November 30, 2010
"Cabrini-Green may be almost gone, but there are still a few residents left fighting for their homes.
At the last open high-rise at 1230 N. Burling St., near the corner of Halsted and Division streets, four families stood up and said they won't be pressured to move out earlier than...
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November 30, 2010
Vermont is on the cusp of winning universal, single–payer health care after two years of grassroots organizing by the Vermont Workers’ Center. Come January, the Vermont Workers’ Center’s Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign will enter the final stage of their fight for a...
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November 24, 2010
This year's World Health Report, Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage, published this week by the World Health Organization (WHO), seeks to give governments practical guidance on financing health care in a way that ensures universal access.
From the press release: “Taking...
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November 23, 2010
Homeless people traveled to Brooklyn this morning, to deliver a papier-mache turkey to the Brooklyn City Council Member who is blocking an important housing bill.
Intro 48, which would empower the city to conduct an annual census of vacant buildings and lots, has been stalled in the City...
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November 18, 2010
A new survey from The Commonwealth Fund finds that adults in the United States are far more likely than those in 10 other industrialized nations to go without health care because of cost, have trouble paying their medical bills, encounter high medical bills even when insured, and have disputes...
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November 17, 2010
NESRI partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange (FTGE) have reached an agreement that will extend the CIW's Fair Food principles – including a strict code of conduct, a cooperative complaint resolution system, a participatory health and safety...
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November 11, 2010
"Los Angeles' public housing agency moved to evict nine tenants last week after they protested at the Rancho Cucamonga home of the agency's top executive.
The action so outraged members of the City Council that on Wednesday they ordered the Housing Authority to immediately halt the action...
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November 9, 2010
"Stepping out of the elevator onto the 14th floor of the Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, Sheriee Woodland was greeted by a world-famous panorama of high-rise architecture.
The Chicago Temple Building, Holabird & Root's 23 story, neo-Gothic masterpiece; Kohn Pederson Fox's "...
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Release of Grassroots Report on US Mission of the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Adequate Housing
November 8, 2010
The purpose of this report is to document the critical role that community-based groups, in particular members of the Campaign to National Restore Housing Rights, played in ensuring that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing’s first mission to the United...
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November 6, 2010
Skid Row resident and Community Organizer, Deborah Burton is headed to Geneva to attend the United Nations’ (UN) Universal Periodic Review.
Created by resolution through the UN General Assembly in March 2006, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a...
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November 6, 2010
Vermont's Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign took a step forward with this week's gubernatorial election, which saw Peter Shumlin, a supporter of the Campaign, win the governorship. Shumlin ran on a platform promising to make health care a right in Vermont, starting with the design and...
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November 5, 2010
NESRI, along with over thirty organizations across the United States, have coordinated the national tour of esteemed movement organizer and public intellectual S'bu Zikode, founding member and current President of Abahlali baseMjondolo, or Shackdwellers' Movement, post-...
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November 5, 2010
Poverty Initiative visits Northeast Pennsylvania Organizing Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA to help the Center kick off its new faith-based project.
WILKES-BARRE – Poverty is an escalating problem in Luzerne and surrounding counties. Increased foreclosures and layoffs are packing a...
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November 5, 2010
A local poverty-fighting program will begin tonight at the headquarters of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Organizing Center in Wilkes-Barre.
Frank Sindaco, coordinator of the center at 198 S. Main St., said tonight's event at 7 will mainly be an effort to develop relationships with leaders in...
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November 4, 2010
In a blog post to the Huffington Post today, NESRI's Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger offers a commentary on why the United States fails to recognize economic and social rights.
Marking the United Nations hearing on the U.S. human rights record to take place...
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November 3, 2010
LA CAN is participating in a Day of Actions around the 4th Anniversary of increased policing of homelessness in Los Angeles. Participating community groups will protest the criminalization of poor people, and the people who provide resources to them, under the “Safer Cities Initiative...
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November 3, 2010
Representative of LA Community Action Network and the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights Travels to Geneva to Testify on Struggle for Human Right to Housing in U.S.
In a report published in advance of the United Nations hearing on the U.S. human rights record, advocacy groups called on...
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November 1, 2010
In May 2010, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its plan for the future of rental assistance in this country. The legislation, the Preservation, Enhancement and Transformation of Rental Assistance Act (PETRA), would allow HUD to change the ownership structure of...
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