Standing Up For Housing Equality
The racial debate raged 367 miles away from Long Island in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday, Aug. 12, making national headlines and ending in deadly violence as a result of white nationalists, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan members protesting the removal of Confederate statues throughout the South.
And while completely unrelated, members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) were on their third and final day of their own multi-day tent city sit-in and demonstration march to call attention to the color divide on Long Island, specifically in Garden City. The message though isn’t necessarily black versus white; it’s a call to end segregation based on all things: race, income, social status, and is supported by local residents of all colors and beliefs. NYCC is a coalition of working families committed to social and economic justice. . .