Seven year anniversary of Dr. Andrew Fagelman employee assaulting patient in SoHo medical office

Dr. Andrew Fagelman 

On Oct. 1, 2012, political commentator Suzannah B. Troy was attacked by an employee of the medical office of Dr. Andrew Fagelman.

The attacker, Delita Hooks, was documented approaching Troy to start the attack in a YouTube video that has been seen over 750,000 times.

No accountability

Hooks was never fired by her employer, nor was she arrested. And Dr. Fagelman has testified in a deposition that he takes Hooks to drug paries. Dr. Fagelman also reportedly has many patients, who are NYPD officers. Dr. Fagelman is allegedly a primary care doctor, and he published in the Journal of Urology an article about the "Efficacy, Safety, and Use of Viagra in Clinical Practice." Yet, Dr. Fagelman does not understand that patient safety. So, how can he be writing about Viagra safety ?

Because Dr. Fagelman has concentrated at least some of his practice on impotent men, could h e be expressing undiagnosed misogyny against women ?

Manhattan D.A.'s Office admitted crimes occurred, but no charges were pressed against Hooks

According to Troy, a senior Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, Joan Illuzi, informed her that the attack constituted or included a second-degree assault, menacing, and a false cross complaint. Troy attempted to report the false cross complaint filed by Hooks as a crime, but she was turned away by police in the First Precinct, including NYPD supervisor Sgt. Chen, who she recorded in secret audio and tweeted to or mentioned top NYPD brass, including the NYPD police commissioners from Raymond Kelly to William Bratton to James O'Neill.

According to Troy's allegations, Andrew Dwyer was the NYPD detective, who represented Hooks in the police investigation. Troy has accused Dwyer of committing crimes in the police investigation. After Det. Andrew Dwyer allegedly committed these crimes, he was promoted to the NYPD FBI Task Force.

Suzannah B. Troy (@suzannahbtroy)

3/4/18, 12:47 PM ⁦‪@NYPDONeill‬⁩ ⁦‪@NYPDChiefofDept‬⁩ ⁦‪@NYPDFIRSTDEP‬⁩ ⁦‪@TheIACP‬⁩⁦‪@NYPDnews‬⁩ ⁦‪@NYPDDetectives‬⁩ ⁦‪@MjrCitiesChiefs‬⁩ ⁦‪@NYPDChiefPatrol‬⁩⁦‪@NYCPBA‬⁩ ⁦‪@MarcSantia4NY‬⁩ ⁦‪@NYPDCT‬⁩ youtu.be/syrc3ncHFTI ask PC O’Neill, Bratton, Ray Kelly, Pulaski, Boyce, Esposito, Banks, Lt Gannon about audio Sgt Chen PO Magori prevent me from reporting Delita Hooks false cross complaint lying I am not from DA or a det. so I am not allowed to report the crime! #NYPD Lies!

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MEDIA ADVISORY : Wed., Sept. 18 presser 5:30 pm before Fight For NYCHA town hall

Join us Wed. night at 5:30 pm at PS 33 at 281 9th Ave., Manhattan, for a press conference.

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Contact : Marni Halasa, (917) 501-9444, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

NYCHA Tenants, Activists to Hold Press Conference Before Sept. 18 Fight For NYCHA Town Hall

[NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 17] ---- NYCHA tenants, tenant activists, and civic leaders will hold a press conference before the start of the Fight For NYCHA town hall on Wednesday night to make the case that the money exists to preserve and expand public housing in New York City. Speakers will propose a People's Budget to raise the money to fully-fund NYCHA.

DATE : Wednesday, 18-Sept-2019

TIME : 5:30 pm

PLACE : PS 33, 281 9th Ave. (Btwn. 26 and 27th Aves.), Manhattan

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DOCUMENT : People's Budget [Archive・org]

Speakers at the press conference will repeat past demands : (i). to stop any demolition of public housing, including at Fulton Houses ; (ii). to stop any RAD conversion of NYCHA, including at Fulton Houses ; (iii). to oppose any sale of air rights ; and (iv). to demand that New York City Government keep public housing public. Immediately following the press conference, organisers will facilitate a town hall meeting to discuss the People's Budget.

PLEASE NOTE : Civil Rights Attorney Norman Siegel has resigned as counsel for Fight For NYCHA. We are looking for a new civil rights attorney.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are providing technical support to NYCHA tenants to self-determine the future of public houisng in New York City. We oppose Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal, because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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Fight For NYCHA Labor Day Protest : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget

Fight For NYCHA Labor Day Protest : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget

Join us a for a Labor Day protest at the District Office of New York City Councilmember Daniel Dromm.

As chair of the City Council Finance Committee, Dromm drafts the New York City Budget. But for the 2020 Fiscal Year budget, Dromm threw NYCHA under the bus, bc, even though NYCHA is in a crisis, facing a $32 billion deficit in its capital improvement budget, Dromm left NYCHA out of the $92.8 billion budget deal reached with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

We are protesting Dromm, bc Fulton Houses faces demolition, particularly if Mayor de Blasio and NYCHA issue a Request For Proposal next month.

DATE : Monday, 02-Sept-2019

TIME : 1 - 2 pm

PLACE : 37-32 75th St., Jackson Heights, Queens

RSVP : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget [Facebook]

Dromm claims he supports diversity, but he turns his back on POC, who make up 90 per cent. of NYCHA tenants.

Dromm claims he knows oppression, and, as a result, he identifies with people of color. However, Dromm has kept quiet as Mayor de Blasio has proposed to convert public housing under a HUD program known as Rental Assistance Demonstration, or RAD. RAD has been shown to lead to spikes in evictions. Because 90 per cent. of NYCHA tenants are people of color, there is a disparate impact of the negative aspects of RAD conversion on people of color.

Recent media reports

• Hundreds of NYCHA Evictions Raise Questions About Process, 14 August 2019 [City Limits]


• HUD proposes rule setting higher bar for housing discrimination claims, 16 August 2019 [POLITICO]

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are supporting NYCHA to self-determine the future of public houisng in New York City. We oppose Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal, because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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Fight For NYCHA Aug. 10 Action-Planning Workshop and Looming Call For Primaries

Fight For NYCHA Aug. 10 Action-Planning Workshop and Looming Call For Primaries. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

Aug. 10 Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Workshop

Counter each new powerholder strategy

Join us to plan a tenant-led series of actions to defeat the demolition, RAD conversion, and sale of air rights of public housing. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio's planned use of RAD, public housing will be put into the hands of private landlords, will bring overdevelopment to public housing, and will lead to tenant displacement.

DATE : Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019

TIME : 1 pm

PLACE : 419 West 17th Street, Manhattan

RSVP : Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Workshop [Facebook]

Electeds call for an extension of time ; if NYCHA is not fully-funded, there looms a call for primaries.

Elected officials recently announced a proposal for tenants in Corey Johnson's City Council district to join an advisory board that is set to be empaneled in September, which is when NYCHA was set to ask for Requests for Proposals for the demolition/RAD conversion of Fulton Houses. Now, electeds are saying that they want to push back the start of the RFP timeline to December, to give the advisory board time to meet and to form an alternate funding plan. This kind of arrangement is fraught with risks. First and foremost, using the failed fight to save St. Vincent's Hospital as an example, the one month loan extension given to St. Vincent's was the last nail in its coffin, and it gave electeds an excuse to say that they did all that they could to save St. Vincent's -- which was a lie. Second, no process that electeds offer up to the community is going to be fair or democratic, because every elected with jurisdiction in Chelsea, Hudson Yards, and Hell's Kitchen has a track record of supporting non-stop, community-crushing gentrification. Third, the solution is already known. Fulton Houses needs $168 million. NYCHA, over all, needs an estimated $32 billion. The only acceptable solution is the full-funding of NYCHA.

If electeds don't find the money to fully-fund Fulton Houses without resorting to demolition, RAD conversion, and the sale of air rights, then activists are prepared to make a call that all complicit politicians should be primaried -- or voted out of office, entirely -- beginning with those with jurisdiction over the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

Recent media reports

• Housing Update: Anti-RAD Organizers are Growing, 06 August 2019 [City Limits]


• Meet The Women Behind The 'Occupy NYCHA' Rally At City Hall, 24 July 2019 [Gothamist]


• Occupy NYCHA takes root in South Jamaica, 01 August 2019 [Queens Eagle]


• NYCHA should delay Fulton Houses demolition decision, politicians say, 31 July 2019 [amNewYork]


• NYCHA Crisis Discussion with Senator Salazar in Bushwick, 01 August 2019 [Bushwick Daily]


• Chelsea Reform Democratic Club Panel Sees City Reps, Residents, Advocates Discuss Future of Fulton Houses, 10 July 2019 [Chelsea Community News]

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are supporting NYCHA to self-determine the future of public houisng in New York City. We oppose Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal, because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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Protest Corey Johnson Monday Night ; Other Updates From Fight For NYCHA

Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses ; and other updates from @FightForNYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses

No #RAD-ification of Fulton Houses !

Join us for a protest on Monday night at the apartment house of New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea). We demand that Council Speaker Johnson allocate $168 million to save Fulton Houses from demolition and to stop the handing over of Fulton Houses to a private landlord.

DATE : Monday, July 15, 2019

TIME : 6:30 pm

PLACE : 220 West 15th Street, Manhattan

RSVP : Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses [Facebook]

Update on Councilmember Ben Kallos' Forum on Overdevelopment

Councilmember Ban Kallos (D-Sutton Place) was generous to allow Fight For NYCHA to speak at his Forum on Overdevelopment at CUNY Graduate Center on June 27. Councilmmember Kallos noted how his office and the office of Borough President Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) had opposed any development of NYCHA that circumvented the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure ("ULURP"). Please watch the Occupy Radio video of the brief remarks made about the importance of putting the plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York), calling for the demolition and RAD conversion of public housing, on the public agenda.

VIDEO : Fighting Every Step of the Way to Save NYCHA [Occupy Radio via YouTube]

Update on Twitter Suspension

When the @FightForNYCHA Twitter account was restored, we were notified that our account had been flagged as spam. We don't know how Twitter reached that conclusion, but it may be that our opposition were flagging our posts as spam. Whatever the true cause, we have set up a back-up Twitter account. Please take time to follow @FullyFundNYCHA.

Search for 501(c)(3) Sponsor

Fight For NYCHA is searching for a fiscal sponsor to support our commitment to public service. Our core mission is three-fold : to bring relief to public housing tenants, to preserve and expand public housing, and to treat housing as a human right. If your group can act as our 501(c)(3) sponsor, please contact us at : team (at) mg (dot) fightfornycha (dot) org.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are supporting NYCHA to self-determine the future of public houisng in New York City. We oppose Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal, because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : @FightForNYCHA's Twitter account was suspended

The @FightForNYCHA Twitter account has been suspended ; do your part to hold elected officials accountable by demanding $32 billion for NYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

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The @FightForNYCHA Twitter account has been suspended ; do your part to hold elected officials accountable by demanding $32 billion for NYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

13 June 2019 (New York) - Fight For NYCHA's Twitter account, @FightForNYCHA, was suspended shortly after 5 pm on Wed., June 12, without specific indication for cause. An appeal has been filed to overturn the suspension. The account suspension followed the commencement of a protest campaign to secure $168 million to save the Fulton Houses public housing development in Chelsea from demolition and RAD conversion, which would turn public housing into a for-profit business by putting the Fulton Houses into the hands of private landlords. Fight For NYCHA is working to empower public housing tenants to determine the future of public housing in New York City. The Twitter account suspension also took place just one day after former New York City Councilmember Sal Albanese tweeted that his plan to take money out of politics, called Democracy Vouchers, would politically empower registered voters living in New York City Housing Authority apartments.

Fight For NYCHA respectfully requests that the media and the public hold Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City), New York Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea), and Councilmember Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) accountable for not fully-funding NYCHA on the municipal level. Other elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14), have similarly turned their backs on people with the least. As argued by Fight For NYCHA, the Rental Assistance Demonstration program ("RAD") of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is a pretext for the privatisation of NYCHA, because it is woefully inadequate to fund the preservation and expansion of public housing. In the case of Ocean Bay Apartments in Far Rockaway, for example, NYCHA needed $200 million in FEMA relief money to complete the renovations, money that will not be available at other NYCHA public housing apartment complexes, like at the Fulton Houses in Chelsea.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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For Immediate Release : Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

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Contact : Louis Flores, (347) 551-2299, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

25 May 2019 (New York) - Tenants of the Fulton Houses public housing development in Chelsea, members of Fight For NYCHA, and allies will be holding a protest at New York City Hall to demand that New York City Council reäppropriate the $10 billion from the capital budget for new jails and instead redirect those monies to the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. Tenants are also calling for the New York City Council to hold hearings to establish a corporate income tax for corporations of a certain size that operate in New York City. These monies are being demanded to fully-fund NYCHA so as to avoid Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans to put NYCHA into the hands of private landlords.

DATE : Wednesday, 29 May 2019

TIME : 10 am

PLACE : Western Gate to New York City Hall

RSVP : Demand $32 billion for NYCHA [Facebook]

Since NYCHA is comprised of 90% Black and Latinx families, this means that the politicians are making a political calculation that they can exploit public housing tenants. Politicians, who support the plans announced by Mayor de Blasio to demolish public housing apartment buildings and to put public housing into the hands of private landlords, are keeping quiet about the racial implications of their actions or support. This is wrong.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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For Immediate Release : Sat., 5/11 : Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Mtg. @ Fulton Houses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : #M11 Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Meeting at Fulton Houses

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Contact : Louis Flores, (347) 551-2299, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Meeting

10 May 2019 (New York) — Fight For NYCHA is co-hosting an action-planning meeting to design actions to find the $32 billion needed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). Fulton Houses tenants, civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, and Fight For NYCHA members will be participating in the action-planning meeting.

DATE : Saturday, 11 May 2019

TIME : 1 pm

PLACE : Fulton Houses, 419 W 17th St., Manhattan

RSVP : Fulton Houses : Action Planning Meeting [Facebook]

Also on the proposed agenda is the task of electing an independent tenants' association. In the weeks since it was publicly revealed that Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City) will be demolishing buildings at the Fulton Houses in Chelsea and erecting in their place 70/30 market-rate rental apartment buildings, some Fulton residents have lost confidence in Tenant President Miguel Acevedo.

Recent media reports about the Fight For NYCHA movement :

• Fulton Houses fearful over RAD'ical plan, 08 May 2019 [The Villager]


• We Must Save NYCHA, 06 May 2019 [Occupy Radio/YouTube]


• NYCHA Tenants Rally to Save Robert Fulton Houses, 04 May 2019 [NY1]


• NYCHA Residents Fight Eviction Plan, 29 April 2019 [Occupy Radio/YouTube]

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Sunday, 4/28 : Fight For NYCHA Press Conference @ Fulton Houses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : #A28 Fight For NYCHA Press Conference

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#A28 Fight For NYCHA Press Conference

27 April 2019 (New York) — Fight For NYCHA is co-hosting a press conference to speak out against private landlords taking-over public housing apartment buildings. Specifically, we oppose plans to demolish public housing buildings, the construction of buildings with market-rate apartments on public housing grounds, and the risks from private landlord ownership or management of buildings that house public housing tenants at the Fulton Houses in Chelsea.

DATE : Sunday, April 28, 2019

TIME : 1:30 pm

PLACE : Fulton Houses, 119 9th Ave, Manhattan

RSVP : Press Conference against RAD Conversion of NYCHA [Facebook]

Fulton Houses tenants, civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, and anti-gentrification activists will be speaking at the press conference.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Saturday's March Against Racism and Fascism does nothing to end racism in NYC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Saturday's March Against Racism and Fascism does nothing to end racism in NYC : Statement by Fight For NYCHA

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STATEMENT BY FIGHT FOR NYCHA

13 March 2019 (New York) — Fight For NYCHA believes that the March Against Racism and Fascism, a parade put on by the coälition of United Against Racism and Fascism-NYC, is problematic over the misuse of « racism » in the title of their upcoming parade, scheduled for Sat., Mar. 16. Members of Fight For NYCHA learned that the coördinating committee for this parade lacked representation by Black and Brown people and that, although the parade was nominally opposing racism first, the parade had no political targets and was making no demands to end institutions of racism, particularly here in New York City. The parade is set to take place in Foley Square. Within blocks of the parade grounds are located the offices of Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City), New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea), and U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, each of whom are responsible for racist policies, such as supporting Broken Windows policing, approving rezonings that spread gentrification in low-income neighborhoods, and failing to propose a fully-funded settlement with the New York City Housing Authority to address its twin problems of poor physical condition standards and the lead poisoning crisis, respectively. Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Johnson also control the City Budget, and they refuse to provide NYCHA with enough money to improve the living standards of public housing tenants, who are a majority Black and Brown people. What is more, Mayor de Blasio supports building new jails to replace Rikers Island that will negatively impact Black and Brown people and people needing medical attention. Where do parade representatives stand on any of these policies that rest on racism ? Despite the stated first priority of this parade, there is no indication that any of these Government officials are targets of the parade against racism. Since racism is a major determinant of housing injustice, particularly in New York City, particularly in public housing, this parade misses a great opportunity to identify targets and to make demands to address racism in housing, for example.

Many groups representing the reform and resistance movements naturally oppose racism and facism, as does Fight For NYCHA. However, empty events, such as this parade, drain energy and resources from the efforts of others, who are engaged in struggles to challenge and end racism in society, particularly here in New York City, and particularly in public housing.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's announced proposal to sell 1/3 of NYCHA to private real estate interests in order to « save » NYCHA. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities

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HAPPENING TOMORROW : Feb. 10 Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

Reminder : Feb. 10 Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC) has proposed to sell up to 62,000 public housing apartments in a scheme that would allow private real estate developers and investors to buy into NYCHA. This plan, as corrupt as it is in many ways, won't be challenged by U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who, has offered a new, shoddy settlement to quickly get rid of his investigation of the lead poisoning crisis at NYCHA that is silent on the sale of 1/3 of NYCHA. Before Berman became the top Manhattan Federal prosecutor, he was Rudy Giuliani's former law partner. Questions exist whether U.S. Attorney Berman respects the public opinion that informed the creation of NYCHA. NYCHA was formed in 1934 during the Great Depression after Fiorello La Guardia campaigned for mayor with the promise to create Government housing. In 1934, delegates representing 750,000 workers adopted a resolution to treat housing construction and maintenance as a social good, not unlike public transportation and public education.*

• RSVP : Sunday, Feb. 10 : Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA [Facebook]

Powerful men, who support Big Business elites, are turning a blind eye to the suffering of average people, who live in public housing. On top of dealing with lead poisoning, exposure to toxic mold, and no head in the winter, now public housing residents must confront private landlords, who only want want to churn through tenants as a way to get to deregulation. We say, not on our watch ! These decisions -- to keep throwing pennies on the dollar to public housing as a pretext to sell public housing -- are being made without our consent. This is wrong. We need to have a say -- so we can block any sale of NYCHA.

Shirley Chisholm said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." Bring a folding chair with you, if you can, to our rally.

• RSVP : Sunday, Feb. 10 : Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA [Facebook]


• @FightForNYCHA in the News : Norman Siegel, a civil rights attorney who is representing Fight For NYCHA, said that the protests at MDC are an example of what can happen when activism takes shape and grips a city. Public housing has been a difficult issue to rally people around, he argued, because many people believe "they can't change the status quo." Yet he said he believed people would be energized once they began to learn more about what was happening to the city's public housing. "There are moments when a spark is lit. People can move quickly and they did this weekend," he said. "Hopefully on Sunday we’ll have lots of people and we’ll get that spirit going." : As City Officials Respond To 'Humanitarian Crisis' At Brooklyn Jail, Others Wonder : 'What About NYCHA ?' [Gothamist]

With your help, we can save public housing.

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Fight For NYCHA

Fight For NYCHA, a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's announced proposal to sell 1/3 of NYCHA (62,000 apartments) to private real estate interests in order to "save" NYCHA. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities. Follow Fight For NYCHA on Facebook and Twitter.

* See PUBLIC HOUSING ASKED BY WORKERS ; Social Control Just as in Education Is Endorsed at Meeting of 80 Delegates. MAYOR AND POST FAVOR IT LaGuardia Tells Labor Council Federal Money Will Only Begin to Meet City's Needs., The New York Times (29 June 1934), https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/29/archives/public-housing-asked-by-workers-social-control-just-as-in-education.html.

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Protest Change Notice : Feb.10 Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

Protest Change Notice : Feb. 10 Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

Our prior demonstration has been replaced by this event.

The goal of this direct action is to highlight an alternative solution to save NYCHA. Everybody please show up on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 1 p.m. for a rally at the steps of City Hall, after which we will march to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which is only a few blocks away.

• RSVP : Sunday, Feb. 10 : Rally at City Hall and March to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA [Facebook]

Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC) has proposed to sell up to 62,000 public housing apartments in a scheme that would allow private real estate developers and investors to buy into NYCHA. This plan, as corrupt as it is in many ways, must be approved by U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who, is trying to settle a years-long Federal investigation into the lead poisoning crisis at NYCHA. Before Berman became the top Manhattan Federal prosecutor, he was Rudy Giuliani's former law partner. Questions exist whether U.S. Attorney Berman appreciates the public opinion that informed the creation of NYCHA.

NYCHA was formed in 1934 during the Great Depression after Fiorello La Guardia campaigned for mayor with the promise to create Govenrment housing. In 1934, delegates representing 750,000 workers adopted a resolution to treat housing construction and maintenance as a social good, not unlike public transportation and public education.*

By putting NYCHA into the hands of private real estate developers and investors, Mayor Bill de Blasio is saying we can trust the very same individuals, who spend millions to lobby to end rent regulations in New York State. Who thinks this can work ? Privatization of NYCHA will also dangerously legitimize the growing philosophy that most issues are best handled by the private sector, an approach that has been detrimental to numerous other agencies.

Mayor de Blasio claims his plan will raise $15 billion for NYCHA repairs. Our initial demand is that Mayor de Blasio cancel the corrupt $3 billion in taxpayer monies being given to Amazon and to stop the construction of four new jails to replace Rikers Island, thereby saving $10 billion, and to use these $13 billion for NYCHA. Alternatively, the City could impose a 1% income tax on all corporations of a certain size with an office in New York City. Either way, there should be no need to sell any public housing apartments to the real estate industry. Please keep in mind that, in order to make these demands, we are asking that Rikers be shut down, as we fully support the prison abolition movement.

All along, our greatest fear was that public housing was defunded, so it could reach such a state of neglect that it would be used as a pretext for its sale. Besides us, two men stand in the way of Mayor de Blasio's plan to sell NYCHA : U.S. Attorney Berman and U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley III. Recently, Judge Pauley has indicated that he does not support a judicial receivership. That puts more of an emphasis on U.S. Attorney Berman to oppose the sale of NYCHA. At a recent speech, U.S. Attorney Berman said, "There is no more important case in my Office than NYCHA." Our rally and march will ask him to consider how history will judge him if he permits Mayor de Blasio to violate the public sentiment that informed the creation of NYCHA.

And make sure to sign up here so we can keep you posted about future events as this is only the beginning. And make sure to spread the word about our event by promoting it on Facebook and Twitter ! We are strength in numbers !

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With your help, we can save public housing.

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* See PUBLIC HOUSING ASKED BY WORKERS ; Social Control Just as in Education Is Endorsed at Meeting of 80 Delegates. MAYOR AND POST FAVOR IT LaGuardia Tells Labor Council Federal Money Will Only Begin to Meet City's Needs., The New York Times (29 June 1934), https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/29/archives/public-housing-asked-by-workers-social-control-just-as-in-education.html.

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Direct Action Alert : Bring your trash to the U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA : 31 January 2019

Direct Action Alert : Bring trash to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

Bring your trash to the U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA

The goal of this direct action is to highlight an alternative solution to save NYCHA. Everybody is invited to bring trash to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Downtown Manhattan on Jan. 31, the date by which the Government must file its latest plan to save public housing in New York City.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC) has proposed to sell up to 62,000 public housing apartments in a scheme that would allow private real estate developers and investors to buy into NYCHA. This plan, as corrupt as it is in many ways, must be approved by U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who, is trying to settle a years-long Federal investigation into the lead poisoning crisis at NYCHA. Before Berman became the top Manhattan Federal prosecutor, he was Rudy Giuliani's former law partner.

NYCHA was formed in 1934 during the Great Depression. Before its formation, delegates representing 750,000 workers adopted a resolution to treat housing construction and maintenance as a social good, not unlike public transportation and public education.*

By putting NYCHA into the hands of private real estate developers and investors, Mayor Bill de Blasio is saying we can trust the very same individuals, who spend millions to lobby to end rent regulations in New York State. Who thinks this can work ? Privatization of NYCHA will also dangerously legitimize the growing philosophy that most issues are best handled by the private sector, an approach that has been detrimental to numerous other agencies.

Mayor de Blasio claims his plan will raise $15 billion for NYCHA repairs. Our demand is that Mayor de Blasio cancel the corrupt $3 billion in taxpayer monies being given to Amazon and to stop the construction of four new jails to replace Rikers Island, thereby saving $10 billion, and to use these $13 billion for NYCHA. As a result, there should be no need to sell any public housing apartments to the real estate industry. Please keep in mind that we are asking that Rikers be shut down, as we fully support the prison abolition movement.

All along, our greatest fear was that public housing was defunded, so it could reach such a state of neglect that it would be used as a pretext for its sale. How would U.S. Attorney Berman like it if his building got sold, just because it was not properly maintained ? This is the same flawed logic that is driving Mayor de Blasio's corrupt plan to sell off NYCHA. Bring all the trash that you and your neighbors have to the U.S. Attorney's Office on Jan. 31.

And make sure to sign up here so we can keep you posted about future events as this is only the beginning. And make sure to spread the word about our event by promoting it on Facebook and Twitter ! We are strength in numbers !

• RSVP : Jan. 31 Direct Action : Bring trash to U.S. Attorney's Office to save NYCHA [Facebook]

With your help, we can save public housing.

Join us.

* See PUBLIC HOUSING ASKED BY WORKERS ; Social Control Just as in Education Is Endorsed at Meeting of 80 Delegates. MAYOR AND POST FAVOR IT LaGuardia Tells Labor Council Federal Money Will Only Begin to Meet City's Needs., The New York Times (29 June 1934), https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/29/archives/public-housing-asked-by-workers-social-control-just-as-in-education.html.

If you have any of the following items, please bring them with you :

10 Common Household Items That Contain Lead

1. Plastics


2. Cosmetics


3. Paint on Toys and Homes


4. Toy Jewelry


5. Ceramics


6. Batteries in Products


7. Glass


8. New York City tap water


9. Plumbing


10. Household Dust

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