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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Humara Shahar (BOMBAY: OUR CITY).  This 
 award-winning documentary by noted Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan is a 
 timely reminder of the plight of slum dwellers in one of Asia's largest 
 cities.    The city government in Bombay recently embarked on a brutal 
 drive to demolish slum and informal housing settlements.  Over 100,000 
 homes have been destroyed in the past few months, and soon half a million 
 people will be left without any shelter from the monsoon rains.  This 
 screening will be held in aid of the Narmada Nav Nirman Abhiyan, a 
 registered non-profit that has fought for the housing rights of the urban 
 poor in Bombay over the past two decades.  Its original membership 
 comprised of aboriginals displaced by a complex of dams proposed for 
 Narmada river in Central India.  Narmada Nav Nirman Abhiyan is currently 
 fighting the city, state and federal government in India, demanding that 
 India's poor not be forgotten whilst India embraces 'free-market' reforms 
 and capitalist development in its neo-colonial incarnation.         Station 
 40  3030 B 16th Street @ Mission  Thursday, June 9th  7 pm  $10 suggested 
 donation  Samosas and ragda pattice will be served before the screening.    
 Write to bombay_ourcity@hotmail.com  to reserve a seat at the screening or 
 if have any questions about the film.    See you at the screening!  __  
 Humara Shahar (BOMBAY: OUR CITY) tells the story of the daily battle for 
 survival of Bombay's slum dwellers.  Half of Bombay's population and almost 
 the city's entire workforce - its industrial laborers, construction 
 workers, domestic servants - live in slum settlements.  Yet slum dwellers 
 are denied their basic right to water and sanitation, and are the target of 
 police brutality.    BOMBAY: OUR CITY was written, directed and edited by 
 noted Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.  This documentary serves as an 
 indictment of injustice and misery in the world's largest democracy, and is 
 a call to action.              "Patwardhan gives us this story simply and 
 clearly, with restrained passion, and it becomes, finally, appalling and 
 moving."  - Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times  "One of the best 
 documentaries I have ever seen."   - Sean Cubitt, City Limits     ** First 
 Prize Winner, 1986 Cinema du Reel  ** 1985 Margaret Mead Film Festival  ** 
 1985 Berlin Film Festival  ** 1985 Leipzig Film Festival  ** 1985 London 
 Film Festival  \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/31/67693.php
SUMMARY:Screening of Humara Shahar ('Bombay: Our City')
LOCATION:Station 40  3030 B 16th Street @ Mission 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/31/67693.php
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