Berkeley, CA. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Its Lessons for the Housing Justice Movement-A National Press Conference

---

Dear Housing Justice Fighters, Members of the Community and the Media:

Next month marks the 69th anniversary of the day in 1955 that the Montgomery Bus Boycott began four days after the arrest of Mrs. Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. For the next 13 months the historic protest endured despite police violence, killings, bombings, mass arrests, and segregationist state courts owing to detailed preparation, organization, discipline and vision.

On Thursday, December 5, 2024 the National Union of the Homeless, the California Homeless Union, the National Coalition for the Homeless and other organizations will hold an in-person, livestreamed and online Zoom national press conference to honor the Bus Boycott and apply its lessons to the current struggle for housing justice.

The event–the precise location of which will be announced later–will take place in Berkeley, California where the Where Do We Go and the Berkeley Homeless Union are defending a growing number of new encampments established in defiance of the intensified criminalization of the homeless at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Governor of California and cities across the state.

We will hear from and call particular attention to the role of powerful outstanding women leaders, then and now, who stand on the front lines against repression and injustice and issue a call for increased, coordinated direct action on the national, state and local levels.

Please mark your calendars and share the attached Announcement widely!

In Struggle and Solidarity,