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The Legacy of An Immigration Raid: Film Screening and Community Conversation

WHERE:
1 Washington Place floor 5
New York NY, USA
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 1, 4:30pm — 6:30pm
 

In 2008 Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered what was the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history with 389 immigrants arrested in the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. A decade later the lives of many immigrants living and working in central Mississippi would be forever changed when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 680 people working at chicken processing plants again in one of the largest immigration raids in U.S. history. Families have been ripped apart, immigrant communities continue to live in fear, and their loved ones continue to pick up the pieces from the devastation of these raids and rampant
anti-immigrant policies.

Join organizers from the Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity Mississippi, a front-line
organization based in Mississippi, organizing undocumented and immigrant communities, for
a film screening highlighting the Postville Raids and a discussion on the impacts of failed
immigration reform, and life in the aftermath of these raids.

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From Crisis to Horizon: Fighting for Social Housing

WHEN:
Friday, March 31, 2:00pm — 3:30pm
 

Register for “From Crisis to Horizon: Fighting for Social Housing” here!  (Guests may attend in-person or through zoom.)

 

Thursday 3/30: Vanderbilt Hall Room 220, 40 Washington Square South

Panel 1: Defending Tenants Amid the US Housing Crisis – March 30, 5:30–6:50pm ET,

Panel 2: Building Towards Social Housing in NY – March 30, 7:10–8:30pm ET

 

Friday 3/31: Jerry Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place

Panel 1: Toward Social Housing Nationally and Internationally

Panel 2: Translating Aspiration to Legislation

 

There is a growing, nationwide housing crisis. In the last few years, the discussion among housing movements has moved from a critique of gentrification, displacement, and other manifestations of that crisis to a search for an alternative vision. That vision requires creating housing whose production, distribution, and management is guided by deeply democratic principles, a logic of intentional inclusion, and an ethos of care and environmental stewardship.

There are at least a dozen local and state campaigns for social housing around the US today, and an active discussion about federal action for social housing.

In the United States, even before the pandemic, one in four renters were already paying half their income to rent and most low-income families had unaffordable housing costs. Globally, there is a shortage of affordable, adequate housing in rich and poor countries, with nearly a billion people today living in precarious, overcrowded housing. Organizing for social housing is emerging from unions, Black Lives Matter and abolition organizations, tenant and debtors’ unions of all stripes, houseless social movements and community organizations. Also, housing is central to any proposal for decarbonization, and housing (and social housing in particular) is one of the pillars of the Green New Deal.

Re-imagining social housing, and making our imaginings reality, is essential—in both the US and around the world. Our convening will explore issues with our existing market-based housing models, what constitutes social housing, and myriad efforts to win it.

New York University and Gallatin provide reasonable accommodations to people living with disabilities who wish to attend events at the School. For every event, Gallatin staff will be on hand to assist guests. Please note that the entrance at 715 Broadway is wheelchair accessible. To request accommodations, such as a sign language interpreter, assistive listening devices, or large print programs, or should you have questions regarding accessibility for an event, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu or by calling 212-992-6328. Should you need an accommodation, we ask that you send your request as early as possible so that we have time to fulfill your request.

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Freedom Forward Film Series: Sementes

WHEN:
Tuesday, February 7, 6:30pm — 9:30pm
 

The Freedom Forward film series is a virtual series which brings together social impact storytellers, social justice practitioners, and artists dedicated to imagining a world with freedom, justice, and well-being for all people. Featuring films which highlight different themes and issues across the social justice landscape, Freedom Forward offers a space for reflection on histories of collective struggle, the hope that drives them, and freedom on the horizon. The series is intended to serve as a political education space which nourishes and inspires future action, solidarity, and creativity as we build a more just and equitable world. All film screenings are free and open to the public.

The Freedom Forward Film Series is brought to you by The Action lab in collaboration with the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU Gallatin, the Initiative for Community Power at NYU Law School, Make the Road NY, and The Forge.

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About SEMENTES: Mulheres Pretas no Poder (SEEDS: Black Women in Power):

In response to the execution of Marielle Franco, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political uprising led by black women Brazil has ever seen, with candidates running in every state. In Rio de Janeiro, Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula and Talíria Petrone ran for state or federal deputy. The documentary accompanied these women in their campaigns, showing that a new way of doing politics in Brazil is possible, transforming mourning into (political) struggle.

 

About the Film Directors, Ethel Oliveira & Julia Mariano:

Éthel Oliveira is a documentary filmmaker, film club member, and editor. She is coproducer of Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder (Seeds: Black Women in Power, 2020). She studied social sciences at Fluminense Federal University, researching the Guaraní indigenous people in Rio and Mato Grosso do Sul through the Ethnographic Film Laboratory and spent ten years producing human rights media projects in Pernambuco. Her previous works are Terceira Diaspora (Third Diaspora) and Vinte de Novembro (November 20, 2011), Arremate (The End, 2017), and the Baobá African Cinema Showcase in Recife (2018).

 

Terceira Diaspora (2011)

Vinte de Novembro (2011)

Arremate (2017)

Seeds: Black Women in Power (2020)

Júlia Mariano is a director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated from Cuba’s School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). In 2014, Júlia directed Ameaçados (The Threatened People), which won awards at Rio de Janeiro’s Short Film Festival, São Paulo’s Kinoforum Festival, and Maranhão’s Guarnicê Film Festival. In 2015 she directed Do Corpo da Terra (From the Body of the Land) produced in partnership with the Movimento dos Sem Terra (Landless Movement). In 2017 she founded NOIX CULTURA and directed the documentary series Desde Junho (Since June).

 

Ameaçados (2014)

Do Corpo da Terra (2016)

Desde Junho (2017)

Seeds: Black Women in Power (2020)

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New York University and Gallatin provide reasonable accommodations to people living with disabilities who wish to attend events at the School. For every event, Gallatin staff will be on hand to assist guests. Please note that the entrance at 715 Broadway is wheelchair accessible. To request accommodations, such as a sign language interpreter, assistive listening devices, or large print programs, or should you have questions regarding accessibility for an event, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu or by calling 212-992-6328. Should you need an accommodation, we ask that you send your request as early as possible so that we have time to fulfill your request.

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