Were going to keep on walking keep on atalking reporter today this is all that is left of the hospital. Israeli bombs dropping thousands of bombs on this neighbourhood. The blood of my sister and the blood of my daughter thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. In the first days after the end of the bloodshed, there was a strong sense, not just in the strip, that the International Community needed to help after 50 days of conflict with israel. Despite promises around the world. What sign is there of hope among the ruins. We returned to see the desperation of today. Today in gaza the ruins of homes are the children playgrounds. Factory floors filled with machinery. The only power plant storage tanks are a crumpled heap. And the damages, destruction, devastation has obliterated neighbourhoods. Gazas never been well off. Today it is worse off than ever. That could lead to another war. Nice to see you. How have you felt for the last six months. The story begins in the esca finishing y family, their home in a shattered neighbourhood. During the war no area was more fiercely targeted. No area looked more like a war zone. And more homes were destroyed here than anywhere else. On july 26th, we filmed the family as they sifted through the rubble. The Israeli Military said the target was a Single Member of hamas. He lostate family members in the strike. It was great. Today where the uncles died the children played. Not a single brick, not even a discarded car seat has been cleaned up. House. Materials, stones, concrete, cement. We need iron, like this. So we have nothing. In gaza we consume. We cant produce everything. Reporter the extended family lives in neighbouring houses. None were spared. On that same july day i was shown the damage next door. Too. The blood of my sister. She is 25 years old. And the blood of my daughter. She is seven years old. Reporter today the blood is still there. Why havent you washed it out. Still alive in my mind, is to keep it fresh in my mind. Reporter back in july, in the kitchen, plates, cups and bowl were in place, but covered in dust created by the wall that was blown out. Today hes fixed the wall. Many lightly damaged homes in gaza have been fixed. Almost all that are destroyed remain that way. Why hasnt your family been able to rebuild. All Building Materials are expensive. According to our builders, we cant get. Part of the problem is poverty. He is a government teacher, and received 60 of his salary after the israelis cut off revenue. That man has no job. They have blueprint, but cannot rebuild without help. Translation the process is slow. A week ago i went to the ministry. The funds from the u. N. Have not arrived yet. Thats another problem. The u. N. Agency is broke. Countries promised donations but have not delivered them. I find it as an organization that has run out of money. Robert leads the effort. And says the donors have not paid up. Theres a lot of bad blood. Theres two different strands of Civil Administration in gaza. That needs to be resolved. Until it is, there are no plans to rehab it tate devastated neighbourhoods. We filmed this on july the 26th. This street was the epicentre of the war. Here is the same street from the same Vantage Point today. Israel is about a mile from here. Hamas flags flutter from homes, fighters used as bases. Israel says they use the hospital as a base too. Today this, is all that is left of the hospital. Israeli planes dropped thousands of pound of bombs on this neighbourhood. Half a mile from the border you see house after house totally destroyed. That is the em of the hospital. To this edge of the hospital. To this day none of this neighbourhood reconstructed. Reporter over seven weeks 70,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped by israel. More than 2,000 killed. 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Gazans have access to some supplies. Every day 400 trucks cross from israel in the gaza. The u. N. Struck a deal between israel, hamas, to send in supplies, and restrict them. Its not enough. But 45,000 families whose homes were damaged or destroyed received cement. Many feel they need to survive before rebuilding. They sell it on the black market to by food. Mark. Reporter this is gazas story, like twothirds, hes a refugee, because he was born in what is now israel, working up from nothing to be the c. E. O. Of the largest sweets factory. During the war, an israeli strike caused damage. Look out. Reporter he rebuilt with black market cement. The factory is operating about 70 . Every day it produces 75 pounds of waivers. 350 people are employed. Even though he doesnt need that many. Workers are desperate. You see people Walking Around normally, but emotionally they are destroyed. Emotionally they are demolished. 12,000 people whose homes are demolished are homeless, living in schools. Nine members of this family live in this room. Its a classroom, but also the kitchen. And bedroom. They have lived here and the kids played here for six months. We first met them during the war. They fled their home quickly. For three weeks, they lived in a church courtyard. I brought absolutely nothing with me. If i waited to take anything for dead. Today the u. N. Offered them rent money so they could move out. They refused to take it. The u. N. Could only pay for four month. We are suffocating. We cant cook, we dont sleep, we cant shower. Until a wild gets there, he wets his pants. Some are worse off. In the shadow of the u. N. School, this family lives in a tent. It has four sections. Theres no protection from the elements. All of the walls and roofs blow in the wind. This family was promised a caravan. The government has not provided one. 25 people live here. He urges his children to sleep. Theres one missing. Last month, at the age of three days, his daughter selma died of hypothermia. You have lost your daughter. You cant work because of your injury, do you have hope for the. Translation im injured. My daughter passed away. My house destroyed, our land bulldozed. I dont know what i will do. Reporter down the road he hose nee what is is left of his house, and he shows me what is left of his house and mimics the missile. This is as close as it gets to the border. Israel. Reporter do you think youll come about and rebuild . We live close to israel. I dont think back. Hamas is trying to seize on the hopelessness in billboards across gaza, it advertises exploits. They recruit young men. Gaz jans say they dont want another war. If theres no construction, no jobs, no hope, if things go as they go now. We should not be surprised what may happen. I dont remember war. Another war, of courses. Reporter in gaza, it feels like theres nothing to lose. A thought, a poll conducted by an israeli think tank found less than half of those polled believed their country won the content and 20 believed the victor was hamas. Next in fastforward altered states, a crop of communities where recreational weed is legalized. What is holding other states back . Later this hour new voices, old struggle. What i have here are people. We have young people rising up. You want them to learn from that experience, that you dont do that, you have to listen to older people, theyll be the ones to lead you out. A look at americas young rev lookings ris, and the lesson they learn from a fires. Hot on the website. When a Michigan Police chief faced proof his officers were guilty of racial profiling, what did he do about it . Find out on aljazeera. Com americatonight tonight in our fastforward segment going green. Its been more than a year since colorado led the way to legalizing marijuana. Many call it a success. As Lori Jane Gliha found, some say that legalized pot has been nothing but a buzz kill. All the border towns along colorado, nebraska, oklahoma, thing. Reporter bj wilkinson is the police seize in sydney nebraska, border. Well make a traffic stop for running a stop sign or speeding in plain view. Or well go in a house for domestic disturbance, and on the table is a dispensary bottle or a bong, and we have not seen that before. Reporter since legalitionation has gone into effect. Wilkinson says his police load has gone up 50 . Its not unusual for the gaol to be full, and we have to decide what to do with others. Girl. The proof that pot is making its way into nebraska is in the evidence room. All the vials have the name and address of the dispensary in sedgwick. Which is the closest to sydney. All this came from there. Reporter america tonight went to sedgwick, across the border in colorado. To see the dispensary for ourselves. Sure enough, a car with nebraska plates pulled up to the store. Now, fastforward despite serious concerns, the Cannabis Club is growing, nebraska the third state to legalize pot, and growing and possessing weed could be legal by the end of the week. Congress is keeping the district of columbia from setting rules about how it will be sold. Next, voices for justice. All the peel have lived their lives, they have been through hell and high water. Each generation has to speak for itself. Americas young revolutionaries, women in the mott. How their fight was influenced by the death of young plaque men and a voice celebrating justice with a touch question. Have you found my generation is responsive to you, in getting what you need. Yes and no. The legendry Harry Bellafonte deferred. Wednesday on america tonight. This jeer marks the 50th anniversary of many major moments in the civil rights struggle. The pras an of the civil rights act, the Voting Rights act. Many knew it would take generations. The rise of the new movement, old and new took the new generation forward in the fight. We look at the young revolutionaries, by looking at two Women Inspired by lives and deaths of young black men. Here in those own words erica taughton and loy laudner. Music soothes the soul, it calms everybody down. Everybody sing, and then you debt that momentum even if you are apprehensive where going out. You going forward. You at any time care, you didnt care. If you dont go, im going to go anyhow. Im on my way great god im on my way. Oh lord i got involved in the Civil Rights Movement in hattiesburg mississippi, around 1955, when em meth till was murdered. I saw the men who murdered him go to trial they werent punished, did not go to jail. If they did why werent they punished . That was the question that went into my head and i wanted to know more. I met the laid medgar evers. Youre paying taxes you should have new textbooks you should have sidewalks you should have street lights, you should have the same thing white kids have. I was very lucky to have these people in my life and developed a passion for justice. How i really got involved was during the Trayvon Martin trial. Oh yes. When they had the nonindictment, i went into a deep depression. Uhhuh, uhhuh. And so there there, i really had to process you know how we are viewed in this country. And then, what can i do about it . And even thinking about my kids. Right. And so it seemed like it was back to back, trayvon then more stories then john crawford, then eric garner. Then it was like over and over and over, i was pissed, pissed. Then when i saw what happened to michael brown. And then seeing the response from police of a Mourning Community that was grieving the loss of one of their kids, and how they were met with military force. And for four days i sat and watched. And i saw people, my people being shot at and tear gassed in their own neighborhoods. And i knew that i had to get up and go and stand with them. Because i knew that when and if it happened in d. C. , i would want people to come and stand with us. Right. Stand up. Dont shoot. What do we want. Justice. What do we want it now. I said im going to ferguson. He says i know. And he gave me his blessing and im a stayathome mom so it was a lot for me to know that im leaving my family behind to go and stand with my people. Because thats my purpose. Thats what i was here to do. If you dont go im going to go anyhow, im on my way. Exactly. Thats exactly what i felt. Aint gone that let nobody turn me ain aint gonna let nobody talk me down. We come from freedom land my mother raised me to not let anyone abuse me white or black. She said she had grown up the same way so i had no fear. My grandparents housed freedom riders. Wonderful. Im not sure if it was memphis or nashville. Ive always been told those stories. Thats the kind of family i come from. So my uncles my father grandparents theyve always instilled a sense of pride in us. We doing this for mike brown. I was shot at and tear gassed. And i knew the Mainstream Media was not going to tell me the truth. We had the right to tell the truth of what was happening. We said tell the story tell the story. The only way america would wake up is if we started burning bleep down. If you dont care, we dont care about your property. Thats what really woke people up. Got to go its like he im still, this is all still new and fresh for me. Yes. I just talking about it sometimes its easier to just do action. Than to sit and talk about it. Well, both helps because you know, we used to be able to talk about it in mass meetings and through song. And making our songs and talking to each other. We became glued together as a result of these tragedies. The first person who i knew was close to me, was medgar evers. He was loved by everyone. Being in snckk dlamkk that was the kiss of death for him. Many more i have witnessed in my years, i tell you earlier its very hard for me to cry. Wont say that im cold but just a lot is stuffed is stuffed inside. And i speak to it as much as i can. And i dont want to ever say that i am just cold to it. Im not cold to it. Im very passionate about it. Passionate about justice and equal rights. Anything i felt that i could do to irritate or stand up, i would do it. I still do. Im not satisfied. And ill never be satisfied. How did you all handle sexism within the movement . I had a mission. That god had given to me. And i was the only female with the guys. So as far as being treated the bullies didnt have any names on them. And we were all trited the same way. We were fighting the man. Thats one of the things that i know were having to battle within our own movement, is sexism misogyny Sexual Harassment homophobia, so many things that are caused. So many things come to the fore. Back then, in our communities women were always in the background in the church, the home, so forth but they were supportive, they were also very influential in these capacities. But i happen to be one of those who just stepped the line was drawn in the sand, i stepped on the line and kept going. Thats me. Theres a lot of us now and thats why were getting a lot of push back. When you get push back, just push back, dont let nobody turn you around. Just push. What i have here is positive people that want to speak. You have young people now who are rising up and you want them to learn from that experience that you dont do that. You have to listen to older people and older people are going to the ones to lead you out. The older people have already led their lives and theyve been through hell and high water already. Each generation has to speak for itself. Let them speak let them speak, let them speak let them speak. Let the young people up here you cant be rarnd forever. So it is going to take a new generation to usher in something different, something more. To pour into us and allow to use your platform to uplift what it is were doing instead of tearing us down. You kept telling us that yet young people let young people run it, but there arent any young people on the stage. Let them speak let them speak. Some will not give up the platform so you set up your own platform, your own grass roots organization. We say day and night until we get it roop whats that are you my people, whats that are you my people. The voices of women from two elastelasteras speaking as one. Legendary performer and activist harry bell fawn at tee. Belafonte. Tomorrow. Well have more of america tomorrow. Of america tonight, the tomorrow. Has more influence over your taxes than anyone you voted for. 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