House Keys Not Handcuffs- A Social Justice Movement for ALL peoples

tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, poverty scholar
Wednesday, January 6, 2010;

"We are going to fund you to make sure there wont be a revolution," Sounds of fury and focus flowed out of Paul Boden's mouth and into the river of struggle and media resistance that is the indigenous news-making circle at POOR Magazine. Paul was describing the roots of Western Regional Advocacy Project's(WRAP) founding and the trail of tears of philanthro-pimps, Non-profit industrial complex agents and system oppressors that has inspired House keys Not Handcuffs, Homelessness ends with a Home convergence on January 20, 2010 in San Francisco.

From the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) to the Non-profit industrial Complex (NPIC) us poor folks, landless indigenous, disabled, migrant, peoples of color find ourselves either in jail or on the street, or if we are lucky enough to hit the NPIC lottery, in some program that has turned our problems into profit and our solutions into a shelter bed, or a prison cell.

"The New Deal wouldn't have happened without organized struggle, now a year later after the (Obama) inauguration instead of real housing options and homes all we have is more re-named social work projects," Paul deconstructed the lies and reconnected the intentionally confused dots of dismantled and de-funded HUD and government homelessness programs as WRAP's Without Housing 2006 report documented

With each of his words a vision of a peoples re-evolution, built from oppressed peoples in struggle, of all ages, cultures and communities, from all corners of the globe grew sharper, clearer.

House keys not Handcuffs is that day, that revolution of all peoples, a coming together not just to march but to see, speak with, each other, to coalesce into something bigger than a non-profit project or a de-funded funding initiative. A day to re-think how we as poor people are constantly pimped, case managed, controlled, locked down, spoken for, photographed, de-linked, separated, and outsourced out of any real notions of self-sustainability and safety.

WRAP members, allies and peoples From LA to Portland, from Oakland to Richmond, we, the peoples in struggle, and in revolution will converge, on the Federal building in San Francisco to not just march and demand, but to strategize and connect all of our struggles.

Demand our resources be given back, the lies of federal, state and local budget cuts be rescinded, and to re-energize our own solutions, our own scholarship, and the scholarship of poverty as we call it at POOR/PNN. Complex concepts that we as landless indigenous folks in resistance, already have developed, born from our own collective struggles and visions of landless peoples movements across pacha mama- campaigns such as the National and International Right to a City and Take Back the Land Movements, connecting the dots of displacement across the nation, or local templates for change and community equity such as HOMFULNESS a sweat-equity co-housing model for houseless families, developed by poverty scholars which includes shared equity not tied to how much money you have access to, a community garden for localizing and producing our own healthy food, art and media projects and several micro-business models to build sustainable economies for all of us and Project dignity village in Detroit, Michigan where poor folks have taken over foreclosed and forgotten buildings that are the by-products of over building and gentrification,

With words that burned through the newsroom like an uncontrolled fire, Paul concluded, "This is a social justice movement, this is not just a homeless peoples movement, this is everyone's movement."

For updated details about the January 20th March and convergence in San Francisco go on-line to www.wraphome.org