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April 17, 2010
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, APRIL 17th Fightin' Freddy's night ~ Screening of FBR Eminent Domain Standoff at 8 pm!!!
Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse
Freddy's is located at:
485 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY
That's the corner of Dean Street and 6th Avenue in Brooklyn.
This Saturday, April 17th, Nick Shimkin of the Kings County Cinema Society will be hosting a Fightin' Freddy's night with readings, live music, short films, and a midnight movie…
As part of the Fightin' Night Freddy’s Brooklyn Roundhouse will screen it’s latest TV show that covers the eminent domain protests at Freddy’s from the last several months.
Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse (FBR) was conceived at Freddy’s bar as a BCAT and MNN public access TV show in March 2006. The show’s purpose has always been to provide a forum for the community’s voice, which had no say in the Atlantic Yards project in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and to win the fight to demand community input for the local Brooklyn neighborhood, businesses and residents, and to stop dubious, wasteful, & unsustainable over-development and eminent domain abuse. For the past 5 years FBR has strived to turn the train of eminent domain around by focusing on community leaders, artists, musicians and activists from Brooklyn all against Atlantic Yards. Roundhouse refers to a circular building for housing and switching locomotives, and lent itself nicely to the community’s desire to turn things around. Since its conception FBR has grown to cover other local & national issues threatening everyone’s civil liberties. Issues range from the use of Special Administrative Measures (SAM’s) to incarcerate and torture U.S. citizens here in NYC, to corporate industrial threats to our water supply; bridging borough, city-wide and national topics that infringe upon everyone’s constitutional rights and threaten our communities placing these topics into local historical context and tunneling into action.
We hope you will join us this Saturday as we celebrate Freddy’s bar and give thanks to our media endeavors that sprang from Freddy's wondrous backroom. Whatever happens, Freddy's Bar and the Fightin' Freddy's will continue to fight against the corruption that has come to Prospect Heights.
Posted by steve at April 17, 2010 8:12 AM