General

OUR LAND IS NOT FOR $ALE! (part of Stories from the Land: Environmental Films from the Asian Diaspora film festival)

Saturday, 13 November 2004
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer: Asian American Resource Workshop

OUR LAND IS NOT FOR $ALE!
Co-Sponsored by Chinese Youth Initiative

Beginning with a community retrospective showing of
The FALL OF THE I-HOTEL (dir. Curtis Choy, 1993 revised, 1983 original, 58 min)

This film brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the I-Hotel's tenants in 1977 ended a decade of spirited resistance. For almost 20 years after the International Hotel's demolition, the former site of the heart of Manilatown and home to more than 10,000 people in the 1950s, remained vacant.

Chinatown Is Not For Sale! (dir. CJP youth, 2002, 43 min)
A film by the Youth Organizers of the Chinatown Justice Project of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

A film about Manhattan's Chinatown community struggle against gentrification and displacement.

1:30pm FALL OF THE I-HOTEL
2:30 pm CHINATOWN IS NOT FOR SALE!
A panel discussion will follow the screening.

Location:
Tufts Jaharis Auditorium in Boston Chinatown (136 Harrison Ave)

Cost: $5, $25 for Festival Pass ($15 for Students), Tufts students w/ID free

Directions: uccps.tufts.edu/storiesfromtheland/directions.htm
Jaharis Auditorium
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111


By local transportaion:

There are several ways to come to Jaharis Hall. Get off either at New England Medical Center Sta. (Orange line), Chinatown Sta.(Orange line), or Boyleston Sta. (Green line) are closest. You can also walk from Downtown Crossing (Red Line).

URL: http://www.aarw.org for Asian American program schedule, www.storiesfromtheland.org for full schedule & info!