Rents in New York Metropolis are skyrocketing. Displacement is an existential menace to working folks, notably in communities of shade. However our Metropolis authorities continues to greenlight racist rezonings to incentivize luxurious builders. Mayor Adams, a pal of huge builders, is following former Mayor de Blasio’s footsteps along with his displacement agenda. Now greater than ever, younger folks all through NYC want a combating base able to uniting working folks throughout generations of all races, ages, and backgrounds to struggle for management of our communities and demand really inexpensive housing for all!
For the final 6 years, at the side of the Coalition to Shield Chinatown and the LES, YAD has been on the forefront of the motion towards racist displacement. We have supported and led many battles–from combating alongside the tenants of 83-85 Bowery towards the Metropolis’s collusion with dangerous landlords, to delaying the development of the Two Bridges megatowers.
At present, we boycott the Museum of Chinese language in America (MOCA) for taking the town’s $35 million bribe to assist borough-based jails, combating to stave off the 4 megatowers in Two Bridges, and demanding that the town move the complete Chinatown Working Group plan, a community-led rezoning plan that will defend the LES and Chinatown from actual property hypothesis and provides our communities the ability to find out their future. Final yr, we collected over 10,000 signatures to demand the Metropolis cease displacement in our communities. However to proceed our anti-displacement marketing campaign, We’d like your assist. To that finish, we’re organizing our first-ever fundraising occasion!
Please be part of us on January nineteenth on the Folks’s Discussion board for an evening of poetry and music that includes wonderful performances: a poetry studying by Jenny Zhang, writer of Bitter Coronary heart, the musical stylings of songwriter Goodie and rock outfit Partygirl, and a little bit of each from Victoria Ruiz of Downtown Boys. Doorways open at 6pm
Get your ticket at tinyurl.com/YADfundraiser.
