In Syracuse: Shelter: a Squatumentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMmJxmE-Hk
Film Showing & Discussion with Film Maker Hannah E.
Dobbz
a
Friday, May 9th
9pm at the Womens Info Center
601 Allen St
Syracuse, NY 13210
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away

Presented by the Syracuse Solidarity Network

Shelter: a Squatumentary (2008), 45 min.

With universally skyrocketing property values, rent
and home-ownership have become unaffordable at best
and impossible at worst. Thus, people all over the
world continue a long tradition of circumventing the
expensive price tag and reclaiming this basic human
right by squatting. Shelter: a Squatumentary is a
documentary film that explores the squatting movement
in the East Bay from 2004 to 2007. We follow three
examples of the struggle for housing in an
unaffordable marketplace such as the San Francisco Bay
Area. Hellarity House, Banana House, and Power Machine
are stories of squatters who have found one tentative
solution to the ongoing housing crisis.

The screening will be followed by a discussion on
squatting as a tactic and how to use it not for
lifestylist dropout culture but instead for actual
community building. Squatting—a historically
clandestine move—needs to come out of hiding and build
a real community around its claim to free housing for
all. Otherwise, this age-old tactic will continue to
serve temporary ends; squatters will continue to be
evicted and crack new squats in secret; they will
continue to alienate each other along with the
mainstream—all the while, still under the thumb of the
housing market and its landlords.

See: www.killnormal.com/shelter
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMmJxmE-Hk

presented by
the Syracuse Solidarity Network
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SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com

SSN is an affiliate of the North East Anarchist
Network
http://NEanarchist.net