Friends, please consider supporting the excellent film It Took 50 Years: Frances Goldin and the Struggle for Cooper Square. They currently have a few days of matching funds for any contribution up to $2,000. Not only does it profile Frances Goldin, one of our long time NYC activists, and includes my father, Walter Thabit, and activist city planner from way back, it is a blueprint for activists to come. If you are unable to contribute financially, please share with your networks. Thank you very much! Message from the filmmakers: Greetings Supporters and Happy New Year for those celebrating Rosh Hashanah: With just 9 days left in our campaign we are THRILLED to announce a 5-day MATCHING FUND of $2,000 from an anonymous source! Thats right -- for the next 5 days any contribution you make up to $2,000 dollars counts for DOUBLE. If you been waiting to make your contribution - NOW IS THE TIME! igg.me/at/ittook50v2 Were getting down to the wire -- please help us bring it home! - Ryan Joseph & Dave Powell co-directors, It Took 50 Years: Frances Goldin and the Struggle for Cooper Square ** Our film tells the story of a community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that battled urban renewal, arson, abandonment, drug violence, real estate speculation and gentrification over the course of five decades. By adapting to confront the multiple forces threatening their neighborhood, the residents of Cooper Square successfully held their community together. Their breakthrough came in the form of an innovative community land trust model, which preserves the affordability of their housing in perpetuity and was completed in 2013. Concurrently the film explores the life of Frances Goldin, the only person to be involved in this multi-decade struggle from start to finish. At age 90 she is still a fiery advocate for housing rights and is also known as a literary agent who has represented June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Kingsolver, Martin Espada, Mumia Abu Jamal and others. We have recently launched an on-line fundraising campaign with IndieGoGo to raise $20,000 to pay our editor to complete the film and help to purchase archival materials. No contribution is too small or too big! Moreover, we need your help to spread the word about this campaign. The link to the campaign is igg.me/at/ittook50v2 -- please share it widely! The twin crises of housing affordability and residential displacement have reached a fevered pitch in New York City and other cities throughout the country. There have been many movies made about urban renewal, gentrification and displacement but very few about a community that fought back and won! -- *Website*: ittook50 *Like us*: facebook/ittook50 *Follow us:* https://twitter/It_took_50 Press: The Villager, 3/6/14 thevillager/2014/03/06/if-you-can-just-imagine-it/ Tenant, March, 2014 metcouncilonhousing.org/news_and_issues/tenant_newspaper/2014/march/cooper_square_film’s_preview_gets_warm_response Urban Omnibus, 4/29/14 urbanomnibus.net/2014/04/the-value-of-land-how-community-land-trusts-maintain-housing-affordability/ Art F City, 5/13/14 artfcity/2014/05/13/the-plan-that-could-fend-off-real-estate-frances-goldin-and-the-cooper-square-committee ### It Took 50 Team Website: ittook50 Like us: facebook/ittook50 Follow us: https://twitter/It_took_50
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:35:51 +0000
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