People's History Podcast

Jacobin

A documentary series about class struggle and movement history. Each season covers one story told from the viewpoint of working-class people.

Episodes

  1. 02/13/2020

    6. False Hope

    Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force. This is the final, sixth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    1h 3m

  2. 01/18/2020

    5. Carson Beach

    In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense while Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a wade-in to protest segregation. This is the fifth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    1h 9m

  3. 01/07/2020

    4. Free Breakfast

    Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point. This is the fourth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    49 min

  4. 12/03/2019

    3. Rent Strike

    Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. This is the third episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    51 min

  5. 11/26/2019

    2. Grove Hall

    Welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed. This is the second episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    49 min

  6. 11/19/2019

    1. Placement

    Mothers at Columbia Point, a new public housing project, organize to try and close the city dump. This is the first episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

    46 min

  7. TRAILER

    “The Point” Trailer

    A story of rebellion and resistance in Boston public housing.

    2 min

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A documentary series about class struggle and movement history. Each season covers one story told from the viewpoint of working-class people.

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