FOCUS: Dennis J Bernstein | Remembering the 12 Gauge Police Eviction of a 67 Year Old Grandmother in the South Bronx
Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
Bernstein writes: "Thirty-two years ago, in 1984, I was teaching media activism in an alternative high school in the South Bronx with filmmaker Chela Blitt. We were getting ready to begin a documentary with the kids on the social, political, and economic reasons why their neighborhood looked more like Hiroshima after the war than a neighborhood in New York City. But instead, we changed gears and produced with the kids the documentary film '12-Gauge Eviction,' which chronicles the close-range gunning down of a 67-year-old, arthritic grandmother named Eleanor Bumpurs."
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Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
Bernstein writes: "Thirty-two years ago, in 1984, I was teaching media activism in an alternative high school in the South Bronx with filmmaker Chela Blitt. We were getting ready to begin a documentary with the kids on the social, political, and economic reasons why their neighborhood looked more like Hiroshima after the war than a neighborhood in New York City. But instead, we changed gears and produced with the kids the documentary film '12-Gauge Eviction,' which chronicles the close-range gunning down of a 67-year-old, arthritic grandmother named Eleanor Bumpurs."
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