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UP THE CREEK!
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a documentary arts project
Female
19 years old
SYRACUSE, New York
United States
Last Login: 11/17/2008
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer |
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UP THE CREEK! is an oral history project to gather stories from people living and working along Onondaga Creek. Though it is a major tributary that runs through rural, urban, and Native American lands, many central New York residents don’t recognize it as a natural resource. Just as the county re-evaluates a second multi-million dollar sewage plant along Onondaga Creek in downtown Syracuse, New York, UP THE CREEK! producers are creating an audio documentary that will result in a CD and interactive sound walks along selected portions of the creek. The audio tours will be distributed at public libraries and through the Internet free of charge. Through memories and dialogue with residents around the creek, the project aims to highlight two issues: social justice and public access.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
The project advocates for the environmental justice struggles of the Haudenosaunee people and in the predominately African-American neighborhood of Syracuse called the Southside. Even though Southside residents protested its construction, families were displaced from their homes to make way for a sewage plant, and jobs that were promised to neighborhood residents mostly went to outsiders. The sewage plant not only contributes to the environmental damage of the creek, its presence is a human health hazard.
PUBLIC ACCESS
Alterations to the creek bed like rerouting and fencing have prevented the kind of recreational access associated with the region’s well-known lakes, rivers, and other popular waterways like the Erie Canal. Onondaga Creek could be used for bike paths and walking areas, canoeing, or fishing, but instead, the city has restricted access. Things are changing as they build a creekwalk, but it will take time.
UP THE CREEK! embraces the challenge to rediscover this waterway through a localized, grassroots effort that addresses not only the physical landscape, but also highlights human stories about the past, present, and future of the creek.
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