Hacker Cinema
The Big Uneasy
2010 · Film · documentary · 98 min
Directed by Harry Shearer
Almost five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong.In his feature--length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there
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Harry Shearer has been pointing out the problem for years on his podcast "Le Show", the movie "The Big Uneasy", and other sites. He calls out the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for incompetence, making past and future disasters inevitable:
"Those bad floodwalls, of course, are the ones that failed so catastrophically in 2005. The Corps’ plan calls for keeping rainfall outflow in those canals at a set level, above which, the agency believes, the walls might fail. Again. The Corps should know. It designed and supervised the construction of those floodwalls." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ill-consider-it-criminal_b_174920