Vision Statement for C3-concern, community, compassion
C3 is a grassroots community, New Orleans-based organization that advocates affordable housing as a human right, a truly democratic, accountable government that secures that right, and the rebuilding of New Orleans to include all its citizens. C3 champions the shifting of federal resources away from the imperialistic wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan and into programs designed to achieve the above ideals. C3’s activities include demonstrations, press conferences, public education, informational forums, workshops, networking with local, national, and international activist groups, social aid, lobbying legislators, and fund raising.
Implementing the C3 Vision
C3 has recently joined forces with the New Orleans Housing Emergency Action Team (N.O.H.E.A.T.) to stop the evictions of New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina and to force the reopening of affordable housing units among the City’s public housing developments, with particular emphasis on the Iberville development on Basin Street. Bringing Iberville to 100% occupancy was a pre-Katrina goal of C3…Katrina forced the debate on C3’s fight on housing to an international audience.
C3 members participated in the (November 14th) march across the Mississippi River Bridge with Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to challenge the authority of the Gretna Police Chief to deny access of any citizen from seeking a secure escape from dangerous conditions as existed on August 31, 2005, when scores of New Orleans citizens walking toward Jefferson Parish and the City of Gretna, were shot at and turned back to the Convention Center.
Many more events are scheduled in the upcoming months to keep up the political pressure for social justice, and give locals a forum to seek individual equity from the disaster that hit New Orleans and which continues to hit it in the storm’s aftermath. We intend to wage the fight for the right of every citizen of New Orleans to return to their City and restart their life.
C3 Workshop on Equitable Governance
New Orleans needs to have an equitable system of governance whereby sufficient public revenues are provided to secure the ideals of affordable housing. C3 advocates rebuilding New Orleans with pre-Katrina demographics, with short and long-term programs to raise medium incomes and lessen the spread between the poor and rich.