Please spread the word Before Its Gone // Take It Back wants residents to submit short videos, photos and artwork that documents the crisis of gentrification and celebrates life in Brooklyn.Submit your videos, photos and artwork today to: [email protected] or Contact us at: flatbushequality@gmail or call /text (646)820-6039 BEFORE ITS GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush TO DONATE: gofundme/Before-Its-Gone Details on the project: Gentrification is the deliberate pricing out of low-to-middle income residents from neighborhoods by corporations, real estate developers & landlords in favor of renting or selling to people with higher or more flexible incomes. Theres a lot of talk about the gentrification of Brooklyn like its a closed subject as if theres nothing we can do. We believe there is still hope to save affordable housing & to stop the displacement. We want to build a way for people to respond and to organize a Brooklyn-wide movement. We want people to use accessible technology like their smartphones and cameras to interview their family members and neighbors about what it was like to grow up in Brooklyn or when they first arrived from Haiti, Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, Italy, Korea or elsewhere. We want your pictures and videos of The Norwegian-American Parade on Bay Ridge Ave, The Brooklyn Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans Pride March on Fifth Ave and The Caribbean Day Parade on Eastern Parkway. We want your footage of Old-Timers events in Red Hook, Brownsville and Bushwick. Please send us videos of your Quinceañeras, bar/bat mitzvahs, high school graduations, weddings, baby showers, and Lunar New Year celebrations. Along with people’s celebrations of Brooklyn life, we also want photos and videos that document the changes in neighborhoods due to gentrification. From the closing of small businesses to the construction of luxury condos, we want your footage. We want people to document their stories about the unjust practices used by landlords and developers that are forcing people out of their homes. We want to see pictures of the unsafe and hazardous conditions that many Brooklyn tenants endure. We also want to see footage of all the ways that communities are responding to gentrification in their neighborhoods---from organizing meetings and rallies on affordable housing to the rent parties and fundraisers to save a neighbor’s home or community center. We believe that we all come together Before Its Gone – We CAN Take It Back It BEFORE ITS GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification is a self-documentary art archive, resource & organizing project that will allow everyday people to respond to the crisis of gentrification of Brooklyn, NY. To get involved contact us at: flatbushequality@gmail (646) 820-6039 Follow us Facebook: facebook/BeforeItsGoneTakeItBack https://facebook/EqualityForFlatbush Twitter : @EqualFlatbush https://twitter/EqualFlatbush Tumblr: equalityforflatbush.tumblr/ Instagram: instagram/equality4flatbush #Beforeitsgone #Takeitback #Gentrification #Brooklyn #BKfightsback
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:49:50 +0000
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