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  Scrapbook: Bank Issue

  Chicago, Politics, Roots of Video

  This video shows the efforts of the Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) to push local financial institutions into investing more of their money in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. It contains a series of segments from 1974, including a session with Gov. Dan Walker, a meeting with the Uptown National Bank, and three newsreels which show the backlash against some local banks, as well as the O.N.E.’s success in negotiating a pact with four of the banks in these neighborhoods.

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  Continued to Death – [Mayor Bilandic at senior center]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  A short documentary about Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.), a community group fighting Chicago’s housing court to keep affordable housing in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, which was facing rapid gentrification. The piece is followed by raw footage of Mayor Michael Bilandic addressing a group of senior citizens about the energy concerns of the city of Chicago.

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  On the Brink of Victory – [ONE interview]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This tape describes the successful tactics employed by the Organization of the Northeast (ONE) and a Land Use Action group fighting for down-zoning laws in the Uptown/Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. It is followed by raw footage of an interview with Mary Gerharty and other representatives from ONE.

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  [Abandoned Buildings in Uptown]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This tape documents abandoned buildings in Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods and discusses the dangers associated with them. Roberta Westmore of One Land Use Action, a subsidiary of the Organization of the Northeast, leads the camera through the various violations at several buildings. This is followed by raw footage of a city hearing on mortgage redlining by local banks in Uptown, and then footage of a tenants meeting.

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  [Chicago Slices raw : Ben Joravsky interviews Candace Howell]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Doug Sawyer, GDDF, NHPRC-2

  Raw footage for the TV program Chicago Slices. In this video, journalist Ben Joravsky interviews Candace Howell at her building in Edgewater, a followup to his 1992 feature on Howell’s success reducing crime in her building.