The Fire This Time Trailer

On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old man. In a not uncommon travesty of justice, the New Jersey Seven, as they came to be called, were sent to prison for defending themselves. The Fire This Time tells the story of the seven womens trial and prison sentences, and the years-long fight by relatives and activists to get the women released. Along the way, the film reveals in devastating detail how the media, homophobia, and racism all work together in American culture to stigmatize and victimize gay people of color.

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[kamichisolm]

this makes me so angry. these women defended themselves from a man harassing them and they end up with sentence of more than a decade while rapist and murders of children get slapped on the wrists. I am sorry but as a white man, I know that the most dangerous people are the one with power, men, people with money and white privilege. These women are no threat to anyone but sexist, racism homophobic people that want queers, women and people of color destroyed.

[smandisa85]

YES!!!! While Im not happy that this incident (sadly its too common) happened to my sistahs, I AM happy about this documentary!

[aliciabanks]

shame!!!

and those killers amanda k and casey a are free...

shame!!!!!!!

[sigmund30]

He was just mad he got his ass whipped by the women...and I am praying for the NJ4...I hope that god gives them the strength to pull through this.,

[FinalJusticeMovement]

OK, Rick. Stay cool.

And be careful out there.

--The Final Justice

[FinalJusticeMovement]

Rick, The women are HOMOSEXUAL. Furthermore, they are EXTREMISTS who OPENLY express their hatred for MEN. This means that ANYTHING a straight man says or does will trigger a discomfort to them. Now, myself -- I don't hate anyone. But if you know ANYTHING about the radical feminist movement, you'll find that homosexualism is one of their greatest weapons of the gender war. It's in our media, it's in our music, it's everywhere. Beyonce, for instance, is the most famous man-hater in R&B. --FJ

[Hillfam357]

@FinalJusticeMovement Well this is me movin on right now PEACE!!!!

[FinalJusticeMovement]

THAT'S the point, Rick. Childbirth is a special and BEAUTIFUL THING but it could never happen without a MAN'S SEED. It flows through a woman, yes -- but it could NEVER happen without a man (whichever way it happens.  As far as how woman are "nurturing", what do you fell about women who scut their responsibilities and only procure children NOT for the love of a man, but to obtain INCOME on a man's dime? Why do men talk to women? Because MEN LOVE WOMEN. They should be together. (TBC) --FJ

[Hillfam357]

@FinalJusticeMovement Because some man probably did something to them to trigger a discomfort for them. Duhh.WHy the fuck you straight ? Because you hate gays so much.? You see how smart that sounds. Why does a white person marry a black person? because they hate white people? Your a Hate errrrrrr!! You seem to know alot about what a fem is like so i'm thinking maybe your ready to come out yourself. The closet that is.

[Hillfam357]

@FinalJusticeMovement Yep i sure will because a woman is the one that goes thru hell to nurture us MEN! They endure the pain of labor so that we can live on this planet. I don't believe everything a women says but i give her the benefit by listening.to what she has to say. Without a women you wouldn't exist. And by the way my sister went to jail just like any man would have. To this day men try to talk to her girl in her face. Who's gonna stop them? NOBODY WILL!!!