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October 13, 2008
Term Limits, Wall Street Bust & End of NYC Real Estate Boom
CUNY SOCIAL FORUM
Term Limits, Wall Street Bust & End of NYC Real Estate Boom:
An analysis and presentation on the growing citywide resistance against
Bloomberg's Agenda to Gentrify Low Income Communities.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
From 3:30 to 4:50 PM
(North Academic Campus) NAC Building - Room (1/201)
New York is Home to All: Citywide Organizing Against Bloomberg's Agenda to Gentrify Low Income Communities in New York City. Join us in a round table analysis and interactive discussion on Bloomberg's racist Master Plan to ethnically cleanse New York City's low income neighborhoods by employing his weapons of mass displacement: Sell-out Elected Officials, The City Planning Department, the New York City Council, the Empire State Development Corporation, Zoning, Eminent Domain, Bogus Community Benefit Agreements and Paid Off Community Base Front Groups.Moderator: Nellie Hester Bailey, Executive Director, Harlem Tenants Council
Panelists:
Attorney Kim Powell: BRUSH (Buyers & Renters to Save Harlem)
David Galarza: Sunset Park alliance of Neighbors (Queens)
Sergio Aguirro, Committee for Defense of Willets Point
Josephine Lee: Coalition to Protect Chinatown/Lower East Side
Tom Angotti, Urban Planner & Author (New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, 2008)
Tom Angotti's book is now for sale (much like New York, only in a good way). From the press release:
In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmen tal hazards.
A full list of Angotti's book presentations in Manhattan and Brooklyn available after the jump.
What is the relationship between these entities and how are grass roots groups throughout the City organizing resistance and fight back? In addition, Bloomberg is attempting to defy the democratic process by abolishing Term Limits to complete his racist development agenda even in midst of the worst economic crisis the city and nation have ever faced. A look at the scheme to overturn Term Limit as it relates to furthering the gentrification process in addition to an analysis of the end of NYC's real estate boom and its impact on development projects including Harlem's fame 125th Street!
The core of the discussion will center on the growing citywide movement to "Dump Bloomberg" in protest of the Mayor's housing program that has razed low income communities from Harlem to Sunset Park to Willets Point to make way for more profitable luxury developments catering to a wealthy elite while sacrificing working families and small businesses that built the city. While the majority of residents in the City are living from paycheck to paycheck Bloomberg's personal fortune has increased from $14 to 2$22.5 billion, making him the 8th richest person in the nation. Don't miss this critical workshop.
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Other [panelists] to be announced including representatives from the Coalition Against East 125th Street Development Project & Movement for Justice in El Barrio. Tune in to WHCR 90.3 FM Radio for Inside Housing on Monday, October 13th from 6 PM to 7 PM for additional information on CUNY Social Forum.
New York City Book Presentations: October/November 2008
NEW YORK FOR SALE: COMMUNITY PLANNING CONFRONTS GLOBAL REAL ESTATE by Tom Angotti
Now available from MIT Press at http://mitpress.mit.edu
October 20 (Mon) Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave @ 104 St.,
6:30 pm Manhattan. $9, $5 for Museum members
Panel discussion: “Are Developers Overbuilding?” Book signing follows.
October 26 (Sun) Home of Isabel Hill, Park Slope, Brooklyn
5 pm 562 4th Street, btw 8th Ave. & Prospect Park West
October 28 (Tues) Metropolitan Exchange, Brooklyn
7 pm 33 Flatbush Ave. btw Livingston & Fulton, 6th Floor
November 6 (Thurs) Bluestockings Bookstore, Manhattan
7 pm 172 Allen St., btw Stanton & Rivington
November 12 (Wed) Center for Place, Culture & Politics, Manhattan
6 pm CUNY Graduate Center, 5th Ave & 34th St., Rm. 6107
November 13 (Thurs) Brecht Forum, Manhattan
7:30 pm 451 West St., btw Bank & Bethune
November 17 (Mon) Hunter College, Manhattan
7:15 pm 68th & Lexington, West Building, 8th Floor
November 18 (Tues) Municipal Art Society, Manhattan
6:30 pm 457 Madison Ave. @ 51st St.
November 23 (Sun) Planners Network Book Club
Bluestockings Bookstore, Manhattan
172 Allen St., btw Stanton & Rivington
Posted by amy at October 13, 2008 9:05 AM