Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Showings

Firehouse Cinema Fri, Mar 24 7:00 PM
Q&A with Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph and Dave Powell
Firehouse Cinema Sat, Mar 25 12:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sat, Mar 25 2:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sat, Mar 25 4:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sat, Mar 25 6:00 PM
Q&A with Dave Powell, Jasmine Gomez, Tito Delgado and Monxo Lopez
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Mar 26 1:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Mar 26 3:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Mar 26 5:00 PM
Q&A with Dave Powell, Dey Del Rio, Tito Delgado and Monxo Lopez
Firehouse Cinema Mon, Mar 27 5:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Mon, Mar 27 7:00 PM
Q&A with Ryan Joseph, Reeni Goldin and Joyce Ravitz
Firehouse Cinema Tue, Mar 28 2:30 PM
Open Captioning
Firehouse Cinema Tue, Mar 28 4:30 PM
Firehouse Cinema Tue, Mar 28 7:00 PM
Q&A with Kelly Anderson and Ryan Joseph
Firehouse Cinema Wed, Mar 29 1:00 PM
Sensory Friendly
Firehouse Cinema Wed, Mar 29 4:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Wed, Mar 29 7:00 PM
Q&A with Kathryn Barnier and Val Orselli
Firehouse Cinema Thu, Mar 30 4:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Fri, Mar 31 5:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sat, Apr 1 1:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Apr 2 1:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Apr 16 5:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:New Release
Runtime:83 min
Release Year:2022
Production Country:U.S.
Original Language:English
General:$16
Members:$8
Accessibility:Assistive Listening, Hearing Amplification, Closed Captioning
Cast/Crew Info
Directed by:Ryan Joseph, Kathryn Barnier, Kelly Anderson
Produced by:Ryan Joseph, Kathryn Barnier, Kelly Anderson

Description

Post-Screening Q&As: Fri Mar 24 at 7pm with filmmakers Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph and Dave Powell. Sat Mar 25 at 6pm with filmmaker Dave Powell, Jasmine Gomez (former Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association II co-op Board President), Tito Delgado (This Land is Ours CLT) and Monxo Lopez (South Bronx CLT/Cooper Square CLT). Sun Mar 26 at 5pm with filmmaker Dave Powell, Dey Del Rio (New Economy Project/NYC Community Land Initiative, Tito Delgado (This Land is Ours CLT) and Monxo Lopez (South Bronx CLT/Cooper Square CLT). Mon Mar 27 at 7pm with filmmaker Ryan Joseph, Frances Goldin's daughter, Reeni Goldin and President of Cooper Square Committee Board, Joyce Ravitz. Tue Mar 28 at 7pm with filmmakers Kelly Anderson and Ryan Joseph. Wed Mar 29 at 7pm with filmmaker/producer Kathryn Barnier and Val Orselli, This Land is Ours CLT / former Executive Director of Cooper Square. 

 

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."

 

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