logo

Home

Movies

TV shows

Sign In

HOMEMOVIESTV-SHOWSABOUTWATCHLIST
homemoviestv-showsaboutwatchlist

Powered by

TMDB website logo

© 2025 Filmverse

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

12/24/2022

|

1hr 23min

|

Documentary

STORY

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."

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Frances Goldin

    Directors

  • Kelly Anderson
  • Ryan Joseph

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Frances Goldin

Self

Videos

movies like Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Koolhaas Houselife

Koolhaas Houselife

The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs 2

Mike's New Car

Mike's New Car

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Return to Never Land

Return to Never Land

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Rio

Rio

How to Train Your Dragon 2

How to Train Your Dragon 2

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Toy Story

Toy Story

Meet the Parents

Meet the Parents

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Fast & Furious

Fast & Furious

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love

Lucy

Lucy

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Fast & Furious 6

Fast & Furious 6

The Lion King

The Lion King