[People for Community Recovery #6: Election]
This is a video of local elections in Altgeld Gardens on the South-East Side of Chicago for community positions of power. The main candidates argue outside the election center.
This is a video of local elections in Altgeld Gardens on the South-East Side of Chicago for community positions of power. The main candidates argue outside the election center.
This is a video of an informal meeting of the People for Community Recovery, an environmentalist organization based out of Altgeld Gardens in the Far South-East Side of Chicago.
This is an informal meeting of the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist organization that is based out of the Altgeld Gardens community in the far South-East Side of Chicago. Some of the topics discussed are segregation, racism, changing times, and taking advantage of the poor.
A discussion by the People for Community Recovery, a far South-East Side based environmental activist group, in November of 1992. They talk about problems in their community of Altgeld Gardens.
A rally by the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist group based out of Altgeld Gardens on the South-East Side of Chicago, in the August of 1991.
A rally by the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist organization based in the Altgeld Gardens community, in August of 1991. Notable speakers are Hazel Johnson, the founder of PCR, Father Michael Pfleger, activist Walter “Slim” Coleman, and former Mayor of Chicago Eugene Sawyer.
Video from the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This video features footage from Cabrini activist Marion Stamps’ funeral. Congressman Bobby Rush speaks at the service. Towards the end of the video, there is an interview with a Cabrini resident who had lived in the area since the 1960s.
Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. In this video, Guana Stamps, daughter of recently deceased Cabrini activist Marion Stamps, talks about the importance of after school programs and teen advocacy and awareness for the Cabrini community.