This weekend, the Right to the City ( http://www.righttothecity.org/ ) is having their annual conference in Boston, being hosted by MassUniting ( http://massuniting.org/ ) and City Life/Vida Urbana ( http://clvu.org/ ).  You can read about it at http://thephoenix.com/boston/n…

Right to the City (RTTC) emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. We are a national alliance of racial, economic and environmental justice organizations.

The Boston area seems to be one of the few in the country where homeowners have been (somewhat) successfully fighting back against the banks’ foreclosures and evictions.  They have been successful because they have organized and stood up for their rights together.

My visits to the Occupy Boston site have confirmed that connections have been made between Right to the City, MassUniting, and City Life/Vida Urbana.  I expect some of the occupiers downtown will be participating in eviction blockades out in the neighborhoods.  I also expect that organizers from across the country will be taking back effective tactics and strategies to save peoples’ homes from the chicanery of such banks as Bank of America.

We need more organized solidarity like this to expand the effects of each of our separate groups.