Please share your thoughts!

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to the film premiere and gallery exhibition opening on Saturday. It was great to reconnect with so many of the project participants! I hope you were able to see the film in the context of the gallery exhibition as well, as both are only parts of the entire Voices of Tracy project.

My hope for this project was to foster a local, regional and even national conversation about the effects of the housing and banking meltdown on real people and real communities. Numbers and statistics don’t tell the whole story. If you saw the film and exhibition, please share your thoughts below. And if you have been affected by the housing crisis and recession, feel free to tell me your story below or contact me directly by email.

apricots_4064_web

Gallery exhibition is shaping up!

Still lots to do, but the work is really coming together. I am so looking forward to the opening on June 8th. Hope you will join me from 6-9pm at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts for the opening of the project, Inhabit Your City: Voices of Tracy. We will premiere the short documentary HOME at 6pm and follow that with an opening for the related gallery exhibition, Fire Sale (Everything Must Go).

See you there!

Fire-sale_4050Everything_4054

 

 

 

 

Saturday, June 8th, 6-9pm
Grand Theatre Center for the Arts
715 Central Avenue
Tracy, CA 95376

All events are free and open to the public. Join us!

Watch the teaser!

I know it has been awhile – I’ve been working hard to get the documentary finished and while not quite done, we are getting really close! In the meantime, I have the teaser to share with you. Hope this will give you a taste of what’s to come.

Home – Teaser from Anné M. Klint on Vimeo.

Mark your calendars! The project opens June 8, 6-9pm at the Grand Theatre in downtown Tracy. Join us for an evening screening and gallery opening, replete with live music, gourmet treats, and libations in celebration of our collaborative effort to capture the Voices of Tracy.

It’s a New Year!

Time for hope? At least San Joaquin County no longer suffers the highest rates of foreclosure in the nation. [SWRNN]

Time for rebuilding? Modesto Bee tells us, since 2006, more than 35,500 San Joaquin County homes have been foreclosed.

Time for outrage?

Since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, the top one percent of Americans have seen their incomes increase by 275 percent. But after accounting for inflation, the typical hourly wage for a worker has increased just $1.23 cents.

Just hours before the fiscal cliff deal’s higher individual tax rates kicked in, Goldman Sachs handed Lloyd Blankfein and his top lieutenants “a total of $65 million in restricted stock,” bonuses awarded a month earlier than usual so they could all beat the coming tax hike from which they have been spared for more than 10 lucrative years. It will not surprise you, I am sure, to learn that “corporations announced more special dividends last month than in any other December since at least 1955.” Doing everything they can to avoid helping pay off the debt their CEOs have been urging Congress to cut.

As for working people, tough luck. Because the fiscal cliff deal ends the cut in payroll taxes, the average worker this year will take home about a thousand dollars less.

Read Bill Moyers’ full essay, The ‘Crony Capitalist Blowout’ here.