On the earth’s surface, a sort of global, slow-motion dance is taking place. Mountains are forming, trenches are opening, oceans are contracting, and the earth’s plates are crashing together and being sucked into the mantle. All of this is difficult to imagine because the earth’s tectonic plates often move slower than fingernails.

But at Gros Morne, a national park and world heritage site in Western Newfoundland, Canada, the effects of this 500-million-year-old geologic dance are palpable. Scientists, able to see how plate tectonics work first-hand through the park’s peculiar rock formations and tablelands, have nicknamed Gros Morne the “Galapagos of Geology.”

In 2010, producers Chris Brookes and Paolo Pietropaolo went to Gros Morne to see and hear about this ancient place. For their award-winning documentary, “Gros Morne: The Bones of the Earth,” Brookes and Pietropaolo explored geologic time and plate tectonics through the sounds and voices they encountered.

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The first season of A People's History comes Tuesday, November 19, 2019.

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Episode 1 of 6. "Placement" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. November 19, 2019. At a new public housing project in Boston, mothers organize to try and close the city dump. Meanwhile, a black freedom movement emerges across Northern cities. 

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode One, "Placement"

Episode 2 of 6. "Grove Hall" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. November 26, 2019. As urban rebellions arise in cities, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode Two, "Grove Hall"

Episode 3 of 6. "Rent Strike" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. December 3, 2019. Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. 

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode Three, "Rent Strike"

Episode 4 of 6. "Free Breakfast" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. January 7, 2020. Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point.

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode Four, "Free Breakfast"

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