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OBAMA CBA

2020 | Micro-doc | 5 minutes
Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition
In Collaboration with Chicago Reader
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Podcast
Article
The Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition of organizations to ensure that the upcoming Obama Presidential Center builds South Side communities and not cause further displacement. Join them in demanding a community benefits agreement!
Five years ago, the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) declared its home on the south side of Chicago; it was presented as an opportunity to “revitalize”the area. Since then, we’ve been engaged in fierce community discussions about the economic impact of the center.

Neighborhoods like Woodlawn, South Shore, and Washington Park have long faced pressures from gentrification, and we’re concerned that the Obama Center has the potential to displace the very residents it hopes to serve.

As longtime and native south-side residents, we wanted our voices heard, so we formed the Obama Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition to ensure that our neighborhoods surrounding the center remain affordable for low-income south siders. Ten thousand Woodlawn residents are at risk of displacement if we do not act. For some, like CBA organizer Kyana Butler, the mere announcement about the OPC was enough to force her to move. Rents are rising in newly renovated and constructed units, which most current renters in this neighborhood cannot afford, and prices of for-sale housing are rising faster than the city average...

—Obama CBA
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Learn more at ObamaCBA.org
Interviewees:
Ebonée Green | Obama CBA Organizer, BYP100
Kyana Butler | Obama CBA Organizer, STOP Chicago
Ashli Giles-Perkins | Obama CBA Organizer, BYP100

Chant and Press Conference Speakers
Kristiana Rae Colón | Let Us Breathe Collective
Sharon Nelson Payne | Obama CBA Organizer, STOP Chicago
Ariel Atkins | Black Lives Matter Chicago
Written, Directed, & Produced by Caullen Hudson
Cinematography by Dakota Sillyman
Edited by Austin C. Pruett
Additional Cinematography by Austin C. Pruett, Caullen Hudson, & Sidnee King
Color Correction by AJ Grimm
Drone Photography by Edwin Diaz
Obama CBA Coordinating Liaison, Laurel Chen​​
Page Photos, Hannah Linsky

Chicago Reader Coverage
This multimedia, cross-platform project was produced in collaboration with the Chicago Reader.

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BrownTown chops it up with Ashli Giles-Perkins and Ebonée Green, organizers with Black Youth Project 100 and the Obama Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) coalition. The gang talks about the effects of the future Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on Chicago's South Side, the organizing for a CBA to ensure affordable housing for area residents, as well as its relationship with healthcare, education, and police violence.

“You can't just roll over Chicagoans. You think you can...but in every neighborhood folks will raise hell until you do right by them."  
EBONÉE GREEN | Obama CBA Organizer, BYP100 Member

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