GGJ Supports MWC's Fight to Protect the Heart of Liberty City

During our membership assembly the Miami Workers' Center, our host organization, invited us to attend a community action launching the fight to preserve a block of black-owned businesses, also the block where Miami Workers Center has its office.  All 80-something of us came out for the community launch to paint a mural of hearts, dance to great music, eat food home-made by MWC members, and support residents in making their demands clear: save small businesses to save jobs for our community.  For more information go to http://www.theworkerscenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=49

GGJ created this statement in support of their fight:

As an alliance of more than 65 grassroots organizing groups fighting against displacement and against a capitalist system that pushes poor and working class people off of our land and out of our cities,
 
And as an alliance with allies around the world -- including Brazil, Mexico, Morrocco and Peru -- who are also fighting against the displacement of their people and against this same capitalist system,
 
We stand together with the Miami Workers Center which means we stand together with the community fighting to protect a block of small businesses in the heart of Liberty City against Commissioner Audrey Edmonson's plan to tear them down.  These landmark black businesses like Mop City barber shop and Greene Dream Shoe Repair have historic and cultural value and provide much-needed jobs for Liberty City residents.
 
We support your demands to address community needs by
supporting  small business
creating jobs for the community
building  affordable housing for our community
 
This is the kind of development that all of our communities need, across the country and across the world to assure the well-being of our people.
 
As we continue to fight for a system that guarantees these rights in our own communities, we stand in solidarity and in struggle with the Protect the Heart of Liberty of City campaign and affirm our collective right to land, our right to the city and our right to full humanity and a good life.