Event: Housing In Harlem "Speak Out": Housing is a Human Right!

Event: Housing In Harlem "Speak Out": Housing is a Human Right!

Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Day: Saturday, October 10, 2009

Cost: Free

Note: Flyer can be downloaded from the CSH Flyer Depot here.

Food: Continental Breakfast & Lunch

Registration:

• Online here or click on the Registration Button in the right panel.
• By Telephone: 646-355-8813 [Leave Name (Spell), Contact Telephone Number & Email Address (If you have one)]

Location:
Countee Cullen Community Center
242 West 144th Street
New York, NY 10030
212-234-4500

Description:
The Coalition to Save Harlem is hosting an event in the Village of Harlem titled - Housing in Harlem "Speak Out": Housing is a Human Right!

The event program will be interactive and provide an open Community Forum for Harlem Residents to obtain information, have discussions, network and ask questions about Governmental Policies that affect Housing in the Village of Harlem.

There will also be Community Discussion about preparation for the United Nations Housing Rapporteur's visit to the Village of Harlem later this year.

Program Goals

1. To provide an open Community Forum for Harlem Residents to obtain information, discuss, ask questions and hear solutions about Governmental Policies that affect Housing in the Village of Harlem.
2. To build a broad based housing movement that increases and improves participatory democracy on all levels of Housing issues.
3. To mobilize a core group of Harlem Residents to collaborate and write testimony that will be submitted during the hearings on housing that will be held by the United Nations Housing Rapporteur later in the year.
4. To alert Harlem Residents to recent and pending legislation that will affect housing in the Village of Harlem.
5. To be a catalyst for Harlem Residents to get involved in preserving their Village.

Transportation:

• BUS:
  M2, M10, M15 (On M15 disembark at either Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. or Frederick Douglass Blvd. and walk 1 block south to 144th St.)
• TRAIN:
  IRT #3 to 145th St. & Malcolm X Blvd (Walk 1 block West and 1 block south to 144th St.)
  IND A,B,C,D to 145th St & St. Nicholas Ave. (Walk 3 blocks East and 1 block south to 144th St.)
  IRT #1 to 145th St & Broadway (Walk 6 blocks East and 1 block south to 144th St.)

Contact:
Email: HousingInHarlem@gmail.com
Telephone: 646-355-8813

Event Twitter: @HousingInHarlem [Hashtag #HIH09]

Host:
Coalition to Save Harlem [CSH]
Lincolnton Station P.O. box 737 New York, NY 10037
Telephone: 646-355-8813 Fax: 718-670-3230
Email: Contact.Coalition2SaveHarlem@gmail.com
Twitter: @HarlemCoalition
Blog Site: CoalitionToSaveHarlem.blogspot.com

Black Male Forum: Reshaping The Minds of Young Black Men - The Ingredients For Success

Event: Black Male Forum
Reshaping The Minds of Young Black Men
The Ingredients For Success

Time: 12:00 pm -4:00 pm
Day & Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009

Location:
National Action Network House of Justice
106 W. 145th Street Harlem, NY
(between Malcolm X & Adam Clayton Blvds.)

Download Flyer from the CSH Flyer Depot

In Addition:

• VIP African American Greek Panel:
  Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity Inc.
  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
  Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.


• Special Youth Panel:
  Musical
  Hip hop
  Spoken word performances
  


• Special Guest:
  From NY Knicks

Food: Lunch Will Be Provided
Moderator: Thabiti Boone

Registration/Information - Contact:
William Griffin, Chairman, National Action Network Men’s Auxiliary
1-914-497- 8056 or billygee42@aol.com
Mario Clemenzio, Publicity Director
1-914-562-0534 or ilconterto@yahoo.com

Host: National Action Network Men’s Auxiliary Committee
Sponsors: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. 2nd District

Reported by Owen Rogers
Image by Quiouri Black

Forum - Stop the Budget Cuts!

Event: FORUM - STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!

Come to a discussion with a panel of NYC activists discussion how we can "Stop the Budget Cuts".

Time: 5:30pm
Day & Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009

Location:
Local 802 Union Hall
322 W 48th St.
(between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Speakers*:

• Marvin Holland: TWU 100*, founder of "Take Back Our Union" movement
• Ajamu Sankofa: Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition*
• Doug Singsen: CUNY Student Union*
• Kit Wainer: UFT*, Teachers for a Just Contract*

Moderator:
Megan Behrent: UFT*, Teachers for a Just Contract*

More Info? Endorse?
Call 646-452-8662 or email nyciso@gmail.com

Background:
You've heard it before: Tough times are ahead, so as much as it hurts, we're all going to have to make do with less. Major cuts will have to be made to programs and services that were already underfunded to begin with.

President Obama has proposed $3.4 billion in aid to NY for education and Medicaid, but this will only soften the blow. It won't stop the cuts (it won't even affect areas outside of healthcare and education—like the proposed MTA fare hike, for instance).

But in a city like ours—the financial center of the United States—it's painfully obvious that not everyone is tightening their belts. When their stock-market gambling habit nearly left the economy in total collapse, the same politicians who said we need to do with less rushed to pass legislation giving Wall Street a $700 billion handout—no strings attached.

Where's the bailout for us? We should demand NO CUTS!

Join us for a discussion about how these budget cuts are impacting working people, and how we can turn the anger against the Paterson-Bloomberg cuts into action.

Sponsors: (List in formation)

• CUNY Grad Center Student Union,
• Independent Community of Educators,
• International Socialist Organization, New York Collective of Radical Educators,
• Solidarity,
• Take Back Our Union Movement,
• Teachers for a Just Contract, Teachers Unite

*Speakers will not necessarily appear as official representatives

Distributed by Peter Lamphere