If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster

Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.

2008 / Fereshteh Toosi / TCF, USA

Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.

If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster was produced for the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera.


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