We Are All Workers: Episode 1 - The Seeds of Change

[TGNolan01]

I hardly ever watch ifc with the stupid commercials anymore, I used to watch it all the town..no more,

[toyoda4life]

I hate levi becuz of these videos. Step up levi.

[toyoda4life]

levis a d bag.

[kd5lpr]

watching the entire series it gives me a drive to go check it out i may wanna move there its kinda calling me i watch the videos and i catch myself sayn or thinkin i wish i was there

[gunnargerhardt]

@kd5lpr I feel ya.

[DeuceMP2]

If Levi's really wants to help Braddock out they can stop shipping jobs overseas, rebuild one of the ruined factorys and open a plant in town for the people of Braddock to work in. Levi's is full of shit.

[spudoe]

Levi's moved all their plants to Mexico.

[WAQWBrentwood]

To continue my last post... Remember Talbot Towers? It was a 1950s attempt to rebuild and area that officials described as "the worst slum in AlleghenyCounty" in less than 20 years ITSELF was a SLUM! (it is now gone...) Wilmerding is just a few miles from Braddock and it lost IT'S ONLY industrial plant decades ago and it does NOT look like Braddock. WTF??? P.S. Find some pictures of Braddock from the 60's and 70's Not Much difference (More abandoned buildings were still standing then though)

[WAQWBrentwood]

Union Busting efforts of Reagan??? What steel mill did Braddock lose? The Edgar Thompson plant is one of only two basic steel plants in Allegheny County! (Though technically in North Braddock, E.T. is the mill that made Braddock a Steel Town.) It is a UNION shop. Braddock has been decining in population since 1939. Look it up. Reagan was 28 then. Also Socialist efforts at "re-making" Braddock (and Rankin) since the 1940s have failed!

[DeuceMP2]

@WAQWBrentwood your comment fails since it is completely baseless and non sensical.

[WAQWBrentwood]

@DeuceMP2 Your response fails as you did not specify the comment. As was said in the DOS days: Abort,Retry Fail?

[DeuceMP2]

@DeuceMP2 I guess I meant all your comments fail then. Failure.

[toyoda4life]

this looks my downtown. wheres are support?

[WAQWBrentwood]

@toyoda4life Support??? Don't Drive a "Toyoda"-----

[elpoo]

Hmm Leivs is trying to SELL JEANS by evoking a past it helped to destroy by outsourcing its production. Brilliant!

[szwarc47]

@Jbikeo what do you know poor people live in poor neighborhoods how many of those steel workers live in braddock opinion is the lowest form of knowledge

[WAQWBrentwood]

@szwarc47 I never did an acedemic study of this so this is based on people I know who were steelworkers: After WWII steel workers under better contracts left Braddock and bought houses in better places (at the time) like Swissvale or Braddock Hills. Besides Braddock Itself never got that many taxes from ET as it is mostly in North Braddock. Mostly what was left were service workers and when the SHOPPING left, Braddock was over. I would blame malls before mills for Braddock.

[phillycat26]

I just finished reading "up from the furnace" about the 1st 50 years of the braddock steel mills. it was awesome. This town still looks like it can be something. it's still beautiful in its own way.. i'd love to go there and open a Isleys again. :) Good luck Braddock!

[ppazz1101]

@Jbikeo -- Don't speak to things that you don't know about. Both of my parents are from Braddock. My Dad was one of the men that was laid off when the mills closed. Not all people from Braddock that worked in the mills worked at ET. Many worked at mills around the area. Both of my paps were retired already when the mills closed, but my Dad worked at USX in McKeesport. The decline of the steel industry definitely had a major role in turning Braddock into what it is today.

[americansailorman]

Yeah wonderful! How 'bout building some factories in Braddock and stop making all your "American" classics in f'n Mexico.

Libraries and Community Centers are wonderful for people that are employed and don't have to worry about paying the bills!

Yeah, I'm not impressed!

[executiveassistant07]

S Bronx (NYC) had gone down hill at one point, and look at it now. The South Bronx is still building multi-million dollar renovation projects (many places just tore down the falling apart abandoned buildings that were there for years, some since the 70's, and replaced or replacing with new apartments, condos, college, retail stores, etc.,) but America has to start MAKING THINGS AGAIN stop the slave labor in 3rd world countries for these large corporations and/or shipping our jobs overseas,

[ocealot2]

The street with the brown skin little girl and lady that's 7th street!That used to cut hair in that store they they close down for years then open to a regular store then close back down!Bagley cleaners was ok!The store next to it was a antic shop!Golden treasure was a bread making place and the one next to it too i think!The steel mill sucks pollution!5th avenue bar made good food!!The things about braddock drugs killed that place!If braddock comes back people will do the same again!

[ocealot2]

That street willow used to be a good street!That guy that sitting in the chair is name Herk!He like birds and chickens i knew him since i was a kid!Hamilton was a very good street to live on!Braddock news was a good store things was always cheap!The store next to it used to be good too they close down in the year 95 or 96 people was rude to the owner she was call her name was sue she was chinese!Brandy wines was nothing about selling drugs, there isn't nothing good about that bar!

[Reginers521]

Hey my dad and pap are in this!!!!

Its so crazy seeing places that i know on youtube lol.

[wedontneedaclipnow]

@MrLaguy99 When we say "the young people" we mean the people who are now 70 or DEAD. The steelworkers moved out. It's the same story. The middle class became the middle class, moved, and left the underclass. The underclass remains. The boom period was actually in the 50s. The closure of the steel mills has very little to do with the decline in population but alot to do with infrastructure destruction.

[MrLaguy99]

@wedontneedaclipnow What about the union-busting efforts of Reagan and the passage of NAFTA in 1994? That enabled corporations to ship all their manufacturing overseas. I'm not so sure the middle class is to blame. 

[wedontneedaclipnow]

@MrLaguy99 The steel mill still exists in Braddock and it's represented by USW 1290. When people talk about "The closure of the mills" they refer to the majority of the Pittsburgh system- Homestead was the most iconic and biggest hit. The real irony of all of this is that when the mills organized in the 1880s the only one they COULDNT get was Braddock. The workers worked in solidarity with the homestead strikers though. Check out the book "The Point of Pittsburgh."

[cashmonkey9]

@wedontneedaclipnow i have to disagree, when the rest of the mills closed, the railroads, truckinmg, and every other industry suffered, look at mcckeesport, homestead and duqeunse(spelled wrong) they are ghost towns, high taxes, shitty roads, high crime, housesw falling over because there is no reason to repair them. the mills were the heart of the whole valley. if hte mills were still open, those areas wouldnt be crappy ghettos like htey are.i lived in braddock and mckeesport before they sucked