Moms 4 Housing

Oakland Moms 4 Housing Win, Reclaiming King’s Radical Legacy

February 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Poverty

By Judy Greenspan posted on Workers World, January 30, 2020 January 20 was not only the day to honor the radical legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was also a day to acknowledge a victory for a group of Oakland mothers (#MomsHouse), who had been brutally evicted Jan. 14 from a house they “repossessed” in November.[…]

Solidarity With Moms for Housing

January 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Poverty, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2020 Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized from unscrupulous speculators.[…]