Housing is a basic human right!

Harlem Tenants Council
21 West 130th Street
New York, N.Y. 10037
1-800-546-1133
info@harlemtenantscouncil.org

Events
Past Events

HARLEM TOWNHALL MEETING ON HOUSING
New York Politicians

The Audacity of a People's Struggle

A Referendum on Politicians:

The People Demand Respect & Accountablity

Taking Back HARLEM & NYC

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Mt. Olivet Church
201 Lenox Ave. at 120th St. - 6 to 7:45PM

Taking Back HARLEM & NYC

Followed by 8 to 9 PM Picket of Inez Dickens Fundraiser 

(Moca Restaurant: 2210 Frederick Douglass Blvd @119th)


Community Speak-out and Strategy Meeting with Valerie Orridge, President of the Delano Village Tenants Association;  Pastor Vernon B. Williams; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; Harlem Historian Michael Henry Adams; Josephine Lee, Lower Eastside/Chinatown Coalition; and others to be announced.
Special Report: Final Call Journalist Saeed  Shabazz on the United Nations World Habitat Day 2008,
The Basic Right to Shelter for All.


Black politics and Black political culture have regressed significantly during the eight year reign of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg who was able to pushed through an end of Term Limits legislation in the City Council that will all but assure him of another four years in office. City Council members Inez Dickens and Robert Jackson voted for Bloomberg's bill as they, along with Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverto, voted for Columbia University Expansion, the 125th St. River to River Development and most recently the East 125th Project, the latter two projects will bring in over 4,500 units of mostly luxury housing within the 125th Street corridor. This is truly the dead end of Black Politics that is not accountable to its constituents. Black politicians do not present solutions for a myriad of problems confronting Harlem such as corporate centered and heavily subsidized gentrification projects; public housing cut backs; lack of low income housing; landlord harassment & displacement; local small businesses under attack; the abuse of eminent domain; and  continuous attacks against Harlem's historic cultural legacy. We will discuss organizing mass mobilization with coalition partners! Help us send a message to the pols, 'NEVER AGAIN!" ATTEND THIS CRITICAL MEETING.  The politicians do this because they believe we will complain as usual but do nothing. This time they are wrong. WE ARE FIGHTING BACK. JOIN US!!!!

Telephone: 646-812-5188 or email:Harlemtenants@gmail.com

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Housing is a Basic Human Right

Fundraiser for Harlem Tenants Council at Minton's Jazz ClubMinton

Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 from 4 to 8 PM

“Jamming for Tenants Rights in Harlem”

Uptown Lounge at Minton’s Playhouse

210 West 118th Street

(Between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd) 

with famed pianist, vocalist & flutist Donald Smith & his Quintet also

international jazz & R&B vocalist Ptah Brown & the incredible jazz vocalist Karen Taylor.

 Minton’s Playhouse
The famous jazz club in Central Harlem was founded in 1938 by tenor saxophonist Henry Minton, the first Black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. Minton’s role in the development of modern jazz known as bebop flourished in the early 1940s with jazz giants such as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Minton’s decline in the 1960s led to its closing in 1974. A remodeled Minton’s reopened in 2006 under the name Uptown Lounge at Minton’s Playhouse. Ralph Ellison on Minton’s: it provided “a retreat, a homogeneous community where a collectivity of common experience could find continuity and meaningful expression.
Support the work of HTC
Tickets in Advance $20 at the door.

For additional information: 646-812-5188
email: harlem tenants@gmail.com 
www.harlemtenantscouncil.org
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HTC Fundraiser
HTC Housing Conference
Community Law Day
Critical Thinking Series

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Harlem Tenants Council 

Second Annual Housing Conference

School

Bread & Roses High School
6 Edgecombe Avenue @ 135th St.

Friday, Nov. 14th: 6 - 9 PM: Opening Plenary

Post Election Analysis of US First Black Elected President Barack Obama:
What Will Obama Deliver?

Also Report Back on NYC 2009 People's Convention Preparatory Meeting

Saturday, Nov. 15th: 10 - 6 PM: Plenary & Workshops

Harlem is being destroyed and thousands of people driven out while City Council members Inez Dickens, Robert Jackson and Melissa Mark Viverto supported Mayor Bloomberg's ethnic cleansing plan to bring in over 4,500 units of mostly luxury housing along the 125th corridor from river to river. These council members along with Congressman Charles Rangel and David Dinkins supported Columbia University's land grab in West Harlem that will displace over 5,000 low-income tenants. Dickens & Jackson voted for Bloomberg's extension of term limits. The economy has collapsed but rents are increasing and unemployment is on the rise. WE MUST COME TOGETHER TO PREPARE COLLECTIVELY FOR SOLUTIONS AT THE 2009 PEOPLE'S CONVENTION IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE. Various committees are being organized including a housing plank committee.
Workshops will focus on:125th St. Rezoning, East 125th Street Project, Columbia University Expansion, Eminent Domain Abuse, Know Your Housing Rights, Corruption in HDFCs, Defending yourself in Housing Court, Organizing a Tenants Association, the future of Public Housing, Building Black & Latino Coalition, Sub-prime crisis (rental apts), Predatory Lending & its impact on Delano Village & the Riverton, 4 more years of Bloomberg PLUS ANTI-GENTRIFICATION VOICES FROM ACROSS THE CITY! WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION TO MOVE FORWARD! WE NEED TO HEAR YOUR VOICE!!

Additional information: Tel: 646-812-5188 or

email:harlemtenants@gmail.com

visit website:harlemtenantscouncil.org

Also

NYC People's Convention 2009 Preparatory Meeting: Sat., Nov. 8, 2008 at
CUNY Labor Institute, 25 West 43rd St./17th Floor from 9 AM- 5 PM.

Call 917-573-5812