California For Rich People Only-!st Nations, Black, Brown & Poor Peoples State-wide List of Demands for Immediate Change

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Tiny
Original Post Date
2015-04-27 04:00 AM
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1st Nations. Black, Brown & Poor Peoples Demands for Justice and Self-Determination

1) A STATE-WIDE Moratorium on Ellis Act/For Profit Evictions of Children, Families, Elders & Disabled peoples from ANY rental property

2) State-wide Moratorium on Luxury Housing Development /Condominium Development

3) State-wide Anti-Speculation Tax be imposed on all new developments- ( example would be San Francisco's Prop G introduced as a state-wide initiative)

4) Institute Rent Control /renters rights protections in "exempt" regions like Salinas

5) Demand the Conviction of Police Officers who Murder the citizens they claim they here to protect

6. Support/Fund/Implement Community Autonomous Elders Councils and Restorative Justice Models to Move off the US myth of Security and Policing

7) Begin Convicting Serial Evictors/speculators of elders and families under Elder and Child Abuse law  Elder & Child Abuse and push for city attornies' to open cases against these real estate speculators and developers who are displacing and abusing elers and families into homelessness

 
9) Implement the Homeless Bill of Rights as a state-wide  that has been fought for by WRAP members and is a powerful resistance to the criminalization of poor folks
 
10) Share/introduce/teach a land liberation/land reclamation model like the Homefulness model with all poor people-led, indigenous peoples-led movements in struggle locally and globally.
 
11) (Specifically for Venice Coastal Zone, LA and San Francisco) Call for a moratorium (an Interim Control Ordinance) on development and demolitions - to stop the mansionization of communities.
 
12) Create an emergency moratorium on short-term rentals while we create clear and enforceable regulations on short-term vacation rentals (Air Bnb;s, etc).
 
13)  Moratorium on the implementation of Rental Assistance Demonstration RAD & Public Housing Sell-outs/Buy-Outs/Conversions/Demolitions to "non-profit" and for-profit developers.
 
14) Protect ALL sacred sites across California and move the control of sacred ancestral lands to 1st Nations Peoples
 
15) In San Francisco (and other cities) call a "state of emergency" on the extreme eviction crisis.
 
16)Conscious Call-Out to All legiislators, organizers to connect the dots of Environmental Racism, Climate Change, False Borders and the destruction of Mama Earth as they are all connected.
 
17)1) REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF OUR TAX DOLLARS SPENT TO SEND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, INCLUDING ALLIES; 
 
18) REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES SPENT ON MAINTAINING AND RESEARCHING UNNECESSARY AND FAILED WEAPON SYSTEMS SUCH AS NUCLEAR MISSILES, MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS, AND MILITARY AIRCRAFT.
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