For immediate release
What: LA Housing & Hunger Crisis Conference
When: Friday, April 8- Sunday, April 10, 2011
Where: Friday, 4/8, 7:00-9:00 pm - Southern California Library,
6120 S. Vermont Ave., L.A. 90044 (between Slauson & Gage)
Saturday, 4/9, 10:00 am-4:00 pm - Angelus Plaza
Auditorium, 255 S. Hill St., L.A. 900 (between 2nd & 3rd St.)
Sunday, 4/10, 12:00 noon 3:00 pm - Southern
California Library, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., L.A. 90044
Initiated by GrassrootsKPFK, a coalition of human rights activists,
this is a working conference to build unity and action among people
and groups working around issues of housing, homelessness,
gentrification, foreclosures, privatization of public housing, food
and water sovereignty and other issues of urban environmental
justice. Friday evening's Cultural Resistance program features
"Nailheads," a homeless theater troupe and other political theater,
music and spoken word. Saturday's sessions include featured speakers
Rob Robinson of the Take Back the Land movement on the East Coast,
Corine Fairbanks of the American Indian Movement, and Bilal Mafundi
Ali of the LA Housing is a Human Right Network. A series of workshops
will address foreclosures, tenants' rights, community defense,
public-private partnerships in the parks, gentrification and the CRA,
urban gardening, water security, public and Internet art in human
rights organizing, and other related issues. Sunday's plenary session
will focus on alliance building and planning on-going work and
actions. Sunday's meeting will adjourn at 3:00 pm to join the Marcha
por Zapata in East LA's Lincoln Park/Parque Mexico. The venues are
accessible to the disabled, and Spanish/English translation will be provided.
Who: Coalition initiated by GrassrootsKPFK, and includes
American Iindian Movement, Anti-Racist Action, Black Riders
Liberation Party, Brown Riders, Coalition LA, Coffee Party, Echo Park
Community Leadership Coalition, Food not Bombs, LA CAN (Community
Action Network), Maggie Phair Institute, MLK Coalition for Jobs
Justice & Peace, South Central Farmers, Take Back the Land, Venice
Justice Committee, Watercorps, and Workers Solidarity Alliance.
For more information, contact: 310-495-0299 or [email protected]
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