People's History Podcast: "Rent Strike" (S1E3)
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority.
This is episode three of the first season of a people's history podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.
We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and before we start this episode we just have a couple quick |
| 0:04.8 | announcements one is that we will be going on a holiday break but we'll be back |
| 0:10.3 | with episode four on December 31st and then the second thing we want to let |
| 0:16.5 | you know about is a little something called Patreon and Rosie can you tell me |
| 0:20.9 | a little bit about that? |
| 0:27.0 | So the People's History Podcast is completely listener supported. We've received a grant from Jacobin and from the Economic Hardware reporting project, |
| 0:32.0 | but in terms of future seasons we really need |
| 0:34.6 | our listeners to pitch in so we can keep telling stories about working-class power from |
| 0:39.8 | around the United States. So if you go to Patreon and search People's History |
| 0:43.8 | Podcast you can find us there and you can contribute one, five or ten dollars a |
| 0:48.8 | month. All right so if I contribute five dollars a month what does that get me? So if you contribute $5 a month, what does that get me? |
| 0:54.0 | So if you donate $5, you'll actually get access to our sister podcast, which is called a People's |
| 0:59.1 | anthology. |
| 1:00.1 | And the whole idea of that podcast is to look at key radical texts from the urban |
| 1:05.0 | rebellions of the 1960s and 70s that really relate to what we're discussing in |
| 1:09.8 | this show. So we hope you'll check it out consider donating five dollars and then |
| 1:15.1 | you'll be free to join our little book club where we're looking at people from |
| 1:18.3 | Claudia Jones to a Sata Shoccur to the Cumberhe River Collective. So that's all in our sister |
| 1:23.8 | podcast a people's anthology which you can get on our Patreon. Great and then if you |
| 1:29.4 | subscribe for $10 a month big spend out there, you will get sent to you a, I can say beautiful print |
| 1:37.6 | that our comrades, Cina made. We'll put an image up on the website so you can check us out at people's history pod dot net all right I think that's it |
| 1:47.6 | Let's get going on episode three episode three here we go |
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