Saturday, August 20
Center City
Co-hosted by Community Youth Organizing Committee
8:30 pm @Jamaican Jerk Hut
1436 South Street
Philadelphia, PA

Short videos involving Communities Against Anti-Asian Violence, Desis Rising UP and Moving, and FIERCE.

Chinatown is Not For Sale!
by Youth Organizers of the Chinatown Justice
A project of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
(43 min)
A new video about Manhattan's Chinatown community struggle against gentrification and displacement. This video examines the impact of racist real estate practices in Chinatown and how low income Chinese tenants are displaced to "make room" for young white professionals. The film also includes footage of CJP's efforts to combat this displacement.

Rising Up: The Alams
directed by Konrad Aderer
part of the Third World Newsreel / Call for Change series, with the participation of Desis Rising Up and Moving
(11 min 40 sec)
In April 2003 Mohammed Alam, husband and father to two U.S.-born girls, endured the discriminatory and degrading process of Special Registration. Along with 80,000 immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, he was confined for hours in a cell, searched, fingerprinted, and subjected to anti-Muslim slurs.

Now Mohammed faces deportation to his native Bangladesh, where he could face arrest and torture. But the Alams are not just victims; learn Mohammed and his wife Moni fight back as members of South Asian community organization DRUM -- Desis Rising Up and Moving.

Fenced Out
by Paper Tiger Television, Fierce! and The New Neutral Zone
(20 min)
A short documentary about the fight for the Christopher St. pier - one of the only places in New York City where youth of color, low income, homeless and l/g/b/t/q youth could once hang out. To further explore their connection to the piers, the producers interviewed older l/g/b/t/q activists about the history of the location and its connection to the gay liberation movement of the 1960's.