Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Check out this free screening of 'Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square' tomorrow night

Tomorrow (Thursday) night, there's a free screening of "Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square" on Fourth Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery. (This block is part of the official Open Streets program just on Thursday evenings.) 

The documentary tells the story that led to the creation of the Cooper Square Community Land Trust:
A trailblazing housing organizer and her diverse working-class neighbors fight Robert Moses, the real-estate industry and five mayors to create the first Community Land Trust in New York City — an oasis of permanently low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side.

Read more about the film here.  


There's a pre-film discussion starting at 7:45... with "Rabble Rousers" starting at 8:30 p.m. 

Goldin died in May 2020 at age 95.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Frances Goldin is less well-known than her counterpart Jane Jacobs, but ought to be broadly remembered.

Anonymous said...

Living here, I’m always conscious of the fact that I’m just one beneficiary of the legacy of all those who fought this fight. And Frances…well she’s our patron saint.