Joe Peery
Joe Peery has spent decades living and organizing in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green projects and today continues to live in CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) housing where he fights daily on behalf of families threatened with eviction. A founder of the Chicago/Gary Union of the Homeless, Joe has faced down police, CHA security, land-grabbing developers and the City of Chicago to place the homeless in vacant public housing units and otherwise take on the city’s powerful corporate/landlord class. Most recently, Joe was part of the successful effort to defeat CHA’s proposal for mandatory drug-testing of public housing tenants and elimination of the “innocent tenant” defense.
AUGUST 24-28, 2011
Downtown Campus of Madison College and the Concourse Hotel
MADISON, WISCONSIN
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