SPEAK OUT!
Voice your opinion about how the government should
protect the Lower East Side and Chinatown from being destroyed!
Save the Lower East Side & Chinatown!
TOWN HALL MEETING
Sunday, September 7, 2003 - 2 p.m.
Seward Park High School
(corner of Grand St. & Essex St.)
Since May, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC)
has been meeting secretly to decide how to use the $1.3 billion
in so-called "surplus" funds - money originally from
Federal Anti-Poverty funds that was supposed to help 9/11 victims
living in Lower Manhattan. Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg have
already set aside $50 million to build luxury housing for the
rich. (Only 300 apartments will be "affordable" housing
- for people who make $50,000-85,000 per year.)
No money has been used to protect current low-income housing.
No money has been used to protect our health - every day we're
getting sicker and sicker from the toxic fallout of the 9/11 disaster.
No money has been used to protect and set aside jobs for working
people living in the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
Are we going to let them kick us out of our homes?
NO WAY! That's why we've got to organize our family, friends
and neighbors to fight back against the LMDC's racist policies.
We've got to demand that LMDC fix the residential grant program
and pay us now and that LMDC immediately invest the "surplus"
money to rebuild the lives of all low-income working people in
the LES and Chinatown.
Call Michael at (646) 256-3859 for more information on how you
can get involved in saving our community!
Sponsored by the LES Consortium for LMDC Equity and Beyond Ground
Zero Network
INVITED GUESTS include: Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, LMDC President Kevin Rampe, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez,
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, Assemblyman
Sheldon Silver, Councilmember Margarita López, Councilmember
Alan Gerson
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