Transcripts For ALJAZAM America Tonight 20140124

Equation that saves kids from the streets. If a kid passes 9th grade math, he or she will likely pass high school. We with will also look a the man behind the program that is changing the way millions learn, and why it works. And she puts it out there, the artist that gives women a voice against the words that hurt. In a very unlucked way. Thats not a compliment. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Tonight we consider how the internet has changed us, for good and for evil. Sometimes in ways we just never contemplated. If your life including teenagers you are aware how rammedly that can happen. One of the latest things in the world is calling vying and if you havent gotten tangled up in it is guy norwegian rouse. As the Fastest Growing social media app it had a 403 increase in less than a year, and get this, five vines are tweeted every second. As it grows vine is proving not just to be a popular, but a powerful force and as america tonight correspondent found, its create add social community, with its own brand of judgement, and justice. Curtis la pore is a tattooed rocker and comedian. Jesse smiled is a whitty blond. If i had a dollar for every time a guy said he wanted to be in a relationship with me, i would be homeless. A new kind of celebrity. All of you telling me i wasnt a real celebrity. Two of the most popular people on vine. A social media site own uhed by twitter that limits users to six second videos. What pore and spiels each have around 3 million followers. After meeting through vine and commenting on each others videos they decided to meet in person. I like this girl. Her name is jesse smiles. Their romance played out publicly, this Youtube Video documented their first meeting in front of thousands of adoring vine fans, in new yorks Washington Square park. It just keeps playing over and over again. Yeah, if you dont stop it it will play until the end of time. He is a different kind of vine star, this video he posted when the u. S. Supreme court ruled on samesex marriage last year, went viral, a earning him the first ever vine journalism award. Vine is just one years old, but already has 40 million users. The Fastest Growing social media app in 2013. You can become a celebrity on this platform very quickly. Who uses vine. There are people that are super fans that latch on to personalities on vine. Super fans who can turn ugly as fast as a vine can go viral. Daniel wine like millions of others was shocked to see jesse and curtis online fairy tail romance turn into an allegation of rape. According to Court Documents on august 31st, jesse says she was sexually assaulted by curtis in her sleep, shortly after the couple broke up. Dave, i am pregnant. Now you not. Curtis was arrested in sent, and charged with the rape of an unconscious person. He has pleaded not guilty. There are words here that i cant say on television. Exactly. But she is being call add liar basically. Yeah. By some people. And much worse terms. When the news broke this month on the gossip website tmz, vine super fans launched vicious attacks. A lot of people are showing concern for him, because they he is framed. Curtis and jesse each release add six second video reacting to the controversy. When the time is right i will have something to say. Jesses vine is a dance. With hex thanking her supporters. They have people that are loyal to one or the other, and its becoming a dualing atmosphere. How strange when we are talking about serious allegations of rape, duke theres something about this platform . One thing that vine allows for is a video, and video is perhaps the best medium for people to kind of feel like they are getting to know someone. Much more personal. Personal but not always reality where followers have become judge and jury, as a rape case plays out in the newest corner of cyber space. Where does the legal part stand now. Lowly making its way through the justice system. La pore posts 100,000 bond, so he is free. And shortly after this story broke, very interesting he wednesday ahead and post add tweet claiming that this whole thing was a second publicity stunt on behalf of jesse smiles. So the social Media Community is already making its judge and jury and thats really interesting because there are no facts so far. We dont know if theres any physical evidence, not much documentation, the fans are going back through the old feels on vine, they are looking at video, tweets and trying to get into the minds i would say of these two, and they are super fans and they have draw a line in the sand, and they are divided. Team jesse, team curtis. Joining us now, whose documentary catfish explored this idea of people not being who they seem to be online. You though were also witnessed to the first face to face meeting between these two, we know that, and as adam has talked about, the legal cases separate, lets talk broadly about what this means. Yeah i became very interested in vine early on, when i saw the intense community that was building. The meet ups the fact that people were using this platform to bring people together, and as you mentioned i was at that first meet up, it was overwhelming. There was a couple thousand people there excited to see them. A couple thousand people get together to essentially go on the first date of this quasi couple . Yeah, in that case you could say it was a first date, and then in other cases which are happening all across the country, and even internationally, its really just a chance to meet your favorite viner. I see a tremendous potential in that, and i would like to harness that energy for something good and meaningful. So thats where my interest lies. Unfortunately, as we have seen, people make mistakes, things happen, and that has always been the case, vibe or not. I am curious, when you first met the couple, did they seem genuine . Are we with talking about a couple of actors that are driven by celebrity . You know i get asked a lot, in my documentary, and how real or fake the tv show is, and i constantly tell people that my experience was real, the show is real. The feelingings the people have are real. Of course when you introduce a camera or social media following there is an interaction that exists that isnt natural. I spoke with curtis for the two days and he was extremely nervous. He was genuinely i think in love with jesse. And very excited to meet her. That felt very real to me. And i had a little bit of a behind the scenes look at that. So even though in catfish you are talking about people become different online, this is kind of like two separate worlds here. You are creating images of people off six second videos and that becomes sort of their defining identity in a Worldwide Community . What is exciting about vibe, is it has given another platform, a outlet for people who are creative, musical, funny, to promote themselves and put their creativity out there, it doesnt matter how famous you were, all that matters is you make good vines. People will follow you, as a result you will become vine famous. So i am excited by that, because im interesting in empowering people with whatever access they have to express themselves. Then there are rinks as well with, and thats one of the things we have talked about here. Producer of catfish, also with us tonight america tonight. Thank you both. Now to another example, the power of online tools and spongability, this one before the Supreme Court. Who should pay the price for child pornography. This involved a case of a woman that was raped by her uncle when she was eight years old. She is seeking to have one of the men possessing the pictures pay her more than 3 million in restitution. The question is, should one offender pay the entire amount sought by the victim, or should the compensation be split among every offender who is caught with the images . Justice raised the issue, so he should contribute to the payment, you are saying contributed to the harm, but he makes 100 of the payment . That doesnt seem to me to make much sense. Justice Stephen Brier asked about fairness and responsibility. Some limiting principle has to come into play, it is a terrible crime, but you dont require a person to pay for what he didnt cause. This is called restitution, it isnt called fines. The National Center for missing and exploited children is supporting the victim known as amy. She was at the Supreme Court for the or ralph lauren arguments in what you heard, what did you learn, and what was the thinking if you can read between the lines on what the justices were asking. Most significant was the courts recognition that this is not a victim less crime. That there is a real child behind every image. And that that child is harmed, the harm is severe, and that some restitution should be awarded to the victim. So the question is who should pay that . It shouldnt be assigned to one with person or to seven. Exactly. How much restitution should one defendant be ordered to pay. And so in this particular case, the courts have identified 3 million as an appropriate figure . 3. 4 millions is the restitution request. So the question isnt whether it is one person, although at we noted there are thousands upon thousands of people who have may have downloaded this image, who may have this in their possession. Exactly. So what is the think income why dud it make sense to assign it to one person. Well, the mandatory restitution act is very clear, and this is the statute under which it was made. It called for courts to award full restitution to victims for their losses. But why one person, if you are aware that there are at least some, and perhaps many many thousands. What has been happening now, in the lower courts is that some courts have been awarding no restitution, some have been awarding token restitution. 50dollar as month, a few thousand dollarss that a set fee, that puts victims like amy in the position of doing is litigating hundreds and thousands of cases in order to try to gain her full restitution amount. So what happened here, is she would have to she and her lawyers would have to identify each and every person who possesses these images and then go after them in a separate case. Yes, it would create a continue use stream of litigation that the victim would have to suffer through. Is there any likelihood she cloud collect 3 million from one person . Is it likely the person has the resources. In the case of mr. Pereline from what i understand that would not be possible. Blue we certainry know that offenders who view and possess child pornography cut across the demographics and could pay much higher restitution awards. Interest, something that can only happen because of the internet world. Absolutely. Thank you very much for being with with us and helping us to understand this. From the National Center for missing and exploited children. After the break, frozen up but still a heated protest. Why ukrainians are keeping the pressure on, and why the u. S. Is finally stepping in. Later in the program, america tonight in democrat, we with continue our focus on education, in america. We look at a math method that could add up to success. Now it is more important to graduate. Being in this program made me feel like i have more potential than i thought i had. So it feels kind of smart now. Hue algebra may make a difference, from the kids that are studying and whose mans academy is changing how millions are learning it. Someone leaves their home searching for a better life. Two hours in, we come upon a body. Now, in a Breakthrough Television event, Al Jazeera America takes you beyond the debate. Experience first hand the tragic journey of these migrants. A lot of people dont have a clue what goes on until you live near the boarder. Six strangers with different points of view. I dont believe in borders. Our government is allowing an invasion. Get to experience illegal immigration, up close and personal. Its very overwhelming to see this many people that have perished. A lot of families that dont know where their babies went. I want to make sure that her life, its remembered. What happens when lost lives are relived. The only way to find out is to see it yourselves. On borderland. Only on Al Jazeera America. Any of you guys want to come to the United States . Ago when they gainedears independent, and thats what they think is at stake here. And thats why there is so much determination here. In these freezing cold temperatures protestors out here, day and night. There are tens of thousands in this square, behind me right now, watching and waiting to see what will happen next. After an uneasy truce, i think many people here think it is a turning point. You saw people walking through some of them going to work, and you could tell the men that came back, because they had blackened faces from smoke from the barricades. So really a mixture, as people try to balance their life here with the battle of their country that they feel is going on behind me. A lot happening for ukraine, many will be watching and waiting in the coming hours. And days ahead to see what happens here. Jennifer glass reporting often called key ye. Juneing us kiev. We know you follow this quite closely, and you can talk to us about the changing we have seen over the weeks since we first met you, and talked about the protestors in the square, there are fewer of them now i understand, but obviously still quite loud, why are they still pushing so hard on this . Well, since we last spoke, joey, certain things have happened that have spurred them to defend their rights even more. On the 16th of january, almost spitefully the parliament muched flu a series of very very draconian laws. Curtailing freedom of expression, banning people from protective helmets in public, and so this spurred the pop luis to really to double their protests because now they are not only angry because the president changed the grex of their country, which was meant to be integrated changes the direction back to where an eastern policy, now he is also taped their mouth shut, tied their hands and basically forbade them from expressing themselves. So one of the big issues has been the role of western europe and the United States, there the current conflict underway, and just today the Vice President , and mr. Biden issues a statement, he had had a conversation with the president , will this make an immaterial packet . I keep asking you every time we speak together to ask me something easier, i dont know. He is a man who with a criminal record. This is a president who has served two prison terms for assault, and for robbery. He is surrounded by nasty people. The people in his surroundings come from a criminal and very unsavory background. Does he want to listen . I dont know. So far he hasnt moved an inch, not at all. But for Vice President biden to issue this, which has put the ball in his court, is that the appropriate step to be taking. Well thats not for me to say. Really. Eyes on american citizen is somebody who participated in the democratic want my president , want my Vice President , to speak when injustice and tyranny is being perpetrated in the world. Ukraine is the country of mynt pas it is the country of my ancestors and i care profoundly what happened there, and clearly what is happening there today is not democracy, it is not justice and not rule of law. We are running out of time very quickly, but where do you see this going . Can these remain at the level that they are at for much longer. I think they will remain. I think thats the result of Vice President bidens call, i think if the president of ukraine does not come to his senses he is going to see his country burn even more. We appreciate your joining us. Thank you. Coming up on america tonight, the equation for success. How algebra may make all the difference. Now a snapshot of stories making headlines. Horrific pictures from a multivehicle wreck, at least a dozening semitractor trailers involved. And rothers of at least two people killed. The bad weather along, i 94 looks like it plays some role. Edward snowden speaks for himself, he held a two hour online chat. And denied that he allegations that he did wrong in disclosing u. S. Surveillance activities. He told rotherrers hi still opposes clemency for snowden, but says they are willing to talk with his lawyers. Under way on the christ redeemer statute the 125foot icon. Parents fighting to ensure they kids get a good education, tonight we ask a question, can math fight crime . It seem as little porpoisetous, but a program that gives boys intensive tutoring in math scores is scoring some genuine success. Its latest and most difficult challenge focuses on high crime neighborhoods in chicago. With this america tonight in depth report, here is correspondent chris. There an ordinary classroom on the south side, a bold and ambitious exhermit is underway. Request math save kids from crime. The experience targeted the boys who are most at risk, boys such as 15yearold ricardo, born into the gang life, he has missed a lot of school since badly breaking his arm while running from police. A lot of people die in this neighborhood. A lot of people run away from school, you can get stopped, and get beaten. You know people who have been shot . Yeah. Killed . Yeah. I have been shot. You have been shot . Ricardo is among 90 boys at chicagos Little Village matched with math tutors its called the match program, developed in massachusets now a dozen schools across the city are trying it. How does math keep boys out of trouble, out of jail . It is an indirect equation. Boys are starting high school, it is a big transition, they need to find their feet. Part of it is being successful an democratically. And it lends itself to tutors because it is so standardized. They kiply Enter High School with fit or 6th grade math skills. Here they get intensive tutoring no more than two or three students beer tutor. The main challenge is that it is math. And they are teenagers. Teenagers who can be too proud, shy, or awkward to reveal what they dont know. Ones 16yearold Daniel Castillo confided in his tutor his math grade started to get better. You can trust him. Helping you through the work. I just felt like i couldism prove more. His confidence has improved so much, his communication, the way he asked questions in class. Has it is night and day from where he was at the begin hog f the year when he wasnt even comfortable saying anything to me. It focuses on math instead of other subjects because for boys in danger of dropping out, High School Algebra is a make or break class. The 9th grade class is consider add gate way to high school graduation, in chicago and around the country. The corelation is if a kid passes he or she will graduate from high school. If a kid fails 9th grade math, he is likely to fail high school. Ricardo is right on the edge, caught between the gang life and graduating. I feels like it is now more important to graduate. Being in this program, made me feel like i have more potential than i thought i had. So it feels kind of smart now. Socially theres a lot of pressure to be like a gang banger, among that type of crowd. The kids in the program are growing up in a neighborhood called Little Village, sounds quaint. But more than 60,000 residents are packed into only five square miles every inch of it claimed by one gain or another. For teenagers the leading cause of death here is homicide, and most who die young, are boys. Thats why the university of Chicago Crime Lab is financing a large scale study of the match program. Rose san that ander is the executive director. So one of the very very big challenges that the u. S. Faces is the High School Drop out problem. And thats very tightly connected to our urban crime problem. In many ways there are two sides of the same coin. Theres an increasing body of evidence that shows if a kid can get a high school dislope ma, as distinct from a ged that we with have been able to reduce their Violent Crime involvement. The tutors tend to be young, and idealistic College Grads willing to spend a year in the school for 17,000. I suppose i believe in what we are trying to accomplish, which is improving just the math skims of a few students at a time. Often my job is to say that every single day i have the same High Expectations for you. And i will all have those High Expectations for you. And some of them do an incredible job of raising the bar on themselves. The tutors may not earn much, but the extra cost is about 3,500 a year. In chicago, thats shared on taxpayers private donors and the university of chicago. The added expense worth it . Violent crime is unbelievely costly to society. Gun violence to the city of chicago costers un 2. 5 billion annually. The failure to get kids to graduate from high school, the labor market implications all kinds of costs to society and cost to individuals, that if one year of this intervention and avert i have no doubt that it will easily pass the benefit cost test. The crime lab is sitting through Police Records to see whether boys in the match program are any less likely to become involved in crime. But ander says preliminary results blow away typical intervention programs. Showing arrests for violence crime drop nearly 23456, and so far the Village High School steams promising. Little village, by the way, among the 12 schools in which we operate is among the best early results. Kids academic achiefment, parents satisfaction. Daniel castillo no longer so shy and awkward is now excelling in mast. I cant wait to graduate. And today he just got his math grade up to an a, we talked about that this morning. As for ricardo he now gives his tutor the highest praise a tough teenager. He is cool at times. He is cool at times in. Id rather be cool at times then just cool. Do you think he can make nit school . He can graduate . No doubt, he is one of the sharpest kids i have. For boys like ricardo, torn between these mean streets and school, the match program may be the last best chance to get that crucial diploma, and avoided the Violent Crime that claims so many. Al jazeera, chicago. Thats great. Being cool, at least at times is a good teacher, thats making a big difference in chicago and in math, but no matter the subject theres one big inveigh tor who is making a terrific impact online, if you have not heard about the con academy, you have to see what its doing and hear about its impact, take a look. Time six time six, or 216. I am told the humidity makes it feel hotter why is this in. Excellent question. Just like make it 11. Get a feel for how it moves. Function as a bridge rectifier. One, two, three, four, five, six. This does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. The founder and director of the academy he joins us now, thank you so much for being with us, you know, this is a remarkable program, it is taking place all over is world. I heard from so many middle schoolers middle schoolteachers as well as others that they are using the con academy as part of their normal program. You began with math, as we with saw real focus on math, is it because you saw that as being an opportunity to make a real impact on kids lives. Yeah, i think most parents or Family Members in my case cousins will tell you when you see a Family Member having difficulty, usually around middle school, its often its often math. In my case it was my cousin nadia. She was entering the 7th grade, she lad done badly on a math placement test. And i thought that was not good indicator for what she was for her own potential, so i decided to start tutoring her, then i started making videos to help her, and other cousins and then they took off with the exercises became what we now call the con academy. So it wasnt your intention to revolutionize education, you were just doing this . Yeah. Whenever you work on anything, you always day team that maybe someone may use it more broadly, at the time it was just fulfilling a need, now it has grown. Now we are reaching 10,000 student as month, and a whole seedries of subjects. The focus of the organization, is still a math primarily, but now we are branching off, you saw in that video, science, art history, the humanities whatever else. What makes a difference in these videos . Her quite animated some of them, they are quite entertaining is that what makes the connection . You know, were not 100 sure, we always try to think about so it we with dont lose our secret sauce, most of our videos look like the later ones where it is often times me with kind of pastel colored on a digital blackboard, and i think why people like it is it is very they feel close it feels authentic, it doesnt feel scripted textbook explanation, you can hear the person and often times me think through it, but at the same time, it is focused on the intuition, and on a lot of subjects people have trouble with with. So that does go to the program we saw in chicago, where it is very much a one on one with relationship to try to help these kids move forward, in a sense you rah building a one on one relationship, although it is with with millions of people. Yeah, a certain ironny. We are 24 web with thing, you are right. A lot of people say the videos feel like we are sitting next to each other, all the software is really to try to personallize the learning so it can meet them where they are, so even if you are in 9th grade, but you are having trouble with decimals the software will meet you there. Move you ahead, suggest the right videos so we are trying to mimic that personal connection, and then on top of that, if you do have a parents, siblings, cousins in your life, we give all that data to them so they can go a revel further. I have totem you when my son started seeing your spread is owes he is an 8th grader now, the first thing that struck me is how do we with know they are right. This is just some guy in california with a bunch of videos some of which are pretty casual. How do we know they are accurate . Yeah, well with thats i have a little bit of a background in math, and commuter science, or pretty big one with. But the the main answer is its incredibly vetted process. Obviously just putting it out there for everybody to see, most of that has been viewed by 200,000 people, and if theres an error we find out about it within a few minutes and on top of that we with have a rigorous process where we with get educators and experts to review it, mark thins that seem unclear, not even just incorrect, but inning that may be unclear. What is net about the web interfate, it isnt just me in a classroom and if i make a mistake, it is out there for everybody to make thursday it is add goose as possible. I guess you can answer the age old question, and what is it that makes math so hard . Well, you know, i think math actually isnt hard. It is much more about. So you say. The way we with teach i think it is much more about the way we teach math. Math is really depend on having a strong foundation. If you understand exponents really well, then lock rhythms will make sense. If you dont understand basic exponents ton logarithms are seeing really hard. And so what we with say is instead of shephards everybody together at a set payable, so you kind of got arithmetic, algebra becomes even more superficial, make sure you really understand the algebra, if you really understand algebra, a strong foundation, then the trigonometry, the al cue list will be pretty intuitive. Well, hopefully theres potential even for me, i appreciate you being with us. Founder of the kahn academy, thank you very much. Thank you. Next time on america tonight, we will continue our look at american education. Let me make sure this is something you work on as a team. Physics professor had North Carolina State University may have the solution. He has come one a blueprint for producing more stem graduates. Okay, this is what i want you to do. He teach intros ductry physics in a classroom he designed himself, he called it a flipped classroom, think of it as higher ed turned on its head, no more lectures students rhen the facts outside of class. Theres videos available on the web that they can watch, they can find things on youtube, they can do searches on wikipedia, i dont care where they get the information. Adam may with a revolutionary way of learning that is proving to be a model of success, inside the flipped classroom friday on america tonight. What make as difference in helping kids learn, we with want to hear from you, america tonight in democrat and on line, at aljazeera. Com america tonight. You can also weigh in on twitter with the getting schooled. Wrap program worlds top documetary directors. Its the worlds most powerful financial institution. I think were mysterious to people. What really goes on behind closed doors . The fed is kind of this black box. Its your money. Somebody screwed up. Or is it . I worked to save that money and now i get nothing. Inside the fed. On Al Jazeera America. States. Researchers say air pollution from the factories made its way across the pat iffic, into california and arizona. The u. S. National academy of science says it makes up a quarter of air pollution. The pollution is a reminder that our demand for cheep imports has a boomerang effect. Chinese factories are churning out the latest technology, sending it to our shores, along with something less desirable pollution. You see the pictures of people in budget with maths on. You dont think about what comes across an o. Steven coauthored a study finding that emissions from chinese plants manufacturing exported goods have been found in since is the start of the threeyearold conflict in syria, theres signs of movement with with talks underway. Joined by top diplomatics. While the men in suits in go yearuate in switzer lands. Some 5 million displaced children are now at risk. Am al jazeera visiting one refugee camp on the Turkish Border and met one doctor who is trying to care for syrians against incredible odds. This is their only clinic, he is their only internal medicine doctor, every day he sees 60 patients. This clinic not enough, the drugs are not enough, we need another clinic like this, another hospital. We need a hospital. The clinic only has six rooms. All of these patience across the Syrian Border illegally so they are not eligible for government assistance. I am frustrated and i am disappointed. I feel for them. I really feel. Because my abilities is less than my duty. First he sled the Syrian Government because he treated soldiers then he fled fighters because they said he wasnt religious enough. So many here he was caught between warring sides. I came here, try to help only just to help. The clinic privately funded but they have a hard time finding drugs. Only 10 of drugs we can suck port the patience. And they are overwhelmed by patients. Most have upper respiratory infections others suffer psychological damage from the wars they fled. Loss of children. They really have a problem because of the harsh situations can they suffer. By day, he helps save the children of fellow refugees, by night, he tries to save his own. Their found tieryearold son tried to kill himself, then he tried to kill his younger brother, his family fears the war traumatized him. How are your brothers doing. How. He is changing a lot. He becomes very mean. He doesnt tell anyone. I try always to be kind to him. But he he dont come back. He understands everything we are saying, and he understands that he is sick. He is trying to be kind to me. And that will make me better. That is good. Can you tell me what you saw in syria . A lot of things. A lot of bad things. Both brothers want to follow in their fathers footsteps but they fear they are losing the opportunity. We dont have a university. To study in, i think i am losing my future. I cant be i always wanted my dream is to be a doctor, now the similarlest treatment cant be. What do you hope for you future . I hopeky get out of here. And go where . Anywhere. Syria . No. I dont want to die. He hoped his family would thrive here, but he doesnt know if they will survive, he doesnt know if the patients will survive either. Why do you stay here . Help me. I am trying to leave from here. Give me a way and i will give you thanks for humanity. To save his patients he needs to stay, but to save his family he needs to leave. Ahead in our final thought as true body of work, one womans powerful respond to unwanted cat calls next. It seems like they cant agree to anything in washington no matter what. Evey sunday night, tonight, fed up withus unwanted attention she was getting on the street, a woman decided to make a difference. She was a new york artist she decided to turn it into a body of work. We traveled to brooklyn to see how this artist is quite literally putting a face to street harassment. Street harassment to me is the unwanted attention and interaction and behavior that a woman receives outside on the street. And it is something as simple as requests a smile from a woman, or insulting a woman. You are outside in a public space, and you feel like you are out there tock consumed by people. Your body is just public property, that anyone can touch or say anything to. It is something i go through, i have always gone through. And its a serious problem, it is a serious issue, it effects you. It is something that happens daily. So women like myself, and women around the world. So it just kind of hit me to do something outside in the street, where it actually happens. Stop telling them to smile start add year and some change ago in philadelphia. So it wasnt uhl till i moved to philadelphia for college, when you are a pedestrian from a pedestrian city, so you are outside, and everybody is outside. And direct contact with men all the time, and thats when i started to notice, like okay, this isnt just a compliment any more, it isnt just flattery, it is happening consistently and it is anoising and it is sometimes scary. The piece started out by me interviewing women with that i know. So a woman in my circle my friends my colleagues we with have a conversation about street harassment, what have you experienced. What is your story when it comes to street harassment. From there, i shoot her portrait. So i take my camera, shoot her photograph, and from that photograph i do the drawing. And the drawing is a simple black and white, graphite drawing. I kind of come up with a text in the caption for the poster inspired by what she told me. I go out, i find wall spaces and repace them. With you can buy paste. I butt the pace on the wall first, and then i will put up the poster and then i put more on top of that. The pull on the poster says i am not out there for your entertainment. Tatiana came to me talked to me about this idea she had about telling a woman to smile campaign, and it wasnt until we had that conversation in new york, i actually experienced feeling uncomfortable. Walking down a street. Going towards her house, and tiffs during that time that i was like wow, this is what with she means. People dont realize is that it is something that is leaping seemingly harmless, as a request to smile request become something harmful. Something thats dangerous. If you dont respond to a man in a way hent ways you to, then he can quickly curse you out, throw something at you, become scary and violent. I felt like i was a piece of meat, and i think that message resonates well, because i am not there for your entertainment, please leave me alone. Whenever someone says that to me, it was just a compliment, as some kind of defense, i kind of take offense to that. I am talking about someone aggressively sexualizing me in a very rude way, in a very unlucked way. Thats not a compliment. I am the one who perceives what a compliment is and isnt, and what i am talking about arent come prints. I am not talking about somebody saying hey your sweatser really nice, and saying thank you thats a compliment. Street art is crucial to just creating awareness. The most profound thing that has happened from this is that its created this conversation for a conversations to change the behavior of people and of society. I have had a few people who didnt even know what street harassment was, or didnt understand it, and it was like a five minute conversation, we are into the project and supported it, and quickly got what street harassment was, there was a couple of guys that after talking to them they are like oh, you know what, i have six sisters i get it, eso this i understand. Thank you for testimonying me that. I have had a lot of conversations with men i dont know, and they have been enlightened and very open and willing to talk about this and learn about it. Which is really all that im asking for. With anyone, is just to look at this and considering it to think about it and consider what someone other than yourself goes through. It is just a way to take up space for women on the Street Corner and on the sidewalks because a lot of times we feel as though we are treated like we dont have a wright to the outdoor space. And standing up for yourself and putting your voice out there. This one is me. Yeah. This is a very first one that i made. The project has become bigger than just myself. And what i go through. And im okay with that. I am kaying being this tool. For other women to use to get their stories out. I am happy with with that. The streets of brooklyn, and indeed for women everywhere on the street. 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