COMMUNITY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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FEATURES Alexandria Taxi Drivers Win Struggle for Economic Justice Immigrant communities across the nation are battling discriminatory practices in the workforce that deny them basic social and economic rights. Such a battle has been fought and won in Alexandria, VA where a group of the City's predominantly immigrant taxi driver work force organized to form the Alexandria United Taxi-drivers Organization (AUTO) in 2002. Fr ustrated by unfair working conditions for drivers, AUTO, a chapter of the Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee (TWSC) , l aunched a campaign for economic and human rights, and has experienced a recent victory - the complete overhaul of the Alexandria taxi industry laws. Click here to read the entire story. |
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POINTS OF INTEREST Organizations Achieving Fair and Equitable Community Development With alarming frequency and regularity, mass community development efforts are encroaching upon the neighborhoods that minority and low-income families call home. While this trend is not new, over the past decade, more and more community activists have moved to action to save, protect and improve their neighborhoods. To learn more about organizations that support struggles for racial and social equity in community development click here. |
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CASE STUDIES/SUCCESS STORIES The People vs. Wal-Mart: S trategies that Work by Elliot Petty, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) In 2004, Wal-Mart set its sights on Inglewood, California; at the same time, LAANE set its sights on Wal-Mart. Determined to purchase land and to build a super center in the city, Wal-Mart began an extensive campaign to bring their goal to fruition; with the support of the Mayor, Wal-Mart took its campaign to the people of Inglewood - yet Wal-Mart conveniently forgot to include many of the details of its development plans. To read the rest of this story, click here. When the Real Estate Boom Hits Home by Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) As the downtown development market booms, low-income tenants are being pushed to the bottom of the housing barrel. Property values are going through the roof in the Figueroa Corridor and as a result, working-poor families, retired and disabled people who live in residential hotels suffer from rampant abuse. Slumlords anxious to cash in on the real estate boom will do almost anything to get poor people out of their buildings. To read the rest of this story, click here. |
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FUNDING RESOURCES AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Funding/Resource/Job Opportunities for Community Justice Practitioners This updated list provides information about a few of the funding resources and job opportunities are available to community justice practitioners. We plan to update this resource periodically as we learn of new opportunities. Please contact us with any opportunities of which you know and we will add them to this new resource. This list includes programs with upcoming deadlines as well as a few opportunities with rolling deadlines. |
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CJRC CALENDAR Please email us at cjrc@advancementproject.org with information on events of interest. |
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MAPPING THE LITERATURE We encourage you to visit our updated bibliography (partially annotated) of recent publications and articlesof interest to racial justice advocates. This bibliography features a dynamic array of publications spanning several exciting topics. The subject areas for this volume are as follows:
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This newsletter is supported in part by grants from the Program on Law & Society of the Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. |
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