Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square(2022)

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

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."

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square (2022) is a documentary film directed by Kelly Anderson, released on December 24, 2022 with a runtime of 1h 23m. It stars Frances Goldin. Viewers rate it 10.0 out of 10 across 1 ratings.