Fwd: build a national movement to create jobs and opportunities at BCU Community Dialogue

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From: Margaret Hughes <mhughesbcu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Subject: build a national movement to create jobs and opportunities at BCU Community Dialogue
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Join a national movement to call for jobs and to build opportunities in our communities!

 

Community Dialogue:

Land of Opportunities or Land of Inequalities?

Learn

 

 

 

 

·        One in five New Yorkers lives in poverty.

·        Unemployment is at an all time high.

·        Rents rise as housing conditions worsen.

·        Hard-working families fear deportation.

·        The health care system is failing us, and costs continue to rise.

 

Guest Speaker: Heather C. McGhee

Director of the DC Office of Demos (A non-partisan policy center)

Heather's writing and research on debt, financial services regulation, retirement and inequality have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Detroit Free-Press and CNN.

 

We will have a mix of presentations and interactive dialogue.

 

 

 

Sunday October 30th 4pm – 7:30pm Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd 7420 Fourth Ave. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (R train to 77th St.) Light supper will be served at 4pm and the program will start at 4:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please RSVP to Eunice Adams 718-287-4334 or email Dahliabcu@yahoo.com

 

Event sponsored by Brooklyn Congregations United (BCU) and Queens Congregations United for Action (QCUA), two members of the national PICO Network.

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Margaret Hughes
Brooklyn Congregations United
890 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11226
718 287 4334
cell:  646 239 4552
mhughesbcu@gmail.com