A Movement as Mean as a 'Pit Bull on Crack'
A Movement as Mean as a 'Pit Bull on Crack' The Steel Valley Authority (SVA) evolved from a community coalition that fought the steel shutdowns in the Youngstown-Pittsburgh area in the late 1970s...
...A Movement as Mean as a 'Pit Bull on Crack' The Steel Valley Authority (SVA) evolved from a community coalition that fought the steel shutdowns in the Youngstown-Pittsburgh area in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
...says Tom Croft, SVA director, about the Shenango buyout effort...
...The SVA has developed an array of legal and economic development strategies—including the use of eminent domain— to fight industrial decay in the steel belt and to prevent the destruction of factories, jobs, and the families and communities that rely on them...
...It was a pleasure to see a group that was going to fight like hell for their jobs and community...
...These steel workers, religious and community leaders realized this from the beginning, and waged a campaign so strategic, militant, effective, and broad-based that the powers that be had to get in line rather than take on a movement that was as mean as a 'pit bull on crack.' " —S.C...
...If you lose your job in most industrial towns in this nation, you are not going to be born again as a successful computer operator, and your town is not going to replace the losses...
Vol. 59 • February 1995 • No. 2
