Asian Americans United protest a casino proposal for the Gallery Mall in Philadelphia. For more information go to www.aaunited.org
Videos regarding the “No Casinos” campaign:
Links below are in pdf format:
Direct Action Manual
Community Organizing Manual
Tactical Strategies
Midwest Academy Strategy Chart Guidelines
Checklist-Choosing an Issue
Checklist-Tactics
Checklist-Accountability Sessions
Checklist-Planning Action
Checklist-Meeting
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy: Manual forActivists by Kimberly A Bobo, Steve Max, Jackie Kendall, and Midwest Academy (Corporate Author).
This powerful book was examined by the class, URBS 448 : Community Displacement. The following Power PointPresentations illustarate vital chapters. Please note some of these powerpoint presentations are Microsoft 1997-2003 format and others are Microsoft 2007:
Bobo-Chapters 5 and 6
Bobo-Chapter 7 and 8
Bobo-Chapters 9 and 10
Bobo-Chapters 11 and 12
Bobo-Chapter 13
Bobo-Chapter 14
Bobo-Chapters 15 and 16
Bobo-Chapter 17
Bobo-Chapter 18
Bobo-Chapters 19 and 20
Online Tools for Organizing
Instant Advocate Toolkit
www.transcoalition.org/ia/inclhous/01.html#stabalize_neighborhoods
Community Information Technology Initiative
www.myciti.org
Tool Applicability Matrix
www.mas.org
Midwest Academy
www.midwestacademy.com
Neighborhood and Organizational Resources
Coalition to Protect Public Housing
www.limits.com/cpph
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
www.dsni.org
Homes not Jails
www.homesnotjails.org
Institute on Race and Poverty
www.umn.edu/irp/webpowerpoints/tchousing1127.html
Living Cities
www.livingcities.org
Philadelphia Folklore Project
www.folkloreproject.org
Seattle Displacement Coalition
www.zipcom.net
Shelterforce Online
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues.html
Street Roots
www.streetroots.com
Know Your Rights
Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain refers to the power of the state to seize private land for its own use without the owner’s consent. The government must demonstrate that the land will be used for the “public good.” The U.S. government has typically used this power in order to complete public projects like the construction of roads and highways, though a controversial Supreme Court decision in June 2005 has paved the way towards using it for economic development, even when the land is being taken from one private owner and shifted to another private owner. Cities have taken private land in order to make way for developers who then build more expensive homes and offices; the city justifies this by claiming the move increases the city’s tax base. The government, under the 5th Amendment, is supposed to offer “just compensation” in return for the land, though this may be irrelevant to a family that has lived in the same home for generations.
Rest assured your property will be used for projects vital to public interest...especially the public interested in a new MINI-MALL
For more information on Eminent Domain, click here
Read up on a CBS news story regarding Eminent Domain abuse
The new American discrimination — Eminent Domain (Article)
Kelo vs The City of New London—Supreme Court Case regarding Eminent Domain in the city of New London, Connecticut. Below are various articles documenting the case
Wikipedia Article
Boston.com Article
OLR Research Report
Community Displacement is a national issue affecting communities in urban and suburban areas. Urban renewal, suburban renewal, gentrification, corporation and university expansions are all touching various neighborhoods. Many of these residents are ready to fight for their homes. Please see the list below of groups around the country organized to protect their community.
Links are in Word document format and PDF format:
States A-H, States-A-H Word doc.
States I-M, States-I-M-Word doc
States O-Z, States O-Z Word doc
US Issues links and videos. For more details on these links including community partners, please click on the states above.
- Gentrification Web
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gentrification/
- Institute for Justice
- Castle Coalition
- Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association
Contact: Pierre Sands, P.O. Box 331389, Miami, FL 33133
- RENT- (Regional Equity for Neighborhoods and Tenants)
- Miami Workers Center
Contact: Joseph Phelan, 786-261-5788, joseph@theworkerscenter.org
- South Florida Community Development Coalition
Contact: Andrea Baker, Coordinator
300 NW 12th Avenue,
Miami, 33128.
(786) 237-2125
andreab@floridacdc.org
- American Sociological Association
Contact: Margaret Weigers Vitullo, apap@asanet.org
- Concerned Black Clergy
Contact: Rev. Darrell D. Elligan
- Fight Gentrification—Harlem, Brooklyn, East New York, and others
http://fightgentrification.com/
- FUREE—Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
81 Willoughby Street, 701
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718.852.2960
Fax: 718.852.2959
email: info@furee.org
- The Chinatown Tenants Union
Contact: Helena Wong at hwong@caaav.org or (212) 473-6485.
- Save Old Cheyenne Coalition
Contact: Kelly Weidlichk
E-mail: weidlich@hkwyolaw.com
Website: http://www.saveoldcheyenne.com/
- Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Expansion
E-mail: info@protectrochester.org
Website: http://www.protectrochester.com
- Seattle Displacement Coalition
Contact: John V. Fox
E-mail: sdc@zipcon.net
Phone: 206-632-0668
Website: http://www.zipcon.net/~jvf4119/
- Virginia Tech Intramural Displacement
Athletics Department: hokipoki@vt.edu
- West Virginia Farmland Protection
Website: http://www.wvfarmlandprotection.org/contact.cfm
- Stop the Towers
E-mail: NOTOWERS@notowersinwv.org
Website: http://www.notowersinwv.org/
- UWM Downtown
Contact: uwmdowntown@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.uwmdowntown.org
- Black Mesa Coalition
www.blackmesawatercoalition.org
- Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions COHRE
http://www.cohre.org/mega-events
- The Chinatown Gateway Coalition
Chinatown Gateway Coalition
c/o BCNC
885 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
- The West End Community Center (Community Partner)
This site documents the taking of the West End of Boston.
President: Jim Campano can be reached at j.campano@att.net
150 Staniford St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone (617) 670 – 1900
info@westendcommunitycenter.com
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 1300
Chicago, IL 60601-2110
312 673-6500 (p)
- The Capon Valley Coalition
http://caponvalleycoalition.com/about/
- The Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
- City Life/Vida Urbana and Jamaica Plain NDC
- Teton Valley Alliance
Email -nolanboyle@tetonvalleyalliance.com
- Earth First! — Groups against the expansion of Interstate 69:
Earth First! Journal- PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702-3023
- Student Tenant Organizing Project
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/solidarieis/stop/
Email: STOPgentrification@gmail.com
- Stopeda.org
http://stopeda.org/currentabuses.htm
- The Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
- National Rights New Hampshire
- Harlem Tennants Council
21 West 130th St
New York, NY 10037
harlemtenants@gmail.com
646-812-5188
YouTube videos in regards to community displacement and gentrification in the states listed above:
Your Urban Renewal, My Gentrification (NYU 2009)
Vanishing New York
Please see more videos below–Click on link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpkz5tt8F4Y Gentrification in Harlem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiN_XaSo82U Gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPklH2qYlf8 Community Displacement in Durham, NC
Article: Suburban renewal
The Supremes rule that property seizure’s not just for poor folks anymore
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=36112
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