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{takebacktheland.org} Five Years Later... Join KIN to demand corporate accountability
The media spotlight will yet again shine on the Gulf Coast ascommemoration events begin to unfold for the 5th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As the devastating impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill becomes clearer, we are once again reminded that corporate profiteering and government inaction continue to stand in the way of a just recovery for the Gulf and it's residents. And, yet again, Halliburton seems to be at the center of the latest preventable disaster to wreak havoc on the Gulf.

That's why, on KIN's 5th anniversary, we're launching a corporate accountability campaign to take on Halliburton, whose greed continues to thwart efforts toward a just recovery. Will you join us?

The federal government has been investigating the Halliburton corporation for allegedly making millions of dollars by defrauding taxpayers and overcharging on government contracts. So, why is Halliburton continuing to profit in the Gulf Coast from taxpayer funds and getting more government contracts?

This is not just about Halliburton--- this is about good governance.Too many companies are entrusted to do important public works and simply don't deliver. It's not fair and it wastes money. But, most importantly, it's costing lives and hurting the environment. We can't let reckless corporate profiteering continue.

Will you join our campaign and send a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, demanding that he freeze all contracts and payments to Halliburton until they are cleared of all charges?

The Halliburton Story

The federal government continues to do business with Halliburton at the same time it's under investigation for a laundry list of charges tied to corporate greed and negligence.

Halliburton has been accused of war profiteering by "criminally
overcharging" the US military for fuel; billing for products and
services never delivered; and delivering sub-standard services, such as contaminated water to US troops stationed in Iraq. (1)

Halliburton may also have a role in the Gulf's devastating oil spill. The company worked on the Deepwater Horizon oil well casing just 20
hours before it exploded, leaving some observers to believe Halliburton's
shoddy work is directly to blame for the explosion and subsequent spill. (2)

And the company may have figured out how to profit on the spill itself. Just 10 days prior to the explosion, Halliburton purchased Boots and Coots, the company contracted to clean up the disaster. (3)

Halliburton's already been found guilty of this kind of thievery. In 2009, Halliburton and KBR, its military contracting subsidiary, pled guilty to violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and ordered to to pay a record $579 million fine (4). The previous record was $44 million (5). Halliburton was charged with bribing Nigerian officials to the tune of $132 million in order to secure a lucrative $6 billion contract from the Nigerian government.

We know that Halliburton likes to get rich by playing outside the lines. Now, they're trying to profit from a disaster they may very well have helped create. We can't let them stand in the way of a just recovery in the Gulf by stealing our money. Tell them we're watching.

Act NOW and tell Interior Secretary Salazar to freeze all Halliburton contracts until Halliburton is cleared of wrongdoing.

In Solidarity,

KIN Team
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sources:
   1. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12266
   2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575214593564769072.html
   3. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0618/As-oil-firms-grow-response-may-slow-to-crises-like-Gulf-oil-spill
   4. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5SIJHgE3rXA
   5. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2009/02/kbr-hit-with-record-bribery-fine.html

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{takebacktheland.org} ONE DC Liberates Land in Nation's Capital
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Metro DC police plan to evict community from Tent City on Monday July 12

Community organization ONE DC "liberated" a vacant lot in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC on the afternoon of Saturday, July 10, 2010. The contentious Parcel 42, upon which Mayor Adrian Fenty promised to build affordable housing only to break the promise and sell to developers, was reclaimed by ONE DC, local residents and supporters. As of Saturday night, ONE DC and supporters are building a tent city on the land to house people. Police said they will "allow" protesters to remain "until Monday."

After starting the day with their annual block party, ONE DC upped the ante in the Shaw neighborhood, near Howard University, by marching approximately 200 people over to the corner of 7th and S Streets NW, entering Parcel 42 and building a tent city.

After denouncing Mayor Fenty for going against his promise, organizer Rosemary Ndubuizu led the crowd from the block party to the lot as member Franklin Brooks led the chants.

Following a few speeches and some celebration, DC police arrived with the special ops unit. Executive Director and police liaison Dominic Moulden asserted the right to engage in civil disobedience and won a stay from police action. The officer in charge stated that if people wanted to remain on the lot "that is fine- until Monday."

ONE DC is demanding Parcel 42 is used to build "truly affordable" housing- intended for families making under $50,000 and under $25,000 per year- in a community where such housing is badly needed. If Mayor Fenty and other officials are unwilling to build it, they argue, then the community must create such housing itself.

ONE DC is an autonomous organization which is affiliated with the Take Back the Land- Movement, a network of organizations fighting for the human right to housing.

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{takebacktheland.org} Take Back the Land- Miami Arrest Video. A MUST watch

Ashaundra Young was arrested during a Take Back the Land- Miami eviction defense of her apartment complex, 830 NW 70th St. in Miami, FL, on June 15, 2010. After Take Back the Land member Max Rameau was arrested, Ashaundra led the protests and chants against the police. She was arrested and charged with a felony- inciting a riot- and spent the night in jail. We have secured the video of the arrest and the actions leading up to it. You must watch this shocking video.

For the rest of her life, Ashaundra Young must tell potential employers that she was arrested and charged with felony incitement to riot, an admission which will severely curtail her job opportunities. In addition, if convicted, she will lose her right to vote in Florida, due to the Florida felon disenfranchisement laws.

In the video, Ashaundra is clearly PREVENTING a riot, by calming down a young man upset by the eviction and preventing his arrest. However, because she is leading the protests, she is targeted and arrested herself. Take Back the Land considers her a political defendant and urges everyone to email and call State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and demand they drop the charges on Ashaundra Young.

email: katherinefernandezrundle@miamisao.com
phone:305-547-0100

The Take Back the Land Movement has arranged a lawyer for Ashaundra, but we need your support- including donations, which can be made at takebacktheland.org.

WATCH the video of the entire arrest and the actions leading up to that arrest at

http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=161

See previous coverage of the protest itself, including photos, video and news stories at

http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=160

Take Back the Land- Miami is part of the Take Back the Land Movement, a network of organizations devoted to elevating housing to the level of a human right and gaining community control over land. The network is coordinated by the US Human Rights Network (USHRNetwork.org). Get more information at takebacktheland.org.

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{takebacktheland.org} 2 Arrested in Take Back the Land- Miami Eviction Defense

Two members of Take Back the Land- Miami were arrested on Tuesday, June 15th, during an action to defend a family from eviction. Max Rameau and Ashaundre Young were arrested and charged with disobeying a lawful order and starting a riot, respectively, when they refused to move so that the Miami-Dade County Sheriff could execute the eviction of a low income family and her children. Max was released almost immediately and Ashaundre is expected out in a few hours.

The action is part of a larger defense of two apartment complexes foreclosed upon by JP Morgan-Chase, through its wholly owned subsidiary, ECP Properties, Inc. ECP Properties is the toxic asset subsidiary of JP Morgan-Chase and formerly of Washington Mutual Bank.

READ THE FULL STORY, INCLUDING 2 VIDEOS AND A PHOTO SLIDE SHOW:

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Take Back the Land- Miami, the residents of 820 and 830 NW 70th St., Miami, FL and their neighbors, committed to defending the home from eviction. The city of Miami arrived with 6 police cars, at least one of which remained on site from 8:00am until almost 2:00pm. The Miami-Dade County Sheriff came with the eviction officer, who called for even more backup after seeing the protesters at the complex. The eviction Sheriff remained on site from approximately 10:30am until almost 2:00pm.

In spite of the arrests, residents and neighbors considered the action a success and vowed to defend the other units from eviction.

The residents identified three (3) demands: 1). Stop the Evictions; 2). Allow residents to remain; and 3) elevate housing to the level of a human right through public policy changes.

After foreclosing on the property in September 2009, JP Morgan-Chase immediately began harassing tenants into leaving the apartment complex. After the eviction, more than half of the 20 apartments are vacant and boarded up and each remaining unit is awaiting eviction.

Worse still, the tenants did not take out mortgages they could not afford- they were paying their rent on time. ECP Properties then stopped making repairs in the building and stopped crediting tenants with rent payments. Conditions worsened quickly and some tenants left on their own, while others stopped paying rent in protest.

According to the New York Times, JP Morgan-Chase has a policy of evicting tenants from foreclosed rental units instead of renting to them. Consequently, low income renters feel the brunt of the foreclosure crisis.

VIEW DOCUMENTATION OF JP MORGAN-CHASE PRACTICES OF FORECLOSURE EVICTION OF APARTMENT RENTERS AND TENANTS

In the end, the laws which favor corporate profits over human needs are immoral and must be directly challenged.

Take Back the Land- Miami is part of the Take Back the Land Movement, a national network of local organizations engaged in the struggle to elevate housing to the level of a human right and gain community control over land. The Take Back the Land Movement is coordinated by the US Human Rights Network (USHRNetwork.org). Get more information at Takebacktheland.org

READ THE FULL STORY, INCLUDING 2 VIDEOS AND A PHOTO SLIDE SHOW:

http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=160

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{takebacktheland.org} Survivors Village Protester Arrested on Trumped up Charges- CORRECTION: JASPER
CORRECTION: SHARON JASPER. APOLOGIES FOR RESEND.

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Sharon Jasper, member of Survivors Village and MayDay New Orleans, was arrested by the New Orleans police, who brought the SWAT team to apprehend this elder Black woman from her home.

Ms. Sharon is being charged with assaulting a rental agent during an action organized by Survivors Village and MayDay New Orleans as part of the Take Back the Land Movement May 2010 Month of Action. On Friday, May 28th, a group entered the Columbia Parc rental office and held a sit-in demanding the right of former St. Bernard Housing Project residents to return to their homes.

SEE VIDEO OF THE PROTEST HERE- http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=156
SEE OTHER SURVIVORS VILLAGE AND TAKE BACK THE LAND ACTIONS HERE- Takebacktheland.org

The Columbia Parc development replaced the St. Bernard Housing Project after the City of New Orleans voted to demolish the 1,500 units of public housing and replace them with market housing. The action was part of the Right to Return Weekend in New Orleans. The Right of Return Weekend was organized in conjunction with the May month of actions called by Take Back the Land Movement (TBLM). TBLM is a network of autonomous organizations affiliated with the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) dedicated to realizing the human right to adequate housing and community control over land.

Police say Ms. Sharon assaulted a Columbia Parc rental agent during her entrance into the building. The rental agent did not complain about an assault and continued to work in the office the entire time of the occupation, including when police arrived. While there, police made no mention of an assault when explaining to the group why they should end their protest.

The truth is that the City of New Orleans did not arrest Sharon Jasper for assault, they arrested her because she dared to tell that truth and demand that public housing residents of New Orleans have the right to return to their homes. The arrest represents a clear effort by the City of New Orleans to represent the interests of the developers of the Columbia Parc while actively working against the former residents of New Orleans.

Survivors Village organizer Endesha Juakali and others are at the jail seeking Ms. Sharon's release. The Take Back the Land Movement has arranged for legal assistance for Sharon Jackson through the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York city and local New Orleans Attorneys.

The Take Back the Land Movement condemns this political motivated use of the public police in order to protect private developers from protests.

Survivors Village is protesting in front of Columbia Parc on Monday, June 7, at 12:00noon. Columbia Parc is on the 3600 block of St. Bernard Ave. in New Orleans.

Survivors Village is asking supporters to call Columbia Parc and demand 1). drop all charges against Sharon Jackson and 2). allow for the unconditional return of former St. Bernard Housing residents. Columbia Parc: (504) 284-4769, columbiaparc.com.

Video of Sharon Jasper's arrest, as well as updates on her legal situation, can be found by visiting Takebacktheland.org. Videos of the arrest are expected to be up on June 4.

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{takebacktheland.org} Survivors Village Protester Arrested on Trumped up Charges
Photo of Sharon Jackson [http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JBp5egCKV35Z8RTPkb3ONg?feat=directlink]

Sharon Jackson, member of Survivors Village and MayDay New Orleans, was arrested by the New Orleans police, who brought the SWAT team to apprehend this elder Black woman from her home.

Ms. Sharon is being charged with assaulting a rental agent during an action organized by Survivors Village and MayDay New Orleans as part of the Take Back the Land Movement May 2010 Month of Action. On Friday, May 28th, a group entered the Columbia Parc rental office and held a sit-in demanding the right of former St. Bernard Housing Project residents to return to their homes.

SEE VIDEO OF THE PROTEST HERE- http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=156
SEE OTHER SURVIVORS VILLAGE AND TAKE BACK THE LAND ACTIONS HERE- Takebacktheland.org

The Columbia Parc development replaced the St. Bernard Housing Project after the City of New Orleans voted to demolish the 1,500 units of public housing and replace them with market housing. The action was part of the Right to Return Weekend in New Orleans. The Right of Return Weekend was organized in conjunction with the May month of actions called by Take Back the Land Movement (TBLM). TBLM is a network of autonomous organizations affiliated with the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) dedicated to realizing the human right to adequate housing and community control over land.

Police say Ms. Sharon assaulted a Columbia Parc rental agent during her entrance into the building. The rental agent did not complain about an assault and continued to work in the office the entire time of the occupation, including when police arrived. While there, police made no mention of an assault when explaining to the group why they should end their protest.

The truth is that the City of New Orleans did not arrest Sharon Jackson for assault, they arrested her because she dared to tell that truth and demand that public housing residents of New Orleans have the right to return to their homes. The arrest represents a clear effort by the City of New Orleans to represent the interests of the developers of the Columbia Parc while actively working against the former residents of New Orleans.

Survivors Village organizer Endesha Juakali and others are at the jail seeking Ms. Sharon's release. The Take Back the Land Movement has arranged for legal assistance for Sharon Jackson through the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York city and local New Orleans Attorneys.

The Take Back the Land Movement condemns this political motivated use of the public police in order to protect private developers from protests.

Survivors Village is protesting in front of Columbia Parc on Monday, June 7, at 12:00noon. Columbia Parc is on the 3600 block of St. Bernard Ave. in New Orleans.

Survivors Village is asking supporters to call Columbia Parc and demand 1). drop all charges against Sharon Jackson and 2). allow for the unconditional return of former St. Bernard Housing residents. Columbia Parc: (504) 284-4769, columbiaparc.com.

Video of Sharon Jackson's arrest, as well as updates on her legal situation, can be found by visiting Takebacktheland.org. Videos of the arrest are expected to be up on June 4.

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{takebacktheland.org} Survivors Village Takes Over former public housing site in New Orleans!

Press Release

For immediate release

Friday, May 28^th, 2010

Survivors Village Takes Over Housing Office

Mass sit in demands the Right to Return for former

St. Bernard Housing Project Residents

forcibly removed after Hurricane Katrina

Friday, May 28, 2010, 2:00pm- At approximately 1:30pm, the Survivors Village organization stormed and sat in at the offices of the Columbia Village apartments today. The complex sits on top of the land of what used to be the St. Bernard public housing complex. The complex was destroyed after Hurricane Katrina and all 1,500 families were removed. The new units are primarily market rate housing with approximately 130 set aside for public housing.

Police on the scene were attempting to decide what to do: continue to allow Survivors Village to protest or arrest them for trespassing on what is still public land. Almost 100 protesters are in the lobby. Video and pictures will be up soon on takebacktheland.org.

The protest is part of Survivor's Village Right to Return Weekend, during which the organization asserts the unconditional right of return for all public housing residents forcibly relocated by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent public policy actions of the local and state governments.

Right to Return Weekend continues on Saturday, May 29^th with a protest against land grabs and on Sunday, May 30^th to demand an end to homelessness. Both action begin at 9:00am on the 3800 block of St. Bernard Ave. in St. Bernard Parish.

Survivor's Village is an autonomous organization affiliated with the Take Back the Land Movement (TBLM). TBLM is a network of local organizations dedicated to demanding people's fundamental human right to housing housing and community control over land.

For more information about Survivors Village, visit communitiesrising.wordpress.com. For more information about the Take Back the Land Movement visit takebacktheland.org.

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{takebacktheland.org} Take Back the Land hits New Orleans
The Take Back the Land Movement May 2010 Month of Action to Elevate Housing to the Level of a Human Right kicked off on May 1st with Right 2 Survive in Portland, OR and will conclude with a bang as Survivor's Village hosts the Right to Return Weekend in New Orleans, LA.

The Right to Return Weekend was established to demand the unconditional right to come home for all former residents of public housing, many of whom were forced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, while others were forced by cruel public policies and the economic forces of gentrification.

Survivor's Village is organizing three days of action, including:

Day 1: Saturday, May 28th • 12:00noon
Right to Return Rally & Protest
All former residents of public housing have an unconditional right to come home!
LET THE PEOPLE IN!
3800 St. Bernard Ave.

Day 2: Saturday, May 29th • 9:00am
Action against land grabs by developers & crooks!!
All vacant land should be developed by the community for the community
Our Communities Our Responsibility
3800 St. Bernard Ave.

Day 3: Sunday, May 30th • 9:00am
Action to fight against the problem of homelessness 60,000 vacant buildings, 20,000 people homeless
END HOMELESSNESS NOW!
3800 Block of St. Bernard Ave.

Survivors Village is affiliated with the national TAKE BACK THE LAND MOVEMENT

Right to Return Weekend co-sponsored by MAYDAY NEW ORLEANS

Get more information about Survivors Village at communitiesrising.wordpress.com

Get more information and ongoing updates about the action at takebacktheland.org.

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{takebacktheland.org} FUREE in the NY Times: Subsidize Housing not Hotels

The May 2010 Month of Action is on in New York City.

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"What we're saying is, in the middle of an affordable housing crisis, stop bailing out hotels and major development and start focusing on low-income and working-class families in this country."

- FUREE executive director Valery Jean in the New York Times.

Chanting "Housing, not Hotels," members of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) crashed the fancy grand opening of the Sheraton Hotel Brooklyn on Thursday, May 20. The 321 room hotel was feted with a food, elected officials and media, but not many local residents.

"If the city of New York has money to subsidize wealthy corporation like Sheraton to build luxury hotel rooms during a recession, they should have money to build housing that is affordable to residents of Brooklyn," argued Diana Smith, Board Secretary of FUREE.

Members and other residents continued the protest even after the Sheraton called in the police. The action is part of FUREE's "Take Back our CommUNITY" campaign for community control over land and housing.

Dignitaries at the ribbon cutting included Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership president Joe Chan, among others. FUREE members, however, were not as happy as the Sheraton Hotel corporation to see the dignitaries.

"Joe Chan and other politicians are taking buildings that people live in, destroying them and making big condos and hotels that no one can afford," complained 19 year old FUREE youth leader and Brooklyn resident Elvin Paulino. "We are mad, so we are recruiting new members and are going to take down these politicians and developers with whatever we can."

Founded in 2001, FUREE is a Brooklyn-based, membership led multi-racial organization of more than 500 families that organizes low-income and working families to promote equality, improve economic conditions, and build collective power to win systemic changes at the local, state and national level. Primarily led by women of color with an emphasis on community and family, FUREE uses direct action, leadership development, community organizing, and political education to achieve our vision and goals.

FUREE will host its annual convention on Saturday, May 22 at PS 67, located at 51 Edwards St. (between Myrtle Ave. & Tillary St.) in Brooklyn beginning at 12 noon. For more information, visit to FUREE.org, call 718-852-2960 or email info@furee.org.

FUREE is an autonomous organization which is also part of the Take Back the Land Movement. This action is part of the may 2010 National Month of Action to demand the human right to housing called for by the Take Back the Land Movement (takebacktheland.org), which is supported by the US Human Rights Network (USHRNetwork.org).

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{takebacktheland.org} 'If this isn’t neighborhood revitalization, I don’t know what is'- Desiree Wilson

As part of the Take Back the Land Movement May 2010 Month of Action, Operation Welcome Home (OWH) hosted an open house celebration on May 10, 2010, and introduced the world to Desiree Wilson, an after-school program assistant supervisor. OWH spared this mother of two and her family from homelessness by moving them into a long abandoned foreclosed home on the westside of Madison, WI. OWH organizer Z! Haukeness said it well: "It's unjust and immoral that there's homeless people on one side of the street and empty buildings on the other side of the street."

Desiree Wilson said it best: "If this isn't neighborhood revitalization, I don't know what is."

Operation Welcome Home is asking police and local officials to refrain from evicting the Wilson family and, instead, work with them on finding real solutions to this extreme housing crisis. They also ask that instead of the scheduled May 18^th foreclosure sale, the property be handed over to a community land trust for the benefit of the community.

See the story, photos and video here: http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=142

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dEKDRD_FA

On the 50^th anniversary of the first civil rights era "sit-ins," this "live-in" is a part of the Take Back the Land Movement May 2010 National Month of Action, where local community organizations "liberate" vacant homes or defend families from eviction, all in pursuit of elevating housing to the level of a human right.

May 2010 has already been a busy month, with actions including:

Right 2 Survive (right2survive.wordpress.com) seized a vacant lot in front of a long abandoned school in SE Portland and erected a tent city. Story and video: http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=127

The Toledo Foreclosure Defense League made national news as they helped Keith Sadler resist eviction before the SWAT team raided the home. There were no injuries and the Stony Ridge 7 are charged with 2 misdemeanors each. Story and video: takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newstory&newsid=143

The Atlanta chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) disrupted a foreclosure sale on the courthouse steps. Story and video: http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=131

The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (chicagoantieviction.org)protested the HUD office for their attempts to evict a family from public housing, a campaign could eventually lead to a defense. Story and photos: http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=132

In Philadelphia, PA the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign liberated a vacant city owned house and moved in a family.

In Sacramento, CA a small faith based group continued their good works by moving two families into foreclosed homes in May.

In April, Homes Not Jails San Francisco liberated a home for an octogenarian facing homelessness. http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=115

Additional actions are planned for New York City, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, St. Petersburg, FL, New Orleans, LA and other locations.

The Take Back the Land Movement networks local organizations engaged in housing is a human right work. The Movement is supported with staff and technical assistance by the US Human Rights Network (USHRNetwork.org) and strategic partners the Ruckus Society (www.ruckus.org) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (www.ccrjustice.org). The network includes over a dozen organizations, including the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (www.economichumanrights.org). We urge you to join and support this movement.

What Can You Do?

Have your organization join the movement. Go to takebacktheland.org and join a growing movement for community control over land and housing as a human right.
Support the Take Back the Land Movement. Log in and sign the online petition to demonstrate broad support for the movement. Make a financial contribution to defray costs associated with training and support. Both can happen from takebacktheland.org.
Write, blog, tweet and re-post stories about the May 2010 Month of Action. Make sure people know about what is going on and grow the story and the movement.
The most important thing you can do is to be an active member of an organization fighting to elevate housing to the level of a human right. Find your local organization and ask them to join the struggle. If there are none in your area, start a new organization.

A movement is growing to elevate housing to the level of a human right, in our lifetime. Join the movement to Take Back the Land.

Community control over land!

Housing is a human right!

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{takebacktheland.org} NEW POLICE RAID ON SADLER / TFDL HOME
At 6:30AM Woods County Police arrived at the home of Keith Sadler to attempt to evict him and the 4 others sealed inside.

The Toledo Foreclosure Defense League is helping defend Keith Sadler from foreclosure related eviction. Sadler and supporters have been sealed in Sadler's Toledo area home since Sunday in order to defend against eviction. The action is supported by the Take Back the Land Movement and is part of the May 2010 Month of Action, with similar actions taking place in a dozen US cities.

The Take Back the Land Movement calls on people to immediately call the Wood County Sheriff at 419-354-9001 and demand an end to the raid of the Sadler Home.

Regular updates and previous coverage can be found at takebacktheland.org.

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{takebacktheland.org} Police attempt to swarm Toledo FDL Home- May 5

At approximately 1:00EST, the Wood County Sherrif's department swarmed the property of Keith Sadler, shutting off the power and threatening arrests before media cameras showed. Just as quickly, police moved out. The presence, quick thinking and plan of the Toledo Foreclosure League (TFDL) successfully defended the Sadler home from eviction. No arrests were made, but as they pulled out, police announced they would be back.

Get the full story and the first pictures from takebacktheland.org. Additional picture updates, and possibly video, are coming soon.

The Toledo Foreclosure Defense League (TFDL) has been defending the home of Keith Sadler from foreclosure related eviction. Sadler and supporters sealed themselves in the home in order to prevent eviction, which was scheduled for May 3. Police refused to execute the eviction as the TFDL held a press conference and media awaited the police. This story has made national news in hundreds of newspapers and tv newscasts. The TFDL is supported by the Take Back the Land Movement and this defense is a part of the May 2010 National Month of Action.

The Take Back the Land Movement re-asserts support for the TFDL and the valiant struggle for housing as a human right by defending families from eviction.

We call on people to immediately call the Wood County Sherrif at 419-354-9001 and demand an end to the raid of the Sadler Home.

The TFDL is an autonomous organization which is also a part of the Take Back the Land Movement. The action is part of the May 2010 National Month of Action to demand the human right to housing, called for by the Take Back the Land Movement (takebacktheland.org). The Take Back the Land Movement is provided staff and technical support by the US Human Rights Network (USHRNetwork.org). The May Month of actions are expected in at least twelve (12) US cities and include housing takeovers and the defense of families facing eviction. The Movement is comprised of dozens of organizations and partners, notably the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC- economichumanrights.org).

Defending the fundamental human right to housing is challenging work and cannot be done without resources. Please visit takebacktheland.org or the ushrnetwork.org and donate generously today.

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Max Rameau

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{takebacktheland.org} TBtL by Max Rameau at Sankofa Books Friday May 7 at 6PM

After banks get billions in bailout money and families suffer from the housing crisis, thousands of foreclosures and new condos sit vacant. What are communities doing about it?

ONE DC and Empower DC invite you to the Take Back the Land Movement: a presentation by Max Rameau. The event includes presentations by ONE DC and Empower DC followed by a presentation and book signing by Max Rameau of Take Back the Land. The event is scheduled for Friday, May 7, 2010 at the Sankofa Bookstore, 2714 Georgia Ave., Washington, DC and begins at 6:00PM.

The TBtL is a network of organizations devoted to community control of land and elevating housing to the level of a human right. In pursuit of these objectives, TBtL is coordinating a May 2010 Month of Action in which organizations "liberate" vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and move families into them or defend families from eviction in the first place. Successful actions have already taken place in Portland, OR and Toledo, OH (see Takebacktheland.org for details) and more are planned in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Madison, WI and Washington, DC. TBtL is supports both ONE DC and Empower DC.

Max Rameau is a part of the Take Back the Land Movement, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Associate Press, USA Today, CNN, ABC News, Democracy NOW! and the latest Michael Moore movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. He will talk about and sign his book Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown. This is Max's second book signing at Sankofa Bookstore.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit takebacktheland.org or http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107632045947324

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Empower DC: empowerdc.org

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May 2010 Month of Action to Take Back the Land

See this article at www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=90

The housing bust and faulty government policies have immersed the United States in a full blown economic and housing crisis. The cruel irony of this crisis, and what makes it so profoundly immoral, is that the commodity at its root- housing- is not at all in scarcity. To the contrary, sufficient vacant housing stocks exist to accommodate virtually everyone in need, including families forced into overcrowded and substandard conditions as well as the homeless.

In the face of this severe economic crisis, people are rising up. They rail against the bailouts and bonuses, protest the lack of lending, rebel against unfair credit card rate hikes and, most dramatically, fight back against losing their homes.

The Take Back the Land Movement is calling for a May 2010 National Month of Action to assert the fundamental human right to housing and community control over land. Participating organizations, communities and families are asserting this right in two ways: by "liberating" government, foreclosed and warehoused homes, making them available for families with nowhere else to live, and by protecting families, our neighbors, from foreclosure related evictions from houses, apartments and condos as well as income related evictions from public housing.

Every family, indeed every human being, needs and deserves decent and adequate housing that they can afford, regardless of their income. However, instead of facilitating this need, federal, state and municipal governments are instituting policies and enacting legislation protecting the profits of corporations at the expense and exclusion of families. These policies serve only to compound, rather than end, the crisis. For example, the same financial institutions which caused the crisis, are both bailed out for their "toxic assets," and allowed to evict families and keep those assets vacant. In addition, federal and local governments are actively vacating, boarding up and demolishing public housing and underfunding rent subsidy programs in order to free up monies for bank bailouts and sports facilities.

This series of policies and laws not only allow human beings to live on the street while hundreds of thousands of houses sit vacant, but the bailouts effectively compel struggling families to finance their own evictions and then subsidize hefty bonuses to the executives evicting them.

In the context of a severe housing crisis, policies and laws which impede the human right to housing are morally indefensible and, as such, must be directly challenged until they are changed. The May Month of Action will challenge those laws which prioritize corporate profits over human needs. This is an historic crisis, one which merits an historic response.

On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students sat-in at a Greensboro Woolworths lunch counter and stepped into history, sparking a movement and changing this society forever. The "sit-in" campaigns were predicated on the notion that legal equality was a human right and, as such, laws violating those rights were morally wrong, and, therefore, must be directly challenged- and broken- in order to be changed.

Inspired by the 50^th anniversary of the first sit-ins, the Take Back the Land Movement asserts that housing is a human right and, as such, the policies which violate that right are morally wrong and, therefore, must be directly challenged. As such, this May, organizations across the US are engaging in "live-in" campaigns designed to house human beings and directly challenge those policies and laws that promote vacant housing during this housing crisis.

Civil disobedience campaigns directly challenge unjust laws by breaking them until they change. The Take Back the Land Movement and the live-in campaigns, however, encompass more than merely disobeying immoral laws: it is fundamentally about empowering communities to take control of their land and implementing the moral imperative of housing human beings. More than simple civil disobedience, the live-in campaign is, in fact, a movement of moral obedience.

Organizations in no less than ten (10) US cities will help their family, friends and neighbors "live-in" vacant government owned or foreclosed homes, buildings or land by either moving them in or preventing their eviction. Organizations in cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, will be joined by others in Chicago, Miami, Sacramento and New Orleans. Smaller cities include Toledo, Ohio, Madison, Wisconsin, St. Petersburg, Florida and Portland, Oregon.

Of course, no social justice movement has ever been won in a single month or by utilizing a single tactic or strategy. As such, May 2010 is not the totality, but rather the dawn of a movement whose aims are to elevate housing to the level of a human right and to win community control over land.

The solution to the housing crisis lies in your community, even on your block, and in your hands. The time has come to Take Back the Land.

forward,

Max Rameau

See this article at www.takebacktheland.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsletterID=90

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Take Back the Land in South Africa

Take Back the Land is going to South Africa.

As a part of building our national Take Back the Land Movement, we asked the famed Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR- ccrjustice.org) to act as our legal Strategic Partner. As part of that responsibility, CCR invited me to join them on a trip to South Africa to research learn from organizations engaged in anti-eviction and land reform work.

This trip is particularly exciting for me both because of my Pan-African ideological perspective and because the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign is one of the two organizations Take Back the Land Miami is modeled after (the other one is the MST in Brazil).

Our party of five will spend three days in Cape Town with the Anti-Eviction Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo (ABM) and three days in Durban with ABM. CCR will examine legal issues and responses there as well as look at how legal organizations provide support to social justice movements. For Take Back the Land, this trip has four (4) objectives:

Build an International Movement. We seek to realize housing as a human right for every person on this planet. As such, we seek to establish formal relationships with organizations fighting for those rights, thereby building an international movement for community control over land and housing as a human right.

Campaign Modeling. The WCAEC and ABM have executed mass campaigns to stop bulldozers and evictions. We in the US have much to learn from our sisters and brothers across the globe.

Network Modeling. South Africans have built a national anti-eviction and land reform movement. Take Back the Land strives to learn from their model and replicate their successes.

For the next week, I will post, email, blog, facebook, buzz and tweet from South Africa to share the experiences of Take Back the Land and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

This email is being sent from the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Forward,

Max Rameau

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Picture the Homeless Liberates Land in Manhattan, NYC!
Greetings:

Picture the Homeless, a New York City based homeless rights organization, has liberated a vacant lot in the Manhattan Borough of New York City and is currently building a Tent City there. I just spoke to Picture the Homeless leader and organizer Rob Robinson (rob@picturethehomeless.org) and he informed me they are erecting tents and moving homeless people into them. The land, located on the 115th St., between Madison and 5th Ave., is owned by JP Morgan/Chase, but it is not controlled by Picture the Homeless for the benefit of human beings, not corporations.

The movement to liberate land and elevate housing to the level of a human right is growing. Take Back the Land supports Picture the Homeless (www.picturethehomeless.org) and other organization working for the right to housing. Updates, including pictures of the liberation, are coming this afternoon.

What can you do to support?

If you are in NYC, go to 115th St., between Madison and 5th Ave. in Manhattan and show your support. A press conference is scheduled for 1:00pm.
Email your support to Picture the Homeless from their website (www.picturethehomeless.org).
Call Mayor Bloomberg's office and tell him to allow Picture the Homeless to house people on that lot. Hands Off Picture the Homeless! You must leave a message with 311-NYC by calling 212-639-9675.
Talk to people and organizations in your community about liberating land.

Housing is a human right!
Liberate land!
Land for people not for profit!

forward,

Max Rameau
Take Back the Land

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From: Tej Nagaraja <tej@picturethehomeless.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Subject: [PTH friends] *breaking news* Homeless 'tent city' occupation in NYC [press release, July 23]
To: Tej Nagaraja <tej@picturethehomeless.org>

** Breaking News: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** Thursday, July 23, 2009

Contact: Tej Nagaraja (646) 302-5769
Updates: http://picturethehomeless.org/blog & http://twitter.com/pthny #tentcitynyc

Location—come!: 115th Street between Madison and 5th Avenues, Manhattan
First on-site press conference scheduled for 1pm—on-site PTH members and neighborhood residents available for interview at all times.

Homeless New Yorkers Occupy Vacant Lot, Create Tent City, Demand Change
Call for city government to meet need of low-income residents, not greed of big banks

MANHATTAN—On Thursday at 11:00 AM, members of Picture the Homeless orchestrated a spirited occupation of a warehoused (vacant) lot, currently owned by the firm JPMorgan Chase, a recent beneficiary of billions in taxpayer bailout money.

Homeless New Yorkers and their allies turned a fenced-off grassy lot in El Barrio/East Harlem into a vibrant Tent City, creatively adorned with makeshift dwellings, colorful art and banners. Under the slogan "NYC: A Place to Call Home," they demanded that warehoused lots and buildings be accounted for by the city, and transformed into housing for poor and homeless people.

Jean Rice, a homeless New Yorker: "Today, Picture the Homeless sends a message that land use must take into account the common good—as housing for the needy, not warehoused assets for the greedy."

Hundreds rallied in support of the bold action. The organizers have invited local musicians to perform, faith leaders and community activists to engage the crowd—and community members to feast on barbecue, and discuss and debate the challenges and struggles all low-income New Yorkers face.

Picture the Homeless members note that more families are homeless now than when Mayor Bloomberg took office. When confronted with his policy failures earlier this month, the Mayor could only say that so many remain homeless because he's made shelters "more attractive." For Chase's part, New York Times quoted an executive during the October bailout: "Twenty-five billion dollars is obviously going to help the folks who are struggling more than Chase."

Picture the Homeless member Sophia Bryant: "The government and banks have failed miserably. Homeless people know what the problems are, and we have ideas for the solutions. Since they won't listen, the time is now for people to take action. We don't want shelters—we want decent housing. We will build what we need!"

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Take Back the Land on PBS' NOW
Greetings All:

As the foreclosure crisis festers, Take Back the Land continues to liberate vacant foreclosed homes. The movement to elevate housing to the status of a human right is picking up steam as other organizations- at least 14, according to Michael Stoop of the Washington DC based National Coalition for the Homeless (http://www.nationalhomeless.org)- execute liberation or defend the right of people to stay in their homes. Two organizations worth paying attention to include Picture the Homeless in New York City (www.picturethehomeless.org) and City Life/Vida Urbana in Boston (http://www.clvu.org).

To find out more about the movement, please watch the recently aired NOW program about Take Back the Land and the housing liberation movement:
www.takebacktheland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81

Please watch out for more actions by Take Back the Land and our allied organizations coming this fall.

In order to continue our important work, Take Back the Land needs your support. Please visit our website at Takebacktheland.org and make a generous contribution. All contributions are made to Serve the People, a 501(c)3 organization, providing support services to Take Back the Land and other community organizations. Your contribution is fully tax deductible.

If you are not already a member, you can keep up with Take Back the Land by joining our list-serve at groups.google.com/group/take-back-the-land

www.takebacktheland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81

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Max Rameau

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Take Back the Land on ABC World News Tonight 04-12-09
Greetings:

The current housing crisis is unlike any we have seen in generations. Sometimes a crisis occurs because there are too many houses and not enough families to move in them, deflating values and creating ghost towns. Most often, though, there are not enough homes to meet the needs of people and we demand more houses be built. In this crisis, however, there is a surplus of both vacant homes and families looking for vacant homes. Take Back the Land has been matching homeless people with people-less homes.

Find out more here:

ABC World News Tonight reported on Take Back the Land and our efforts to liberate housing on the April 12, 2009 broadcast. Follow the link below to see the story:

http://takebacktheland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:abcworldnews041209&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=60

Also check out the New York Times story on the growing trend of squatting and other utilization of vacant foreclosed homes, including Take Back the Land:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/us/10squatter.html?_r=2&hp

In addition, check out this video of Take Back the Land moving the Conley-Trody family back into the home from which they were evicted:

http://www.justnews.com/news/18779255/detail.html#video

Take Back the Land asserts that housing is a human right and that it is immoral to keep homes vacant while there are human beings living on the street. This moral outrage is only compounded when one considers the banks who own these houses have already been paid billions of dollars for those homes already in the form of tax money from the same people who need homes in the first place.

A growing movement of organizations and individuals across the US are making good use of vacant houses by placing or defending the right of families to remain in foreclosed homes. Housing must fundamentally be about homes for human beings, not profits for corporations. Take Back the Land is inspired by the courageous families fighting for their right to housing and making a new more humane world possible.

A movement is building and we urge you to support and advance the struggle to elevate housing to the status of a human right.

Keep up to date at our website: takebacktheland.org. For regular (but not too frequent) email announcements, join our list-serv at
http://groups.google.com/group/take-back-the-land/

For those so inclined, you can support the work of Take Back the Land with a financial contribution. We ask that you make contributions to Serve the People, the not-for-profit which allows Take Back the Land and other organizations use of office space and other resources. Serve the People is a 501(c)3 organization and all contributions are fully tax-deductible. Support our work by contributing at www.takebacktheland.org and click on the "Donate" button.

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Max Rameau
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Take Back the Land on ABC World News 04-12-09

Take Back the Land on Good Morning America 04-11-09
Greetings:

Below is a link to the video of Take Back the Land featured on Good Morning America.

http://www.takebacktheland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:gma011109&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=60

If you have not already seen and read the NY Times piece on Take Back the Land, you can read it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/us/10squatter.html?_r=1

Keep up to date and support Take Back the Land at our website, Takebacktheland.org and join our list-serv at http://groups.google.com/group/take-back-the-land/

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Max Rameau

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Take Back the Land in the New York Times 04-10-09

Greetings All:

Please check out the Friday, April 10, 2009 edition of the New York Times, reporting on the growing necessity and trend of liberation housing in the US. This is the beginning of a real US land struggle and the social justice movement must come to grips with our relationship to that struggle.

As part of that story, the Times covers two families placed by Take Back the Land in Miami.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/us/10squatter.html?_r=1&hp

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Fwd: Take Back the Land Liberates Another Home- Feb. 23 at 12noon

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From: Max Rameau <afrimax@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Subject: Take Back the Land Liberates Another Home- Feb. 23 at 12noon
To: afrimax@gmail.com

Greetings:

At 12:00 noon today, February 23, Take Back the Land liberated a vacant house in order to move an extended family of 12, including six minors, back into the home they lost to foreclosure on Friday, February 20^th. The foreclosure was a result of a fraudulent refinance scheme by a predatory lender.

The home is located at 849 NW 137^th St. in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. As this message is sent, Take Back the Land is assisting the family in their move back into the home.

Take Back the Land identifies vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moves homeless people into the people-less homes. The organization has been "liberating" foreclosed homes since October 2007, a year after liberating a vacant government owned piece of land and building the Umoja Village Shantytown, housing homeless individuals until a fire destroyed the community. Take Back the Land has liberated eight (8) homes to date.

After Mary's husband lost his job, the couple and their two teenage children were forced to move back in with her mother. Soon after, the contracting job market forced Mary's adult daughter and fiancee back to the house with their four children, all under 10. The crashing economy ultimately forced 12 relatives, spanning four generations, to cram into Grandma Carolyn's two bedroom one bath house.

Unbeknownst to the families, almost two years prior, Carolyn fell victim to a scam predatory lender. The salesman convinced her that with a new reverse mortgage she would only be compelled to pay the taxes on the house, significantly reducing her expenses as she entered retirement age. When they started receiving the foreclosure notices, it was too late, even with almost every adult in the house regaining employment.

The family was evicted from their home on February 20, upon which they called Take Back the Land requesting assistance. Since then, they have been sleeping together in a van and bread truck in the parking lot of a local supermarket. Local homeless shelters are full and not fitted for families and, therefore, can only split the family between Homestead and Miami and then divide the men and women.

The house itself is in need of repairs and there are at least three other vacant homes on that street and numerous others on adjacent streets. As such, the home is unlikely to be sold or occupied in the next year or even two years and will only contribute to blight and unsafe conditions in the neighborhood. Furthermore, homes vacant for even short periods of time are often vandalized and stripped for valuable parts and fixtures. The vacant house, therefore, does not help the family, the neighborhood or even the bank who owns a structure rapidly decreasing value.

It is inhumane and immoral to evict a family of 12 human beings, who are left to sleep in a truck, and not even fill the house with another family, but leave it vacant, potentially for years to come.

Housing is a human right which is threatened by corporate demands to maximize profits. Take Back the Land calls on people of good conscience to defend their communities and fight for the right of human beings to housing, particularly during this economic crisis.

To continue to receive these email updates, sign up for the Take Back the Land listserve at: http://groups.google.com/group/take-back-the-land. You can also get more information about Take Back the Land at our website, TakeBacktheLand.org.

forward,

Max Rameau

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Fwd: Take Back the Land Liberates Another Home- Feb. 23 at 12noon

Greetings:

The home is located at 849 NW 137^th St. in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. As this message is sent, Take Back the Land is assisting the family in their move back into the home.

It is inhumane and immoral to evict a family of 12 human beings, who are left to sleep in a truck, and not even fill the house with another family, but leave it vacant, potentially for years to come.

forward,

Max Rameau

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