Learn more about the impressive Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, whose innovative work to pair homeless people with people-less homes will be featured at our 10/29 event A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home community forum, in this interview with cofounder Willie Fleming, who goes by J. R. (which stands for Just Righteousness). RSVP here, if you havent already: tinyurl/RPHDreamForeclosed! “The government failed us. The market failed us. Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago failed us. Our government — the government — doesn’t belong to us. Forget them; they forgot us. We need to solve our problems ourselves. J. R. realized they didn’t need to build lean-tos in Chicago’s black community. They had all the empty homes they required....If the government won’t provide public housing for the people, the people must provide it for themselves.”
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:12:55 +0000