CAUSA JUSTA JUST CAUSE
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Mission Statement
Causa Justa :: Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, we improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.
About This Cause
VISION STATEMENT Causa Justa :: Just Cause envisions equal rights for people of color, immigrants, women, and all oppressed and exploited people. We envision an end to racism, and want to build a society based on self-determination, social justice, and solidarity. We envision a future without displacement through real estate speculation and forced migration. We envision a society where housing is a human right and all families thrive. We envision a future where corporate control is replaced by an economy run by the people and for the people, and political power is in the hands of those who need change the most. We envision a restoration of balance between humans and nature, and an end to ecological plunder. We believe that bringing together Black and Latino people is a crucial part of building a multi-racial people’s movement in the US that contributes to a global movement for liberation. HISTORY In 2010, CJJC emerged from the strategic collaboration of two powerful organizations: St. Peter’s Housing Committee and Just Cause Oakland. These two organizations represented more than 30 years combined experience working toward housing and racial justice for African Americans and Latinos. As of 2015, we have now also merged People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in to our organization, expanding our issue and geographic reach even further. With offices in East and West Oakland and in San Francisco’s Mission and Bayview neighborhoods, we are a force for justice and unity among Black and Brown communities. Over the past five years, CJJC has brought together thousands of Latino and Black residents of San Francisco and Oakland to fight for housing and immigrants rights. The organization successfully passed over a dozen tenants rights ordinances in our two cities. We have fought deportations of our immigrant communities, winning sanctuary city status in both cities and later helping to get motions passed by both counties pledging due process and not to cooperate with ICE on immigration holds. Our tenants rights clinics have served more than 1,000 tenants each year, stopping hundreds of evictions in their tracks, preventing rent increases, and forcing landlords to do needed repairs. We ran foreclosure clinics as well, fighting back big banks and winning reprieve for dozens of homeowners.