S O L I D A R I T Y C E N T E R
Saturday, September 9, 2017
11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Starting at Barclays Center and Ending in Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza in Bushwick
The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN), a people of color-led grassroots coalition, organized Brooklyn’s first ever borough-wide march against gentrification, racism, and police violence. The march from Barclays Center to Bushwick will include rallies in six locations across gentrifying neighborhoods, featuring speakers facing rent hikes and landlord harassment, police violence, and privatization of public land in their communities. The march has been endorsed by more than 100 community-based organizations, small businesses, tenant associations, families impacted police violence, and local chapters of national anti-police brutality groups.
Marchers demand that the city take action against racism, including to:
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Stop selling off communities in the form of real estate-driven rezonings and sweetheart deals for public land, tax exemptions, and subsidies;
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Invest public funds to maintain — not privatize — NYCHA, grow low-income housing programs, and enforce rent regulations, instead of using shelters as a form of permanent housing for our families and children;
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End police suppression of resistance and end discriminatory and violent Broken Windows policing;
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Protect small businesses and jobs by supporting commercial tenant protections and ending policies that advance development by and for the super-rich; and
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Vote out City and State elected officials who refuse to act on our demands and who support major zoning and development projects, such as the Bedford-Union Armory redevelopment, which are Trojan Horses for gentrification and displacement.
The City has squandered and mismanaged public assets to enrich developers while the people they serve face impoverishing rents and landlord harassment, loss of small affordable businesses, and crumbling public transit and parks systems. BAN challenges the de Blasio administration and politicians who run on platforms of fighting inequality while perpetuating the tale of two cities.
March Route and Rally Stops:
11am – 12pm – Rally and Speak Out at Barclays Center
12 – 1:30pm – March to Crown Heights
1:30 – 2pm – Rally and Speak Out at Ebbets Field Apartments – Bedford Ave. and Montgomery St.
2:05pm – Short Stop at Bedford-Union Armory – Bedford Ave. and Union St.
2:15 – 3:30pm – March to Bedford Stuyvesant
3:30 – 4 pm – Rally and Speak Out at Herbert Von King Park
4:00 – 4:20 – March to Myrtle Ave. and Broadway
4:30 – 5:30 pm – March through Bushwick
5:30 – 6pm – Rally and Speak Out at Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza – Myrtle Ave. and Wyckoff Ave.
Event: www.facebook.com/events/8335
Facebook: @BANgentrification
Twitter: @BANgentrifying
Website: www.bangentification.org
FUNDS are URGENTLY Needed !
To Donate to #BKMarch2017 : bit.ly/Donate2BAN
or www.venmo.com/
To Volunteer:
Please Join the Brooklyn Anti-gentrification
Network Community List:
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Flow of the day – Where to pick up flyers & other Info:
Flow of the day
11:00 am Gather at Barclay’s Center
12:00 noon MARCH
1:30 pm Rally at Ebbets Field ( Crown Heights)
3:30 pm Rally at Herbert Von King Park (Bedford-Stuy)
5:30 pm Rally at Mytle & Wyckoff Aves (Bushwick)
6:30 pm After-Party at Starr Bar
facebook.com/events/
Where to pick up flyers:
- Bushwick
Mayday Space 176 St Nicholas Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11237
info@maydayspace.org - Crown Heights
MTOPP : (718) 703-3086 - Downtown BK
FUREE : 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 715-1352 ext. x202 - Flatbush
Equality for Flatbush: 646 820-6039Manhattan
The Solidarity Center
147 West 24th Street – 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
Call (212) 633-6646 for office hours - Sunset Park
UPROSE
166A 22nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Phone: (718) 492-9307
Main Hashtags :
#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities
Hashtags we will also use :
#BKRiseUp
#BKFightsRacism
#BlackLivesMatter
#BrownLivesMatter
#EndBrokenWindows
#HereToStay
To have your community group, anti-police brutality group or family, place of worship, small business, tenant organization, etc. endorse the Brooklyn-wide Day of Action against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality
Contact: info@bangentrification.org
or call/text (646) 820-6039
facebook.com/events/
Follow me on Twitter @imanihenry
or check out www.iacenter.org or
http://peoplespowerassemblies.
#BKMarch2017 #BANGentrification #TakeBackOurCommunities
March Endorsers as of September 9th 2017
*denotes BAN Member Organization
The 60 Turner Place Tenants Association
The 332 Rutland Road Tenants Association
The 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants Association
The 486 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants Association
ACT-UP Boston
Art Against Displacement
Artists Of Color Bloc
The Artist Studio Affordability Project*
Bangla4Justice – Justice Translators
Bay Ridge For Social Justice
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Black Lives Matter – NYC Chapter
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) – NYC Chapter
The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Brooklyn for Peace
Brooklyn Laundry Social Club
Brooklyn Resists
Brooklyn Treasures Uncovered
The Bronx is Not for Sale
Brown Memorial Baptist Church
Busk NY
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
The Chinatown Art Brigade
Chelsea Coalition on Housing
City Acupuncture Bed-Stuy
The Coalition to End Broken Windows
The Co-Editors and Contributors of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
The Crown Heights Tenants Union-CHTU
The Crystal House Project of The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement*
The CUNY Adjunct Project
Democratic Socialists of America – DSA-NYC
Dismantle the Armory Deal Initiative (DADI)
Donkeysaddle Projects
Educated Little Monsters-ELM
Elevtr Trax
El Grito de Sunset Park *
Errol’s Bakery and Catering
Equality for Flatbush*
The Family of Davonte Pressley
The Family of Shantel Davis
Fight Back BayRidge
Flower Lovers Against Corruption (FLAC)
Fort Greene Peace
Free The Arts Festival
FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality)*
Gays Against Guns New York
The Grand Putnam Tenants Association
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Harriet’s Apothecary
Hoods4Justice
ICEFREENYC
Imani House, Inc
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle – US Chapter (ILPS US)
JACK *
Jewish Voice for Peace – NYC Chapter
The Justice Committee
#JusticeforAkaiGurley
The Law Offices of Alex Franco
The Law Offices of Gideon Oliver
Mayday Space
Meerkat Media Collective
Met Council on Housing
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Illumination Against Gentrification*
Million Hoodies Movement for Justice – NYC Chapter
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP)*
My Brooklyn, LLC, The Producer of the “My Brooklyn” Documentary
New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
New York Communities for Change (NYCC)
NYCORE (NY Collective of Radical Educators)
NYC Stands with Standing Rock
New York Council for Housing Development
The Peoples Cultural Plan
The People’s Power Assembly – NYC
The Philadelphia Tenants Union
Picture The Homeless
Progress Queens
Project Hajra
Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association (PLGNA)
Queens Anti-Gentrification Project
Queens is NOT for Sale
Queens Neighborhoods United
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP)
Radix Media
Reign Multimedia LLC
Residentes De Sunset Park Housing / Small Business Rights
Resistencia Legal Alliance
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Ridgewood Tenants Union
Safe Outside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde Project*
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
The Social Justice Social Practice Collective, Pratt Institute
Southwest Brooklyn Tenant Union*
Starr Bar
St Nicks Alliance
Sullivan-Ludlam-Stoddard Neighborhood Association
Third Root Community Health Center*
Trellis
Troll Hole NYC
Turiza Group Inc
UPROSE*
URIP (The Undoing Racism Internship Project)
We Make Noise NYC
Workers World Party
Why Accountability
