Some Place Like Home
The Host Committee and the Members of Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE) invites you to
Some Place Like Home
Presented by Laurie Cumbo (MoCADA), the Fort Greene Film Society, Fort
Greene for Peace, the Friends of FUREE, the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Kevin Powell, Laurie Cumbo (MoCADA)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRAURY 25, 2009
6:30 P.M. TO 8:30 P.M.
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
80 South Oxford Place at Lafayette Avenue
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Title Track Performance by Hasan Salaam
Admission: a minimum donation of $5 at the door to support FUREE.
About the Film
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.
Consider the many ways you can help FUREE to empower our communities, fight displacement and promote inclusive neighborhoods by lending your support:
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