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DESCRIPTION:Monday, March 23rd from 6 -- 9 pm at Global Exchange\n\n2017 Mission Street 
 near the 16th and Mission Street BART\n\nInformation, discussion & 
 community! Monday Night Forum!!\n\nOccupy Forum is an opportunity for open 
 and respectful dialogue\n\non all sides of these critically important 
 issues!\n\n\n\nOccupyForum presents. . .\n\n\n\n"My Brooklyn"\n\nFilm and 
 discussion with SF anti-gentrification activists\n\n\n\nMy Brooklyn is a 
 documentary about Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey, as a Brooklyn 
 "gentrifier," to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along 
 lines of race and class. During Michael Bloomberg's election as mayor in 
 2001, a massive speculative real estate boom is rapidly altering the 
 neighborhoods Anderson has come to call home, spurring bitter conflict over 
 who has a right to live in the city and determine its future. While some 
 view these development patterns as revitalizing the city, others believe 
 they are erasing Brooklyn's eclectic urban fabric, economic and racial 
 diversity, creative alternative culture, and unique local 
 economies.\n\n\n\nWhen development officials announce a controversial plan 
 to tear down and remake the Fulton Mall, a popular, bustling 
 African-American and Caribbean commercial district just blocks from 
 Anderson's apartment, she discovers that the Mall, despite its run-down 
 image, is the third most profitable shopping area in New York City with a 
 rich social and cultural history. Anderson must confront her own role in 
 the process of gentrification and investigate\n\nthe forces behind it more 
 deeply.\n\n\n\nAnderson meets with government officials, urban planners, 
 developers, advocates, academics, and others who both champion and 
 criticize the plans for Fulton Mall. Only when Anderson meets Brooklyn-born 
 and raised scholar Craig Wilder, who explains his family's experiences of 
 neighborhood change over generations, does Anderson come to understand that 
 what is happening in her neighborhoods today is actually a new chapter in 
 an old American story. The film's ultimate questions become how to heal the 
 deep racial wounds embedded in our urban development patterns, and how 
 citizens can become active\n​ ​\nin fixing a broken planning 
 process.\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkA6PO_gC1k\n\nDiscussion 
 and Announcements to follow.\n\nOccupyForum welcomes donations, no one 
 turned away.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/23/18770296.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum // Film: "My Brooklyn": Gentrification in Brooklyn NY
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA - 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/23/18770296.php
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