Movie Details
Original Language:Spanish
Production Companies:Shelterforce La Casa De Don Pedro Newark Media Works
Roofs and Rights
21 minDocumentary
Plot
In the late 1980s Shelterforce produced a series of films around housing justice and tenants rights One of the movies in that series was Techos y Derechos Roofs and Rights a Spanishlanguage film on tenant organizing and tenants rights featuring the stories and experiences and victories of tenants in Newark and Jersey City New Jersey Produced in partnership with La Casa De Don Pedro and Newark Media Works and directed and filmed by Tami Gold the short documentary was aired on Spanishlanguage TV stations to encourage tenants to understand and stick up for their rights Despite the film being over 30 years old the problemsand the solutionsfeatured in it will be quite familiar to anyone who works in tenant organizing
