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RAISING LITERACY, LIFTING COMMUNITIES [Read to Succeed Buffalo (formerly Good Schools for All)] illustrates how low literacy negatively impacts the lives of many Buffalo residents and documents the positive effects had by this organization that works to empower communities by improving literacy. Loren Sonnenberg is a documentary filmmaker who has earned a B.A. in Media Study and an M.F.A. in Media Arts Production from SUNY at Buffalo where he has…
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Produced by Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc. Funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture. Western New York Native American communities are presently attempting…
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Conveying the human dimension of what it takes to make the city work, 'Round the Clock focuses on the struggles of four workers: Betty (Bus Aide) Abraham (Sanitation Worker) Michael (EMT--Emergency Medical Tech) and Annie (Nurses Aide) to obtain a just wage. It relates how the workers and a broad based coalition of activists are fighting back, taking action and working to bring about changes. Produced by the Coalition for Economic Justice Funded…
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With the severe, long-term economic and population decline in Buffalo and the surrounding older suburbs, the housing vacancy rate has rapidly increased. Since 1990 vacancy rate estimates have increased from 10% to as high as 23% — among the highest in the nation. Decent, solidly built vacant older houses become community problems, dragging down communities as targets for vandalism and crime. As they are demolished, though, they leave holes in the…
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WE ARE THE CITY: VOICES FROM THE WEST SIDE provides a portrait of Buffalo’s West Side, its diverse residents and some of the grassroots neighborhood revitalization initiatives implemented by the West Side Community Collaborative, Preservation Buffalo Niagara (formerly known as the Preservation Coalition) and others. As the Communication Arts teacher at the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Jam Vafai has initiated hundreds of students into the…
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CHANNELS – STORIES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER is Squeaky Wheel’s production program which matches documentary filmmakers with grass roots initiatives and groups to document cultural and social movements that significantly impact the Buffalo region, but are underreported by mainstream media. Channels is supported by the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
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