Join us for the May Linkup tonight, Wednesday, May 5th in several NYC venues.

Upper West Side -  7:00 pm, NEW LOCATION: Dean's, 215 West 85th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam), with host Bernadette  Evangelist (co-host Sally Swisher will return next month)
 
West Village - 7:00 pm, Kettle of Fish, 59 Christopher St. (near 7th Ave.), with host Tracey Keij-Denton (co-host Josh Silverstein will return next month)
 
Astoria, Queens  7:30 pm, Omonia Cafe 33-20 Broadway. 7:30 start. with hosts Costa Constantinides & Jessame Hanus
 
Sunnyside, Queens - 7:30 pm, Bliss St. Station Restaurant, 47-02 Greenpoint Avenue, with host Dan Jacoby
 
Bayside, Queens - This Linkup is cancelled this month due to venue issues.
 
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead 1669 E. 22nd Street, with hosts Annette Mont & Estelle Glasser with special guest Igor Oberman, Democratic candidate for State Senate.  (We have reached out to Senator Carl Kruger, Oberman's opponent, to invite him to speak at a future event.)
 

United for Change Now! Labor & Immigrant Rights & Jobs for All!  March & Rally, Saturday, May 1, 2010

 Assemble at 11 a.m. at Foley Square • Worth Street (between Centre & Lafayette Streets)
A,C,E trains to Chambers Street/R,W trains to City Hall/4,5,6 trains to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall

Democracy for NYC is proud to join with members of scores of labor unions, immigrants' rights organizations and community groups united with the employed and unemployed, the documented and the undocumented, the organized and the unorganized, the people of diverse racesa nd ethnicities who live and work in New York City.  We are facing the most acute economic crisis for the working-class majority in our lifetimes.  The recession has led to a new wave of austerity policies for working people, as the banks are bailed out using our tax dollars, and the jobs and services on which we depend are being destroyed.

Our current immigration policy has had a devastating impact on immigrant communities. And that devastation hurts us all. We believe that another economic policy is possible—one that supports rather than destroys the lives of the working-class majority, one that supports rather than attacks the traditional source of New York's wealth—immigrants.  That's the policy we demand this May Day.

This event is sponsored by Alliance for Labor & Immigrants Rights & Jobs for All!, a coalition of the major labor unions in New York City and major civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations including to date:

African Services Committee
AFSCME DC 37
AFSCME Local 372, DC 37
AFSCME DC 1707
AFSCME CSEA Local 1000
AFT UFT
AFT PSC CUNY
American Immigration Lawyers Association
APALA NY
Brandworkers International
Cabrini Immigrant Services
Churches United to Save and Heal (CUSH)
Council of Peoples Organization (COPO)
CWA District 1
CWA Local 1180
Democracy for NYC
Domestic Workers United
Greater NYC for Change
IBT Joint Council 16
IBT Local 111
IBT Local 202
IBT Local 210
IBT Local 237
IBT Local 805
Islamic Center of Jackson Heights
Labor Religion Coalition Greater NY
Left Labor Project
LIUNA Mason Tenders DC NY LI
LIUNA Local 10
LIUNA Local 78
LIUNA Local 79
Masjid Al Taqwa
Masjid Salam
Mothers on the Move
NAACP New York State Conference
National Jobs for All Coalition
New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR)
NYCLU
NY Civic Participation Project
NY Immigration Coalition
NYC LCLAA
NYCOSH
NYSUT
NY Taxi Workers Alliance
Rekindling Reform
RWDSU/UFCW
RWDSU/UFCW Local 338
RWDSU/UFCW Local 1102
SEIU 32 BJ
SEIU 1199 UHWE
SEIU Workers United
Sociedad Hondurena Activa de Nueva York (SHANY)
TUSC
TWU Local 100
UAW Region 9A
UAW Local 1981
UFCW Local 888
UFCW Local 1500
USW Local 9265
Vets for Peace Chapter 34
Women Organizing Neighborhoods (WON)

Call to Action:  Showdown on Wall Street!

When: 3:30 p.m. Assemble • 4 p.m. March and Rally
Where: City Hall, New York City (Enter at Broadway and Chambers St.)

On Thursday, April 29th at 3:30 p.m., thousands will converge on Wall Street to reclaim America with one simple message: Americans deserve an economy that works for all of us, not just Wall Street!

Wall Street and big banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo crashed our economy leaving millions without housing, work, and critical services.

Join the march and rally to take the fight for financial reform into the belly of the beast!

Email NPA for more information.

The Showdown on Wall Street is co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO and National People’s Action and includes the following New York City Community Organizations: Brooklyn Congregations United from the PICO National Network, Community Voices Heard, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, The Good Old Lower East Side, People United for Sustainable Housing, Make the Road New York, New York City Aids Housing Network, The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, and Syracuse United Neighbors.