03) Today 29 of our 50 States Totally OUTLAW Rent Control: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.  10 more States--although their Legislatures haven't prohibited it--have NO Rent Control: Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Nebraska, Indiana, Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and Delaware.   [0]  
 
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In today's racist society / economy / government--Inner City Tenants are working and paying RENTS--which in 40 years
--add up to $1,000,000--several times MORE than many others are paying to become OWNERS of basic properties. Nearly unregulated inflation in Rents and Mortgages has today made the goals of  (HISTORY OF)
"Life, Liberty 
     and     PROPERTY" unreachable--as the land lord
"industry" has become ever more corporatized and nationalized.
Today with the emergence of national landlord mega corporations--ownership now involves millions of investment bankers and mutual fund share holders. This translates to a new stranglehold on the Tenants which involves too many owners per slave.
Seeing this runaway inflation--the smaller landlords have also joined the inflation craze. Rent Control--which should be the very basis of economic fairness
--has been outlawed by 29 of our 50 States--and doesn't exist in 10 others. [0]
 
Property Rights of America's Working Class have been undermined and assassinated since the days of the American Revolution. These rights have been under relentless assault every year for the past 50 years.
 
Tenants of America's Inner Cities are today engaged in an organized fight for their rights like never before.
   
 
They should NOT have to take on this fight alone. Democrats, organizations afilliated with the Democratic Party, Labor Unions, College Activists--any & ALL concerned citizens must step up and lend a hand--for however long it takes.
 
          Median Rents [05]
 
   Median Mortgages [10]
 
Share of Homes Affordable on   
          Median Income  [15]
 
For some reason--certain parties in America would have us believe that the Black population of the Rural South and
 
     
the Black population of the Urban North are 2 unrelated and unconnected groups--when it is the case they are absolutely related and connected--even one and the same.
Black Farmers-1920-2020 [20]
 
Although many of the filthy rich have become popular "heroes"--most all of their wealth is derived from tax evasion, robbery, exploitation and enslavement of humanity, and plunder of our Planet's resources.
 * * * *
The path to economic justice will include the millionaires and billionaires paying taxes like they used to--and supporting
every worthy cause. As today's wealth for the investors dwarfs that of 1960 by a factor of 50--these millions of better-off Americans must pay mega Reparations and return to the working class--yes--take up Trades with their own 2 hands--to earn their OWN living--a humble one. America was once a "Great Nation" -- only because we were nearly ALL Working People.
 
Economic justice from our "government" has been in short supply--our Federal Government and the 50 States are doing far more today for the Investors than those who WORK for a living.
(05a) Colleges and Chambers of Commerce today must steer young people away from investing in exploitation and towards working for their own living.
 
   
 
  40 acres:
The African, Hispanic and Native Americans have worked and paid enough to own 1/2 of America--it is high time we did everything possible to restore their hard-earned 1/2 TO them. After "Freeing the Slaves" --the only way our better-off could keep the other 1/2 (which is far less than they currently own and control) would be to forevermore--WORK AND PAY FOR IT.
 
1995 Million Man March(es) 2015
 
https://shelterforce.org/series/tenant-power-returns/
 
● Housing Justice 
    National Platform:
www.housingjusticeplatform.org/
100's of Tenants' Organizations--
nationwide.
 
Also  in the works--2024--
National Tenants'
   Bill of Rights:
https://www.nhlp.org/wp-content/uploads/TBOR-Final.pdf
It was drafted by :
 
National Low Income
Housing Coalition
https://nlihc.org/
 
National Housing Law Project
https://www.nhlp.org/
 
Tenant Union Federation
https://tenantfederation.org/
 
   
1b)
Land Issues:
1989--2023--HR 40 / S 40
1997--Pigford v Glickman
2010--Pigford II
1999--Garcia v Vilsack
1999--Keepseagle v Vilsack
2023--Justice for Black Farmers Act
 
National, Local and College Democratic Party Organizations:
 
https://www.housingjusticeplatform.org/

● Labor Unions--on a local basis--many
   have become involved--Can the
   https://aflcio.org/ participate on a
   National Basis ?
 
● Democrats
democrats.org/who-we-are/state-parties/
Young Democrats   https://yda.org
 
High School Democrats  
   https://hsdems.org/
 
College Democrats of America
  collegedemocratsofamerica.com/
                                           

College Law Democrats
  lawdems.org/get-involved/
 
● College Law/ Antitrust Law Assoc
law.gwu.libguides.com/antitrustlaw/orgs
American Antitrust Institute
   antitrustinstitute.org/

● National Black Law Student Assoc
   nblsa.org/regions
 
● American Constitution Society
   https://www.acslaw.org/
 
● LABOR LAWYERS:
 
 

 

 
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