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City Rising is a multi-platform documentary series in partnership with The California Endowment that has examined gentrification — its historical roots, economic role and social consequences. In this season, City Rising investigates informal economies — how workers who labor off the books, sometimes hiding in plain sight, are organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.
City Rising illuminates the journey of California's neighborhoods advocating for responsible development. The documentary series highlights individuals facing discrimination but fighting to change policy and improve upward mobility for their communities. The effects of these movements are far-reaching, and their voices will ultimately impact the social health of communities across the country and beyond.
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City Rising: The Informal Economy
California is the world's fifth largest economy — yet, hiding in plain sight are workers who labor off the books, unprotected and unregulated. Follow four California workers organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.
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City Rising
City Rising
City Rising: Gentrification and Displacement
City Rising shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.
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As an independent contractor, Daniel “Seko” Uaina drives merchandise for some of the largest corporations in the world yet he struggles to make ends meet.
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For decades, many immigrants — primarily women — have been criminalized for supporting their families with street vending income.
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In Eastern Coachella Valley, Santos and Juana Barajas discuss immigration policy that funneled them into low-wage jobs and the challenges they have faced as entrepreneurs.
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In Oakland, where residents are still recovering from the crack epidemic and disinvestment that hit the city in the 1980s, formerly incarcerated residents struggle to establish sustainable careers to sustain their families.
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City Rising: Gentrification and Displacement
This multi-platform documentary shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States. City Rising follows the journey of California communities that are fighting gentrification and features a growing movement of advocates seeking responsible development across the state. People of color who cherish their neighborhood's culture and sense of community are mobilizing against unsustainable rents and other forces that they see are pushing neighbors into homelessness.
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2020-02-01T20:00:00-08:00Link TV
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City Rising
City Rising
Voices of Resilience: Stories from Women Navigating Informal Labor
Many women immigrants are often forced into informal jobs that take advantage of their precarious situation, yet their contributions often go unrecognized and their labor is exploited and undervalued.
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City Rising
City Rising
When Nail Salon Workers Organize, Customers Also Benefit
An organization based out of a community health clinic in Oakland has pioneered the way for safer conditions for nail salon workers.
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City Rising
City Rising
Social Agency: Art, Gentrification and Reclaiming in Northeast L.A. Neighborhoods
"Taking Back the Boulevard,” a new book by Jan Lin, not only documents the current situation in Eagle Rock and Highland Park but it tells a bigger story of the artists and activists that have called Eagle Rock and Highland Park home for over a century.
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Docking Paychecks: The High Cost of Working as a Port Truck Driver
Since April 2014, port truck drivers have held 16 strikes at the L.A./Long Beach ports, often demanding to be reclassified as regular employees.
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The Scale of Informal Labor and Its Impact on the Economy
Measuring the nature and impact of the informal economy is difficult due to the lack of a common understanding of its meaning.
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City Rising
San Diego Nonprofit Feeds the Entrepreneurial Spirit of East African Women
In the heart of San Diego a group of East African women is running catering services to promote entrepreneurship and implement the valuable skills refugees bring to the table.
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Neighborhood Data for Social Change
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County Program Works to Build Economic Stability in Low-Income Communities
L.A. County's Center for Financial Empowerment is working in low- to moderate-income communities to help close the income gap by supporting economically vulnerable residents.
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Early Childhood in Westlake and Silver Lake
How is it that the conditions that children are born into can differ so much between two adjacent neighborhoods?
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Traffic Collisions are a Growing Concern for Pedestrians in Los Angeles
From 2012 to 2016 more than 14,200 pedestrians were injured in collisions on Los Angeles City streets and 439 pedestrians lost their lives.
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Life Expectancy: A Tale of Two South L.A. Communities
The average age of a baby born in Los Angeles County is higher than both the average Californian and the average American. However, average life expectancy alone can be misleading.
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Community Profile: Palm Springs
Palm Springs is a desert resort city known for its warm, year-round temperatures, golf courses, midcentury modern architecture and its palm tree-lined downtown streets.
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Community Profile: Coachella
Originally 2.5-square-miles, the city of Coachella has expanded to over twelve times its original size, and today is home to over 40,000 residents.
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