Some Place Like Home: The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn
SOME PLACE LIKE HOME:
The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn
Narrated by Kevin Powell
FILM PREMIERE & BENEFIT EVENT*
in collaboration with The Medgar Evers College School of Professional & Community Development
Friday, December 5th, 2008 – 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
The Founder’s Auditorium at Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Performances & Reception following screening in The President’s Conference Center
*All proceeds from this benefit event will go to support the mission and activities of FUREE.
About the Film (view Trailer here):
Some Place Like Home tells the stories of community residents and small businesses that are displaced to make way for high-end retail and luxury condominiums to the area. It depicts the pulling out of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene’s legacy of being a once-forgotten neighborhood built from the ground up by generations of low-income and working families from all walks of life. Small business owners that have helped to make the area the 3rd largest retail district in New York City talk about the deferment of their dreams as entrepreneurs. It reveals practices and policies used to support massive real estate projects as the historical, economic and cultural fabric of the area is torn apart. It follows the battle of community residents and small businesses as they fight for some place like home.
Proceeds from this event will benefit Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE), a Brooklyn-based, multiracial organization that mobilizes low-income and working families to promote equality, improve economic conditions and build collective power to win systemic changes at the local, state and national level. Primarily led by women of color with an emphasis on community and family, FUREE uses direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to achieve our vision and goals to win exits to poverty.
For more information, contact Valery at [email protected] or call (718) 852-2960, ext. 301
Host Committee
Robert & Patricia Berger • Cinque Brathwaite • Caitlyn Brazill • Numi Deodee • John Gordon • Sean Mallinson • Miles McAffee • Emily Metzner • Kevin Powell • David Rodriguez • Hasan Salaam • Quito Ziegler