Housing Justice

Today, December 20, 2014, the City of Rochester, NY destroyed Sanctuary Village. This was the last stop for people with no place to go. Tents, sleeping bags, tarps, and, personal items were bulldozed into a dumpster. No city official present, including the RPD, would take responsibility for this atrocity, five days before Christmas.

Take Back The Land and allies gathered at Joseph Martinez's home on Alameda St., on December 9th, 2014, demanding that Wells Fargo call off its eviction order. The marshal and the movers failed to appear. At the end of the day, Wells Fargo agreed to negotiate. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Open Letter to Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks Regarding Rochester's Homeless Crisis

Dear County Executive Maggie Brooks,

Monroe County has a moral and, under Article 17 of the New York State Constitution, a legal obligation to care for all its residents especially our street homeless. We implore you to reverse the lock out of homeless persons from the Civic Center Garage until Monroe County puts into place a permanent plan to house all homeless.

Rochester had the honor of screening the film "The Throwaways", which documents the life of Ira McKinley, an ex-felon and homeless man as he attempts to show the viewer "the throwaways" in our society.

original article: http://rocredandblack.org/amended-resistance-rejecting-the-politics-of-constitutional-defense/\

"The Louisiana DOC has an abysmal history of protecting the rights of its prisoners, and the tragic story of the Angola 3 is a case in point," write US Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, and Cedric Richmond in a letter to the US Justice Department, urging the Attorney General to investigate the use of solitary confinement, and other troubling detention practices, in numerous Louisiana prison facilities, especially LSP-Angola.