Monday, June 4, 2007

Some housing justice

Ever heard of City Life/Vida Urbana? Nope? Well, then, pull up a chair, son, and learn yo'self some things.

MoHouse Boston has got a team of peeps interested in housing justice here in Boston. So we got ourselves together and went down to Jamaica Plain to meet with Steve Meacham, CLVU's organizing director. We bought some delicious falafel, met at the home of MoHouse regular and super-hottie Michelle Sternthal (third from the right in this picture), and started strategizing about work we can do to help preserve and expand affordable housing in Great Boston. We've even recruited an intern from the Workmen's Circle Teens Acting for Social Change group, and he's going to work for City Life and coordinate our efforts with them this summer.

Sweet.

Mostly, I just think it's cool that we've got this community with a whole mess of folks committed to social justice and really excited to learn new models of organizing. It's awesome that we've got people who are dedicated to growing the power of the working-class and who want to make a real difference in the larger community. And it's great that all these activists want to work together to achieve their political goals through the ever-expanding Moishe/Kavod community.

All of which is just to say, we'll keep rockin' if you will...

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