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Thursday December 17, 2009

Op Ed: What's At Stake in Copenhagen?

National - La Paz, Bolivia, where I was born and spent my first 18 years "could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change," according to The New York Times.Read More >

Thursday December 17, 2009

The Big Payback Hits Miami!

Miami - On December 10, 2009, International Human Rights Day, Miami Right to the City and the U.S. Human Rights Network staged a protest against Wachovia Wells Fargo for the bank's role in the mortgage crisis and recovery.Read More >

Wednesday December 09, 2009

RTTC, Movement Generation Send Delegation to Copenhagen Climate Conference

National - As heads of states and social movements call on the US to take responsibility for its devastating impacts on the earth's climate, Movement Generation is preparing to take a delegation of U.S.-based grassroots social movement leaders, including RTTC members to Copenhagen December 12-19.Read More >

Friday December 04, 2009

FDNY, Bldgs. take illegal conversion battle to the street

New York City - New York City is making a new push to curb the number of illegally converted apartments after a series of deadly fires.Read More >

Friday December 04, 2009

The Rebirth of Real Cooperation

DC Metro - When the Arlandria Chirilagua Housing Cooperative took definitive shape in the early 90s after a 10-year organizational effort, its residents hoped to stomp out the evictions, rent increases and utility hikes plaguing the low-income development on the Northeast fringe of the city. As owners of the 282-unit co-op, the tenants - mostly immigrants - and their elected board of directors would control their own rents and voice effectively their opinions related to their home. Thirteen years later, the ACHC has seen internal tumult among its members and between them - specifically members of the board.Read More >

Friday December 04, 2009

Picture the Homeless Takes Aim at Chase Bank

New York City - JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon better watch out this Christmas - the homeless are coming to town. At least 30 homeless and housing activists rallied outside the headquarters of banking giant Chase December 2 to demand that the bank utilize their ownership of vacant property in New York City to create housing for poor people and the homeless.Read More >

Tuesday November 24, 2009

Fleeced by the stimulus?

Miami - Miami's poorer residents have long complained that the city's meager public-transit system makes it harder for them to get to work. So when the Obama Administration announced the $787 billion stimulus plan earlier this year, many hoped some of that money would help fund plans like an expansion of Miami's undersized Metrorail system... But the project, in part because it's not considered as shovel-ready as jobs like existing highway maintenance, isn't getting any of the $15 billion in stimulus aid for Florida, and has been shelved for the time being. To Gihan Perera, that's just one example of how federal and state governments are missing a great opportunity to use the stimulus to aid the poor...Read More >

Monday November 02, 2009

NYC Launches Condo Conversion Campaign

New York City - On October 27, 2009, Right to the City-NYC held a rally and press conference to launch our campaign to convert vacant luxury condos into housing for low-income people and to release some preliminary data from our citywide vacant condo count; the participatory research project we have been working on for the last three months.Read More >

Wednesday October 21, 2009

A One-Track System

DC Metro - After years of criticizing a 'two-track system', Tenants and Workers United finally declares truce with school officials.Read More >

Wednesday October 14, 2009

Video: City Life/Vida Urbana Stages Eviction Blockade

Boston - City Life / Vida Urbana staged an eviction blockade in an attempt to prevent the removal of the Esquivel family from their Roslindale home. Supporters protested Deutsche Bank, calling for the bank to allow the family to purchase their home at appraised value. The bank refused to negotiate, and the family is thrown out.Read More >

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