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Democracies in Chinatown: 1974-1994
Feb 28, 2010343 Lenox Ave/Malcolm X Boulevard
(between 127th & 128th Sts, Take #2,3,4,5,6 or A,B,C
Two American women of Chinese descent -- one born in Hong Kong and the other in Portland, Oregon, found themselves in 1974's Chinatown as community activists, organizing the local immigrants of their civil rights. In this documentary, their spontaneous dialogue is interspersed with early 16 mm video footages and photographs that focus their involvement in Chinatown's first civil rights, the Confucius Plaza demonstrations where Asian Americans were demanding employment as construction workers in1974. Through one woman's participation in the electorial politics and her full participation for Chinatown's residents in NYC society, Margaret Chin runs for City Councilwoman in 1993 for the first time. Presently, in 2010 after her 5th attempt with resilience, persistence and endurance, she has won the election as a City Council representative. The video's soundtrack is synched to Matt Shipp's "By the Law of Music", continuously from tracks 1-13. Matt Shipp is a Lower East Side "avant garde" pianist whose spontaneous creativity is the new jazz of 21st Century. He has performed with Susie Ibarra, Will Parker, Roy campbell, David S. Ware, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell and others.
A panel discussion on gentrification will be presented by Nellie Hester Bailey, Co-founder and Director of the Harlem Tenants Council and Co-founder of Coalition to Preserve Community and Susan L. Yung, artist and member of Chinese Americans against Anti-Violence (CAAAV).
Susan L. Yung
