Des communautés squattent avec Take back the land aux USA

Selon le bureau des sondages des ÉU, une maison sur 9 y serait vide. Pendant que ces maisons attendent d'être vendue par leur propriétaires légaux soit les banques ou le gouvernement, les familles qui y résidaient vivent dans la rue. Alors que les programmes gouvernementaux ne réussissent plus à répondre aux besoins de logements, un groupe appelé "Take Back The Land" prend les devant dans l'illégalité en ouvrant les maisons vides à des familles qui en ont évidemment plus besoin que les capitalistes. Voici un reportage avec un des organisateurs de ce groupe(25 min 36)

"Take Back the Land on NOW (PBS TV) June 2009"


Si vous avez un peu moins de 25 minutes pour vous informez, voici un clip plus court, mais plus "crap media" aussi.


et à l'image voici les milles mots:

Take Back the Land
By Max Rameau
Tiré de Leftturn.org "news of the global intifada"

The recent economic volatility, marked by a housing boom spurred by massive gentrification and the current cycle of capital divestment resulting in mass foreclosures, has been a major challenge for a social justice movement caught off guard and flat footed. After high rates of housing construction during the boom years, the subsequent bust has witnessed hundreds of thousands of people evicted from their homes. The net result is a simultaneous increase in both the number of homes and the number of families without homes.

It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away. This moral outrage is only compounded by a bailout which extracts billions of dollars from people who need housing for the benefit of corporations which get to keep both the money and the vacant homes, allowing the bank to, effectively, sell the home twice.

While the January 2008 census reported 4,574 homeless people in Miami-Dade County, Florida (including a spike in homeless families), the county endured 4,726 foreclosure-related evictions during the first four months of 2008. Rarely in the social justice movements do the solutions lie in such obvious proximity to the problems they’re meant to solve.

Grassroots organization

In October 2007, Take Back the Land, a Black led, Miami-based grassroots organization,began identifying vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moving homeless people into them, without permission from the banks or the government. To date, we have liberated seven homes with seven families.

Early on we recognized the movement to liberate housing benefited everyone involved: the occupied homes are protected from the vandalism that often plagues vacant houses, saving the bank thousands in repairs. Families are provided housing security with obvious financial benefits and less obvious mental health benefits from reduced stress levels. Communities are made stronger by the elimination of vacant homes and the neighborhood involvement of their new occupants.

Take Back the Land met for many hours hashing out our guidelines for conducting move-ins. First, we decided to only liberate vacant homes that are government-owned or foreclosed. Additionally, we only select homes in good physical condition, without significant wall or floor board damage.

We find the homes via foreclosure lists or by going street to street, and have them checked out by our scout team and researchers. As for tenants, we focus on families and do not move people with problems that could be exacerbated by living alone, such as severe drug addiction or mental health conditions. We provide them with a standard care package of cleaning supplies and customized donations based on their individual needs such as beds, children's clothes, etc. We do not provide social services, but share phone numbers of appropriate agencies. All families are required to contribute “sweat equity” by cleaning, painting and moving into their homes.

Tenants are given phone numbers and told what to say in the event the police or property manager shows up. They are required to maintain electricity and running water and, equally as important, to be good neighbors. We generally meet and talk with one or more neighbors in advance and encourage the tenants to continue those conversations with them.

Each “move-in” has been handled well, resulting in a full eviction process and not an arrest. Each family has decided to leave the home rather than fight to remain--so far.

Factors conspire

Invariably, every society suffers contradictions between competing sets of rights, such as the right of free speech versus the right to peace and quiet. Each society negotiates those dilemmas, building its culture and history along the way. Every so often, however, factors conspire to heighten contradictions so significantly that the society forever changes as a result.

US society is hurtling towards a major social clash between two contradictory sets of rights: the right of human beings to housing on one side and the right of corporations to maximize profits on the other. The housing bubble demonstrated clearly that the right of corporations to profit threatens the right of many human beings to secure housing. Conversely, the housing bust indicates that the right of human beings to housing encroaches upon the right and ability of corporations to maximize profits by holding on to vacant housing until prices rise again.

Consequently, the economic crisis is compelling a vigorous struggle to determine which set of rights has priority over the other and how that priority is manifest in public policy and day to day life. The struggle will result in a significant social shift which will either see housing elevated to the level of a human right or corporate interests elevated above those of humans. Take Back the Land asserts that the right of human beings to housing supersedes the corporate drive to maximize profits. We advance that assertion by directly challenging existing laws which favor corporate profits over human needs. We urge those who concur to join the struggle for the liberation of land. Forward.

Max Rameau is with Take Back the Land a project of the Center for Pan-African Development. His book, Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown, is available on Amazon.com. For more information visit: Take Back the Land or email: takebacktheland@gmail.com. Blog: http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/

Liberté pour les emprisonnéEs du Black Riders Liberation Party!

Ce clip de Public Enemy aide à comprendre le contexte de la lutte organisée par les communautés noirs contre le racisme aux États-Unis. Pendant que les gang de rues entredéchireraient les communautés noirs, le racisme continue toujours ses attaques. C'est à ce moment qu'intervienent les organsiations révolutionnaires de libération noir soit le New Black Panther Party et le Black Riders Liberation Party né en 2006 afin d'unir ces communautés dans un projet de libération collective clairement anti-capitaliste où la libération du style hip-hop fait entre autre parti du programme. Comme il est possible de le lire ci-dessous le groupe BRLP est la cible de répression et appel les personnes qui adhèrent à l'anarchisme, au communisme, à l'anti-autoritarisme, à l'anti-fascisme, l'anti-imperialisme ("and all the others -isms") à supporter la libération des prisonniers du BRLP.



Qu'est-ce que le Black Riders Liberation Party?


Qu'est-ce que le Black Panther Party?



Three leading members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out), Comrades Stress and Aryana Shakur, have been indicted and arrested on charges of a conspiracy to possess automatic weapons and attempted possession of a machine gun in a b.s. set-up and entrapment case.

They are being held on bail of half a million for Aryana to a million dollars apiece for T.A.C.O. and Stress. Despite the heavy bail and serious charges - the DA is alleging the Riders were going to enter and shoot up various LAPD stations but has brought no such charges, using only the unsubstantiated allegation as the basis for justifying the raids, undercover cops and surveillance directed at the BRLP - neither the DA nor the LAPD has made any public statements about the case.

This reflects the weak and baseless nature of their case, but also their attempt to disrupt the party by locking up its leaders, attempting to bury them in prison without arousing a public clamor or base of support for the BRLP. It is vital that we present a strong, community-based opposition to these nefarious efforts by the LAPD and District Attorney's office to criminalize Black youth and revolutionary politics.
The DA sought and obtained a gang enhancement on the charges, even though the undercover officer testified under cross-examination that the BRLP in fact claimed no territory, bore no identifying gang-style tattoos, and in fact resembled the Black Panther Party!

The cop acknowledged under oath that the Black Riders were proud Africans, advocates for Black unity and avowed communists! This testimony makes clear the political nature of the charges and the whole case.

Although the BRLP have been the targets of police harassment and set-ups for their entire 10-year history, the recent series of busts and high-power raids have taken place in the context of the BRLP popularizing the case of the San Francisco 8 - Black Panther Party members and associates - at a street level in Los Angeles, as well as leading Black resistance and building Black-Brown unity against the racist Minutemen.

Combined with the effectiveness of their "Watch-a-Pig" programs and their peace-making efforts and political education with Bloods and Crips street organization members, these successes brought the BRLP under the cross hairs of the highly political repressive apparatus of the LAPD.

As T.A.C.O. said when the Black Riders organized a demonstration for the SF 8 in Leimert Park in LA last summer, the attack on the SF 8 is an attack not only on the elders and the legacy of the Black Panther Party, but on the current forces struggling for Black liberation and self-defense, such as the BRLP.

The BRLP has recently been building chapters and making contacts in San Diego, Sacramento and the Bay Area. As their recognition and support in the Black community of south L.A., Crenshaw, Watts and the Inland Empire has grown, the police have grown more intent on disrupting their activities. These latest raids and high bails are further proof that the system hates and wants to destroy organized resistance among Black and other colonized and resisting people.

Based on a LAPD affidavit and warrant, LA and San Bernardino sheriffs raided a home in August out in Highland, Calif. The raid, which involved a huge number of deputies as well as federal agents, armored personnel carriers and battering rams, now appears to have been based on the same unsubstantiated allegations of a BRLP "plot" to shoot up LA police stations.

We cannot allow the repressive forces of the state to carry out their plan to lock up the leaders of the BRLP and roll up the party! The Black Riders are being targeted because they are a revolutionary Black organization fighting against the system.

This is just the beginning. The police state is trying to set precedents with the Black Riders as they are doing with the San Francisco 8, so that they can go after anybody who chooses to resist and rebel against this oppressive way of life. "If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night."

The Black Riders urge other communities and social justice organizations to support them. The system is trying to isolate them and crush them.

At this point, they need to raise money for their defense. The Black Riders Liberation Party can be contacted and donations can be sent to: Black Riders, P.O. Box 8297, Los Angeles, CA 90008.

Text From: http://www.sfbayview.com/News/Africa_The_World/Black_Riders_Liberation_Party_leaders_locked_up.html

BRLP on Mayday 2008 - "Organize our youth and educate them against police brutality"


A call to the ones who stand against imperialism, racism and fascism - Liberate the prisoners


Black riders Liberation Party (General TACO in the middle)