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DESCRIPTION:Say NO to White Supremacy and Neoliberalism in New Orleans and the 
 World!\n\nStand up for the Right to Return!\n\nDemand the Human Right to 
 Shelter!!! \n\nWHEN: January 26, 2008 3:00 pm \n\nWHERE: Senator Dianne 
 Feinstein's Estate. 2460 Lyon Street (at Vallejo Street), San Francisco, CA 
 \n\nWHO: Everyone that Supports the Human Right to Shelter. \n \n\nThe 
 homeless crisis in New Orleans is one of the worst in history. More than 
 12,000 residents are now homeless after Katrina and hurricane survivors 
 face long waiting lists to get into city shelters. In response to this 
 emergency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has 
 decided to bulldoze more than 4,500 public housing units!!!  This is an 
 egregious affront to New Orleans residents and a blatant attempt to 
 gentrify the region. \n\nAs a member of the Senate's Appropriation's 
 Committee that funds HUD, Senator Diane Feinstein has not cosponsored S. 
 1668, the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act, a bill that would guarantee a 
 *Unit For Unit* replacement of New Orleans demolished public housing units. 
 \n\nThat is why, on January 26th, in accordance with the World Social 
 Forum's Global Day of Action against neoliberalism, Bay Area activists will 
 gather at Senator Dianne Feinstein's five-story-estate to demand an END to 
 racial and ethnic cleansing in New Orleans and the World. \n\nAs Bay Area 
 Katrina solidarity activists, we feel that the crisis in New Orleans is 
 intrinsically connected to the United States Social Forum's larger themes 
 of liberation from heteropatriarchy, racism, militarism and imprisonment, 
 colonialism, environmental destruction, and immigrant and worker 
 exploitation. As HUD attempts to destroy the housing of mostly African 
 American working-class women, Halliburton and development corporations have 
 traveled as far as Oaxaca looking for cheap migrant labor to exploit and 
 leave homeless in the Gulf Coast. Companies like Corrections Corporation of 
 America are building for-profit prisons in the South under the guise of 
 "hurricane relief" and as the United States government spends billions of 
 dollars bombing the homes of Iraqi women, men and children, they are 
 out-sourcing New Orleans reconstruction to private corporations who are 
 attempting to gentrify the region at all costs.  \n\nSupporting the Right 
 to Return for Katrina/Rita Survivors not only advances the right to 
 self-determination for African American communities in the South, it 
 advances the right to global self-determination--the right for all people 
 to define their own destiny—From New Orleans to Latin America; from the 
 Middle East to the Bay Area. \n\nThe Bay Area racial justice community 
 understands all too well that the New Orleans housing crisis does not exist 
 in a vacuum. It points at this much larger global crisis. Gentrification 
 policies have made the San Francisco Bay Area one of the most expensive 
 places to live in the nation with one of the highest concentrations of 
 homelessness. Instead of supporting the human right to housing, politicians 
 like Diane Feinstein are seeking to make racial profiling laws such as the 
 San Francisco's gang memorandum national policy. In the Bay Area, African 
 American and Latino residents of Hunter's Point and the Mission District 
 are finding it increasingly difficult to afford skyrocketing rents, yet 
 when they leave their homes they find their community has become a police 
 state. \n\nOn the 26th people all around the world will demonstrate against 
 injustice. In San Francisco, we need your presence, passion and voice to 
 stand in solidarity with Hurricane and Rita Survivors and with the people 
 of the world to express our outrage for foreign and domestic greed and 
 white supremacy—in New Orleans, Oakland, Palestine and beyond. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/22/18474162.php
SUMMARY:Global Day of Action--San Fran: Support New Orleans Housing!
LOCATION:Senator Dianne Feinstein's Estate. 2460 Lyon Street (at Vallejo Street), 
 San Francisco, CA 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/22/18474162.php
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