Democracy - The Role Of Dissent

Duration: 14 0:14:20

Genre: Educational

Creator: AFL-CIO

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Examines the role of dissent in a society whose institutions often fail to respond to legitimate protest. Focuses on an actual tenant strike in St Louis where dissatisfied tenants meet to discuss what can be done to get the landlord to maintain their building. When petitioning the landlord and picketing fail to get results, tenants meet to discuss a rent strike. A lawyer warns them they could be evicted for withholding rent. The film ends with the group in the dilemma of whether to take the slow, uncertain legal route or conduct a rent strike. Provides a background for discussing the limits of dissent in other problem areas of society., A documentary film regarding the role of dissent in a democratic form of government. Follows the actions of a group of tenants as they explore various channels for the redress of grievances, including a demonstration and the possiblily of a rent strike.

Complete Record: Examines the role of dissent in a society whose institutions often fail to respond to legitimate protest. Focuses on an actual tenant strike in St Louis where dissatisfied tenants meet to discuss what can be done to get the landlord to maintain their building. When petitioning the landlord and picketing fail to get results, tenants meet to discuss a rent strike. A lawyer warns them they could be evicted for withholding rent. The film ends with the group in the dilemma of whether to take the slow, uncertain legal route or conduct a rent strike. Provides a background for discussing the limits of dissent in other problem areas of society., A democracy has legal channels for the redress of grievances. If these seem to fail, are other actions justified? A group of tenants are faced with this question as they demonstrate and consider a rent strike in protest against living conditions in their apartment building., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.