Citywide Rally at Mayor Bloomberg’s home: Rebuild the City: Restore Power to the People!

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December 15, 2012 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Mayor Bloomberg's Home
17 E 79th St
New York,NY 10075
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Citywide Rally at Mayor Bloomberg’s Home: Rebuild the City: Restore Power to the People!

FEMA isn’t listening. The Mayor isn’t listening. Where are they? Public infrastructure should serve the people.

#ReclaimNYC – #D15 – Facebook Event

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15th – POST-SANDY CALL TO ACTION

5PM Citywide Rally

At Mayor Bloomberg’s home
17 East 79th
btw 5th Ave & Madison Ave
Manhattan

Two months after Superstorm Sandy the disaster is not over and relief needs are still great. Homes are uninhabitable with black mold taking hold, heat and sanitation are still absent in many places. Yet the government response has been glaringly absent. As with Katrina and other recent disaster-and-recovery events city, state and federal agencies have handed off reconstruction resources and responsibility to corporations and markets.

That hand-off has pushed affected people further out of their communities, further into crisis and vulnerability, and further from the decision-making tables that allocate public resources. Where government has failed, Occupy and other groups stepped in.

But we now understand that climate change has turned a corner: we will be hard hit again by extreme weather events. And so we ask whose interests our government serves? Is it polluters, predatory lenders, and disaster profiteers? Or can we build a stronger, better, resilient New York where all of us, regardless of race, class or power, can weather future storms?

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