“An Injury to One is an Injury to All”
Solidarity Statement on the May 21, 2010 Proceedings in Los Angeles City Hall
I/We support the LA Right to Housing Collective and their efforts to promote and defend human rights. The LA City Council must act immediately to strengthen and protect housing rights for all residents of Los Angeles.
I/We express our outrage over the human rights abuses perpetrated against low-income residents and organizations in the LA Rights to Housing Collective on May 21st.
The human right to housing is the responsibility of our government and elected officials, including the Los Angeles City Council. The defeat of the moratorium on rent increases on May 21st represents a violation of the human right to housing.
Cornerstones of democracy include freedom of speech and the right to protest injustice without fear of retaliation, violence and criminalization. Nowhere are those rights more important than in LA’s City Hall. The LA City Council’s use of police force and violence against constituents exercising their rights on May 21st will not be tolerated. A public apology and a full investigation of the use of force by the police, at a minimum, are already overdue.
Endorsed by:
Los Angeles
Aztlan Media Kollective (LA and San Francisco)
CHIRLA
Coalition LA
COFEM
Community Coalition
Community Health Councils (slightly revised)
Comunidad Presente
Critical Resistance LA
Diane Middleton Foundation
East LA Community Corporation
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
FACTS
Figueroa Corridor Community Land Trust
Homeless Health Care Los Angeles
Hunger Action LA
IDEPSCA
Inner City Law Center (slightly revised)
Inquilidos Unidos
KPFK Community Advisory Board
Labor/Community Strategy Center
Lamp Community (slightly revised)
Living Word Community Church
Los Angeles Community Action Network
Los Angeles Peace and Freedom Party
Los Angeles Poverty Department
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, LA Chapter
People Organized for Westside Renewal
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Los Angeles
South Asian Network
Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing
Southern California Library
Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers
St. John’s Well Child and Family Center
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Union de Vecinos
National
Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Other Localities
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (Berkeley)
Coalition to Preserve Community (NY, NY)
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) (NY, NY)
Real Change (Seattle)
May Day New Orleans
Picture the Homeless (NY, NY)
Sisters of the Road (Portland, OR)
Street Roots (Portland, OR)
Western Regional Advocacy Project
