All For The Taking

When 200 residents of the Lindley Court Apartments in Logan lost their homes with two hours’ notice on Saturday, June 21st, the building’s 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. Reporters expressed [...]

Check out this from Gihan Perera with the Miami Workers Center

For 70 years, U.S. mayors have been gathering at an annual conference to discuss urban policy. For the first time, there was a major protest staged to issue a different message - one that puts the residents of cities first. The Right to the City Alliance organized a parallel conference and demonstration. I was not [...]

When these guys say ‘neighborhood activists’ who do they really mean? What are the interests of a bank? Wachovia Foundation’s Neighborhood Planning Workshop (Jun 24) The Wachovia Regional Foundation is again offering a series of workshops aimed at helping neighborhood activists through the steps of developing a neighborhood plan. Participants will learn how to identify the challenges, [...]

More information at www.righttothecity.org The People’s State of the City Conference Discuss a people’s platform for the US urban agenda in 2008. Thursday, June 19th 5:30pm - 9pm Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus March on the Mayors: Day of Action Assert your right to the city. Join us in taking the people’s urban agenda to the U.S. mayors meeting with US presidential [...]

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 Demonstration/Rally in Harlem Against Displacement & Gentrification Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time & Location: 10 AM - Main Gathering: Marcus Garvey Park: Enter at 124th and Fifth Avenue. 10 AM Feeder March [...]

Philadelphia like the nation is suffering from the devasting effect of the mortgage foreclosure crisis.   This national crisis, which has left families and neighborhoods devastated, can partly be attributed to “subprime and predatory lending practices” in the banking and mortgage industry.  A weak economy symptomic of high unemployment and rising interest rates fuels an already disparaging [...]

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Soon to air on in West Philly on 88.1FM WPEB, ADSC’s new radio show explores issues of housing, development and displacement. Through interviews with residents who have been displaced or who are fighting to keep their communities intact and stories highlighting the effects of redevelopment, this show will ask the question, “Who is the ‘revitalized’ [...]

This is a repost of an article I wrote on the phillyimc.org newswire. Please see posts below for comments from a participant after the meeting. A community meeting with Philadelphia Mural Arts Program was held this past Monday April 21 at Songhai Cultural Center. Jane Golden, director of the Mural Arts Program, and other program staff [...]

I can only include one audio clip per post… Due to time constraints, it was difficult to fully articulate concerns about the content of the murals. A list of concerns generated by several community sponsors (listed in the post below) included reservations about the content of murals around the city. The audio here is from a [...]

Sorry for the delay in posting this. We were having some technical difficulties. I got some additional comments from Bonita Cummings of Strawberry Mainsion Community Concern after the meeting. I asked her here to talk back to some comments made about community outreach during the meeting. Bonita Cummings talking about community outreach The letter below is from [...]