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Meet Our New Staff! Spring 2017 Newsletter/ Revista Primavera 2017 Meet our New Staff! /¡Conozca al Nuevo personal! Are you Disaster Ready? /¿Está List@para un Desastre? GOLES’ Annual Celebration/ Nuestra Celebración Anual Recovery & Resiliency Tours/Caminatas Abientales Guiadas Save the Rivington House! /¡Rescatemos la Casa Rivington! Are you Disaster Ready? Political Education for Youth/ Educación Política para Jóvenes Organizing Volunteers Needed/ Voluntarios para Organizar Climate change is bringing additional stressors to the LES. Community Workshops / Talleres Comunitarios Sign-up for a training to make sure you, your family, and NYCHA’s “Next Geneneration”/Plan NYCHA “Nueva your building are ready to face them! Generación” Learn about: • Evacuation Planning • Sheltering-in-place • Basic Meet our New Staff! Preparedness • Hurricane Preparedness • Stay Cool: Getting ready for hot days • Weatherization 101 • Access to Solar Energy • Utilities: Know Your Rights! • Community Medics • Preparing your building • Family Emergency Plan • Pet Emergency Plan • Climate change impacts coming to NYC, and more! Contact Ceci Pineda at [email protected] or 212-533-2541 x 13 to sign-up for a training for your building or institution! ¿Está List@ para un Desastre? El cambio climático va a traer más estrés al LES. ¡Regístrese para un entrenamiento para asegurarse de que usted, su New members of the GOLES team added last winter (left to familia, y su edificio estén listo para enfrentarse a ellos! right)/Nuevos miembros del equipo de GOLES (de izquierda a derecha): Isis Richardson, Chastity Umpierre, Jessie Ngok and/y Debra Medina. Aprenda acerca de: This winter, GOLES added four members to its team! Isis • Planificación de evacuación • Como refugiarse en su joined our direct services team as our first MSW intern in hogar • Preparación básica • Preparación para Huracanes • several years; Chastity became our receptionist/intake Cómo mantenerse fresc@: Preparación para el calor specialist after serving in a similar capacity at a senior extremo • Climatización 101 • Acceso a la energía solar • center; Jessie is GOLES’ new Land Use Organizer and brings Servicios Públicos:¡Conozca sus derechos! • Médicos a lot of experience from her time at CAAAV, a close ally; comunitarios • Preparación básica para su edificio • Plan de and Debra, GOLES’ new Senior Housing Counselor, brings emergencia para familias y mascotas • Los impactos del over 30 years of housing advocacy, organizing, and cambio climático en Nueva York, Y más! counseling to her role. ¡Contacte a Ceci Pineda al 212-533-2541 x 13 o [email protected] para coordinar un entrenamiento para su !Conozca al Nuevo Personal! edificio u organización! ¡Este invierno, GOLES añadió a cuatro miembros al equipo! Isis se unió como nuestra primera pasante de Trabajo Social en varios años; Chastity es nuestra nueva recepcionista, y se une a GOLES después de ejercer un cargo similar en un centro para personas mayores; Jessie es la Organizadora del Uso de Tierras, y trae la experiencia de su tiempo con nuestros aliados CAAAV; y Debra, nuestra Consejera Superior en Asuntos de Vivienda, tiene más de 30 años de trabajo de organización comunitaria y consejería en asuntos de vivienda. Environmental Recovery & Save Rivington House! Political Education for Youth NYCHA Organizing Resilience Tours As we reported in last summer’s newsletter, Rivington Volunteers Needed! House, a longtime nonprofit healthcare facility located As part of the organization's Environmental Recovery & Do you want to build tenant power? Do you believe in Resiliency education efforts, Lilah Mejia and Ceci Pineda at 45 Rivington Street, was sold to developers eager to safe and affordable public housing? This is the time to lead tours of the neighborhood to diverse groups, build luxury condos. Since then, LES residents and act! NYCHA is facing major budget cuts and is planning including various academic institutions. The tours cover groups have rallied to demand the return of the much- to build market-rate housing on parking lots and parks. historic and current aspects of climate resilience, needed facility to our community. Most recently, on Volunteer with GOLES to support our residents in disaster preparedness and community-based energy March 12, Neighbors to Save Rivington House, a fighting for quality public housing in the LES! democracy in the Lower East Side. Topics covered coalition of local activists and groups of which GOLES is part, organized a forum to discuss how to get Rivington Contact Jessie Ngok at [email protected] to get involved. include: the impact of Super Storm Sandy, the influence House back and to begin a visioning process about the of community gardens in the LES from their beginnings Taquan Pugh, GOLES’ Youth Organizer, speaks with several members ¡Necesitamos Voluntarios para until today, and information about community victories health care needs of the neighborhood. of GOLES’ Youth Council/ Taquan Pugh, Organizador de Miembros Jóvenes de GOLES, habla con miembros de Consejo Juvenil de GOLES. Organizar en NYCHA! related to Con Edison issues, some of which led to These efforts have already led to a bill being introduced changes in the law. Last month, GOLES kicked off its youth political in the NYC Council that would require a public review ¿Quiere aumentar el poder de los inquilinos? ¿Cree que education training series in partnership with the NAACP’s before any healthcare facility similar to Rivington House las viviendas públicas deben ser seguras y asequibles? Legal Defense Fund. By participating, LES youth will is allowed to be sold. Meanwhile GOLES, through its ¡Este es el momento de actuar! NYCHA va a sufrir receive training on community organizing practices and participation in Neighbors to Save Rivington House, will recortes a su presupuesto y están planeando construir will learn about youth-led movements. viviendas a precio de mercado sobre estacionamientos y continue to press for the return of this vital care facility to our neighborhood. parques. In March GOLES’ Youth Council also attended a screening of I Am Not your Negro, a film about the life ¡Hágase voluntario de GOLES para apoyar a residentes If you have any questions or would like to get involved, and thought of James Baldwin, which they followed with locales a luchar por viviendas públicas de calidad en el contact Jessie Ngok at 212-533-2541 x 24 or a discussion about his legacy. For more information Lower East Side! Contacte a Jessie Ngok: [email protected] about this or any other youth activities at GOLES, please [email protected] para involucrarse. contact GOLES’ Youth Organizer, Taquan Pugh at 212- Spring Community Workshop/ ¡Rescatemos la Casa Rivington! 533-2541 x 25 or by e-mail: [email protected] Talleres Comunitarios de la Primavera Como reportamos en la revista del verano pasado, Educación Política para Jóvenes Rivington House, una institución de salud sin fines de April/ Abril On March 9th, GOLES’ Training and Policy Coordinator, Ceci Pineda lucro situada en el 45 de la Calle Rivington, fue vendida El mes pasado, GOLES comenzó una serie de 4/5, 2:00 pm; Community Room - 535 East 5th Street (first from right) and LES Ready Coordinator, Lilah Mejia (second a inversionistas que la quieren convertir en entrenamientos de educación política para jóvenes en from right), lead a tour for students from the Parsons School of cooperación con el Fondo de Defensa Legal del NAACP. Elder Abuse/El Abuso a las Personas Mayores condominios. Desde la venta, residentes de Loisaida y Design. / El 9 de Marzo, Coordinadorx de Entrenamientos, Ceci Al participar en estas sesiones de entrenamiento, grupos comunitarios se han organizado para reclamar 4/11, 6:30 pm; BGR - 888 East 6th Street Pineda (primerx desde la derecha) y la Coordinadora de LES Ready, jóvenes de Loisaida aprenderán prácticas de organización Lilah Mejia (segunda desde la derecha), dirigen una caminata guiada que se devuelva a nuestra comunidad esta institución Applying to Affordable Housing Lotteries/ para estudiantes de la Escuela Parsons de Diseño. de salud tan necesaria. Recientemente, el 12 de Marzo, comunitaria y sobre movimientos liderados por jóvenes. Cómo Aplicar a las Loterías de Vivienda Asequible Vecinos para Rescatar la Casa Rivington, una coalición En Marzo, miembros del Consejo Juvenil de GOLES de grupos y activistas locales de la cual GOLES forma 4/13, 6:30 pm; Henry Street Settlement - 301 Henry Street fueron a ver la película I Am Not Your Negro, sobre la parte, organizó un foro para discutir cómo reclamar Applying to Affordable Housing Lotteries/ Caminatas Guiadas: Resistencia & vida y el pensamiento de James Baldwin, y la siguieron Rivington House y para comenzar a crear una visión de Cómo Aplicar a las Loterías de Vivienda Asequible Recuperación Ambiental con una discusión sobre su legado. Para mayor las necesidades de salud del vecindario. información sobre estas u otras actividades juveniles en 4/19, 2:00 pm; Community Room - 535 East 5th Street Como parte de los esfuerzos educacionales alrededor de GOLES, por favor contacte al Organizador de Miembros Pedestrian Safety for Older Adults/ temas de Resistencia y Recuperación Ambiental, Lilah Estos esfuerzos, ya resultaron en que se introdujera un proyecto de ley en el concejo municipal, que requeriría Jóvenes, Taquan Pugh al 212-533-2541 x 25 o por Seguridad Peatonal para Personal Mayores Mejia y Ceci Pineda dirigen caminatas guiadas del una revisión pública antes de que se permita vender correo electrónico: [email protected] vecindario a grupos diversos, incluyendo distintas May/Mayo una institución de salud como la Casa Rivington. instituciones académicas. Las caminatas guiadas cubren aspectos históricos y actuales de resistencia climática, Mientras tanto, GOLES, a través de su participación en 5/3, 2:00 pm; Community Room - 535 East 5th Street preparación para desastres y democracia energética en Vecinos para Rescatar la Casa Rivington, continuará a Fall Prevention Exercises/Ejercicios para Prevenir Caídas Loisaida. Los temas cubiertos durante las caminatas presionar para que se regrese esta institución a nuestro 5/10, 2:00 pm; Community Room - 535 East 5th Street incluyen el impacto de la Supertormenta Sandy, la vecindario.
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