Saving Midtown: San Francisco Renters on Strike
This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.
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Brandon Jourdan is a filmmaker and journalist who has contributed to Democracy Now!, the NY Times, CNN, Reuters, Deep Dish TV, Independent Media Center, Now with Bill Moyers, Foreign Exchange, and Free Speech TV. Since 2011, he has worked together with Marianne Maeckelbergh on globaluprisings.org, a documentary series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis and authoritarianism. Together they have produced over 20 short documentary films covering the large-scale uprisings, occupations, protests and revolutions in Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Greece, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and the United States.
This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.
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