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Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build

A film screening and conversation with Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian.

Throughout the 1970s, while fires consumed the South Bronx, Black and Puerto Rican residents were blamed for the devastation even as they battled daily to save their neighborhoods. In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our city, and offering hope to communities on the brink today. Learn more about the film at decadeoffire.com.

This conversation following the film screening features filmmaker, organizer, and educator Vivian Vázquez Irizarry; Fitzroy Christian, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) organizer; Marc Dones, anti-racist educator and anthropologist; and Gregory Jost, a Bronx-based researcher and affordable housing organizer.

Recorded November 11, 2019 at Barnard College, NYC.

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