Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square poster

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

10.0(1)20221h 23m1

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, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee 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."

Share WhatsApp Telegram
Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
—
Language
English
  • gentrification
  • urbanism

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Where to watch

Availability for United States. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

Stream

  • OVID logoOVID

Videos

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere24 Dec 2022

Frequently asked questions

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square was released on 24 December 2022.

Member reviews

Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

Member comments

0

Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

More like this