love the poor for what they are, as Boo can do. For "what they are" is anything but "just" poor. The most gifted of us cannot make another human being as well as the least of us, with nature's gift and good luck, can make a baby.

Boo has a special husband. The way she told us reminded me of the first Indian from India I ever met. It was in Riverside Park NYC -- playing tennis. He was an engineer, a little younger than the forty-two I was. My two small sons and wife were with me. He was still single. The four of us were immediately under his spell -- we became friends. It was a tennis friendship only. But it had magical qualities I had seldom known before. He was not Hindu, Sikh or Muslim. He was from a smaller sect of very thin, very nice, people (I surmised). He was the only one of that sect I ever met.

Thank you New Yorker, Charlie and her earlier publishers. We have met Boo. He words are waiting for our love..

REMant  02/13/2012 11:30 AM Report

I didn't finish watching this, but I found a review of it in the Post Sunday. I just wanted to point out that urban slums have accompanied commercialization since at least Elizabeth I's time.