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March 3, 2010
Skip Work to Protest and Disrupt Ratner's March 11th Barclays Center Groundbreaking
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Lots of us are angry, no...mad, and lots have already said 'I'll be there.'
THIS IS THE MOMENT.
Skip work or take a long lunch...
Join us to Protest and Drown Out the Barclays/Ratner Boondoggle Ceremonial Groundbreaking
Thursday, March 11. Reportedly 1:30pm.
Exact location yet to be determinedALL HANDS ON DECK
Next Thursday, March 11th, at 1:30pm, Forest City Ratner will stage a “groundbreaking ceremony” for the money-losing Barclays Center Arena, we presume in the Atlantic Yards project site though we do not yet know exactly where. Note there will be no groundbreaking for any "affordable housing" and the Barclays Billion Dollar Boondoggle will not house a single Brooklynite.
We use the term “stage” knowingly, since the “Atlantic Yards,” as currently conceived, cannot be built.
The ceremony of dirt shoveling pols will signify the start of prepping to eventually build an arena, not the promised affordable housing Bruce Ratner still claims he is going to build. It is a ceremony to celebrate a money-losing arena and at least 25 years of blight and interim surface parking where a neighborhood once stood.
This is why we ask you to join us Thursday to loudly protest at Ratner’s/Bloomberg's/Markowitz's/Paterson's “groundbreaking."
Posted by eric at March 3, 2010 10:02 PM