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| Social Justice Message Board |
| "Strategic Planning" |
New York City
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St. Mary's Church
Hola Friends and Leaders of Santa Maria Church:
See the information below as to the next step with SPURA: Seward Park Urban Renewal Area:
We continue to support as a SPONSOR this project. We recently discussed in our last Social Justice meeting our participation
and the upcoming Survey.
It is of almost importance that we participate and exercise our presence in this step of SPURA and the upcoming steps as
well. We will keep you informed.
If we do not participate strongly as a Church community rooted in Social Justice and as committed citizens rooted in
participatory democracy we will not have Housing in these sites! and Forty more years will pass!!!
Many Blessings,
Angel G. Diaz Papo
Co=Coordinator Social Justice
Saint Mary's Church
440 Grand Street
28 Attorney Street
NY, NY 10002
Loisaida, NYC, USA
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Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 29, 6-8pm
Forty years ago, New York City took ownership of an area on the Lower East Side bounded by Essex, Delancey, Grand, and
Willett Streets--the Seward Park Urban Renewal Site (SPURA). Few renewal projects have been so contested, and as a
result, it remains the largest undeveloped city-owned parcel of land south of 96th Street. The hopes, memories and
meanings of this place are intertwined with the history of housing and politics on the Lower East Side and in New York City at
large.
Please join us at a new exhibition, Visualizing SPURA, to help envision this site's future. What are the stories of its present
and its past? What are the politics that surround it? Visualizing SPURA uses photographs, oral histories, maps, listening
stations and opportunities for you to make your voice heard about the future and everyday life of this complex site.
The student-creators of the Visualizing SPURA exhibition are: Anastasia Ehrich, Savannah Foster, Kara Gionfriddo,
Winhkong Hua, Evan Iacoboni, Samantha Lewis, Rachael London, Hannah Lyons, Gabriel Tennen, and Samantha Washburn-
Baronie. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is the course professor and exhibition curator.
The City Studio course of the Urban Studies department, Eugene Lang/New School explores the life of a small urban space,
through archival, ethnographic, visual and participatory research. Partnerships with local organizations are an important part
of the course, which stresses an engagement with the vibrant communities of New York City. This course is sponsored by the
Office of Civic Engagement at Eugene Lang College.
SPURA Matters is a visioning project for the SPURA site to get people talking about SPURA's future. It is a collaboration
between Good Old Lower East Side, Pratt Center for Community Development, and City Lore. The series funded in part by a
grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to support public programs about SPURA, and by the Mertz Gilmore
Foundation, and Altman Foundation.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) (www.goles.org) was founded in 1977 and is a neighborhood housing and
preservation organization, dedicated to tenants' rights, homelessness prevention and community revitalization through
organizing and advocacy.
The Pratt Center for Community Development (www.prattcenter.net) empowers low- and moderate-income communities
in New York to plan for and realize their futures. As part of Pratt Institute, it uses urban planning, architecture, and public
policy to support community-based organizations in their efforts to improve quality of life, create economic opportunity, and
advance sustainable development.
Place Matters (www.placematters.net) was founded in 1998 by City Lore (www.citylore.org) and the Municipal Art Society
(www.mas.org) to foster the conservation of New York City's historically and culturally significant places. It conducts a citywide
survey called the "Census of Places that Matter" to discover places that evoke associations with history, memory, and
tradition.
Special thanks to Joseph Heathcott (Department of Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College), The New School Office of Civic
Engagement (Eugene Lang College, The New School), Damaris Reyes and Kara Becker (Good Old Lower East Side), Marci
Reaven (Place Matters) and Paula Crespo (Pratt Center for Community Development).
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Common room 2
465 Grand Street - rear lobby
New York, NY 10002
tel.: 212.358.8605
www.common-room.net
open hours: mon-fri 9am - 6pm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Faithful Citizens: A Constituency for Social Responsibility:
Dear Friend of Social Action, Justice & Peace,
We hope that this message finds you well, and that you and those that you love had a Blessed Christmas and a very Happy New Year. We
want to share with you some resources and opportunities that we hope you avail yourself of to help make our world a little more peaceful,
and a little more just in 2009.
The first thing that we would like to share with you is that at this time, our Bishops ask us to reflect on the injustices and hardships that our
immigrant brothers and sisters suffer and endure in the vulnerable position they occupy in our society. The U.S. Bishops Conference has
produced some excellent materials on the situation faced by immigrants today, the significant contributions they make to our society, and
some things that you can do to help bring relief to some of the hardships that they suffer. You may have read about this in your parish
bulletin, for those who did not, the materials can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/mrs/nmw.shtml.
It is sad to note that just as the visit of the Magi preceded much suffering of innocent civilians in the land of Jesus’ birth at that time- so too
today, escalating violence between Hamas (the Palestinian party that controls Gaza) and Israel has caused death, destruction and
increasingly great suffering in recent weeks among Israelis and Palestinians in southern Israel. Unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli
civilians and the disproportionate Israeli military response has caused unacceptable casualties among Palestinian civilians, which will have
significant negative effects on any progress in peace negotiations and will risk wider war.
As a response, the U.S. Bishops Conference are asking Catholics to do two things:
• Contact the President and urge him to send a high level personal representative to the Holy Land immediately to help negotiate a cease-
fire and ensure that the people of Gaza receive humanitarian assistance; you can do so, and find more information on the situation, here:
https://secure2.convio.net/crs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserActionInactive&id=447.
• Sign a letter to President-elect Obama, urging him to make achievement of the Israeli-Palestinian peace an immediate priority during
his first year in office. Already, over 2,300 other fellow Catholics have done so; you can find the information here: http://action.cmep.
org/t/4030/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=173>.
Thanks for all you do on behalf of others.
Tom Dobbins Jr.
Justice & Peace Coordinator
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
(212) 371-1011, Ext. 2473
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Greetings JFI supporters!
The 111th Congress is now in session and President Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United
States on Tuesday, January 20.
President Obama supports the passage of comprehensive immigration reform and promised during the
campaign to move on this issue during his first year in office. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated
that he expects immigration reform to be taken up by the Senate by the end of 2009, and Senators John McCain
and Mel Martinez, both Republicans, have publicly stated that immigration reform should move forward and that
Republicans should support it.
Now it is our job to make sure they stick to their commitments!
Please take a few minutes to write a quick note to your Representatives urging them to support comprehensive
immigration reform in the 111th Congress.
See the information below as to the next step with SPURA: Seward Park Urban Renewal Area:
We continue to support as a SPONSOR this project. We recently discussed in our last Social Justice meeting our participation
and the upcoming Survey.
It is of almost importance that we participate and exercise our presence in this step of SPURA and the upcoming steps as
well. We will keep you informed.
If we do not participate strongly as a Church community rooted in Social Justice and as committed citizens rooted in
participatory democracy we will not have Housing in these sites! and Forty more years will pass!!!
Many Blessings,
Angel G. Diaz Papo
Co=Coordinator Social Justice
Saint Mary's Church
440 Grand Street
28 Attorney Street
NY, NY 10002
Loisaida, NYC, USA
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 29, 6-8pm
Forty years ago, New York City took ownership of an area on the Lower East Side bounded by Essex, Delancey, Grand, and
Willett Streets--the Seward Park Urban Renewal Site (SPURA). Few renewal projects have been so contested, and as a
result, it remains the largest undeveloped city-owned parcel of land south of 96th Street. The hopes, memories and
meanings of this place are intertwined with the history of housing and politics on the Lower East Side and in New York City at
large.
Please join us at a new exhibition, Visualizing SPURA, to help envision this site's future. What are the stories of its present
and its past? What are the politics that surround it? Visualizing SPURA uses photographs, oral histories, maps, listening
stations and opportunities for you to make your voice heard about the future and everyday life of this complex site.
The student-creators of the Visualizing SPURA exhibition are: Anastasia Ehrich, Savannah Foster, Kara Gionfriddo,
Winhkong Hua, Evan Iacoboni, Samantha Lewis, Rachael London, Hannah Lyons, Gabriel Tennen, and Samantha Washburn-
Baronie. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is the course professor and exhibition curator.
The City Studio course of the Urban Studies department, Eugene Lang/New School explores the life of a small urban space,
through archival, ethnographic, visual and participatory research. Partnerships with local organizations are an important part
of the course, which stresses an engagement with the vibrant communities of New York City. This course is sponsored by the
Office of Civic Engagement at Eugene Lang College.
SPURA Matters is a visioning project for the SPURA site to get people talking about SPURA's future. It is a collaboration
between Good Old Lower East Side, Pratt Center for Community Development, and City Lore. The series funded in part by a
grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to support public programs about SPURA, and by the Mertz Gilmore
Foundation, and Altman Foundation.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) (www.goles.org) was founded in 1977 and is a neighborhood housing and
preservation organization, dedicated to tenants' rights, homelessness prevention and community revitalization through
organizing and advocacy.
The Pratt Center for Community Development (www.prattcenter.net) empowers low- and moderate-income communities
in New York to plan for and realize their futures. As part of Pratt Institute, it uses urban planning, architecture, and public
policy to support community-based organizations in their efforts to improve quality of life, create economic opportunity, and
advance sustainable development.
Place Matters (www.placematters.net) was founded in 1998 by City Lore (www.citylore.org) and the Municipal Art Society
(www.mas.org) to foster the conservation of New York City's historically and culturally significant places. It conducts a citywide
survey called the "Census of Places that Matter" to discover places that evoke associations with history, memory, and
tradition.
Special thanks to Joseph Heathcott (Department of Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College), The New School Office of Civic
Engagement (Eugene Lang College, The New School), Damaris Reyes and Kara Becker (Good Old Lower East Side), Marci
Reaven (Place Matters) and Paula Crespo (Pratt Center for Community Development).
---
Common room 2
465 Grand Street - rear lobby
New York, NY 10002
tel.: 212.358.8605
www.common-room.net
open hours: mon-fri 9am - 6pm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Faithful Citizens: A Constituency for Social Responsibility:
Dear Friend of Social Action, Justice & Peace,
We hope that this message finds you well, and that you and those that you love had a Blessed Christmas and a very Happy New Year. We
want to share with you some resources and opportunities that we hope you avail yourself of to help make our world a little more peaceful,
and a little more just in 2009.
The first thing that we would like to share with you is that at this time, our Bishops ask us to reflect on the injustices and hardships that our
immigrant brothers and sisters suffer and endure in the vulnerable position they occupy in our society. The U.S. Bishops Conference has
produced some excellent materials on the situation faced by immigrants today, the significant contributions they make to our society, and
some things that you can do to help bring relief to some of the hardships that they suffer. You may have read about this in your parish
bulletin, for those who did not, the materials can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/mrs/nmw.shtml.
It is sad to note that just as the visit of the Magi preceded much suffering of innocent civilians in the land of Jesus’ birth at that time- so too
today, escalating violence between Hamas (the Palestinian party that controls Gaza) and Israel has caused death, destruction and
increasingly great suffering in recent weeks among Israelis and Palestinians in southern Israel. Unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli
civilians and the disproportionate Israeli military response has caused unacceptable casualties among Palestinian civilians, which will have
significant negative effects on any progress in peace negotiations and will risk wider war.
As a response, the U.S. Bishops Conference are asking Catholics to do two things:
• Contact the President and urge him to send a high level personal representative to the Holy Land immediately to help negotiate a cease-
fire and ensure that the people of Gaza receive humanitarian assistance; you can do so, and find more information on the situation, here:
https://secure2.convio.net/crs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserActionInactive&id=447.
• Sign a letter to President-elect Obama, urging him to make achievement of the Israeli-Palestinian peace an immediate priority during
his first year in office. Already, over 2,300 other fellow Catholics have done so; you can find the information here: http://action.cmep.
org/t/4030/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=173>.
Thanks for all you do on behalf of others.
Tom Dobbins Jr.
Justice & Peace Coordinator
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
(212) 371-1011, Ext. 2473
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Greetings JFI supporters!
The 111th Congress is now in session and President Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United
States on Tuesday, January 20.
President Obama supports the passage of comprehensive immigration reform and promised during the
campaign to move on this issue during his first year in office. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated
that he expects immigration reform to be taken up by the Senate by the end of 2009, and Senators John McCain
and Mel Martinez, both Republicans, have publicly stated that immigration reform should move forward and that
Republicans should support it.
Now it is our job to make sure they stick to their commitments!
Please take a few minutes to write a quick note to your Representatives urging them to support comprehensive
immigration reform in the 111th Congress.
