Organizing

 
Radio Tlacuache habló con Carlos Garcia, un organizador con Puente y ALTOARIZONA.COM sobre la ley SB 1070 que criminaliza la comunidad latino e inmigrante en el estado de Arizona. Esta ley ha producido muchas propuestas similares en various estados incluyendo Pennsylvania. Garcia nos explica que los problemas que esta enfrentando el estado no viene de inmigracion y que este ley es un reacción que "va a causar mas problemas" para el estado.

En el 2 de Febrero, grupos de imigrantes, trabajadores y gente de fé se juntaron para demandar el apoyo de una reforma migratoria del Congresista Robert Brady.  El escuchó el grito del pueblo y ya llego el momento para traer el mensaje a la capital de este país,  Washington DC.
 
El pueblo de Filadelfia y el region va a unirse con 80,000 de personas este Domingo en Washington DC para demandar que el Congresso de los EEUU reforma este sistema migratorio quebrado. 
 

A delegation of security guards and supporters were turned away from the staff entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art without achieving their goal: delivering a letter to the office of CEO, Gail Harrity.

See previous video and news about Security Guard Struggle at PMA here.

When 200 residents of the Lindley Court Apartments in Logan lost their homes with two hours’ notice on Saturday, June 21st, the building' fire alarm system didn’t work, raw sewage festered in the basement, putrid garbage piled up atop overflowing dumpsters, and there was no water because the copper pipes had been stolen.

Demonstration/Rally in Harlem Against Displacement & Gentrification

Saturday, June 21, 2008

HARLEM TENANTS COUNCIL, Inc.

21 West 130th Street New York, NY 10030

Email:Harlem tenants@gmail.com

Contact: Nellie Hester Bailey 646-812-5188

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Movement for Justice in El Barrio in Philadelphia for two special events.

The East Harlem based organization of Mexican immigrants will link their local antigentrification work to the larger global struggle for dignity and against neoliberalism. The presentation will feature short videos documenting the dialogue between Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio and the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) who send a message to those struggling for justice all over the world and include a special message for historically marginalized peoples.

By A Concerned Relation

I got a email invite last week for the offices of the State representative network. I stopped by and slide down to Clark park as well, here is some thoughts.

So, now that the brew pub is open at 50th and baltimore it had occured to me that maybe now was the right time to write this letter. When you go and sit around all day outside the satellite coffee shop, do you ever think about your role in gentrification? I cannot help but ask this question because sometimes I pass by and I see what to my eye looks like a white settler occupation beachhead down there across from cedar park, with an increasing number of white homeowners within a one block radius and perhaps more disturbingly, Penn students/employees buying houses up to 52nd street with school subsidies.

I remember a time not that long ago when it seemed like there was a conversation going on in West Philly about gentrification and how to organize against what was about to go down... and then people seemed to stop being engaged, maybe they got busy or something. Well, while you were having fun and going to dance parties, guess what happened?

Community organizations and public housing residents from across the nation, along with Miami Workers Center and Power U Center for Social Change, stormed the Housing Agency of New Orleans (HANO) office at around 12:30 PM today. The organizations we are acting in solidarity with displaced residents of New Orleans public housing.

HANO, under federal HUD leadership, has fenced off four public housing projects and will not let people return to their homes even though the units were not damaged by the storm two years ago.