Viewing and Discussion with filmmaker and
WNYC Political Reporter Bob Hennelly
St. John’s University’s PARTICIPATE ’12 civic-engagement
initiative presents a viewing of the Academy Award-Nominated
documentary Street Fight followed by a
discussion with the filmmaker, Marshall Curry, and WNYC
Investigative Journalist, Bob Hennelly, on Monday, October 1
at 6:30 p.m. in the Belson Moot Court Room in St. John’s
School of Law.
2012 marks 10
years since the Newark, NJ Mayoral race between then Mayor Sharpe
James and then Council Member Cory Booker. This event will
take a close look at that election and explore the deeper
socio-political issues of race, ethics and campaigning in modern
urban politics, through a viewing and Q&A with Curry and
Hennelly.
Street
Fight, winner of the Audience Awards at the Tribeca,
AFI/Discovery SilverDocs and Hot Docs Film Festivals, chronicles
the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory
Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and
Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of
New Jersey politics. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and
housing projects, the battle pits Booker against an old style
political machine that uses any means necessary to crush its
opponents. Street Fight tells a gripping
story of the underbelly of democracy where elections are not about
spin-doctors, media consultants, or photo ops. Sometimes, we
discover, elections are won and lost in the streets.
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