ALL STARS PROTEST RALLY - COME AND BE HEARD! MAY, 28TH @ 4:30PM - CITY HALL
Dear All Stars,
I am inviting you to join the All Stars at City Hall on Wednesday, May 28th at 4:30pm, for a press conference to protest the lack of basic services in the Far Rockaway community in the wake of the tragic events at the Redfern Houses last weekend.
A series of shootings in Far Rockaway over the last two years have claimed the lives of many young people, several of them All Stars members including 15-year-old Brandon Bethea who was shot and killed last Saturday while outside rehearsing with her All Stars dance group.
The All Stars youth programs have been involved in the Far Rockaway community for 20 years, and in the last few days many young people, parents and community leaders have spoken with us about the urgent needs that the community has for basic services, in order to stop the violence and create a safer environment for the residents of Far Rockaway and for its young people in particular. The All Stars Project, which has helped so many neighborhoods to develop in New York City, can’t bring about growth and development in Far Rockaway without the basic needs of the community being met.
So, on Wednesday, May 28th at 4:30pm I’m asking you to join more than one hundred young people from the All Stars Project, together with parents, community leaders and supporters on the steps of City Hall to protest the lack of basic services in the Far Rockaway community – conditions which contribute significantly to the atmosphere of violence. This issue is not unique to Far Rockaway - we want to make a citywide demand for a set of clear actions and responses from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and other government officials.
We will meet outside the Broadway gate to City Hall, at the corner of Broadway and Murray Street, and we will enter the City Hall Plaza together and set-up for our protest rally and press conference.
If you will attend, please RSVP to
[email protected]. Thank you.
DIRECTIONS TO CITY HALL on the corner of Broadway & Murray – across from Citibank All Trains: N,R train to City Hall – you’re right there when you exit.
2,3 train to Park Place: when you exit you’ll be at Broadway & Park Place, walk across Broadway and go 1 block to the left (from the Bronx – stay in the front of the train from Brooklyn – stay in the back of the train).
A,C train to Chambers: Exit at Park Place, walk along Park Place to Broadway, cross over Broadway, then 1 block left/north( From the Bronx -- stay in the front of the train; From Brooklyn – stay in the back of the train).
4,5,6 train to Brooklyn Bridge -- you’ll be on the east side of City Hall, cross through City Hall park to the Broadway entrance.
TO BE ADDED AS A FRIEND - WE ASK THAT YOU SEND US AN EMAIL STATING YOUR PARTICIPATION IN ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS (All Stars Talent Show Network - all regions, Development School for Youth - all regions, Youth Onstage!, and Production Of Youth By Youth).
The All Stars Talent Show Network (ASTSN) is an after school, performance-based enrichment program for inner city youth. Each year, thousands of children and young adults, ages 5-25, participate in several dozen All Stars events. These include auditions, rehearsals, talent shows and performance workshops that take place in local school auditoriums and at the All Stars Project headquarters on 42nd Street. The ASTSN involves young people from the poorest neighborhoods of New York City Newark, NJ, Oakland, CA and Chicago.
