Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
September 25 @ 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
$13.64 – $17.84
Film screening at the Architecture & Design Film Festival
Directed by Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, and Ryan Joseph, this documentary film chronicles a trailblazing housing organizer and her diverse working-class neighbors as they fight Robert Moses, the real estate industry, and five mayors to create the first Community Land Trust in New York City—an oasis of permanent low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side.
The director Kelly Anderson with be at the screening for a Q&A with Cliff Pearson after the film.
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 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.”
Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
2022 / 83 min / USA
Directors: Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph
Tickets: $16
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In association with the Architecture & Design Film Festival