Another BrickFlix in the books! Thank you to @its.sorayasis for their fabulous performance, Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini for their gorgeous film, @dan_sickles for joining us for an insightful Q&A, @documentarypoetics for being a stalwart in the tech booth, @twobootspizza for their delicious Halloween themed pizza, and most importantly! Thank you to the audience for your support of MALA MALA and continued support of @brickflixmovies and @bricktheater . Stay tuned for our next event!
I’m supporting a fundraiser concert June 24 6pm at PIT (411 S5 st, Williamsburg BK– M J G trains run nearby 2 or 3 blocks away). We are raising funds for Accion Hainera, a community group seeking to help locals from the DR’s most industrialized and most contaminated city obtain clean water and organize a general strike to hold politicians accountable! Accion hainera has been working hand in hand with locals for the past 7 years to push the water issue to the forefront of popular news, and they are finally doing it! Some success has occurred, such as some small towns holding sporadic marches, but they need help to sustain and amplify the movement!
We are back here again, signing on to an alumni statement in solidarity with Pomona dining hall workers negotiating a livable wage in their next contract (currently many are making less than $20 in a time and city where that is impossible).
You can join me in signing on here if you haven’t yet :
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I haven’t posted anything on here in a while; I’ve been most active on Facebook during the years we gathered together to counter the narrative that Pomona College could not afford to treat its dining hall workers with respect and dignity, that students and workers did not form meaningful relationships of care, that alumni would be embarrassed, annoyed, or indifferent to the situation on the current campus and historic organizing of dining hall workers alongside students and the larger labor movement of the region.
The proudest I’ve ever been of us as a community of alumni across generations has been doing this work. It’s been many years of it now and it has sustained old relationships and given me new ones. I made this public so you can share, but even better will be to share the link with your own words or memories.
Rest In Power (or intergalactic post human cosmic gaseous trysts)!!!
Return often to Melvin Van Peebles’ quote in Classified X as it’s a a reframe of all the creative, political, revolutionary, freedom dreams from failures to testaments to the sacrifice and love of those who came before us.
“The so-called golden era of independent black films is a myth conceived to cloud the excruciating position of the African American in cinema. The real history of independent black cinema has been one of struggle, stuttered starts and stunted careers. A courageous file of black brothers and sisters who sacrificed to bring a few precious seconds of black humanity to the silver screen. All that wonderful talent wasted.“
Despite seeing 2020 wreck my last set of resolutions, putting this up again (partly thanks to @ratbabyjones prodding me good humoredy). Excited to usher in new year nesting and cooking with @brendon.randallmyers . @jingtastic and @basicbrassica are still the reason I ever did this in the first place.
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