If you get WGBH "World" channel on cable, can I recommend a program on NOW

[Bluebear]

"Flag Wars"

Shot over four years, this film, by Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, is a poignant account of competing economic interests between two historically oppressed groups seen through the politics and pain of gentrification.

Although the setting could be anywhere — a city center with a formerly middle-class black community that is now economically depressed and being gentrified — Flag Wars takes place in the Olde Towne East neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, where the working-class black residents fight to hold on to their homes while gay home buyers see the enormous, run-down homes as fixer-uppers.

The inevitable clashes expose prejudice and self-interest on both sides as well as the common dream to have a home to call your own. Both provocative and elegiac, Flag Wars is a candid portrait of privilege, poverty, and local politics taking place across America.

This film originally screened at the 2003 Provincetown International Film Festival.

[AlCzervik]

1. i saw that about a year ago, interesting program

[Bluebear]

2. I love P.O.V....I wonder if PBS will continue it with their new leader n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. i think so, i hope so

[knowbody0]

4. thank you for this

[Bluebear]

5. Pleasure!