Lift every voice and SING in the MORATORIUM on all foreclosures! Report Back from January’s Auction Blockade in Brooklyn: Wednesday, February 8 from 6pm to 8pm Common Law Office – 53-22 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside Queens* Planning and Training for February’s Auction Blockade in Queens: Sunday, February 12 from 3p to 5pm Common Law Office – 53-22 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside Queens

http://yfrog.com/mq9hsz

O4O Construction has an immediate need for the following materials:

• sheetrock

• insulation

• mold blocking paint (“Kilz” brand)

To donate, please email: o4o@o4onyc.org

O4O Home for the Holidays Construction Drive

In the five months since our inaugural conference, O4O has blockaded an eviction, shut down a foreclosure auction, and mobilized for a national housing day of action.  Our actions have succeed because of the work of our committed volunteers, and the support of so many of you.

Now, as the temperature drops, the urgency of our actions is even greater.  O4O is dedicating our energies to moving families off the cold winter streets and into vacant homes.  We’ve identified a suitable home to occupy; we’re working a family who is committed to O4O’s mission; and we’re prepared to defend their new home.

All we need are tools to make the house a livable home.

Help us build and occupy a home for the holidays!  Our goal is to raise $2,000 by Christmas so we can purchase the construction tools and materials to get the job done.

Come to our next general membership meeting on Monday, December 19th at 7pm (Catholic Worker, 55 East 3rd St) to find out how you can get involved.

We will be passing around a donation basket at the general membership meeting or you can donate online at: http://www.o4onyc.org/donate/.  Even the smallest contribution will go a long way to helping us achieve our goals.

See you Monday night!

With love and solidarity,

O4O

Right now–on this December 6th, 2011–individuals and families across the country are banding together to resist the system of organized greed that has tried to evict us from our homes, from our communities, from our democracy.

We are marching on streets with foreclosed and abandoned properties, liberating homes, and occupying vacant spaces in a loud proclamation of the human right to housing.

We are envisioning a better future and a different paradigm–and to do that, we are working together–as a collective of teams–bringing to bear all of our skills, talents, and abilities to reclaim foreclosed homes and vacant spaces, to make those spaces homes for the homeless and the evicted, and to rebuild our communities and our sense of allegiance and love towards one another.

December 6th is just the beginning.  Join us and bring your skills, talents… all of yourselves to bear on building a better future:

–Join O4O at our next general meeting:  Dec. 19th at 7PM at the Catholic Worker, 55 E 3rd St, New York, NY

–Join a team and get to work!

• Eviction Watch – mobilize support to prevent evictions at foreclosed homes and squats

  http://www.o4onyc.org/eviction-watch/

• Construction – help secure and renovate both foreclosed and occupied vacant housing, and train or be trained by occupants in construction skills
  construction@o4onyc.org
• Research – identify, through on-site and on-line capabilities, vacant housing that could and should be transformed into homes
  research@o4onyc.org.
• Admin/Fundraising – raise funds to secure tools and construction materials to support our construction team
  admin@o4onyc.org [Team Meeting tomorrow at 7PM at EarthMatters Cafe (177 Ludlow Street, New York, NY)]
• Media/Communications – help O4O broadcast its message, make media and craft a different narrative for housing as a human right
  media@o4onyc.org
• Arts – create art in various media that supports, expresses, and enhances the campaign and work of O4O arts@o4onyc.org
• Intake/Screening – outreach to and interview prospective homesteaders in need who are seeking a place to live, identifying capabilities and special requirements and matching them up to suitable venues for occupation screening@o4onyc.org
• Legislative/Legal – help support O4O in its direct actions by providing legal support and build support for legislative efforts which help to facilitate the mission of O4O, e.g., mandated vacant building counts,  “sweat equity” legislation, moratorium on evictions legislation,
  legislative@o4onyc.org
• Academic – o4o@o4onyc.org
• Religious – organize support for the mission of O4O within the wider religious community and offering public spiritual support and witness to those engaged in the O4O campaign
  o4o@o4onyc.org