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

#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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Contact : Louis Flores, (347) 551-2299

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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