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Retrospective: Un-American Activities 2025

Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

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Self-organized solidarity communities: The New York squatter movement fights to prevent the poorer population sections from being driven out of the lucrative areas in Manhattan.
Filmstill Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
Filmstill Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
Newsreel
Retrospective: Un-American Activities 2025
Documentary Film
USA
1971
41 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
“Why should I move? I was born here.” While a senseless war is waged in Vietnam and million-dollar rockets are shot to the moon, there is not enough decent housing in New York – and worse, the poor are being forcibly evicted from their homes, says an angry protagonist of this activist film which introduces the New York squatter movement. Latin Americans in particular are forced to leave the lucrative Manhattan housing market, but the protesters do not accept this without putting up a fight. “Break & Enter” is a spontaneous and encouraging film document about self-organised communities based on solidarity.
Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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