Resisting Displacement and Dispossession
The Living New Deal and the Green New Deal in NYC with the Labor Network for Sustainability and other voices
11:15 AM, Room 111
The Living New Deal/New York City, a newly founded organization, serves as a reminder that many of the public works that America depends on today were built by workers who found employment through New Deal programs. Many New Deal projects are still part of the city’s infrastructure. What can we learn from the legacy of The New Deal in New York City, from Parks to Public Housing and Culture? Are there lessons for today’s The Green New Deal and the people’s climate movement?
Panel organizers
Deborah Gardner
Deborah Gardner is the Historian & Curator of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute of Hunter College where she does exhibitions related to the history, public policy, and human rights legacies of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelts, runs a tour program, and assists with public programs. She has taught the history of American urban planning and has a background in historic preservation. She is working with the NYC Chapter of the Living New Deal.
Nancy Romer
Nancy Romer, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, is a developmental psychologist now working on climate movement strategies and mobilization. She is on the Administration Team of People's Climate Movement-NY, the Environmental Justice committee of her union (Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, AFT local 2334), Divest NY and the national Labor Network for Sustainability. She was a founding member of the DSA National Ecosocialist Working Group and a member of DSA-NYC Ecosocialists. She has worked as a union organizer, campus political spark plug and developer of arts-based services for teens at Brooklyn College.
Tom Angotti
Tom Angotti is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Editor, with Sylvia Morse, of Zoned Out: Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City and New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate. Tom has been active in community and environmental justice movements in the city.