So goes a nation : lawyers and communities

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Label

So goes a nation : lawyers and communities

Title remainder

lawyers and communities

Statement of responsibility

director, Jacob Bender ; producer, director of photography, Jim Simmons ; executive producers, Joan Vermeulen [and others] ; produced at Sight Effects, Inc

Title variation

Lawyers and communities

Contributor

• Louis Stein Center for Ethics and Public Interest Law
• New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Sight Effects, Inc
• Bender, Jacob
• Graniere, Steve
• Simmons, Jim
• Smits, Jimmy
• Vermuelen, Joan
• Washington, Sharon
• Fordham University, School of Law

Subject

• Workplace Project (Organization)
• Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A
• Community health services -- New York (State) | New York
• Community organization -- New York (State) | New York Metropolitan Area
• Environmental justice -- New York (State) | New York
• Foreign workers -- Services for -- New York (State) | New York Metropolitan Area
• Immigrants -- Services for -- New York (State) | New York Metropolitan Area
• Legal assistance to the poor -- New York (State) | New York Metropolitan Area
• New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• New York Metropolitan Area -- Social conditions
• Public interest law -- New York (State) | New York Metropolitan Area
• Video recordings

Genre

• Video recordings

Language

eng

Summary

Examines three examples of legal assistance to low-income communities in the New York area. The Brownsville Family Health Care Center was established in a poor area of Brooklyn after Paul J. Acinapura, of Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, found a way to fund it. Eddie Bautista and Sam Sue, of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, provided assistance to various communities in Brooklyn to stop the building of environmentally hazardous projects in poor neighborhoods, based on the "fair share" provision of the New York City charter. In Hempstead, Long Island, Jennifer Gordon, founder and executive director of the Workplace Project, and Omar Hendriquez, a labor organizer, helped immigrant workers and got labor laws enforced

Note

Teaching materials to accompany this video are in: Community lawyering : theory and practice : materials for So goes a nation : lawyers and communities / Derek Denckla and Matthew Diller. New York, NY : Fordham University School of Law : New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, c2000

Related

• Community lawyering

Member of

• Fordham urban law journal

Cataloging source

ECB

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Steve Graniere, editor ; Sharon Washington, narrator

PerformerNote

Introductions, Jimmy Smits

Runtime

30

Technique

live action