C3 NOLA Concern, Community, and Compassion

The Homeless Pride Association invites you to:

March for Housing!

Challenge the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO)!
The Homeless Citizens of New Orleans need housing NOW!

March for housing, Monday, August 6th, 2007
Meet at 8 a.m. at Duncan Plaza, across from City Hall, 1300 Perdido St.
March to HANO office 8:30 a.m., Sojourner Truth Community Center, 501 N. Galvez, (by the Lafitte Housing Development).

Why are 12,000 of our citizens homeless when HANO has promised disaster vouchers for Katrina survivors?
House the homeless! Disaster Vouchers for our Homeless Citizens! Reopen Public Housing! Hire the homeless and public housing residents to repair public housing!
For more information, contact Homeless Pride- 504-343-0780 or Elizabeth Cook, 504-319-3564

Iberville tenant leader denounces developer and his ethnic and class cleansing designs

Friday morning, September 15th, Iberville public housing resident Glenda Goins led four other C3/Hands Off Iberville members to confront millionaire Michael Valentino on the 4th floor of his new hotel/visitor center located next to the Iberville development. Valentino was holed up there with about 30 other or so people as part of a so-called undoing racism training session. The developer unveiled plans recently to turn Iberville into a ‘mixed income’ community--the new capitalist code word for racial and class cleansing--along the lines of the St. Thomas development. He was using the undoing racism session as part of his political strategy to legitimate his racist capitalist plans that calls for, among other things, shrinking the number of public housing units from the current 865 to only 300, imposing work requireme

Residents of the C.J. Peete Public Housing Development, Katrina survivors one and all, will reoccupy their homes in the complex 4:30 pm Tuesday.

The reoccupation of the C. J. Peete Development finds its legal justification in the United Nations Guidelines On Internally Displaced Persons to which the United States government is bound by law. The failure of the Housing Authority Of New Orleans to respect the right of return of public housing residents compels C.J. Peete residents to reoccupy their homes without the assistance of the housing authority. This action will, in fact, mark the beginning of the reopening of the C.J. Peete Development. It will also help give hope to the tens of thousands of New Orleanians from public housing and section 8 rentals now in exile that the day of return for all of them is drawing closer.

Residents reoccupying their homes in the C.J. Peete Development will hold a question and answer session for the press and others at the time and place listed below.

Here are a few links to sites that discussed some of the events during the week:

9 Arrested in Action to Reopen New Orleans Public Housing
Corporate News Network Blasts Successful "Yes Men" Intervention
Death. Loss. Rebirth.
NAACP wants HANO to reopen all units
Group stages two-farced ruse over public housing
Oops: Impostor scams Louisiana officials
LA Times Article on the "hoax"

On August 28, 29, and 30th, on the one-year anniversary of the Great Flood to demand:

• Make the right of return real: Reopen All PUBLIC HOUSING NOW!!!!St Bernard, Lafitte, Cooper, Desire, Florida and CJ Peete!!!!!
• Democratically Controlled Public Works program to rebuild New Orleans and Gulf-coast--infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and housing at union wages.
• Moratorium on all evictions and home foreclosures. Rent Control Now!!
• MAKE THE RICH PAY: Tax the oil companies---$1 tax for every $1 price increase since the run up the Iraq war. Immediate withdrawal from Iraq money to rebuild the U.S and World, no money to destroy Iraq.

Monday, August 28: Reunion barbeque and overnight Vigil for solidarity and support in front of the St Bernard Public Housing Development, (3800 block of St Bernard)

Tuesday, August 29: March from St Bernard to the Peoples Commemoration memorial at Congo Square. Meet at 10 Am at St Bernard

Wednesday, August 30: Rededication rally and barbeque at St Bernard, 12 noon

On July 4th public housing residents and community supporters from all over the country will gather at the Surivor's Village for a Day of Unity, Protest and Rally.

The Survivor's Village is located on the 3800 block of St. Bernard Ave., across from the St. Bernard Housing Development.

The Day begins at 10am with the rally scheduled for 3pm. Water will be available, but please bring food or drink (non-alcoholic) to share with the group.

July 4th as Independence Day is also Freedom from Oppression Day as public housing residents continue their battle with the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) to reopen public housing.

Yesterday, a new battle front was opened in this fight when residents of public housing filed a law suit against HUD, alleging civil rights violations in HUD's refusal to repair and reopen the public housing developements damaged by Katrina.

Residents and supporters are determined to continue this grass roots movement for the Right of Return and the right to affordable housing for working class people everywhere.

Survivor's Village
Everyone has the Right to Return!
No Justice, No Peace.
Know Justice, Know Peace.

For Immediate Release
June 27, 2006
Contact:Media Relations Committee
Lynnette Bickham, 504-723-4893
Stephanie Mingo, 504-529-3172
Public Housing Protesters Disrupt Business-as-Usual in the French Quarter
WHEN: Saturday, July 1st, 2006, 6:00PM
WHERE: Iberville Development, Basin and Bienville

Public housing residents and their supporters are marching on the French Quarter, disrupting the 'business-as-usual' mentality and 'evicting' residents of the wealthy area on Saturday, July 1st. They march for the basic human Right of Return for all New Orleans citizens. The protest will begin at 5PM at the Iberville Housing Development (corner of Basin and Bienville) in downtown New Orleans. At 6:00PM protesters will begin marching through the French Quarter where the economic driving force of New Orleans, our tourism industry, is centralized, and where many residents of public housing were employed. Protesters will hit hotspots to ensure that tourists are aware that while they are treated to fine foods and entertainment, people not five minutes away remain homeless. Along the way "Eviction Notices" will be delivered to the neighborhood, calling for mixed income redevelopment of the area.

"Save our bricks, because we need our bricks to have somewhere to stay!"

Patricia St. Thomas,
Resident of Lafitte Housing Development

The United Front for Affordable Housing is staging a Tent City Protest to support the reopening of public housing in New Orleans.

What:Tent City Protest
When: Begins June 3rd
Where: Across from the St. Bernard Housing Development, 3300 block of St. Bernard Ave.

Why:

Public Housing residents and their supporters in New Orleans have run into a brick wall in the form of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, in their working class movement to reopen public housing.

In the wake of Katrina's devastation, Jackson, and local and state politicians, are using the floods' devastation as an excuse to ethnically and class cleanse the city of New Orleans.

Rally and March for Iberville

When: Tuesday, April 18
What Time: 12 Noon
Where: At the corner of Basin St. and Bienville

Why: Stop the threatened evictions of Iberville residents.
Reopen all of Iberville.
Compensate residents for their losses from looting.

Residents of Iberville, members of the United Front for Affordable Housing
and
community supporters are demanding that HANO put a stop to unfair treatment
and harassment of Iberville residents.

Tactics used by HANO to harass residents:
>>>Eviction threats of women and children
>>>Threats to move Iberville residents to Fischer because of reports of

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

They assassinated our King, April 4, 1968
On April 4, 2006 we say:
They Will NOT assassinate New Orleans and the
St. Bernard Housing Development

* Reopen the St Bernard and all of New Orleans Public Housing!!
* No to Demolition!!
* No to Racial and Class Cleansing!!
* Bring ALL New Orleans Home NOW!!
*

Join St Bernard public housing residents, as they return from forced exile,
to clean up and reclaim their homes. Bring brooms, gloves, bleach, brushes,

Have a Heart:
St. Bernard Must Restart!!!
Mayor Nagin says he wants residents to return. Well, make it happen for New Orleans’ St. Bernard public housing residents--reopen the development now! Stop the roadblocks!!! Make the right of return real!!!

Join St. Bernard Public Housing Tenant leader Malva McFadden, other St. Bernard Residents, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Civil engineer Marty Rowland, and supporters for a Demonstration and Press Conference to Demand the Reopening of the St. Bernard Public Housing Development.

Tuesday, February 14
3:30 PM
St. Bernard Health Clinic
3639 St. Bernard Ave.

The Right Of Right Return Demands Public Housing In N.O.!

Join The Martin Luther King Day March To Rebuild The Gulf Coast And The World.

On January 16, 2006 the annual Martin Luther King Day March in New Orleans, despite the best efforts of Mayor Nagin and the local corporate elite to kill it with neglect, will be held in New Orleans. This will be the first national call to action in the Gulf Coast region since Katrina to explicitly demand that public housing in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast region be reopened and rebuilt. We recognize that talk of a Right to Return to the hurricane devastated region is a cruel joke without the reopening and rebuilding of public housing in the region. New Orleans alone contained 8,330 public housing units on the eve of Katrina's landing. Sadly, thousands of habitable public housing units in the region remain closed because of! the silent but very real campaign by the Bush Administration and local elites to elminate housing for the poor. It's time for progressives around the country to stand with the tens of thousands of working class and African-American residents of the Gulf Coast region who call public housing and Section 8 apartments home.