Anti-Displacement Project

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The Anti- Displacement Project's members believe that people possess the power to direct the decisions that affect their lives, no matter how big or small. We believe that by engaging collectively in civic life, we can create and control institutions that reflect and promote our values, rather than reinforcing the individualism that dominates our society. We use our power to work together to realize our vision of the American Dream: to work with dignity and respect for a living wage, to create safe and affordable neighborhoods, to control assets and build wealth, and to expand opportunities for our children through quality education. We recognize that it is difficult -- if not impossible -- for people to work for social and economic justice when their immediate needs for food, housing, and employment are unmet, and that low-income individuals are also isolated from institutions that traditionally connect people to broader society. ADP's work to establish and promote cooperative economic development and civic engagement is a vehicle to bridge these gaps: to provide low income people with basic necessities through institutions that they own and direct; to foster a sense of responsibility for others in a community focused on building its power; and to serve as a mediating institution for the thousands of people whose poverty cuts them off from civic life. The inherent dignity in self-determination drives all of our work the way that we organize, the issues around which our...

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