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Posted: Saturday May 26th, 2007 12:47 |
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1st Annual Harlem Anti-Gentrification Conference
The Historic Community of Harlem Under Attack: Fight Back and Resistance
Forging Alliance and Building Principle Unity
June 1st & June 2nd 2007
St. Ambrose Church @ 9 West 130th Street
(Between Fifth and Lenox Avenues)
CONFERENCE AGENDA
June 1, 2007: 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Opening Plenary
4 to 6 PM: Documentary Film and Discussion:
"Brooklyn Matters"
6 to 8 PM: Opening Plenary with guest panelists
8 to 9 PM: Social Hour & Networking
June 2, 2007:
MORNING CONFERENCE AGENDA
8 to 9 AM: Registration
9 to 10 AM: Morning Plenary with guest panelists
10 AM 12 Noon: Workshops (1, 2, & 3)
12 NOON TO 1:00 PM: LUNCH
AFTERNOON CONFERENCE AGENDA
1 PM to 3:30 PM: Workshops 4, 5 & 6
3:30 PM to 6 PM: Workshops 7, 8, & 9
6 PM to 7 PM: Closing Plenary: Which Way Forward:
Forging Alliances around Principle Unity
7 PM to 9 PM: Dinner and Networking
List of workshops: *Please note some of the workshops are subject to change.
1) Senior Citizens Protections & Supportive Services
2) Know Your Rights: Lease Renewals, Preferential Rents, Primary Residence, Landlord Harassment.
3) The Mitchell Lama Housing Crisis: Strategies and Solutions: An analysis of legislation, direct action and political accountability.
4) Building Coalition and Alliances: The commonality of struggle against gentrification: Lesson and best practices from organizers and activists fighting gentrification in their neighborhoods.
5) A look at the prison industrial complex: The role of community in breaking the chain: re-entry, lack of housing and recidivism.
6). Gentrification in Harlem: an examination of three major development that will dramatically alter Harlem physical, social and ethnic landscape: Columbia University expansion, 125th Street River to River Proposal and the formerly “Uptown NY� project in East Harlem. The workshop will explore fight back strategies and resistance.
7) Katrina, the right of return and housing as a basic human right for everyone.
8) Building Alliances: critical examination of the relationship between the fight for immigrant rights and the historic civil rights movement.
9) An analysis of the Growing Economic Crisis in the US: war, bloated military spending, debt, infrastructure decay, growth of the prison industrial complex, rising unemployment & homelessness. What can we do?
Sponsored by Harlem Tenants Council, Delano Village Tenants Association, St. Ambrose Church, Harlem Fight Back. Endorsements (list in formation) Million More Movement Harlem Local Organizing Committee, Concerned Citizens Outreach to Save Harlem Hospital & Rehab Service, Emma Chapman, Phil DePalo, New York Community Council, Attorney Tarif Warren,
For additional information contact Harlem Tenants Council at 212-234-5005 or Email at [url=javascript:ol('compose.mail?compose%3d1%26amp;.ob%3d4e81b5e1dd975fd095d24019c8225a830c94e95e%26amp;composeto%3dharlemtenants@aol.com%26amp;composecc%3d%26amp;subject%3d%26amp;body%3d');]harlemtenants@aol.com[/url]
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