Resources

Take Back the Land Movement

Partner Organizations

• U.S. Human Rights Network
• National Economic & Social Rights Intiataive (NESRI)
  • Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
• Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA)- Rochester Chapter
• Rochester Students for a Democratic Society

Land/Housing Liberations and Foreclosure Resistance

• Landless Workers' Movement [English] - (MST; Brazil)
• Homeless Workers' Movemennt - (MTST; Brazil)
• Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Afrika)
• Western Cape Anti-eviction Campaign (South Afrika)
• Unified Movement of Campesinos of Aguan (MUCA; Honduras)
• City Life/Vida Urbana (Boston)
• Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
• Occupy Our Homes Atlanta
• Occupy Our Homes Minnesota
• Standing Against Foreclosures and Evictions (SAFE; Seattle)
• Foreclosure Resisters (NYC)
• Homes Not Jails San Francisco
• Take Back the Land Madison

Literature

• Take Back the Land Rochester Intro
• Take Back the Land Movement Intro

Video

• Takeover
• Vida Urbana on Bill Moyer
• Cutting the Wire: Witnessing Land Occupation in Brazil - PBS Frontline

Audio

• Interview with Ashraf Cassiem of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign  - KPFA's Against the Grain
• Reclaiming Capitalist Spaces - Max Rameau from Take Back the Land
• Take Back the Land Talk in Chicago

Articles

• Housing Protest Leads to Takeover of Duplex (SF) 
• An Open Letter from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa to U.S. Activists

Housing and Foreclosure Crisis      

• The Broken Mortgage Promise  
• Banks' Incentives to Foreclose: The Servicing Industry

Public Housing

• The End of Public Housing - by shelterforce

The Shelter System

• Housing, Race, and the Shelter-Industrial Complex - Picture the Homeless

Homelessness and Public Education

• The Year They Began Calling Homelessness and Poverty an "Excuse"
• Schools Cope with Shelterless Students - Washington Post