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Sep
25
2012

Video Recaps of the LA Urban Congress

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Video Recaps of the LA Urban Congress
Our recent LA Congress was a huge success. Over 150 delegates attended the Congress, including RTC member delegates from across the country, reps from allied organizations, LA community members, unions, and resource allies. Over two days we exchanged organizing models, educated each other on the political conditions in LA and around the country and movement strategies needed to build the cities of our dreams, and we mobilized in the streets fighting to save our homes from Fannie Maw and putting an end to the MTA's  transit development that displaces low income families and destroys neighborhoods. To learn more about what happened at the LA Congress, watch these fantastic video recaps of each day! Hope you can join us at future congresses! VIDEOS: Day 1 Recap: Day 2 Recap: DISCUSSION & PANEL WITH PROFESSOR DAVID HARVEY: A major highlight of our recent Urban Congress in LA was a special discussion and panel with esteemed scholar   and author of Rebel Cities: from Right to the City to Revolution, Professor David Harvey. The panel also featured Right to the City founders Gihan Perera, Gilda Haas, and Leonardo Vilchis as well as Florian Hohenstatt from Right to the City Hamburg, Germany. The discussion focused…
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Apr
26
2012

Hands off Our Homes Urban Congress on Foreclosure Organizing

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Hands off Our Homes Urban Congress on Foreclosure Organizing
Right to the City Alliance is sponsoring a one-day URBAN congress to help expand foreclosure organizing to new cities/communities, strengthen it where it exists and deepen partnerships between community groups, labor and the OCCUPY movement. The panels and workshops will address the following: Basebuilding--creating a mass based membership organizations led by residents directly affected by foreclosure and displacement Leadership Development—developing skills and consciousness of directly affected residents Mass Resistance Strategies/Tactics—ie. eviction blockades, mortgage fraud detection Legal Strategies/Tactics Regional and Statewide Power—developing regional strategy and bases that coordinate Demand Development—developing transformative demands to win community control of housing and land PRESENTERS: Right to the City member groups (City Life/Vida Urbana-Boston, Causa Justa/Just Cause-Bay area), OCCUPY groups (including Greensboro and Atlanta), and Common Good. WHEN: Thursday, May 10 from 9am to 5pm WHERE: Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel, 3315 Scott Futrell Drive, Charlotte NC 28208 (Website: http://bit.ly/K1VQw9) If you have questions, contact Tony Romano at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 404.593.5227 Foreclosure organizing has been spreading like wildfire. Across the country, action and consciousness are on the rise. Now, tens if not hundreds of thousands are engaged in struggle. As the economic and political crises continue, there are two critical needs in our movement: 1) To…
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