Wednesday, November 7, 2012 7:00pm until 8:45pm
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003-7112
Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU, Curated by E. Tammy Kim
Join longtime activists and advocates, writers, and photographers to discuss gentrification and land-use battles affecting low-income communities of color on the Lower East Side and in Chinatown.
Panelists include Shafaq Islam (Staff Attorney, Urban Justice Center), Bethany Li (Staff Attorney, AALDEF), Damaris Reyes (Executive Director, Good Old Lower East Side), and Esther Wang (Director of Chinatown Tenants Union, CAAAV). With introductory remarks by Suketu Mehta, author of the critically-acclaimed Maximum City, and photographs by Gina Chung, E. Tammy Kim, and Yuko Torihara.
Co-sponsored by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Good Old Lower East Side, Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and Open City magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. For more: http://www.apa.nyu.edu/