Topanga Peace film: “A Reckoning in Boston” Fri Jan 6 2023

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2023 AT 7:15 PM PST

First Friday Film Night: “A Reckoning in Boston”

Zoom Link for Friday: us02web.zoom.us/j/86311256046?pwd=VFFIdGl2QmN0ZExVL3hCMWdiamE1UT09

Meeting ID: 863 1125 6046

Passcode: Peace2022

"This is more than a documentary. Through a masterful combination of personal stories and observations of institutional gatekeeping, the film shows the profound effects of racism, class divides and unbridled urban capitalism. Anyone who seeks to understand how opportunity and power are controlled in urban America, should see this film. Anyone who sees it, will witness human resilience that defies simple explanations and inspires faith in the possible."

Dr. Margaret Wilder

With Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday fast approaching, the Topanga Peace Alliance is pleased to host a showing of this new feature length documentary that brings awareness to the racial and social injustice in Boston, a city that, like Los Angeles, may be underrepresented in inequality discourse. When watching the film, I could not help but think of the parallels in L.A., where there seems to be plenty of money for the proposed L.A. Live expansion., but nothing to replace the Section 8 housing that is disappearing as DTLA is gentrified. How our city can give AEG billions in tax breaks but couldn’t afford to help save the South Central Farm.

“’A Reckoning in Boston’ dramatizes the many levels that white supremacy plays out both in individual lives and in the systems of a city, such as transit, housing, politics and place. By providing an important window into Boston's legacy of racial division and today's racial wealth divide, Reckoning also reveals the power of education, enduring ideas, facing our own privilege, and fearless community organizing to reshape communities." Chuck Collins

After the movie, our discussion will include how systemic racism with the redlining of specific Los Angeles neighborhoods from around 1930 to 1960 has led to many of the discrepancies in wealth, health, food access and education that we see today with maps that overlay the historic red lines with current demographics. We will also discuss how housing justice movements are pushing for a right to housing in California.

We will open the Zoom event at around 7:15. The main program will begin at 7:30. We will enable video so that we can optionally see each other if you choose to enable your camera. Before the program, we will have announcements regarding upcoming events, actions for peace and social justice.

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