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US CODE: Title 28,1343. Civil rights and elective franchise

(a) The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person:

(1) To recover damages for injury to his person or property, or because of the deprivation of any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, by any act done in furtherance of any conspiracy mentioned in section 1985 of Title 42;

(2) To recover damages from any person who fails to prevent or to aid in preventing any wrongs mentioned in section 1985 of Title 42 which he had knowledge were about to occur and power to prevent;

(3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States or by any Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States;

(4) To recover damages or to secure equitable or other relief under any Act of Congress providing for the protection of civil rights, including the right to vote.

(b) For purposes of this section—

(1) the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a State; and

(2) any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

US CODE: Title 28,1343. Civil rights and elective franchise

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT: CHICAGO, ATLANTA and NEW ORLEANS THREE CITIES FIGHT BACK

 

 

 

Date: Thursday January 17, 2008

Time: 3:00 PM EST

•Every year from 2.5 to 3.5 million people in United States are homeless, another 2 million are living in severely inadequate housing; more than half of low- income households spend more than 50% of their income on housing.
•Less than 30% of housing considered is considered affordable.
•It is estimated that at least 32% of those who are low income and have housing problems are children.
•Single mothers are at the “greatest disadvantage”, an estimated 20 million spending half of their incomes on housing
• There are 2 million few low cost affordable housing units than the number of poor households needing these units.
Join the US Human Rights Network as we provide an update on the housing crisis in the United States, we will examine in detail what is taking place in Chicago, Atlanta and New Orleans. This will be an opportunity to get informed and take action to what is taking place nationally and how member organizations are fighting back locally.
CHICAGO
Willie JR. Flemming is a Cabrini Green Resident/organizer/documentarian/website designer and researcher with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing. Flemming presented testimony before the UN Office of the High Commission on Human Rights last year. He is currently the Chairperson for the Hip Hop congress Community Chapter in Chicago which deals with issues of social and economic injustice using music as a platform to unite the people.
ATLANTA
Terence Courtney, Coordinator for the Atlanta Jobs with Justice (JWJ). The Atlanta JWJ is coordinating the Riders’ Union, although the leaders stress their main tactic is empowering others and educating them about how to have an effective voice through collective organizing. Atlanta JWJ has been actively organizing with public housing tenant associations, with the belief that housing, transit and health care are all human rights.
NEW ORLEANS
Kali Akuno is an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a Black human rights organization. He is based in Oakland, California where he founded and directed the School of Social Justice and Community Development (SSJCD). He is currently spearheading the Coalition To Stop The Demolition in New Orleans.

 

http://www.accuconference.com/registration/2465339/20080117/