Promises to keep

Duration: 56

Year Published: 1987

Creator: Durrin Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This documentary charts the 4-year struggle of activist Mitch Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence to obtain housing for the homeless. Snyder mounted an extended hunger strike on behalf of the poor in Washington DC in order to obtain federal funding for the rehabilitation of a government building as a shelter.