Street Movies! @ Clark Park

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Green Guerillas V.2: Food Clothes Shelter by Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective
Highlighting the latest in sustainable style, this excerpt from the Green Guerillas’ movie features the MOVE Organization, the West Philadelphia Electric Vehicle Team and Ithaca’s Peoples Garden Project. (USA, 2007, 27:30 min)

Garbage Dreams by Mai Iskander
Egypt’s resident garbage recyclers, the Zaballeen, struggle as Cairo modernizes its waste disposal system. (Egypt, 2006, 8:05 min)

The Taking of Bodine: Never Forget by Community Leadership Institute & Scribe Video Center
The Community Leadership Institute confronts the displacement of residents in North Philadelphia through the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI). Led by neighborhood organizer Rosemary Cubas, the Community Leadership Institute contends that many good neighbors are being pushed out, houses bulldozed and land devalued so that real estate developers can eventually profit off the land. (USA, 2005, 9:40 min)

Eve's Garden by Heart of Camden & Scribe Video Center
Founded in 2004, Eve’s Garden features a large greenhouse, vegetable beds, and even a hand-built cob baking oven that the kids helped construct from local clay, sand and straw. Residents and school children grow corn, pole beans, tomatoes, collard greens, potatoes, squash and numerous other hand-tended delights. (USA, 2007, 8:17 min)

Yorktown: You Are Here by Yorktown Community Organization & Scribe Video Center
The history of the Yorktown housing development. (USA, 2007, 11:14 min)

Water Warriors by Liz Miller
When water costs soar, residents of Highland Park, Michigan demand to know who will foot the bill. (USA, 2006, 6:17 min)

E-Waste Animated by Ian Lynam, Produced by Morgan Currie & Lindsay Utz, GOOD Magazine
An animated film illustrates the environmental and human damage caused by electronic waste. (USA, 2007, 1:41 min)