  Markemarx Member Username: Markemarx Post Number: 9 Registered: 11-2006 |
Does anyone know how to get a copy of this film? I just read about it in this article, and it sounds interesting. Thanks! | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 84 Registered: 04-2006 |
Wayne State has a copy in the Adamany Undergraduate Library, which I was able to take out using my MichiCard (available at your local library if you're a Michigan resident). I highly recommend the film, by the way. | ||
Wsukid Member Username: Wsukid Post Number: 155 Registered: 06-2004 |
the copy at the WSU adamany undergrad library the last time I checked it was checked in. just check for this or another film ( WSU has alot of Detroit documentaries) at http://www.lib.wayne.edu/ under the catalog then under dvd/vhs | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2006 |
There is a book about the Poletown debacle. I didn't realize the severity of destruction. | ||
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly Post Number: 186 Registered: 04-2005 |
The book is available at WSU and so is the DVD. Poletown Lives is also available at CMU, Kalamazoo College, U of M Dearborn, and other libraries. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3412 Registered: 10-2003 |
This is an outstanding film by my long time friend George Corsetti. Not only is it a socially relevent story of common folk organizing and fighting to save their neighborhood, it is a gripping and touching work of art. I highly recommend it. Today I drove around the faceless GM plant that was placed atop that neighborhood. It is as if it killed all around it, especially the once vibrant Chene street which is arguably the most devastated commercial avenue in the D. A recent MI supreme court ruling ruled that the land acquisition was essentially illegal. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 533 Registered: 04-2006 |
but a federal case at the Supreme Court found it to be okay in the case of Kelo. Takings will forever be a hot topic for the planning community. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4588 Registered: 11-2003 |
This is still before the US Supreme Court as a case in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the name of economic development, the govt. takes your house for a shopping center in the heart of an old city. Ralph Nader tried to stop his favorite industrial corporation, GM. The residents failed terribly against Mayor Coleman Young and Generous Motors. They were trying to save 6,000 Clark St. Cadillac jobs which with new efficencies turned out to be 1,500 jobs. Instead of making the Cadillacs in Detroit, GM has moved production on and off to Lansing, New Jersey, and other places. That's the thanks Detroit really got in the end. GM's abuse of the Beth Olem Jewish Cemetery on that landgrab has been well-documented on The Forum. jjaba. |
