http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-emanuel-on-chicagos-preparedness-ebola-20141017-premiumvideo.html
This video covers Mayor Rahm Emanuel's public statement on the ongoing development of a plan for Ebola preparedness in Chicago. He clarifies that the situation is not the same as it is elsewhere yet but that it is not only a public health issue but also a public safety issue. He talks about what has already happened in the formation of this plan as well as what the next steps will be. It was a little bit difficult to hear without turning the volume way up but I think his statement was well-prepared. It addresses the ever-increasing concerns about what's happening and how it could potentially directly affect his city as well as what is actually being done and who is involved. I think the purpose is to help assuage fears a little bit that no preparations will be in place if there were to be an outbreak in Chicago.
http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000003152942/to-kill-a-sparrow.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=video-player-region®ion=video-player-region&WT.nav=video-player-region
This video is completely different than the previous one. It is the story of a young Afghan woman who was engaged to be married by her father when she was 5 (to a man who was her father's age at the time). When she grew up she didn't want to marry him and ran away with another man. Her father found her and had her arrested. The video was done almost entirely through subtitles, except for some instances of English narration. Normally that frustrates me a little bit, but in this case, the story was interesting enough that I didn't mind the subtitles. I liked how she showed the woman's life, the man she ran away with's perspective, a women's rights lawyer's perspective, and that of her family (brother and father). It made the story even more compelling than if it had just been a single interview with the woman herself.
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