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Thu, 2013-03-07 06:57 — Josie Gonsalves
The Social Equity -- NY working group will study and engage a discourse on issues of social equity, racism, and economic apartheid.

The mission of the Social Equity -- NY working group is to study, discuss, and find solutions regarding issues of social equity, racism, and economic apartheid.

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Josie Gonsalves Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald Roberta Samet Sandy Bernabei
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Taking Office, de Blasio Vows to Fix Inequity

Sat, 2014-01-04 00:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Bill de Blasio, right, with his wife and children, was sworn into office at City Hall on Wednesday by former President Bill Clinton.  Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

nytimes.com - by MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM - January 1, 2014

Bill de Blasio, whose fiery populism propelled his rise from obscure neighborhood official to the 109th mayor of New York, was sworn into office on Wednesday, pledging that his ambition for a more humane and equal metropolis would remain undimmed.

In his inaugural address, Mayor de Blasio described social inequality as a “quiet crisis” on a par with the other urban cataclysms of the city’s last half-century, from fiscal collapse to crime waves to terrorist attacks, and said income disparity was a struggle no less urgent to confront.

“We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love,” he said to about 5,000 people at the ceremony, many beneath blankets on a numbingly cold day.

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Florida County Taps Faith-Based Community for Preparedness

Wed, 2013-03-13 22:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Illustration by Tom McKeith

submitted by Samuel Bendett

emergencymgmt.com - by Lauren Katims - March 11, 2013

Miami-Dade County, Fla., emergency management officials have been praised for their effective preparedness and recovery in a hurricane-and flood-prone area. Now the county is serving as the pilot for a federal program to better engage members of the community who haven’t been as easy to reach.

Communities Organized to Respond in Emergencies (CORE), a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is designed to better engage faith-based and community organizations in planning for, responding to and recovering from disasters.

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State Expropriation for New Hospital Includes Those Who Rebuilt After Katrina

Thu, 2013-03-07 17:59 — admin

nola.com : by Bill Barrow;  September 21, 2010

Like tens of thousands of New Orleanians, Barbara and Larry Dillon returned after Hurricane Katrina to find their home ravaged by water that a government-built levee system did not contain.

Many months later, the couple accepted $51,000 from the taxpayer-financed Road Home program and, combined with insurance proceeds, restored their South Tonti Street home, resettling in May 2007.

Now, less than three years later, the Dillons are about to accept a buyout -- financed by the same federal Community Development Block Grant sources as the Road Home -- to leave their home, as the state and federal governments prepare to build adjacent hospitals on 70 acres in lower Mid-City.

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New Jersey Closely Watched New Orleans Eminent Domain Deadline in 2006

Thu, 2013-03-07 17:51 — admin

njeminentdomain.com

“We have to watch the redevelopment in New Orleans for a lot of reasons, and one of them is to make sure that the shadow government of the rich and the powerful does not end up abusing eminent domain to take property that belongs to poor people in order to get them out of the city.” – U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, San Francisco Chronicle (Sept. 21, 2005)

As reported yesterday on Indybay.org, Stephen Bradberry, head organizer for ACORN New Orleans, and Jeffrey Buchanan, communications officer of Center for Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, wrote:

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Galveston County Will Use Eminent Domain to Seize Property Near Rollover Pass

Thu, 2013-03-07 17:08 — admin

As an example of property being seized by eminent domain after Hurricane Ike in 2008, please see the details below.

kfdm.com - February 25, 2013

GILCHRIST - KFDM News has learned the Galveston county judge is moving ahead with plans to seize land and help the state close rollover pass.
 
The Judge's office says it will use eminent domain to seize the land on the Bolivar Peninsula if property owners don't sell. . .

The Galveston county judge says  once the state takes possession of the land and fills in the pass, the state plans to build a five million dollar fishing pier.

(CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO AND COMPLETE ARTICLE)

How to Start a Good School Day

Thu, 2013-03-07 08:43 — admin

An Editorial Recommended by Sandy Berabei

 

Breakfast is served every weekday morning to 12 million students across the country, courtesy of the Department of Agriculture. Free breakfast reduces hunger and can improve academic performance, but in New York City, too many students do not get the meals they need.

 

The city’s school system is among the least effective in the country in providing free breakfast to low-income children, with only 35 percent getting the meal, according to the latest report from the Food Research and Action Center, a nonprofit organization. By contrast, Newark provides breakfast to 92 percent of low-income students.

For More Information:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/how-to-start-a-good-school-day.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Anti-Racist Alliance

Thu, 2013-03-07 08:35 — admin

Recommendaed by Sandy Bernabei

 

The ANTIRACISTALLIANCE is a movement for racial equity. We are an organizing collective of human service practitioners and educators whose vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti-racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice.

 

 

New York: "The Vanishing City"

Thu, 2013-03-07 08:24 — admin

 

recommended by: Sandy Bernabei

 

The Vanishing City: film focuses on the fruits of a corporate-friendly mentality and the "luxury city"; AY gets a cameo

Overview

Told through the eyes of tenants, city planners, business owners, scholars, and politicians, The Vanishing City exposes the real politic behind the alarming disappearance of New York’s beloved neighborhoods, the truth about its finance-dominated economy, and the myth of “inevitable change.” Artfully documented through interviews, hearings, demonstrations, and archival footage, the film takes a sober look at the city’s “luxury” policies and high-end development, the power role of the elite, and accusations of corruption surrounding land use and rezoning. The film also links New York trends to other global cities where multinational corporations continue to victimize the middle and working classes.

For the complete article:

http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2011/01/vanishing-city-film-focuses-on-fruits.html

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