RALLY AGAINST RATNER’S SKYSCRAPER CITY and ARENA OVERDEVELOPMENT

16 Jul 2006 - 12:30am

RALLY AGAINST RATNER’S
16-SKYSCRAPER CITY and
ARENA OVERDEVELOPMENT
 
JULY 16TH.  2PM START. GATHER 1:30
GRAND ARMY PLAZA

Celebrate our communities with performances by:

-- Family Music Bard DAN ZANES and FRIENDS

-- Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir

-- Brooklyn’s Own Acrobats, Jugglers and Stiltwalkers from Lava and Circus Amok

AND Surprise Musical Guests

On Sunday, July 16th, at 2 p.m., please join thousands of your friends and neighbors at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza to rally against Forest City Ratner's "Atlantic Yards" scheme, and in favor of appropriate, inclusive, and innovative development with truly affordable housing and sustainable jobs! Fight government support of eminent domain abuse at taxpayer expense!
Support a positive vision for Brooklyn's future!

SUPPORT:
• Democratic, Appropriate & Innovative Development
• Permanent, Truly Affordable Housing
• Sustainable Jobs & Careers
• Community-based Planning

OPPOSE:  
• Eminent Domain Abuse (government taking of private property for private development at Taxpayer Expense
• Instant Gentrification
• Extreme Density
• Extreme Traffic Congestion
• Privatizing Public Space
• Taxation Without Representation
 
RALLY CO-SPONSORS:
• Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
• Art Without Walls
• Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association
• Bears Garden
• Brooklyn Vision
• Cambridge Place Action Coalition
• Caring For Creators of Change
• Dean St Block Assoc (4-5th st.) 
• East Pacific Block Association
• Fifth Avenue Committee
• Fort Greene Association
• Friends & Residents of Greater Gowanus
• Harlem Tenants Association
• New York Solidarity Coalition With Katrina/Rita Survivors
• New York Preservation Alliance
• Park Slope Neighbors
• Prospect Heights Action Coalition
• Sierra Club-NYC Group
• The Society for Clinton Hill 
• South Portland Block Association
• Time’s Up! 
• Warren St. Marks Community Garden

more info: http://www.developdontdestroy.org
if your organization would like to be a co-sponsor, please email:
contact@developdontdestroy.org

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