FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contacts: Alicia Boyd - (718) 703-3086; info@mtopp.og
Imani Henry - (646) 820-6039, info@bangentrification.org
BROOKLYN ANTI-GENTRIFICATION NETWORK (BAN) LEADS BOROUGH’S SECOND MARCH AGAINST GENTRIFICATION, RACISM, AND POLICE VIOLENCE
Saturday, September 15, 2018 11am – 6pm
Starting at Parkside Avenue B, Q subway stop and Ending in Sunset Park
The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN), a people of a color-led grassroots coalition, has organized Brooklyn’s second borough-wide march against gentrification, racism, and police violence. The march follows BAN’s first borough-wide action that attracted over 500 people last year. The demonstration from Flatbush to Sunset Park will include rallies in four locations across gentrifying neighborhoods, featuring speakers facing rent hikes, landlord harassment, rezoning, police violence, and privatization of public green spaces like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in their communities. The march has been endorsed by 80 community-based organizations, small businesses, tenant associations, families impacted by police violence, local chapters of national anti-police brutality groups, and is still growing.
Demands of the march include:
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Stop the Department of City Planning (DCP) rezonings of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bushwick, East Flatbush, Crown Heights, Sunset Park, and Downtown Brooklyn
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Stop Cornell Realty from building a luxury high-rise development that will devastate the Brooklyn Botanical Garden
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End to racial policing and harassment that lead to the countless murders of Black and Brown people by the NYPD, End Broken Windows policing and the collaboration between ICE and the NYPD
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Pass The Small Business Jobs Survival Act—SBJSA Intro 737-2018 by the City Council and support commercial tenant protections
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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 of the onslaught of gentrification and corporate greed that caters to the affluent and white seeks to displace low- to middle-income people and destroys the social, economic, linguistic, and cultural diversity of Brooklyn
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:
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11am Gather & Rally at Parkside and Ocean - Flatbush
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12pm March Begins
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12:45pm Rally at The Brooklyn Botanical Garden - Franklin Ave and Montgomery St - Crown Heights
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2:40pm Rally at Warren St & 3rd Ave
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4:30pm Gather at 36th St & 4th Ave - Sunset Park
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5:30pm Rally at Sunset Park
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1924041477656474/
Facebook: @BANgentrification Twitter: @BANgentrifying Website: www.bangentification.org
September 15th 2018 The Brooklyn March Against Gentrification, Racism, and Police Violence March
Sponsored by The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN)
#BKMarch2018 #BANGentrification #TakeBackOurCommunities
Endorsers as of September 12th 2018
*denotes BAN Member Organization
The 164 Linden Blvd Tenants Association
The 332 Rutland Road Tenants Association
The 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants Association
The 693 Madison Street Tenants Association
The 699-711 Ocean Ave Tenants Association
The 700 Ocean Ave Tenants Association
ACT-UP Boston
Anakbayan New York
The Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP)*
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Local 2325 - CAMBA Legal Services Unit
Bay Ridge for Social Justice
Black Alliance for Just Immigration*
Black Alliance for Peace
Black Trans Media
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Brooklyn Laundry Social Club
Brooklyn Treasures Uncovered
The Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board
Campaign to Stop REBNY Bullies
Chelsea Coalition on Housing
Chinatown Art Brigade
Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter (CRAASH)
Co-Editors of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City
Common Notions
Corporate Campaign, Inc.
The Committee for Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr.
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
The Community Development Project of The Urban Justice Center
Crown Heights Tenants Union
The Crystal House Project*
The CUNY Adjunct Project
Donkeysaddle Projects
East Harlem Preservation
Elevtr
Equality for Flatbush*
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)*
The Family of Saheed Vassell
The Family of Shantel Davis
Fight Back Bay Ridge
FIRE:Fight for Imm/Migrants Everywhere
Flower Lovers Against Corruption (FLAC)
Freedom Socialist Party
G-REBLS*
The Grand Putnam Tenants Association
Haiti Liberté
Hoods4Justice
Human-scale NYC
The Illuminator
The International Action Center
JACK*
Jehu's Table
Justice For All Coalition
The Justice Committee
The Labor Educator
Lefferts Community Food Coop
Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW 2320
Metropolitan Community Church
Metropolitan Council on Housing
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Illumination Against Gentrification*
Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP)*
My Brooklyn, LLC, The Producer of the “My Brooklyn” Documentary
The New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
OccupyRadio.net
OD for the People
The Peoples Power Assemblies - NYC
Peer Connect
Picture The Homeless
Queens Neighborhoods United
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP)
Radix Media
Saint Rose
Sunset Park for a Liberated Future (SPLF)
Southwest Brooklyn Tenant Union*
Third Root Community Health Center*
UPROSE*
URIP (The Undoing Racism Internship Project)
White Noise Collective - NYC
Why Accountability
Workers World Party (WWP)
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