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DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Humara Shahar (BOMBAY: OUR CITY)  June 09, 2005.  7 pm  
 Station 40  3030 B 16th Street (16th & Mission)  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. 
  Samosas and ragda pattice will be served before the film screening.  
 Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues.  Write to 
 bombay_ourcity@hotmail.com  to reserve a seat at the screening or  if have 
 any questions about the film.  Admission is $10  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  Con 
 ganas, si se puede!  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/07/68673.php
SUMMARY:Bombay: Our City
LOCATION:Station 40  3030 B 16th Street (at Mission.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/07/68673.php
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