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NEW YORK
‘No housing, no peace!’
Published Dec 23, 2009 3:32 PM
“They say gentrify, we say unify!” shouted
protesters on Dec. 16 in East Harlem, New York City, as four groups— Community
Voices Heard, Community Board 11, Tenants and Neighbors and Picture The
Homeless— marched through the housing projects of mostly Black and
Latino/a neighborhoods. “Demands for affordable housing grow,”
as PTH organizer, Maria, explained at the rally following
the march. Maria, who is homeless, stated, “Thousands of the poor have
been forced out of their homes.”
The protest called for unity in this struggle for housing for all working-class
and oppressed people. As the militant action showed, the 600 stalled or largely
empty NYC luxury apartments may soon face a takeover by those who say
that decent housing is a human right.
— Report and photo by Anne Pruden
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