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Neighborhood Reclamation Strategies and Land Liberation Tactics with Max Rameau of Take Back the Land
6:00PM , Monday, November 28, 2011 @
The Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL
A severe housing crisis is gripping families and communities across the United States. Since the fall of 2008, the US Government purchased millions of foreclosed properties from banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The concrete result has been the transfer of $1.5 trillion in public wealth into the hands of private institutions and individuals to preserve their fortunes. While taking money from everyday workers and handing it over to huge, too big to fail, financial institutions helped forestall the collapse of the world’s financial markets, it has not prevented the displacement and dispossession of millions of ordinary families.
The banks have been saved, but the people have been abandoned.
Because billions of dollars in public funds were used to buy these homes, we assert those homes are now public housing and must be used to solve the housing crisis by providing homes to millions of families and individuals. The Take Back the Land Movement has directly challenged those laws which allow banks to reap record profits while millions of families face eviction and homelessness. Challenging unjust laws requires a protracted direct action campaign of civil disobedience designed to prioritize people over profits in a tangible way. As such, the Movement focuses on defending families against eviction and “liberating” vacant government owned and foreclosed homes, moving homeless people into people-less homes. Learn the strategies and tactics that have been successfully utilized in the struggle to reclaim for the 99% the open spaces withheld from them by the 1%. THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY OCCUPY CHICAGO & COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION
6:00PM , Monday, November 28, 2011 @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL
A severe housing crisis is gripping families and communities across the United States. Since the fall of 2008, the US Government purchased millions of foreclosed properties from banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The concrete result has been the transfer of $1.5 trillion in public wealth into the hands of private institutions and individuals to preserve their fortunes. While taking money from everyday workers and handing it over to huge, too big to fail, financial institutions helped forestall the collapse of the world’s financial markets, it has not prevented the displacement and dispossession of millions of ordinary families.
The banks have been saved, but the people have been abandoned.
Because billions of dollars in public funds were used to buy these homes, we assert those homes are now public housing and must be used to solve the housing crisis by providing homes to millions of families and individuals. The Take Back the Land Movement has directly challenged those laws which allow banks to reap record profits while millions of families face eviction and homelessness. Challenging unjust laws requires a protracted direct action campaign of civil disobedience designed to prioritize people over profits in a tangible way. As such, the Movement focuses on defending families against eviction and “liberating” vacant government owned and foreclosed homes, moving homeless people into people-less homes. Learn the strategies and tactics that have been successfully utilized in the struggle to reclaim for the 99% the open spaces withheld from them by the 1%. THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY OCCUPY CHICAGO & COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION
