5.06.04 right to housing, creating housing alternatives

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
Authors: United for a Fair Economy

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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!
Authors: Ivelisse Sanchez

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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
Authors: Kendra Fehrer Ponniah

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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
Authors: Gustavus Myers Center

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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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