Free the River Park
The film explores a neighborhood's ultimately victorious efforts to create and preserve at grade access to the Schuylkill River Park despite the adamant objections of the CSX Railroad. The short documentary film chronicles the protracted grass-roots fight against CSX and their effort to block the community's access to the Schuylkill river. It serves to inspire and instruct other organizations on how to successfully wage network-centric organizing campaigns to improve and protect their own communities.
- Runtime
- 15m
- Released
- 2008
Details
Release year: 2008
Storyline
The film explores a neighborhood's ultimately victorious efforts to create and preserve at grade access to the Schuylkill River Park despite the adamant objections of the CSX Railroad. The short documentary film chronicles the protracted grass-roots fight against CSX and their effort to block the community's access to the Schuylkill river. It serves to inspire and instruct other organizations on how to successfully wage network-centric organizing campaigns to improve and protect their own communities.
Top credits
- Darrell Clarke — Philadelphia City Councilman
- Bill Goetz — CSX Resident Vice-president
- Kevin E. Gruenfeld — Co-founding president Philly Runners
- Babette Josephs — State Representative