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Denver, Colorado


Just one week until the Right to Housing Summit..!!
Register for Free Here!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/right-to-housing-summit-tickets-54769926324

(unlike the Mayor's Housing Summit - this summit is free cause people who can't afford housing can't afford tickets to housing summits..!)

Check in on facebook Here!
https://www.facebook.com/events/310847262874342/

February 2nd 2019, 1pm-5pm
Red Line Gallery (2350 Arapahoe St)

Announcing Key Note Speaker Steve Diaz!!

Steve Diaz has been a Community Organizer with the
Los Angeles Community Action Network
since 2003. Steve was recruited into LA CAN when he was living in a residential hotel in Skid Row, experiencing the issues that people dealing with poverty face daily. Since 2003, Steve has worked on campaigns to prevent displacement, civil rights abuses of house-less people, and The California Homelessness Bill of Rights campaign. Steve knows what it means to fight for housing as a right.

Announcing Full Summit Line Up!!

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Los Angeles, California

The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and the Los Angeles Community Action Network invite you to attend Part 1 of the HOUSING JUSTICE IN #UNEQUALCITIES CONFERENCE.

The Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network (BCS 1758774) is funded by the National Science Foundation and brings together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examines established and emergent practices of housing justice. In doing so, it consolidates housing justice as a field of inquiry and sets the stage for future research in geography and urban studies.

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See Event on facebook

Portland, Oregon

WRAP members, Right 2 Survive and Sisters of the Road, have been part of an exciting coalition to fight against a proposed BID in Portland's Central Eastside. Coalition members have proposed an alternative Compassionate Change District. Council we be voting on whether or not to approve the proposed BID on February 6th.

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San Francisco, California

Join us February 5 | 3:00pm San Francisco City Hall #bidsdestroyourcommunities
STOP the Corporate takeover of Downtown San Francisco
see event on facebook

 

I'M BIG... I'M BAD... I'M A BID!

Patrolling and controlling our public spaces- sidewalks, streets and parks- Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are privatizing our downtowns and main thoroughfares. Our public spaces are becoming corridors and shopping centers that are welcoming consumers with open arms and excluding everyone else. Most particularly impacted by this emerging trend are the houseless communities, who are seeing these areas to rest and sleep, free from harassment and criminalization, shrink.

BIDs have been growing significantly across the United States. In California, BIDs have grown exponentially since the passage of the Business Improvement District Law of 1994, which expanded their budget, autonomy and authority. One hundred eighty-nine BIDs have been identified in 69 California cities surveyed. What began as a way to supplement public services within geographically defined boundaries has turned into massive beasts with large budgets, controlling public space and being significantly funded with tax dollars with little to no oversight.

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Oakland, California

Public Hearing on Policing in the Homeless Community
Saturday, February 16
1:00 - 4:00
1188 12th St. (x Adeline St.) Oakland, CA.

Tambien en Espanol , click aqui >>>>>>>

San Francisco, California

Keep the Redstone Labor Temple a Community Center!

For more than a century, the Redstone Labor Temple has served as a hub for organizations that advocate for economic and social justice in San Francisco. Built in 1914 by the San Francisco Labor Council, over the next 50 years the building was the focus of labor history. It was an epicenter of organizing for the San Francisco General Strike in support of the West Coast Longshore Workers' Strike of 1934, and home to the first all-women's union, Bookbinder's Local 125. Since 1968, the building has been a center for social service organizations and non-profit community groups, small businesses, artists, and art and theater spaces.

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