Work Groups
Civic Engagement Work Group
Right to the City facilitates cross-region learning and strategizing for organizations who have integrated civic engagement into their work. In all our cities, organizations are building power bases that unite the new urban majority — with millions of immigrants, African Americans, working class and poor people of color, and LGTBQ communities engaging in radical democratic participation and voter organizing. Our member groups use cutting edge technologies, expert data analysis, strategic communications and are innovating new best practices to mobilize voters around issues and policies that are core to their communities. RTC is prioritizing municipal campaigns to develop workable 21st Century solutions through practices such as participatory budgeting, civilian review of local police, and the fight for quality, affordable housing asa defining, basic right. For more information or to join the CE committee contact Luz Schreiber at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eco Justice Work Group
Having a plan for a city that honors and protects nature is a global necessity. When member organizations participate in local actions to build urban gardens, fight for access to mass transit, fight unhealthy or unsanitary living conditions, create food cooperatives and point out racist practices in city development they are struggling to build the world in which they want to breathe and one that is sustainable for people and the planet. The RTC eco-justice work group weaves the focus on ecology and energy alternatives with the lived realities of working class communities and communities of color across issues and regions to develop policies and practices that can help lead to a good, healthy life for all. For more information on ecojustice contact Rachel Laforest This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The goal of the RTC Housing Team is to strengthen and spread anti-displacement and foreclosure organizing amongst RTC groups and beyond; This team is also playing lead at developing and promoting transformative demands that move ownership and control of land and housing from banks to residents and communities at the local, regional and national level. Our foreclosure team is linked to national work on corporate accountability. We have been working with local allies and member groups to facilitate skills shares across the country. For more information contact Tony Romano at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Land/Housing/Foreclosure Work Group
The goal of the RTC Housing Team is to strengthen and spread anti-displacement and foreclosure organizing amongst RTC groups and beyond; This team is also playing lead at developing and promoting transformative demands that move ownership and control of land and housing from banks to residents and communities at the local, regional and national level. Our foreclosure team is linked to national work on corporate accountability. We have been working with local allies and member groups to facilitate skills shares across the country. For more information contact Tony Romano at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
TRANSFORMATIVE DEMANDS COMMITTEE
The purpose of the transformative demands group is to have our member groups develop a document that explains both transformative demands to acquiring land and housing for the public good and define actions that residents can take to confront capitalism and fundamentally change their lives. As stated by Marcuse, "Transformative claims seek to address the underlying systemic causes of inequities and injustices, looking comprehensively at the root causes of a particular problem but also at the systemic and institutional factors that nurture it. Their criteria are first and foremost meeting human needs, only secondarily merit or performance. They seek to meet the criteria suggested above, as to relations of power, depth of analysis, breadth of analysis, and satisfaction of needs. They are system challenging. They may include, in practice, liberal and radical proposals, but argue explicitly that their necessary ultimate goal goes beyond these and must be full transformation."
For more information on the transformative demands team or would like to become a resource ally of Right to the City contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
