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.
Watch the trailer at http://www.furee.org/film/trailer
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 tickets, to sponsor, place ad journals or for more information, visit: www.furee.org/film/premiere or contact Valery at valery@furee.org or call (718) 852-2960, ext. 301
Host Committee: Robert & Patricia Berger • Cinque Brathwaite • Caitlyn Brazill • Numi Deodee • John Gordon • Sean Mallinson • Emily Metzner • Kevin Powell • David Rodriguez • Hasan Salaam • Quito Ziegler (list in formation). Location: The Founder's Auditorium at Medgar Evers College Address:
