| Dave (Dave) | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 11:27 pm
COMMUNITY FORUM
Growing crisis of Black Joblessness in Harlem & NYC
Why are the majority of local Black & Latino Workers jobless despite Harlem's construction boom? Whose interest does this serve? What can the community do to fight back? What is a Community Benefit Agreement?
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 at 7:00 PM
Metropolitan United Methodist Church
1975 Madison Avenue @ 126th Street
(Use 126th Street Entrance)
Guest Speakers:
Jim Haughton, Harlem Fight Back
Patrice Jackson, President, Community Contractor Corp.
Earline Fisher, Green Community Innovative Corp
Jim Murray, Harlem Tenants Council
(OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED)
Unemployment among Black men in New York City is over 50%. Yet three major construction projects going up in Harlem, the Potamkin Auto Mall, Marriott Hotel (125th & Park Ave.) and a hotel slated for development on the Loews Victoria Theater site next to the Apollo Theater, represent a construction boom producing thousands of jobs but relatively few going to Black and Latino workers. The developers and the City must work with the Harlem community to create a “Community Benefits Agreement” to address the joblessness crisis in Harlem (NYC) and the systemic racism in the construction industry. We need to stop work on construction sites in Harlem until an authentic program is put in place that would guarantee 50% of jobs for community labor and locally based contractors. WORKERS OF HARLEM UNITE!
“Power concedes nothing without a demand!” Frederick Douglass
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