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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Watching this group00 a.m.to get help with their energy bills made our historyand our...

Watching this group
of Englewood elders line up at 7:00 a.m.
to get help with their energy bills made our history
and our tradition seem not only absurd to me
but criminal

Full Transcript

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- Watching this group of Englewood elders
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line up at 7:00 a.m. to get help
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with their energy bills
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made our history and our tradition
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seem not only absurd to me but criminal.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:29
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Kartemquin Films,Judith Helfand Productions

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Movie Summary

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
- Every year, a onetime federally funded subsidy - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- Every year, a onetime federally funded subsidy
- You need your light bill, your gas bill, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
- You need your light bill, your gas bill,
- They had a cooling program, and then they ran out of money, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- They had a cooling program, and then they ran out of money...
Many people did not get help who needed it. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
Many people did not get help who needed it.
But there are more than a hundred intake sites - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
But there are more than a hundred intake sites
- He was 58. He was 58. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
- He was 58. He was 58.
- You can tell a lot about what we care about - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- You can tell a lot about what we care about
People want those resources to be at standby - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:15
People want those resources to be at standby
- A white person cannot easily imagine what it is - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:12
- A white person cannot easily imagine what it is
- No, I just don't... - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- No, I just don't...
- What I came to learn is this: - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:28
- What I came to learn is this:
- Every day, I go into an exam room, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:15
- Every day, I go into an exam room,
- Which is a problem that Orrin Williams - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- Which is a problem that Orrin Williams
Someone said to me it's easier - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
Someone said to me it's easier
- I wouldn't say that, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
- I wouldn't say that,
Standing where we are now-- let me see. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
Standing where we are now-- let me see.
Okay, I have to think about that long and hard. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
Okay, I have to think about that long and hard.
Some people describe communities on the South Side - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
Some people describe communities on the South Side
The problem in our communities is, there's food there, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
The problem in our communities is, there's food there,
[cash register beeping] - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
[cash register beeping]