BrightMoments
March 24th, 2006, 03:19 AM
BrightMoment! will be producing a fundraiser to benefit the Harsimus cove Association, on June 3rd, Sat, from 6 until 9PM.
BrightMoment! will screen Delivered Vacant, an important documentary film that made by filmmaker, Nora Jacobson, focusing on Hoboken and the impact of gentrification on economic displacement.This showing will benefit awareness of the affordable housing problem in Jersey City, and perhaps provide Jersey City ACORN.org with a "media event" to bring focus to organizing legislative efforts on behalf of providing access to affordable housing and low-income housing.
Well, thanks to residents of Jersey City, BrightMoment!, realtor Bob Brennan who loaned us his copy, elgoodo, and others, we now have both a screening of Delivered Vacant and a Q&A with the Director, filmmaker, Nora Jacobson and others to include:
Steve Fulop-Ward E Councilman
Daryn Martin-President, NJ ACORN.org
Christopher Auth-President, Fairmount Housing.org
The screening will take place on Saturday, June 3rd from 6 until 8PM.The Q&A will follow from 8 until 9PM and will focus on both the excellent , award-winning documentary, Delivered Vacant, and discussion on substantive issues of the impact of gentrification, economic displacement and the need for preservation, conservation and protection of all people to have access to low-income housing in Jersey City.
We will be announcing soon formation of a "Friends" group to both contribute donations towards this screening and the appearance of Nora Jacobson.
We will need all your ideas at this TBA meeting, including fundraising, promotion, press, donations of food, drink for that night, we need a nice place for Ms. Jacobson to stay for several nights or at least one night, since she's driving down from Vermont just for us.
Any and all volunteers are necessary for poster design, web site design, fundraising, grant writing for non profit, web banners, links, etc, all donated so please contact me at info below.
We have pending, a non profit 501(c)3, soon so your donation will be "tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law."
In the interim before this announcement of mtg, please feel free to email me with suggestions, ideas, etc at this contact info:
Email: brightmoments@gmail.com
Phone: 347-789-7508
For more info on Nora Jacobson,Delivered Vacant and her other films, go to this site: http://www.offthegridproductions.com (http://www.offthegridproductions.com/)
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I would call the loss of ethnic diversity through the displacement of renters who are poor, elderly, latino, disabled, eastern european, Asian artists, plus the loss of artists displaced due to 111 1st being shut down, hyper-pricing on current rentals, conversions of rentals to condos hereby removing affordable housing from inventory, threats and destruction of historic architecture/housing such as happened recently with the 1870's house at Sherman Place to be just a partial list of "negative impact here in Jersey City."
The net effect of these condo conversions on my block as an example, irrespective of whether you think they were right or wrong, is that rental housing has been removed permanently from inventory, the demographics have been changed dramatically, the multi-ethnic characteristic of the neighborhood has changed, and so a film that documents these very changes, such as "Delivered Vacant", presents us as a community, the opportunity to discuss these changes.
We'll also have the opportunity to explore these issues the night of the film screening so that we may discuss what has already happened in Hoboken and what we all may do as neighbors and residents of Jersey City NOT to repeat those aspects of conscious displacement to the detriment of us all.
We want NOT to protect those that can afford already the hyper-pricing of condos, the cost of developers abatements and the city's tax increases for ineffective and corrupt government, but instead to protect, preserve and conserve "neighborhood rich" quality of community life, through our interaction with the multiplicities of diversity, various gender-based families, children, artists, professionals, working class and the disabled and elderly that make this a community and not a faux-gated development whose entry is not a key to the gate but the money necessary to pay hyper-inflated pricing under a real estate bubble.
Some, including myself, would argue that we have already lost much of what once made downtown Jersey City so welcoming by the displacement of artists from 111, the displacement of the poor, multi-ethnic, working class, elderly and disabled.
Yet this loss of art, community and displacement has also brought a more aware consciousness among the survivors who have formed neighborhood associations, crime watch groups, "friends of parks and open spaces", and it is that type of organization that may allay, or at least defer, some of the worst aspects of what Delivered Vacant documents over 10 years ago in Hoboken.
That's among many reasons why this film and discussion are relevant and important, IMHO.
BrightMoment! will screen Delivered Vacant, an important documentary film that made by filmmaker, Nora Jacobson, focusing on Hoboken and the impact of gentrification on economic displacement.This showing will benefit awareness of the affordable housing problem in Jersey City, and perhaps provide Jersey City ACORN.org with a "media event" to bring focus to organizing legislative efforts on behalf of providing access to affordable housing and low-income housing.
Well, thanks to residents of Jersey City, BrightMoment!, realtor Bob Brennan who loaned us his copy, elgoodo, and others, we now have both a screening of Delivered Vacant and a Q&A with the Director, filmmaker, Nora Jacobson and others to include:
Steve Fulop-Ward E Councilman
Daryn Martin-President, NJ ACORN.org
Christopher Auth-President, Fairmount Housing.org
The screening will take place on Saturday, June 3rd from 6 until 8PM.The Q&A will follow from 8 until 9PM and will focus on both the excellent , award-winning documentary, Delivered Vacant, and discussion on substantive issues of the impact of gentrification, economic displacement and the need for preservation, conservation and protection of all people to have access to low-income housing in Jersey City.
We will be announcing soon formation of a "Friends" group to both contribute donations towards this screening and the appearance of Nora Jacobson.
We will need all your ideas at this TBA meeting, including fundraising, promotion, press, donations of food, drink for that night, we need a nice place for Ms. Jacobson to stay for several nights or at least one night, since she's driving down from Vermont just for us.
Any and all volunteers are necessary for poster design, web site design, fundraising, grant writing for non profit, web banners, links, etc, all donated so please contact me at info below.
We have pending, a non profit 501(c)3, soon so your donation will be "tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law."
In the interim before this announcement of mtg, please feel free to email me with suggestions, ideas, etc at this contact info:
Email: brightmoments@gmail.com
Phone: 347-789-7508
For more info on Nora Jacobson,Delivered Vacant and her other films, go to this site: http://www.offthegridproductions.com (http://www.offthegridproductions.com/)
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I would call the loss of ethnic diversity through the displacement of renters who are poor, elderly, latino, disabled, eastern european, Asian artists, plus the loss of artists displaced due to 111 1st being shut down, hyper-pricing on current rentals, conversions of rentals to condos hereby removing affordable housing from inventory, threats and destruction of historic architecture/housing such as happened recently with the 1870's house at Sherman Place to be just a partial list of "negative impact here in Jersey City."
The net effect of these condo conversions on my block as an example, irrespective of whether you think they were right or wrong, is that rental housing has been removed permanently from inventory, the demographics have been changed dramatically, the multi-ethnic characteristic of the neighborhood has changed, and so a film that documents these very changes, such as "Delivered Vacant", presents us as a community, the opportunity to discuss these changes.
We'll also have the opportunity to explore these issues the night of the film screening so that we may discuss what has already happened in Hoboken and what we all may do as neighbors and residents of Jersey City NOT to repeat those aspects of conscious displacement to the detriment of us all.
We want NOT to protect those that can afford already the hyper-pricing of condos, the cost of developers abatements and the city's tax increases for ineffective and corrupt government, but instead to protect, preserve and conserve "neighborhood rich" quality of community life, through our interaction with the multiplicities of diversity, various gender-based families, children, artists, professionals, working class and the disabled and elderly that make this a community and not a faux-gated development whose entry is not a key to the gate but the money necessary to pay hyper-inflated pricing under a real estate bubble.
Some, including myself, would argue that we have already lost much of what once made downtown Jersey City so welcoming by the displacement of artists from 111, the displacement of the poor, multi-ethnic, working class, elderly and disabled.
Yet this loss of art, community and displacement has also brought a more aware consciousness among the survivors who have formed neighborhood associations, crime watch groups, "friends of parks and open spaces", and it is that type of organization that may allay, or at least defer, some of the worst aspects of what Delivered Vacant documents over 10 years ago in Hoboken.
That's among many reasons why this film and discussion are relevant and important, IMHO.