FUREE and Rezoning Harlem invites you to:

RECLAIMING OUR COMMUNITIES

Film Screening & Panel Discussion on

Rezoning, Displacement & Building Community Power

FEATURED FILMS:

BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE explores the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project, Brooklyn Boondoggle questions the trend of top-down urban development and asks, what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods?

11 mins. | by Meerkat Media Arts Collective |www.meerkatmedia.org

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 in Fort Greene & Downtown Brooklyn.  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. Winner of the 2009 PATIOS International Film Festival Rise Up Award.

40 mins.|Exec. Producer: Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE)|Producer & Co-Director: Allison Lirish Dean|Director & Editor: Kelly Anderson | www.furee.org/film

REZONING HARLEM follows longtime members of the Harlem community as they fight a 2008 rezoning that threatens to erase the history and culture of their legendary neighborhood and replace it with luxury housing, offices, and big-box retail. A shocking expose of how a group of ordinary citizens, who are passionate about the future of one the city’s most treasured neighborhoods, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process, revealing New York City’s broken public review system and provoking discussion on what we can do about it.

45 mins. | Directors/Producers: Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat | Co-Producers: Juliana Alzate & Pamela Nichols | www.rezoningharlem.com

PANELISTS:

Maisha Morales, FUREE Board Member and Small Business Owner (featured in film)

Joy Chatel, FUREE Board Member, Executive Director of Friends 227 Abolitionist Place Museum and Cultural Center, Director of 4 Boroughs Preservation Society (featured in film)

Raul Rothblatt, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn

Tom Angotti, urban planner and author of “New York for Sale”

Sunday, September 20, 2009

6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

@ The Tank

354 West 45^th Street, NYC

(btw. 8^th & 9^th Avenues)

Click here for travel directions.

Admission: (Sliding Scale) $7 – $10

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