(Passing this along. If you're in SF, check out the screening; if you're not, keep your eyes out for this one.)
La Raza Centro Legal and Upheaval Productions present...
Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans
A new documentary by Upheaval Productions
Post-Katrina reconstruction is still in progress throughout the Gulf
Coast, with much of the City of New Orleans still in ruins. This
documentary focuses on those rebuilding this city through interviews with
some of the estimated 100,000 Latino migrant laborers who have converged
in this area over the past two and a half years. Despite terrible working
conditions, massive fraud, a housing crisis, severe harassment by law
enforcement, and very limited resources, New Orleans’ Latino community has
mushroomed since the storm and is establishing an infrastructure
proportional to its size.
Take a look at how this community is organizing to defend itself against
numerous injustices and the attempts to bridge the gap between themselves
as new residents and the pre-Katrina population, all within the extremely
unique and tragic context of post-Katrina New Orleans.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion with local immigrant
justice organizers and one of the filmmakers!
***¡Presentado en inglés y español!***
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30TH at 7:30PM
at the WOMEN'S BUILDING
3543 18th St. btw. Valencia and Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110
***THIS EVENT IS FREE***
(donations will gladly be accepted)
For more information and to see a trailer please visit:
http://www.upheavalproductions.com
PRESENTED WITH HELP FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS:
La Raza Centro Legal
Upheaval Productions
San Francisco Day Labor Program
Katrina Solidarity Network
The Friendly Fire Collective
...and more to come
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