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Just Causes Newspaper - Spring 2011
Victories From Our Tenant Rights Clinic
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Immigrant Family Fights Landlord Harassment
By Patricia Zamora
Gilberto and Elvia Nuñez were being harassed and accused by their landlord of being “illegal.” The landlord made harassing phone calls to them at all hours of the day including very early in the morning when the family was still asleep.
Defend the Public Sector and Democracy
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From Wisconsin and North Carolina to Tunisia and Egypt!
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Solidarity Statement
Grassroots Global Justice would like to support the record number of protestors coming out to defend collective bargaining rights and the public sector in Wisconsin. The fight in Wisconsin is the latest sign of the growing unrest developing throughout the world among the masses of working class and poor people and even the middle-classes, demanding government accountability to democracy, economic justice and human rights.
$1.2 Trillion:
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The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One Wants You to Know About
By Chris Hellman, National Priorities Project
What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu price.
Welcome to the world of the real U.S. national security budget. Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range — close to $700 billion for 2012 — but that’s barely more than half of it.
Undervalued & Invisible
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Domestic Workers Organize to Win Respect and Recognition
By Andrea Cristina Mercado, Mujeres Unidas y Activas and Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Alliance
Domestic workers – who care for some of the most important elements of our lives like our families and our homes – are among the most vulnerable workers in the United States today. There are more than 200,000 domestic workers in California. Domestic workers serve as nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers for the elderly and disabled. They leave their homes early, often in the dark, to arrive at their work sites before their employers leave for work. Some even live in their employers’ homes, caring for these families day and night.
Housing Justice is Climate Justice
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By Colin Miller, Urban Habitat
Climate change has become almost universally recognized as the single greatest threat to life. No substantive action has been taken at the international (United Nations) or federal level to deal with the growing crisis. On March 1, 2011, Oakland’s City Council stepped up its leadership on climate change to pass the city’s first Energy and Climate Action Plan (ECAP) with some of the strongest greenhouse gas reduction goals of any city in the country.
