MN-NO Solidarity Action at Minneapolis HUD Office - Friday December 14, 2007
- Wear warm clothes!
- Bring your cell phones; we will be making some calls to news media, talk shows, New Orleans, key senators’ offices, HUD officials, etc.
Date Posted or Delivered by E-Mail:
prior to 11:59:00PM CST - November 19, 2007
Date Provisional Notice became Final: 11:59PM CST / November 21, 2007
Notice of Condemnation
Whereas in its dealings and actions regarding residents of public housing projects in New Orleans HUD has violated and threatens to further violate obligations it has under relevant statutes, regulations, and human rights treaties and internationally recognized standards; and
Whereas HUD’s plans to demolish New Orleans’ public housing violates the public housing residents’ and other affected tenants of that City their internationally recognized human right to return to their homes or places of habitual residence;
Whereas HUD’s plans and threats violate the internationally recognized human rights of the New Orleans’ current public housing residents’ and other affected tenants of that City to housing free of racial and economic discrimination; and
Whereas HUD’s actions in this regard severely conflict with the goal stated in the US Housing Act of 1949 to provide a decent homer and a suitable living environment for every American family;
Whereas HUD’s planned demolition reeks of an intentional purge of Black and poor communities from New Orleans, and, as such is offensive to basic human rights and dignity of ALL people to live in peace and community, free of racially discriminatory government action;
Whereas, all people, by reason of their shared humanity, have an obligation to stand up as they ar able for the dignity and human rights human rights of the public housing residents of New Orleans and to oppose HUD’s injustice in this case by any appropriate non-violent means;
Now therefore, be placed on notice that HUD stands subject to public condemnation in the eyes of the people of this country and the world and subject to all manner of appropriate, concerted, non-violent, people-based efforts to prevent its planned demolition.
TAKE NOTE: due to its failure to cure violations listed in a Provisional Notice of Public Condemnation served on HUD on November 19, 2007, that Notice became Final on November 22, 2007 without further notice and thereafter may be executed at any time and at any place within the United States, including but not limited to HUD operations in Washington. D.C, Minnesota, and Louisiana.
