WAMC Film Program adds Alice Green and Jack McEneny to panel

ALBANY, NY (08/10/2009)(readMedia)-- On Thursday August 20th at 7pm, The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio presents an open panel discussion with film director Craig Saddlemire, renowned criminal justice activist Alice Green, and New York State assemblyman Jack McEneny.

The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio is pleased to announce that this month's Food for Thought screening of the documentary film Neighbor by Neighbor will be followed by an open panel discussion with film director Craig Saddlemire, renowned criminal justice activist Alice Green, and New York State assemblyman Jack McEneny, an Albany favorite. Neighbor by Neighbor documents 5 years of development and community organizing in Lewiston, Maine in response to the mayor's plan to develop a four-lane boulevard across a low-income neighborhood downtown. The project was going to displace 850 people from their homes as well as destroy playgrounds, community gardens, and historic buildings. The film reveals the strategies, the mistakes, the prejudices, the lessons... all of the difficult stuff that makes up the political process - the act of making decisions and setting policy together. For more information, visit http://www.thelinda.org.