5.06.04 right to housing, creating housing alternatives

Fighting Repression with Love: The Traumatic Effects on Women who Speak Out

Vote Poster

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Instead of addressing the issues that the women are protesting about, the government has responded by using brutal force and attacking anybody who engages in peaceful demonstrations and protests, even peaceful ones.

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Road Test: NY Activists Create a New Poor People's Campaign

Bushwick, NY, February 2008. A protest against a negligent landlord. PHOTO: Make the Road New York
Authors: Melony Swasey

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Make the Road New York is admired for its consensus-based, collective decision-making, an intensive process that builds strong, trusting relationships, leadership, and shared agreement among members.

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Foreclosed: State of the Dream 2008

Cleveland, OH, March 2008. Activists with the East Side Organizing Project took part in a direct action at the suburban home of a regional vice president of Countrywide Financial. ESOP demands that the company take responsibility for predatory loans made

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The rich are getting richer, the middle class and poor are struggling to make ends meet, and the racial wealth divide continues to keep race a mark of division in the United States.

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Remembering Tony Henry And a Generation of Leaders

Tony Henry, 1989. PHOTO: American Friends Service Committee
Authors: Keith Harvey

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We need to remember that the dream was not just Dr. King's, but belongs to the many, many people who gave their time, their energy -- even their lives -- to achieve this powerful vision.

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Ending the Cycle of Violence: Reforming Discriminatory Criminal Record Laws

CORI Reform Now!

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By depriving ex-cons of opportunity, current laws promote crime.

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Reconfiguring Democracy: Venezuela's New Communal Councils Confront Bureaucracy

Demonstrators

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Democracy means participation.

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Ex-Offenders Strive to Regain Voting Rights

Andres Idarraga
Authors: Ivelise Sanchez

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Myers Book Award Celebrates Social Justice

Myers Book Award Celebrates Social Justice

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From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

Promoting Marriage to Cure Poverty?

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Authors: Jean Hardisty

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Rather than a benign intervention, federally funded marriage promotion is ideologically-driven experimentation with the lives of low-income people.

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Nonviolent Uprising in Nepal Restores Democracy

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Authors: Alyson Lie

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Nepalese "security" services killed 17 people and injured over 6000 during the uprising. Yet pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the streets each day in larger and more diverse numbers.

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