Take Back the Land in Washington, DC
Whose Land? OUR LAND! Take Back the Land joins Empower DC, a grassroots organizations advocating public property for public use, not private profit, for a community discussion about land rights and struggles. When: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 6:30pm Where: The Reeves Center at 2000 14th St., NW (14th and U Streets NW).	Take Back the Land Book Signing Max Rameau discusses and reads from his book, Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown. When: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:00pm Where: Sankofa Bookstore, 2714 Georgia Ave., NW, near Howard University.

GENTRIFICATION IS DEAD Many organizations across the US have taken on the good fight against gentrification. Considering the current housing market collapse, however, is gentrification still the same force it was a few years ago? Due to the drastic change in the economic outlook, the fact is that the economic cycle of gentrification is over and, therefore, organizations and individuals geared to fight it must re-examine material conditions and re-tool their efforts. Take Back the Land, a project of the Center for Pan-African Development, propositions that Gentrification is Dead. We urge you to read this piece and discuss it with your organizations. Read Gentrification is Dead. READ THE ON-LINE VERSION. DOWNLOAD THE PDF PRINT VERSION.

Live from Main Street is coming to Miami! The nationally televised townhall meeting will be taped in Miami on Saturday, July 12, 2008, beginning at 3:00pm, at the historic Lyric Theatre, 819 NW 2nd Ave. in Overtown. The event is called "Magic City, Hard Times: How is Miami Facing the Economic Crisis and Working Toward a Sustainable Future?" and is hosted by GritTV's Laura Flanders and 99Jamz Cheryl Mizell. The event will be taped for television and internet broadcast. The panel will focus on the housing and other crisis' facing our communities. Panelists include: Gihan Perera, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center Max Rameau, Founder/ Author Take Back The Land Darin Woods, Countrywide Mortgage Sales Manager Denise Perry, Director of the Power U Center for Social Change Barbara Jordan, Miami – Dade County Commissioner Carolina Delgado, Jobs with Justice Campaign Membership Director Sonia Succar, Chairperson of Emerging Green Builders of South Florida The event is free, the audience will have the opportunity to participate and refreshements are served afterwards. COME AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. Check out the promo

Take Back the Land: the Book Find out everything you wanted to know about the Umoja Village Shantytown with this first person description of the building of a movement. This new book by Max Rameau serves both as a narrative of the building and the fall of the Umoja Village and as a political theory piece defining land as a central political issue and how the Umoja Village addressed that issue. Find out more about this book.