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Please note our new postal address when sending
contributions to the legal fund:
121 5th Avenue, PMB #150
Brooklyn, New York 11217
About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.
DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.
We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.
We have the financial support of well over 3,500 individual
donors.
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Today 12/14: Demonstration and Trashing of Ratner's Junk Yard Bonds
Today, December 14. Noon.
Demonstration to Protest, Expose and Trash
Ratner's JUNK YARD BONDS For His
Atlantic Yards Arena
NEW YORK, NY— At noon today, December 14th there will be a demonstration
protesting the Junk Yard Bonds New York
State is about to sell for Forest City Ratner's junk arena, at great risk for
New York State.
We will be selling Junk Yards Bonds.
The demonstration will conclude with a ritual dumping of the Junk Yard Bonds into a Garbage Truck—the best place for these bonds—from Willets Point, Queens (where they are also fighting eminent domain abuse).
Questions will be raised. Investigations will be asked for.
It will all be videogenic and photogenic.
WHAT:
Demonstration to Protest and Watchdog Ratner's Arena Junk Yard Bonds and the
credit rating agencies that gave these bonds, barely, an "investment grade"
rating.
> Call for Attorney General Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli to investigate
the bond structure, rating and issuance.
> We will be selling Junk Yards Bonds.
WHEN:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14
12 NOON
Dumping the JUNK BONDS into the GARBAGE TRUCK about 12:45
(Garbage Truck from Crown Container, fighting the taking of Willets Point by
eminent domain)
WHERE:
Standard & Poor's Offices
55 Water Street
Manhattan
[ Map ]
(2/3 to Wall St., R/W to Whitehall/South Ferry, 4/5 to Bowling Green)
WHO:
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Good Jobs New York
Citizen Watchdogs
Posted: 12.13.09
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