About Us
Why We’re Fighting
Everyone is talking about — The rapid gentrification of Brooklyn. Rents are going up, people are being displaced and small long-time mom and pop businesses are closing. Racial profiling and ticketing harassment due to Broken Windows policing grows worse every day.
Tenants, especially those who live in non-rent stabilized housing, homeowners and small business owners are at an unfair disadvantage because they do not have access to the same legal representation that landlords and developers do. And seems like the NYPD is above the law and can do whatever they want in our neighborhoods without impunity.
Help Us Change This !
In 2019, E4F had anti-displacement campaigns in 10 neighborhoods, including Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Kensington, Prospect Heights/Underhill and Williamsburg. We have expanded our housing literature to include 11 languages including Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Haitian Kreyol, French, Korean, Japanese, Urdu, Russian, Spanish, and English.
Victory! New York State Rent Laws of 2019 from The Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance: https://www.housingjusticeforall.org/our-platform
YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IS CRUCIAL FOR GROWING OUR WORK IN 2020
WE TRULY NEED EVERYONE’s HELP to make this possible!
With Your HELP— #WEWILLWIN
Yours in struggle
Imani Henry, Founder and Lead Organizer for Equality for Flatbush
Here are all the ways people can GIVE to Equality for Flatbush:
Donate By Check
Make out checks to “Equality for Flatbush” and mail to:
Equality for Flatbush
2273 Church Avenue
P.O.Box #260123
Brooklyn, NY 11226
For Tax Exempt Donations
Contact maggie@equalityforflatbush.org
E4F’s Fiscal Sponsor is
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
What We’re Facing
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Percent Increase in Brooklyn Rents Since the Year 2000
$3421
The Average Rent for a One-Bedroom Apartment in Brooklyn
The Number of New NYPD Cops Added in 2016
How We Work
The Equality for Flatbush Project (E4F) is a people of color-led, multi-national grassroots organization which does anti-police repression, affordable housing, and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and Eash Flatbush communities or Brooklyn, NY. Currently, E4F has 17 active campaigns.
* = Brooklyn-wide Campaign
** =City-wide Campaign
Anti-Police Repression Work is Coordinated by E4F’s Police Accountability Working Group
- NYPD Traffic Stop and Checkpoint Surveillance*
- Dollar Van and Cab Drivers Community Solidarity Campaign
- Community Patrol with East Flatbush Cop Watch Team
- NYPD/ICE Documentation
- Supporting the call for Justice for the families of Saheed Vassell, Dwayne Jeune, Davonte Pressley, Kimani Gray, Kyam Livingston, Shantel Davis, Akai Gurley, Delrawn Smalls and others families/individuals impacted by police violence and murder**
- Flatbush/ East Flatbush Street Vendor Organizing in collaboration with The Street Vendor’s Project
- Suggestions & Tactics as an Alternative to Calling 911 Fact Sheet & Training
- #NoCommunityOccupation Mapping Project*
- Supporting the City-wide #SwipeItForward Campaign**
- Equality for Flatbush Video Strike Force for Videographers & Filmmakers*
- Initiating organization of The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network (BAN) **
- Real Estate Watch is the E4F investigative Research Team that works to hold greedy landlords and developers accountable by providing information and tools to empower residents.**
- #ThisIsFlatbush: Campaign against the corporate re-branding of Flatbush, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights
- New Flatbush Resident Community Project
Ways You Can Help
1. DONATE TO EQUALITY FOR FLATBUSH
Make a secure donation online through PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account to proceed.
2. GET INVOLVED
Volunteers & Funds Needed:
From January 1st 2019 – March 1st 2019 E4F will be playing Organizational Catch-Up
Flatbush/East Flatbush Residents:
Join our TEXT Loop call or text: (646) 820-6039
OR add your email to The Equality for Flatbush Organizers and Members Organizing List : equality-for-flatbush-organizing-list@googlegroups.com
Brooklyn residents
Join The B4G Volunteers Gogglegroups:
Current E4F Working Groups/Teams to Join:
- Translation/Language Accessibility Team
- The Fundraising Committee
- Administrative & Office Team includes Graphic Designers & Artists
- Social Media & Online Outreach Team includes building the content for www.beforeitsgone.co
- B4G Organizers : focused on supporting Tenants, Small Businesses & Homeowners
- Real Estate Watch : Investigative Research and Resource Team
- Equality for Flatbush Video Strike Force for Videographers & Filmmakers
- League of Extraordinary Lawyers
To get involved with E4F: Email : flatbushequality@gmail.com or call /text (646) 820-6039
Job Opportunities with E4F:
NEW LEAD ORGANIZER
E4F seeks a Lead Organizer who is a seasoned manager, grassroots organizer, and strategist with a radically progressive political vision, commitment to people-led system change and significant experience in a people of color-led, member-driven grassroots organization. We want to grow our infrastructure in order to address COVID-19 and the crisis of violent police repression of communities of color. This existing position will direct the on-the-ground organizing and work closely with our grassroots leadership and executive director. E4F seeks someone who will thrive in a fast-paced work environment, coordinate direct actions, and facilitate processes of collective decision-making with partner groups/coalitions. This person should deeply embody our organizational principles of working from a place of revolutionary love and solidarity, fighting for justice, and the liberation of oppressed peoples.
MORE INFO & JOB DESCRIPTION
NEW #BKSL FOOD DISTRIBUTION SPACE MANAGER
Equality for Flatbush (E4F) seeks a dynamic, detail-oriented, and self-motivated Brooklyn Shows Love Mutual Aid Project (BKSL) Space Manager. This person will work with our BKSL Food Distribution Team and the E4F community to manage a space dedicated to receiving, packing, and distributing non-perishable food and household supplies Brooklyn-wide.
MORE INFO & JOB DESCRIPTION
3. SHARE YOUR STORY DIGITALLY
BEFORE IT’S GONE / TAKE IT BACK:
Documenting Brooklyn – Fighting Gentrification
is a neighborhood and web-based response to the crisis of gentrification of Brooklyn, NY. Visit us online and share your stories:
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GET HELP
If you are a BROOKLYN residential or commercial TENANT or HOMEOWNER experiencing harassment or need housing, legal or organizing resources please contact us at:
In English: B4G@equalityforflatbush.org or (646)820-6039
En Español: EnEspanol@equalityforflatbush.org or (862)438-5060
En Kréyol: EnKreyol@equalityforflatbush.org or (707)200-3692
#NOEVICTIONZONE #MYNYCLANDLORD #BeforeItsGone
If you are a Brooklynite that needs free grocery/supply deliveries, tenant/rent-strike or police accountability organizing support, and other forms of material aid please can text, call, or email us at the numbers above. Visit our resources page as well.
#NOEVICTIONZONE #MYNYCLANDLORD #BeforeItsGone
2273 Church Avenue
POB# 260505
Brooklyn, NY 11226
B4G@equalityforflatbush.org