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Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

(Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square)
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Original Title : Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
Time : No data available
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2022
Director : Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph
Writer : Dave Powell
Producer : Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the ...See moreIn 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, a working mother named Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee (CSC) and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world." See less Read more: Plot summary

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