A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Original Title:
Our Rights! Our Power! The Right to Counsel
Ratings / Certifications:
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At a moment when the threat of mass eviction is profoundly felt across the country, in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, renters need real protections and real solutions. Follow the grassroots story of how low-income black and brown community members dreamed big, fought hard and eventually won the landmark Right to Counsel (RTC) legislation, guaranteeing tenants the right to a free lawyer when facing eviction in housing court. As the first major city in the U.S. to pass it, this historic victory forever changes the landscape of gentrification, displacement and rampant landlord abuse in New York City. Now, we share our campaign story, our victory and the concrete tools you can use to be able to initiate your own campaign for the Right to Counsel in your city! Watch our film and hear from the community members and organizers, tenant leaders and lawyers who won this Right for New Yorkers. Join our movement for housing justice and tenant power!
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.