[People for Community Recovery #5]
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 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.
This 9-minute film documents one of the fastest-growing and most effective forces combating climate change: organized grassroots movements. Centering around efforts to overturn California’s historic global warming legislation, the film highlights how community organizations and networks throughout the state played a crucial role in mobilizing the vote in immigrant and low income communities to defeat Proposition 23, making the case that equity-based and community-driven solutions are essential in bringing about the deeper restructuring of societies to confront the climate crisis.
This video documents the Whole Earth Catalog Demise Party held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Creator Stewart Brand organized the event to debate the best use of the twenty thousand dollars profit held by Whole Earth. Various individuals lobby for serious and satirical causes, including Paul Krassner. Followed by a segment with Brand on the Dick Cavett Show.
Skip Blumberg’s video short documenting the Orange County chapter of the SurfRider Foundation, an environmental group dedicated to the conservation of the world’s beaches. Members, many of which are surfers, discuss pollution of the waters and hold a protest against proposed jettys in their area of coastline. Blumberg documents the protest, plus interviews surfers and members of the foundation.