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Take Back the Land organized a panel entitled "Social Movements and Left Transformative Organizing" at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York City in June, 2013.

This podcast features highlights from the panel of organizers and activists discussing the challenges and successes they've had in securing the fundamental human right to housing through Take Back the Land. Panelists include Rob Robinson and Max Rameau from Take Back the Land and Willie J.R. Fleming and Toussaint Losier from the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.

To learn more about the Take Back the Land movement, visit TBTL.org. To learn more about the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, visit Chicagoantieviction.org. To learn more about our work here at NESRI, visit NESRI.org. To learn more about the Left Forum, visit LeftForum.org.

All music was provided by the Adam Ezra Group: http://adamezra.com.

This podcast was created by Jason Fernandes, a NESRI Summer 2013 communications intern and student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brittany Scott of NESRI's Human Right to Housing Program presents a short introduction to 3 Interim Proposals for how the housing movement might lock-in models of land transformation during the 2012 Spring Offensive (a co-production with Take Back the Land & Movement Catalyst).

An introductory presentation on Community Land Trusts as a specific legal tool for this radical transformation follows, led by Sam Miller and Kendall Jackman of Picture the Homeless.

2 powerpoints were used. The first is available at: http://bit.ly/xp8ibx. The second at:

Host Traven Leyshon, of Equal Time radio, features Anja Rudiger and Peg Franzen to discuss findings of the Vermont Workers’ Center's People's Budget Project.

On March 29, 2010, the Opportunity Agenda organized a National Telebriefing on the Human Right to Health Care in collaboration with NESRI and Amnesty International. In the one hour briefing Anja Rudiger, Human Right to Health Program Director at NESRI, Rachel Ward of Amnesty International and Julie Rowe of the Opportunity Agenda, analyzed the recent health reform law through a human rights lens, focusing on the impact of the law, including on maternal health, and on how to communicate health reform issues within a human rights framework.

The following podcast is one hour long. Anja Rudiger speaks from minute 4 to minute 26:40. Rachel Ward speaks from minute 26:46 to minute 43:40. The last section of the recording is dedicated to Julie Rowe of the Opportunity Agenda. She speaks from minute 44:00 till the end. For additional information about this podcast and NESRI’s ongoing activities please visit www.nesri.org.

Host Theresa Edwards featured the Dignity in Schools Campaign on the Justice4Children Radio Program to discuss the National Resolution for Ending School Pushout and concrete policy reforms to end pushout. Guest speakers included Benetta Standly from the ACLU of Florida, a high school student member of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) in New York City, and Liz Sullivan of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. You can also access the show at www.blogtalkradio.com/wakeupcallshow.