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Highbridge Stands Up For Building A Better Community

12/13/2010 11:45:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 4,617 times.
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the community of Highbridge will give testimony against the placement of 200 men in the Promesa Basic Men's Center (formerly known as Stadium Family Center) .

The Community, elected Officials and Promesa Basic Executives have been invited to a town hall meeting. The inherently high-risk plan to house a large population of "troubled Men" in an already challenged community causes a a collective commonality to ask "Why?" "Does this build a better Community and WHO made this decision?"

We want viable resources in the neighborhood; no more dumping. The Chief Executive Officer of Promesa Systems Inc. (Raul Russi)  said this is a done deal. They removed the women and children from the shelter and started moving in men who are clearly in need of services. This has been so common in Highbridge where the community is stuck in the Stockholm syndrome and are grateful for being allowed to survive on any level.

But on this evening, Silence will not be the golden rule and the community will ask the impact questions.  We know Political Will is dependent on the community to put pressure on them. The will of the people in the Highbridge Community will be stated, loud and clear. Relocate these men and bring the mothers and their children back.

All are invited to the auditorium of P.S. 126 - DR. Marjorie H. Dunbar, 175 West 166th Street, Bronx, NY, near Ogden Avenue.

 

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kathy on 12/15/2010 12:54:59
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its a shame we gotta walk around our very own community watching over our shoulder or even be afraid of sendin our children to and from school
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Marvin Wiggins on 12/20/2010 16:50:30
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FYI: I grew up in High Bridge Projects way back in the fifties, sixties and some of the seventies. It was a great place to live then. What happened to the pride of High Bridge?
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redear on 01/02/2011 22:55:43
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I just got an e-mail about this. It has zero facts and is rife with platitudes and generalities of injustice. Where do you want to banish these people instead?
There are disparities, why do you not enumerate them and identify communities that have less of a proportion of services, rtaher than utterly dehumanize our own people?
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agnes Johnson on 07/10/2011 08:36:22
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Redear. Do some more research. There is dumping going on. A transitional shelter is not a home. That means people are recycled thru a warehouse system every 3 to 5 months. The issue is not the shelter. The issue is policy that dumps complex and sociological problems on and already traumatized community. The issue is not the shelter. The issue is greed and the lack of respect for the "INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHTS" over a corporation's business venture. The state plans to run the communities like a business a RACIST business and we then have been eliminated from the equation. Our streets aren't plowed We are living in the highest rate of poverty. This might work well for Promesa and DHS but this doesn't work for the Highbridge Community. I do hope this gains momentum and history shows that it started in Bronx.
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