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September 2, 2008
TONIGHT: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EMINENT DOMAIN HEARING
The COALITION TO PRESERVE COMMUNITY urges property-rights advocates to come out for tonight's hearing.
COLUMBIA CONTINUES ITS EVICTION PLAN! IT HAS ASKED THE STATE TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN! HEARING: SEPT. 2, 5:30pm AT CCNY.
Do you want to lose your home?
Do you want your neighbors to lose their homes?
Do you want tax paying owners to lose their properties and have tax exempt Columbia take them away and replace them with biotech level #3 labs?
Do you want Harlem to lose its businesses like Floridita?
Do you want to face all the environmental hazards CU’s expansion will cause to our air, structural weakening of buildings, loss of parking & gain of traffic problems?
Do you want a bathtub (8 stories down) built on an earthquake fault?
Do you want eminent domain to be used to benefit an elitist private institution and spur gentrification?The Empire State Development Corporation will hold a hearing to determine if eminent domain will be used for the Columbia expansion. It will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Thursday Sept. 4, at Aaron Davis Hall at City College (135th St. & Convent Ave.), east of Amsterdam Ave. (1pm & 5:30PM sessions).
We urge you to speak out this Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 5:30 – 9:00PM, 135th & Convent. Stand up!
CONTACT US: Call (212) 666-6426, 646-812-5188, or (212) 234-3002 (se habla español) or go to http://www.stopcolumbia.org/ and sign up to be on our contact list.
Posted by lumi at September 2, 2008 5:03 AM