tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163339292024-03-07T15:45:26.664-08:00Cécile - Reportage - blogJournaliste multimédia installée aux Etats-Unis, je couvre l'actualité américaine au sens large pour Marianne, L'Humanité Dimanche, Lemonde.fr et quelques autres. Ce blog est le reflet de mes observations sur le terrain. I am a multimedia journalist based in the U.S. I cover the news for French outlets such as Marianne, L'Humanité Dimanche or Lemonde.fr among others. Here you will find my observations and pictures around my reporting.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-90933844026690936422012-02-19T19:52:00.000-08:002012-02-19T19:57:12.311-08:00Bear 71 : l'observateur observé<div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://bear71.nfb.ca/">Bear 71</a> fait beaucoup jaser dans le monde du webdocumentaire interactif. Présenté en janvier 2012 au festival Sundance, cet extraordinaire film en ligne est difficile à résumer en une phrase mais on peut dire qu'il explore de nouvelles frontières en matière de gaming allié à un documentaire de 20 minutes. </div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Le sujet? Un ours brun, appelé Bear 71 car c'est le 71ème identifié et marqué à l'époque par les rangers du parc national de Banff dans l'Alberta au Canada, et vous, identifié comme "Human". Le message du doc est écolo "Pour moi, c'est une réussite si les gens qui ont visionné le film éteignent leur ordinateur et trouvent refuge au pied d'un arbre pendant un moment", explique dans le blog <a href="http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679569/if-a-bear-falls-in-the-forest-will-we-see-it-on-google-maps-behind-bear-71">Co.Create</a> l'une des réalisatrices Leanne Allison. </div><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Dans ce webdoc éminemment interactif produit par l'organisme public <a href="http://interactive.nfb.ca/">National Film Board of Canada</a>, l'internaute suit les mouvements de l'ours "GPSisé", une femelle, de 2001 à 2009. Un carte topographique du parc (un arbre est représenté par un point vert, un lac par plusieurs points bleus, une route par des points noirs, des rails par des croix…etc) nous permet d'observer les déplacements du mammifère, tandis qu'une voix off nous explique la vie de cet ours, les changements auxquels elle doit faire face dans un monde où la civilisation humaine grignote peu à peu son habitat naturel.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bear 71 est un récit linéaire de 20 minutes ponctué par des vidéos de l'ours, prises par les dizaines de caméras de surveillance disséminées dans le parc. 20 minutes où l'on attend avec anxiété de savoir ce qu'il adviendra de l'ours. </div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Au-delà de l'aspect pro-environnement, Bear 71 est une réflexion sur l'état de surveillance et d'observation constante dans lequel on vit. On observe l'ours comme des milliers de caméras anonymes nous filment nous dans la rue, les supermarchés, les ascenseurs. C'est pourquoi dès le chargement du film, une fenêtre nous demande si on est d'accord pour activer la webcam de notre ordinateur. On clique oui sans trop réfléchir. Et une fois que la carte du parc apparaît avec notre logo "Human : YOU" on découvre que l'on n'est pas seul. D'autres "Humans" sont aussi présents sous forme d'avatars. En cliquant sur eux, on peut les voir en direct, grâce à leur webcam, le visage figé et grave, à mesure qu'ils suivent eux aussi avec anxiété le destin de l'ours. On découvre alors que nous aussi, on est observé, car notre webcam est allumée…</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"L'idée était de créer ce moment où on réalise qu'on est observé depuis le début", explique la productrice exécutive de Bear 71 Loc Dao. "Nous vivons dans un monde de caméras aujourd'hui et nous en sommes venus à l'accepter. Nous voulions remettre en question cette acceptation en créant cet inconfort chez l'internaute."</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Enfin, la carte utilisée pour suivre les mouvements de l'ours frappe par sa stérilité. Blanche avec des symboles topographiques pour visualiser les montagnes, ruisseaux, routes, forêts denses. Les auteurs ont fait le choix délibéré d'utiliser les données collectées par les rangers du parc et de montrer par ce biais l'aspect big brother et détaché qu'on peut adopter vis-à-vis de la nature. La bande sonore est aussi magnifique - ça aide.</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-66019379179140268412012-02-03T14:25:00.000-08:002012-02-03T14:26:35.132-08:00Tilt shift photographyI just got my hands on a tilt shift lens and went around experimenting with it in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Clinton Hill. This lens is a marvel. It makes things look dreamy, out of time, and miniature-like - it is famously known for that. This video is one of thousands showing this effect:<br />
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Here are a few pictures that I took the other day.<br />
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All these pictures are actually stills from video. I really like fast-forwarding the end-result footage.<br />
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This photo was taken on Myrtle avenue in Clinton Hill. A beautiful neighborhood, much more diverse than the one I currently live in (Cobble Hill).<br />
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Those stairs leading up to brownstones are absolutely everywhere in Brooklyn. I love the perspective and the shiny black ramps.<br />
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These last two pictures don't come from using the tilt shift. It's just a very sharp portrait lens that gives you a beautiful depth of field.<br />
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Back in December, Billy McCarthy came by to our studio to tell us a deeply personal story. A few years ago, his younger brother James ended up in solitary confinement in one of the infamous California prisons. James had schizophrenia and definitely "a mess" but according to Billy, "locking him up 23 hours a day only made his condition worse". In fact, "by the time he was 23, he looked 40..."<br />
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McCarthy is a singer and songwriter for the band We Are Augustines. The tragic life of his brother deeply affected him to this day. I put together this podcast for the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/podcast-billy-mccarthy-we-are-augustines-talks-about-solitary-confinement-and">ACLU's Prison Voices series</a>. <br />
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Ten of thousands of inmates are held in solitary confinement in the U.S., and it is known that about two third of them suffer from mental illness - just like James.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-64821204164308494932012-01-19T19:41:00.000-08:002012-01-21T09:44:13.152-08:00What is it like to be the mother of a terrorist?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDaF5Yvs3MnchVx2KWRaGU8jhQ1p-hJrPWcwI3MELLEo-axvWl8_cyg2LZvlMRptgBUEMXK_4QZ8NPz7peMBwR4Yz6yQA9MM0Ubck7eoedj4JLbz54_tFdKVQFx4e-hiwUbhx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2012-01-19+at+10.36.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDaF5Yvs3MnchVx2KWRaGU8jhQ1p-hJrPWcwI3MELLEo-axvWl8_cyg2LZvlMRptgBUEMXK_4QZ8NPz7peMBwR4Yz6yQA9MM0Ubck7eoedj4JLbz54_tFdKVQFx4e-hiwUbhx/s400/Screen+Shot+2012-01-19+at+10.36.29+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Jose Padilla with his mother Estela Lebron.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Estela Lebron is one brave woman. Her name doesn't ring a bell for most of us but she is the mother of the famous Jose Padilla, also called the "dirty bomber". Padilla became one of the terrorist suspects after 9/11 and has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.<br />
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But unlike most terrorist detainees, Padilla is an American citizen from Puerto-Rican descent. He converted to Islam and eventually married an Egyptian woman. But for Estela Lebron, Jose is her son no matter what.<br />
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</div>For a while she stayed away from public coverage. But this determined woman has now decided to fight back for her son who evidence proves that he has been tortured while detained in U.S. prisons. I edited this video for the organization <a href="http://www.pen.org/">PEN-American Center</a>. It was shown during a conference on torture in prisons.<br />
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In 2001, Boumediene was falsely accused of being an al Qaeda operative while working for a humanitarian aid organization in Bosnia. Even though Bosnia's highest court found no evidence against him, the U.S. government kidnapped Mr. Boumediene and sent him to Guantánamo, where he remained for 7 ½ years without charge or trial.<br />
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In 2009, the United States District Court in Washington heard the supposed evidence against Mr. Boumediene, found it utterly lacking and ordered him set free. That year, Mr. Boumediene was released from Guantánamo and today, he lives in Nice, France with his wife and three children.<br />
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In this interviewed by ACLU National Security Project Senior Staff Attorney Zachary Katznelson, Lakhdar Boumediene reflects on the years in Guantanamo, a bitter memory for him. I edited this podcast <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/aclu-studio-innocent-man-guantanamo">for the ACLU</a>. It is 8:15 long.<br />
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I came across this fun test for English learners... and English native speakers. This is an exercise on English pronunciation. I challenge you to read this poem without stumbling.<br />
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Dearest creature in creation,<br />
Study English pronunciation.<br />
I will teach you in my verse<br />
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.<br />
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,<br />
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.<br />
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.<br />
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.<br />
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,<br />
Dies and diet, lord and word,<br />
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.<br />
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)<br />
Now I surely will not plague you<br />
With such words as plaque and ague.<br />
But be careful how you speak:<br />
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;<br />
Cloven, oven, how and low,<br />
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.<br />
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Read more <a href="http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/">there</a>.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-30664401192993692912011-12-09T07:11:00.000-08:002011-12-09T07:12:23.152-08:00In Alabama, you still have to pay to voteRepublican legislatures in Alabama, Texas and South Carolina are trying to pass voter ID laws that make it mandatory for people to have a picture-ID to be able to vote. Before, utility bills were sufficient. Requiring a voter ID (typically a driver license) is problematic for large portions of the electorate like the elderly, the poor or minorities who don't necessarily have such thing.<br />
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I edited this interview of Rev. Scott Douglas from Birmingham, who bluntly says that these news laws (now effective in 8 states) are "just another way of installing the poll tax."<br />
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Carlo Alban came by to ACLU Studio the other day. His name may not sound familiar but he was a regular on Sesame Street TV show for five years. He was playing Carlo, a sweet teenage latino boy, friend with Big Bird. But all along, Carlo had what he describes as a terrible secret : he was illegal in the country. What is it like to live with the fear of being deported back to Ecuador at any moment when you are a 12 year-old on a world famous show? Listen to this podcast (3:35) that I helped produced and edited. <br />
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You can listen to the full length interview <a href="http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/aclu-studio-big-birds-little-undocumented-buddy">here</a>.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-9013151661072892222011-11-23T23:59:00.000-08:002011-11-23T23:59:00.330-08:00Santas rehearseHow do you become a Santa? Do you start with the big belly? The "ho-ho-ho"? Which side of the head should the hat hang?<br />
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Every year, <a href="http://www.voa-gny.org/">Volunteers of America</a> takes the streets of New York City to raise money for the homeless. Their action? Dressed up as Santa Klaus. "We are Santa's helpers", one of the participants say. Some of them have never done this before. They had to attend a one-of-a-kind class: "How to be Santa Klaus?" I was there too.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">© Cécile Gregoriades</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-54896654714104879402011-11-21T16:25:00.001-08:002011-11-21T16:35:12.857-08:00Alabama's HB 56: "Harshest immigration law in the country"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="383" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32336869?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="680"></iframe><br />
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Retired Judge, UW Clemon, Alabama's first African American Federal Judge, talks about the civil rights crisis caused by HB 56, Alabama's new anti-immigrant law. Clemon himself was deeply involved in the Civil Rights movement and in this interview for the ACLU, he explains how the new immigration law reminds him of what he fought against in the sixties.<br />
I edited this video <a href="http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/alabamas-hb-56-harshest-immigration-law-country">for the ACLU</a>.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-25526642212126681272011-11-16T17:49:00.000-08:002011-11-16T17:49:29.641-08:00Rires<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmwU6W_Vy59F1OPEei6uo4Y5GSZ2OUlikksgxa58J9eWjJhTHRAYATay7BnnTfywWpqk3SKhPQRkaCnSwJDISizzwsnsZTKowvj1Fq-1xpowfQYXtW7VXWC_3mq0tgIY5gV53/s1600/yael.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmwU6W_Vy59F1OPEei6uo4Y5GSZ2OUlikksgxa58J9eWjJhTHRAYATay7BnnTfywWpqk3SKhPQRkaCnSwJDISizzwsnsZTKowvj1Fq-1xpowfQYXtW7VXWC_3mq0tgIY5gV53/s640/yael.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
L'insouciance, sur la High Line de Manhattan un après-midi d'automne.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">© Cecile Gregoriades</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-56208001173235761972011-11-10T19:51:00.000-08:002011-11-10T19:51:24.470-08:005 millions d'électeurs américains exclus des bureaux de vote<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXWnx1jtAmNwdFg2Fg1LOvdfCaH4VdVJZfg0olfULnsUU3CIFZKYyOkNfpsEunx1ntPs54fIWDQnnQSm61x5RMWb8MvJ23nU2pvChjNTE1TG0mZC3S3v78lcfh2R901gAZx8Q/s1600/1075035_3_4af4_appel-a-respecter-les-devoirs-du-citoyen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="160" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXWnx1jtAmNwdFg2Fg1LOvdfCaH4VdVJZfg0olfULnsUU3CIFZKYyOkNfpsEunx1ntPs54fIWDQnnQSm61x5RMWb8MvJ23nU2pvChjNTE1TG0mZC3S3v78lcfh2R901gAZx8Q/s320/1075035_3_4af4_appel-a-respecter-les-devoirs-du-citoyen.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Novembre 2012, pour les Américains, c'est la prochaine échéance des élections présidentielles. Mais pour cinq millions d'entre eux, voter ne sera pas une option. Ils sont pourtant citoyens et ont la majorité requise. Mais ils sont passés par la case prison. Et pour ces détenus ou anciens détenus condamnés d'une felony (une catégorie désignant les crimes graves), la peine de prison se double d'une interdiction du droit de vote. <br />
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Pour certains Etats, cette seconde sentence n'est que temporaire, pour d'autres, elle est à vie. Une punition qui touche de façon disproportionnée les noirs américains, qui sont plus concernés par l'incarcération que les blancs, asiatiques ou hispaniques aux Etats-Unis. Sur 235 millions d'Américains en âge de voter, cela représente près de 3% des électeurs.<br />
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Voir <a href="http://cecile-reportage.com/2010_08_vote/">reportage paru dans L'Humanité Dimanche</a> sur le sujet.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-8035786556787648372011-11-03T19:30:00.001-07:002011-11-03T19:32:27.287-07:00Mississippi Takes a Step Back on Women's Rights<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31575207?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="675" height="380" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br />
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On November 8th, Mississippians will be voting on an initiative that will ban abortions, any form of contraception and IVF. It confers a fertilized egg the status of a person - any contraceptive pill would potentially be a tool for murder. Here is a video interview that I edited from a woman in Mississippi who opposes this measure, called Initiative 26. Angie Cruise, 45, suffered an ectopic pregnancy when she was younger. She now questions the impact initiative 26 would have had on her at the time.Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-6304371037424875742011-10-30T20:04:00.000-07:002011-10-30T20:09:25.923-07:00Gowanus at TwilightSome pictures that I recently took of my neighborhood in Brooklyn on a cold Fall evening. Click on the picture to view the next one (6 in total).<br />
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</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">-40° l'hiver, +40 l'été, le climat est rude dans ce coin du Midwest. Mais il y a du travail. Beaucoup de travail. A 3,5%, le taux de chômage est de très loin le plus bas du pays. Et ce grâce à la découverte d'un gisement de pétrole sous les roches sédimentaires d'une réserve indienne a attisé les convoitises, d'autant que la manne est abondante et facile d'accès.</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Samuel Hicks n'a pas hésité à lâcher son job d'agent d'entretien chez lui dans l'Iowa et à parcourir 1500 km pour se faire embaucher à laver des pompes de forage. Au début, c'était loin d'être facile : "les hôtels n'ont pas pu faire face à l'afflux de gens, les chambres se négociaient à 200 dollars la nuit à Williston", un petit patelin dont les dessous regorgent de pétrole. Ce grand gaillard de 31 ans a donc pris son mal en patience, et s'est mis à dormir à la belle étoile, sous une tente de fortune achetée au Walmart du coin. </div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Steve Williams est un autre rescapé du système. Sa maison dans le Montana voisin est en saisie immobilière, il vit maintenant dans une caravane avec sa famille à Watford City, où il a trouvé un travail dans le bâtiment. L'homme de 59 ans a désormais une couverture médicale, ce qui ne lui était pas arrivé depuis plusieurs dizaines d'années "c'est l'Amérique comme elle devrait être", explique-t-il. </div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">La manne pétrolière est prometteuse. Le Dakota est déjà le 4ème Etat américain producteur de pétrole, et les enseignes "Help Wanted" se multiplient sur les devantures des magasins. Mais derrière l'euphorie, il y a l'amertume. "Leurs vie ont été détruites. Ils ont bien souvent perdu leur maison, leur boulot, ils ont du vendre leur voiture pour se payer le billet d'avion jusqu'ici", tempère Brent Sanford, le maire de Watford City, dans le Los Angeles Times. Le wild wild west version 2011.</div><div style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-86974833279267081912011-10-13T13:14:00.000-07:002011-10-13T13:39:45.692-07:00US birthrate in decline<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8K5XATXBueD_ZNOlN-ITO7QxoNVcct00qBjJB5kr_eFQ2dam-mKcvRGQgKzR1ZDR2-x6nuOK_UbZ8VxOF6XnXwka2XmwtyGo7D8pW4RFlO6n3u_9NI_Zzg9off2c-8DYr3Bw/s1600/6a00d83497a67853ef00e551d464758833-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8K5XATXBueD_ZNOlN-ITO7QxoNVcct00qBjJB5kr_eFQ2dam-mKcvRGQgKzR1ZDR2-x6nuOK_UbZ8VxOF6XnXwka2XmwtyGo7D8pW4RFlO6n3u_9NI_Zzg9off2c-8DYr3Bw/s1600/6a00d83497a67853ef00e551d464758833-800wi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">During a recession, people have fewer kids. That's again the case with this recession, according to <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/12/in-a-down-economy-fewer-births/?src=prc-headline">data compiled by the Pew Research Center</a>. It is projected that there will be just 4 millions births in 2010, a sharp decline from 4,3 millions in 2007.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">And if you think the difference is not that great, think twice. The U.S. population is keeps increasing. Between 2007 and 2011 it added 10 millions people. Therefore the number of births should follow. The only states that didn't experienced that trend were states where the recession didn't hit as hard, like in North Dakota. (see graph)</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-88042678029654169002011-10-12T07:32:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:31:08.897-07:00Vald Teichberg, the guru behind OWS media"I don't think you can ever rely on mainstream media to broadcast your message. That's why we have created our own". 39-year old Vlad Teichberg, former trader on Wall Street, is now spearheading the online livestreaming of the various "Occupy" demonstrations around the world. He is headquartered in New York.<br />
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Vlad Teichberg is not alone in building the live stream channel. He has a small but dedicated team working with him, particularly Melissa Ulto, seen below with Vlad.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;">I <a href="http://cecile-reportage.com/2011_10_vlad">wrote a profile story</a> of Vlad in the French weekly paper Marianne.</div><br />
© Cécile Grégoriades</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-53324772039037410422011-09-27T08:54:00.000-07:002011-09-27T08:56:06.025-07:00New York a ses indignésDepuis le 17 septembre, ceux que l'on appelle déjà "les indignés de Wall Street" occupent une place à deux pas de la bourse de New York. Ils manifestent deux fois par jour lors de l'ouverture et de la fermeture de la place financière.<br />
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Ils réclament notamment la fin de "la cupidité des financiers".<br />
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Jason Ahmadi est l'un des manifestants. Ce jeune homme de 25 ans a plutôt des revendications écologiques. <br />
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Manuel et Monica sont Espagnols. Ils ont tous deux participé au mouvement des indignés en Espagne et sont venus à New York pour soutenir leurs confrères. "New York est extrêmement symbolique dans notre lutte", expliquent-ils.<br />
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Joao est un touriste brésilien qui passe quelques jours à New York. "C'est un peu risible, il y a plus de police que de manifestants!" relève-t-il. Samedi 24 septembre, des heurts violents ont éclaté. 80 personnes ont été arrêtées.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;">© Cécile Grégoriades</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-964034642070084402011-08-24T05:56:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:16:03.353-07:00DSK : the last days"L'affaire DSK" has haunted French journalists in New York all summer, and it's now over. I can't help but have a bittersweet aftertaste after the outcome of the case. Here are the pictures that I took on Monday, when it became official that the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were going to be dropped.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">© Cécile Grégoriades</div></div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-30620408042885697142011-08-22T07:06:00.000-07:002011-08-22T07:07:27.269-07:00Verizon strike ends<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Striking Verizon workers plan to return to work on Monday evening, even though their contract dispute remains unresolved. About 45 000 workers have been striking to keep their benefits such as health care and pension, that Verizon wanted to renegociate. </span><br />
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I took those picture a few days after the beginning of the strike, which started on August 7th.<br />
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At the headquarters, just a block away from Ground Zero in Manhattan, workers boo and yell at anyone going inside the building. Insults, screams, water throwing... anything goes. As long as the strikers stay behind the barrier, a couple of policemen present tell me.<br />
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We heard a lot about Wall Street lately with the U.S. credit's downgrade by Standard & Poor. I went to the stock exchange to see how traders react when the Dow is on free fall. They were surprisingly not freaking out - at least not during their lunchtime on Monday, August 8.<br />
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In fact, when they would see me taking pictures, they were jokingly asking if I wanted them to make those scared faces that you so commonly see in the media when the markets go crazy. They know the cliché too well. In the following pictures, they are not faking it.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">© Cecile Gregoriades</div>Cécilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04249868127882729418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16333929.post-42452313999496917622011-08-09T14:24:00.000-07:002011-08-09T14:24:59.516-07:00Dernière ligne droite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiME68BbkE3e7vFWwkzcwPSFe8l_YoJl5ITWcoeD_HhtMwZ7gvi3bswc7rfrfxpr5vRqCqqQe0IFJdsfnNz11il9jrNisIRt7khrLHllKZpHWL6MYr_VJS9tHuJu2pgYhPJY87w/s1600/wtc+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiME68BbkE3e7vFWwkzcwPSFe8l_YoJl5ITWcoeD_HhtMwZ7gvi3bswc7rfrfxpr5vRqCqqQe0IFJdsfnNz11il9jrNisIRt7khrLHllKZpHWL6MYr_VJS9tHuJu2pgYhPJY87w/s400/wtc+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Qu'il fasse 35° ou qu'il pleuve à verse, les ouvriers qui travaillent sur le chantier du World Trade Center s'activent pour le 11 septembre prochain, les dix ans. Photo prise le 9 août 2011.<br />
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