Using Video to Fight Forced Evictions in the U.S.

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forced evictions on stolen land during a global pandemic? That’s a reality facing nearly </span><a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-covid-19-eviction-crisis-an-estimated-30-40-million-people-in-america-are-at-risk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">30-40 million people in the U.S. who can’t pay their rent</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forced evictions have been happening on these lands since colonizers first arrived, terrorizing and displacing Indigenous communities.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Today’s eviction crisis is only the latest in generations of compounding crises of violence. The fatally inadequate state support in the midst of the massive economic fallout of COVID-19 is nothing new. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A housing crisis existed long before COVID-19 began. In January of 2019, </span><a href="https://edubirdie.com/blog/state-of-homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nearly 570,000 people</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> were experiencing homelessness in the U.S. This number says nothing for the uncounted, the unknown, the erased– let alone those struggling to stay in homes they cannot afford or those living under abusive landlords. The racial inequities of this issue mirror (and reproduce) those of other human rights issues: </span><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/03/29/a-pileup-of-inequities-why-people-of-color-are-hit-hardest-by-homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BIPOC are disproportionately represented among the unhoused population</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with Black and indigenous people facing the highest rates among these groups. This is the result of generations of discrimination in housing, criminal punishment, child welfare, education, and employment, as well as the tolls of gentrification, dispossession, and displacement. These systemic stressors also cause or exacerbate mental illness. </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mentally-ill-homeless-20170807-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">About a third of unhoused people in the U.S. have serious mental illness,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> leaving them vulnerable to further state violence</span><a href="https://namiillinois.org/half-people-killed-police-disability-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> like police killings.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pandemic and accompanying recession have been fuel for a long-burning fire. Structural racism threatens to become even more entrenched as Black and Latinx communities </span><a href="https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/covid-19-crisis-continues-have-uneven-economic-impact-race-and-ethnicity" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bear the brunt of the most severe impacts of COVID-1</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">9 on income, employment, and wellbeing. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So– what can we do?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The history of resistance to forced evictions stretches across the globe and far back in time. Stopping evictions is an act of “collective empowerment” in which groups in the U.S draw from </span><a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2020/7/31/21349659/new-york-city-eviction-defense-new-frontline-rent-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tactics used in the Great Depression</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or even from </span><a href="https://www.rent-strike.org/eviction-resistance" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">demonstration techniques systematically employed in Spain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some ways groups are resisting include: </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/neworleansrentersrightsassembly/?__tn__=kCH-R&eid=ARDvT7AjSLB0Lz5Pi4or325i276bOt8DhIwOG8qFTYjhTKAiWWsRihAEddpoHZ6zKpqXKaHrglbSu1MN&hc_ref=ARRP1w47H_fHoA4EpIs8Xnjnr8c_-DiQ4b7ge50eTVWoLF01Thitg3BrgJkFMzAE-M0&fref=nf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Orleans Renters’ Rights Assembly</span></a> <a href="https://thelensnola.org/2020/07/30/protesters-block-access-courts-force-city-hall-to-lock-its-doors-in-anti-eviction-demonstration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blocking a courthouse</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with protests, furniture, people chained together, and holding a mock court in order to call an end to evictions in Louisiana </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/CPColectivo/posts/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Power Collective</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> successfully closing Los Angeles Superior Court during </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2732274477061740&extid=DkqAY4dDhnpFPXx3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">an action</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as part of a series of action directed at shutting down courts and highlighting the eviction crisis </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tenants groups in Los Angeles keeping renters in their homes by </span><a href="https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2020/08/06/tenant-groups-step-up-protests-to-fight-evictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blocking movers from loading vans</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and staging direct actions </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Equality for Flatbush organizing with hundreds of supporters who </span><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/crown-heights-landlord-building-evictions-protest-brooklyn" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">camped out to stop a forced eviction</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in New York City in July 2020 </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MakeTheRoadNV/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make the Road Nevada</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and local activists in Las Vegas leading </span><a href="https://news3lv.com/news/local/caravan-protest-planned-in-response-to-nevada-eviction-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a caravan and press conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in coordination with nationwide actions calling for the cancellation of rent </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">JustFixNYC developing tech tools to make it easier to do things like </span><a href="https://www.justfix.nyc/en/#products" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">respond to an eviction notice or take your landlord to court </span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RTCalliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Right To the City Alliance</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> developing a</span><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a-F1liluT3qOF20ddUylQQ?fbclid=IwAR2sQG6zifE6SNd1cHQRHmD6Us4kD0hl7p1wfb2KjXCk0wh8YJ1Ws33p1d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> training series</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to build renter power and stop evictions </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And today, many of us have phones that give us a new tool to fight back: video documentation. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Filming before, during, and/or after an eviction can help bring attention to an individual case or </span><a href="https://lab.witness.org/forced-evictions-live-ammunition-and-video-documentation-in-cape-town/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">group of cases.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It can also be used to help mobilize a larger movement against forced evictions. Video can be used as</span><a href="https://fe.witness.org/voices-of-the-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a tool in campaigns </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">that call the state to account for the ongoing neglect of human life. The same footage can be used to call attention to the entrenched racism of policies, illuminate the strengths of a society that must be protected, and </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFp7_KpDzKx/?igshid=mr355iemyh9i" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">amplify grassroots solutions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to problems that have devastated communities for centuries. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, community-led police accountability groups like Berkeley Copwatch have been collecting videos of raids on homeless encampments and police abuse against unhoused individuals to raise public awareness and</span><a href="https://lab.witness.org/berkeley-copwatch-database/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">hold officers accountable</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_28187" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-28187" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="28187" data-permalink="https://blog.witness.org/2020/10/using-video-to-fight-forced-evictions-in-the-u-s/ca-times-brightspotcdn-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?fit=1486%2C991&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1486,991" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="ca-times.brightspotcdn-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1" class="wp-image-28187" src="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?resize=380%2C253&ssl=1" alt="Someone holding a protest sign that says "Housing Justice is Racial Justice"" width="380" height="253" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?resize=200%2C133&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1.jpg?w=1486&ssl=1 1486w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-28187" class="wp-caption-text">Picture credit: LA Times</figcaption></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In collaboration with affected communities, WITNESS and Amnesty International created guides, tip sheets, and videos that outline how to safely and effectively use film to fight forced evictions. This </span><a href="https://library.witness.org/product-tag/forced-evictions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is available for download in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, Italian, Khmer, Oriya, and Romanian. You can find inspiration by reading our highlights on how activists in countries like Kenya, Cambodia, India, Colombia, and Brazil have leveraged these resources in the past: </span><a href="https://blog.witness.org/2014/05/mapping-materials-forced-evictions-toolkit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://blog.witness.org/2014/06/forced-evictions-toolkit-distribution-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can also pull from our</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LShv4wNXcoiciu_pw6kdvZ-7Fb4IwMeVAzZXvyk9WVo/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> social media toolkit </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">on documenting forced evictions to ensure that this information gets shared in your networks and can reach those who need this information the most. </span></p> <figure id="attachment_28188" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-28188" style="width: 374px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="28188" data-permalink="https://blog.witness.org/2020/10/using-video-to-fight-forced-evictions-in-the-u-s/screen-shot-2020-10-22-at-9-44-28-am/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?fit=786%2C542&ssl=1" data-orig-size="786,542" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2020-10-22 at 9.44.28 AM" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?fit=300%2C207&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?fit=786%2C542&ssl=1" class="wp-image-28188" src="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?resize=374%2C258&ssl=1" alt="Two people with a protest banner that says "Stop Mass Evictions + Foreclosures"" width="374" height="258" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?resize=300%2C207&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?resize=768%2C530&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?resize=200%2C138&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-9.44.28-AM.png?w=786&ssl=1 786w" sizes="(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-28188" class="wp-caption-text">Picture credit: NBC Boston</figcaption></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solidarity is essential to the survival of many and for the liberation of us all. And safe housing should be a human right. While COVID-19 and capitalism ravage on, our recovery will rely on each of us equipping ourselves with skills to protect our community members. Be sure to follow, amplify, and support community groups that are working to end the abuses tied into evictions and houselessness. Look for local organizations and tenant unions organizing rent strikes, mutual aid efforts, and advocacy campaigns. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our collective liberation is the way home. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><b>GROUPS TO FOLLOW + SUPPORT </b></p> <p><a href="https://evictionlab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eviction Lab</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://shelterforce.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shelterforce</a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://antievictionmap.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Eviction Map</a> (NY, CA) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.allianceforhousingjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance for Housing Justice</a> </span></p> <p><a href="https://righttothecity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Right to the City Alliance</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://maketheroadny.org/issue/housing-environmental-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make the Road</span></a> (NY + other states)</p> <p><a href="https://www.legalaidnyc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legal Aid Society</span></a> (NYC)</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dsa_housing" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DSA Housing Justice</span></a> (NY)</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Met Council on Housing</a> (NYC) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.righttocounselnyc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Right To Counsel</a> (NYC) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://evictiondefense.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eviction Defense Collaborative</a> (CA) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://streetwatchla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Street Watch LA</a> (CA)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://moms4housing.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moms 4 Housing</a> (CA)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.actionnc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Action NC </a> (NC) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SKCCH/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle Kings County Homeless Coalition</a> (WA)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find local organizations in your area by using Just Shelter’s</span><a href="https://justshelter.org/community-resources/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> mapping tool</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><b>KEY WITNESS RESOURCES </b></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Guide to Filming Forced Evictions: </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download English guide: <a href="http://wit.to/ForcedEvictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ForcedEvictions </a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download Arabic guide: <a href="http://wit.to/ForcedEvictions-AR" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ForcedEvictions-AR</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download Portuguese guide: <a href="http://wit.to/RemocoesForcadas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/RemocoesForcadas</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download Spanish guide: <a href="http://wit.to/DesalojosForzosos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/DesalojosForzosos</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More languages <a href="https://library.witness.org/product/guide-to-filming-cases-of-forced-evictions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Tip sheets for Filming Forced Evictions: </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download English: <a href="http://wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Tips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Tips</a></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Know Your Rights: Forced Evictions</strong> (WITNESS + Amnesty International): Download English guide: <a href="http://wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Rights</a></span></p> <p>Download Spanish guide: <a href="http://wit.to/TomaPartido-DF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/TomaPartido-DF</a></p> <p>More languages available <a href="https://library.witness.org/product/know-your-rights-guide-amnesty-fe-campaign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Know Your Obligations: Forced Evictions</strong> (WITNESS + Amnesty International) Download English guide: <a href="http://wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Obligations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ForcedEvictions-Obligations</a></span></p> <p>Download Spanish guide: <a href="http://wit.to/ConozcanSusObligaciones-DF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wit.to/ConozcanSusObligaciones-DF</a></p> <p>More languages available <a href="https://library.witness.org/product/guide-to-knowing-your-obligations-amnesty-fe-campaign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p> <p><strong>Films on Forced Evictions </strong></p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/L3tLioIVgfY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People Before Profit</a> (Youtube with subtitles in multiple languages)</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/fy7bnchsb396q5f/EN_People_Before_Profit.mp4/file">People Before Profit</a> (Download in additional languages <a href="https://library.witness.org/product/people-profit/">here</a>)</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>ADDITIONAL RESOURCES </strong></p> <p>Anthology Film Archives + Shelter Force: <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/52767" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Films on housing rights, displacement and the meaning of home</a></p> <p> </p> <div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div 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