Alice Walker Narrates - ''Nowhere Left to Go: The Jahalin Bedouin'' - With Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Sound Track
Alice Walker, celebrated author and human rights activist narrates this April 15, 2012, documentary. Pink Floyd’s Roger Walters provides a moving sound track.
“Nowhere Left to Go: The Jahalin Bedouin” shows the daily lives of the Jahalin Bedouin community. (Runtime: 00:27:50)
The children walk over a hill to a school 3 miles away. Community men and women describe how they face routine injustice and poverty. Their neighbors live in beautiful communities and refuse to allow people from the Jahalin community use of the nearby hospital and other basic services. Emergency ambulance service is denied and several children have died for lack of prompt medical service.
A new freeway is being built further cutting off community access. A major sewer line runs through the community. There are plans to forcibly displace the community in the near future. They have been forcibly displace before.
There is no running water and other basic service which their neighbors have. Their neighbors, as one man says, “have the best buses to get to school. They have the best playgrounds, the best parks. Our children play in the dirt and the mud.”
“Nowhere Left to Go” calls out for good neighbors and basic human decency.