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HARLEM TOWNHALL MEETING ON HOUSING

The Audacity of a People's Struggle

A Referendum on Politicians:

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Mt. Olivet Church
201 Lenox Ave. at 120th St. - 6 to 7:45PM

Followed by 8 to 9 PM Picket of Inez Dickens Fundraiser 

(Moca Restaurant: 2210 Frederick Douglass Blvd @119th)

Black politics and Black political culture have regressed significantly during the eight year reign of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg who was able to pushed through an end of Term Limits legislation in the City Council that will all but assure him of another four years in office. City Council members Inez Dickens and Robert Jackson voted for Bloomberg's bill as they, along with Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverto, voted for Columbia University Expansion, the 125th St. River to River Development and most recently the East 125th Project, the latter two projects will bring in over 4,500 units of mostly luxury housing within the 125th Street corridor. This is truly the dead end of Black Politics that is not accountable to its constituents. Black politicians do not present solutions for a myriad of problems confronting Harlem such as corporate centered and heavily subsidized gentrification projects; public housing cut backs; lack of low income housing; landlord harassment & displacement; local small businesses under attack; the abuse of eminent domain; and  continuous attacks against Harlem's historic cultural legacy. We will discuss organizing mass mobilization with coalition partners! Help us send a message to the pols, 'NEVER AGAIN!" ATTEND THIS CRITICAL MEETING.  The politicians do this because they believe we will complain as usual but do nothing. This time they are wrong. WE ARE FIGHTING BACK. JOIN US!!!!

Fundraiser for Harlem Tenants Council at Minton's Jazz Club

Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 from 4 to 8 PM

The famous jazz club in Central Harlem was founded in 1938 by tenor saxophonist Henry Minton, the first Black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. Minton’s role in the development of modern jazz known as bebop flourished in the early 1940s with jazz giants such as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Minton’s decline in the 1960s led to its closing in 1974. A remodeled Minton’s reopened in 2006 under the name Uptown Lounge at Minton’s Playhouse. Ralph Ellison on Minton’s: it provided “a retreat, a homogeneous community where a collectivity of common experience could find continuity and meaningful expression.
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