It is extremely disappointing that Congress has chosen to pass deep cuts to crucial federal low-income housing programs (-3.8 billion). Yet, perhaps the biggest letdown is, at the same time, the increase in funding for problematic programs that demolish and ultimately lead to the privatization of permanently affordable housing. One of these programs, the Rental [...]
Continue Reading →Chicago News Cooperative, Don Terry, Dec. 1, 2011
Even if the winds of winter blow the Occupy Chicago protesters and percussionists off the corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard, civil disobedience is not going into hibernation.
A coalition of community organizations, including Occupy Chicago and Occupy the Hood Chicago [...]
Continue Reading →Reflections with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing on More Than a Roof’s Launch, Crackdowns on Dissent & the Struggle to Be Heard in Vermont
On October 21st, 2011, NESRI attended the side event of the 66th United Nations General Assembly on the Right to Adequate Housing. The event was hosted [...]
Continue Reading →National civil and human rights organizations with a long collective history of defending the right of political expression and challenging the targeting of movement leaders submitted the following appeal letter to the Los Angeles City Attorney on behalf of Mr. Steve Richardson, a community organizer with the LA Community Action Network (LA CAN) based in [...]
Continue Reading →Max Rameau on the Baltimore Occupy movement and taking back the land (click to listen on Free Speech Radio News)
Tue, 10/18/2011 – 14:45 – Occupy encampments continue across the country, including in Baltimore, where over the weekend Pan-African theorist Max Rameau gave a teach-in and addressed the General Assembly. Rameau is an organizer [...]
Continue Reading →Auctioneer: Hold All The Sales Right Now!:
Singing Community Members Occupy Auctions in Brooklyn court; 9 activists arrested
Calling on the judicial system to institute an immediate moratorium on all foreclosures until a fair system of home loans is put into place, a group of New York City housing justice advocates disrupted the auction [...]
Continue Reading →This past summer members of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) out of Philadelphia, PA traveled the country alongside PBS broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West on a Poverty Tour of the United States.
Yesterday, October 10th PBS’ Tavis Smiley began broadcast the fruits of this outing in a five-part documentary series called [...]
Continue Reading →“I am aware that there are many who wince at the distinction between property and persons – who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It [...]
Continue Reading →At the CHA Board of Commissioners’ meeting today, local public housing residents and advocates repeated over and over two messages: lease up vacant public housing units and stop one-strike evictions!
The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign demanded amnesty from one-strike for public housing residents (one strike = zero tolerance regulations that allow the housing [...]
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