General

All for the Taking: Eminent Domain and Urban Renewal

Thursday, 17 November 2005
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Organizer: Contemporary Museum

This film by George McCollough connects Philadelphia's urban renewal program to the blight removal of the 1950s to show the cycle of harm created by supposedly beneficial programs. There is a nationwide epidemic of using eminent domain, a clause that was originally intended to let the government seize property for public use, but now has been interpreted to allow anyone's property to be all for the taking.

[As part of (Re)living Democracy, a project that turns the Contemporary Museum into a public platform for participation in a discussion on urban and social policies. Focusing on the history of East Baltimore and its current struggle over urban redevelopment, the project and its programs question the unjust system that allows the decision of a powerful few to determine the fate of entire communities.]

Location:
Contemporary Museum
100 West Centre Street

Cost: FREE