Some Place Like Home

The Host Committee and the Members of Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE) invites you to


SOME PLACE LIKE HOME

The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn

Narrated by Kevin Powell


FILM PREMIERE & BENEFIT EVENT*

in collaboration with The Medgar Evers College School of Professional & Community Development
Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Founder's Auditorium at Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
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Performances & Reception following screening in The President's Conference Center
Attire: Creative- Fabulous

*All proceeds from this benefit event will go to support the mission and activities of FUREE.

About the Film

Some Place Like Home tells the stories of community residents and small businesses that are displaced to make way for high-end retail and luxury condominiums to the area. It depicts the pulling out of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene's legacy of being a once-forgotten neighborhood built from the ground up by generations of low-income and working families from all walks of life. Small business owners that have helped to make the area the 3rd largest retail district in New York City talk about the deferment of their dreams as entrepreneurs. It reveals practices and policies used to support massive real estate projects as the historical, economic and cultural fabric of the area is torn apart. It follows the battle of community residents and small businesses as they fight for some place like home.

Consider the many ways you can help FUREE to empower our communities, fight displacement and promote inclusive neighborhoods by lending your support:

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Tickets

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The People: $50

The Leaders (FUREE Members): $25
Members: contact FUREE to buy tickets.

Event Journal

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Journal Ad Prices (PDF)

Affordable Housing - $2,500

Community Center- $1,250

Healthy Grocery Store - $500

Mom & Pop Store- $250

Playground - $150

Proceeds from this event will benefit Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE), a Brooklyn-based, multiracial organization that mobilizes low-income and working families to promote equality, improve economic conditions and build collective power to win systemic changes at the local, state and national level. Primarily led by women of color with an emphasis on community and family, FUREE uses direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to achieve our vision and goals to win exits to poverty.

For more information, contact Valery at or call (718) 852-2960, ext. 301

Host Committee

Robert & Patricia Berger • Seth Borgos • Cinque Brathwaite • Caitlyn Brazill • Numi Deodee • John Gordon • Hugh Hogan • Sean Mallinson • Emily Metzner • Kevin Powell • Lincoln Restler • David Rodriguez • Hasan Salaam • Maya Wiley • Quito Ziegler

Event Sponsors

1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East • Akila Worksongs • Brooklyn Brewery • Stosh Cotler • Cynthia Freeman & Joshua Goldstein • Andrea Batista Schlesinger & Ana Maria Archila • UFCW Local 1500

Special Acknowledgements

Center for Third World Organizing • Hua Alan Chan • Community Voices Heard • FIERCE • GOLES • Jobs with Justice • Lincoln Technical Institute • Medgar Evers School of Professional & Community Development • Metis Group • Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership BID • Praxis Project • PSC/CUNY • Tio Pio