Jeremy Properties has Evicted Scoops ! We Must #SaveScoops & #DefendFlatbush
We have until the end of August to #SaveScoops. When Errol’s Bakery was ordered to vacate in 2018, our community rose up and won them a new lease ! Let’s Do it Again!
Fighting gentrification & holding police accountable
Fighting gentrification & holding police accountable
Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a Black Lives Matter organization that has fought gentrification, displacement and police violence in Brooklyn, NY since 2013. We have only two goals: to end NYPD murders and to stop the displacement of low-to-middle income people from Brooklyn, NY. Led by Black and Brown lifelong and longtime New Yorkers, E4F believes in the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and prisons.
E4F is a member-led grassroots organization of largely Black Caribbean women migrants and descendants of migrants of color. We have an holistic, trauma-informed approach to organizing that is steeped in the principles of demonstrating “revolutionary love,” practicing kindness, being relentless, and “having each other’s backs.” We organize our communities for social justice and change through street outreach, social media campaigns, as well as political and direct action.
RESOURCES & AID
Our sincerest apologies. Equality for Flatbush (E4F) closed down all of our #BrooklynShowsLove food distribution, financial and mutual aid work on October 31, 2021 .
Here are 31 pages of info about food pantries, community fridges , mutual aid groups, housing , employment, legal , etc resources across NYC that we have compiled : https://bit.ly/BKShowsLoveResourceList
Also please check Equality for Flatbush’s Instagram and Facebook pages for the latest info about weekly community fridge stockings, food, coats and toys distributions in Brooklyn.
BLACK LIVES FOR PALESTINE
WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY
Equality for Flatbush stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and in resistance to settler colonial occupation. As an organization created by and for BIPOC who face the daily threat of state-sanctioned land theft, violence and displacement , we recognize the way that language has been used to mask the violence that our communities face. In Brooklyn, the language of a “rent dispute” or “quality of life issue” can unleash police brutality on our communities. In Sheikh Jarrah, the language of “property disputes” is used to describe the way that colonial settlers, often from the United States, violently force Palestinain people from their homes.
The violence and attempted displacement of entire communities such as Sheikh Jarrah during the Spring and Summer of 2021 is but another instance in the long history of attempts to remove the Palestinian people from their land. We condemn the United States government’s support for Israel’s state violence through funds, weapons, and training of their police and military forces. We recognize that the United States was built as a settler-colonial project which killed and stole from indigenous people, and we acknowledge how those tactics reverberate in current events.
We are working toward a world where the human rights to housing, healthcare, and safety are recognized for all, not only those who benefit from oppressive systems. We stand in solidarity with others working against apartheid, racism, colonization, and imperialism, in Palestine, Brooklyn, and beyond.
E4F’s Housing Court Judge Accountability Campaign
In 2023, evictions in Brooklyn rose to 3,500 which is triple the amount of 2022. In 2017, when the NYS housing movement won better rent laws, the infamous Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) began suing the State over these “anti-landlord” laws. REBNY has also been targeting judges that they believe are “pro-tenant” and demanding that judges be more “fair” to landlords.
In 2024, based on the feedback of our tenants who are court-involved, the level of Anti-Black /Latine racism, misogyny and ageism of Brooklyn Housing Court Judges is completely out of control. Tenants are reporting being berated in open court, not being informed of their rights, feeling forced to make decisions that are clearly not in their favor or feeling like the judge is in cahoots with the landlord to evict them. Brooklyn Housing Court is literally destroying lives.
In response, Equality for Flatbush has launched a public Judge Accountability Campaign to pick the “Worst 3 Judges in Brooklyn Housing Court”. The goals of the campaign are to gather data along with audio and video stories at Brooklyn Housing Court , the Brooklyn shelter system and partner with various social service agencies to hold the anti-tenant judges accountable. We also hope that the campaign will reign in the abusive behavior and anti-tenant rulings through the political and media attention that we hope to gain. Currently E4F has online and paper surveys in Kreyol, Spanish and English.
English:
https://bit.ly/BKJudgesENG
Spanish:
https://bit.ly/BKJudgesSPA
Kreyol:
https://bit.ly/BKJudgesKREYOL
To be an organizational community partner for E4Fs judge accountability campaign:
https://bit.ly/BKJudgeCommunityPartner
NEWS & UPDATES
Judge Adam Meyers MUST Step Down Campaign
Equality for Flatbush‘s Fire Judge Adam Meyers Campaign Fire Judge Adam Meyers Now! Adam Meyers Must Step Down! https://bit.ly/FireAdamMeyers To Sign the Petition: https://www.change.org/FireJudgeAdamMeyers Pictures, Videos and Online Documentation are linked...
E4F’s Emergency Housing and Rent Fund
This work has been sustained by our generous donors and community members . Our goal is to raise $6K every month. Please become a E4F Monthly Supporter $5, $10, $20, $100, whatever you can afford is greatly appreciated and urgently needed.Here are fundraisers created by homeowners, tenant associations, small businesses, cultural institutions, etc who are part of the E4F family. Please help sustain our members as they recover from various crises. Please sign their petitions & spread the word about these important fundraising efforts. Thank you for your support !
Recovery Fund for the Fire at 3400 Snyder Ave : Flatbush Residents Against MAXX Properties urgently support for the families impacted by a January fire. Please Give Today!
Support the Foster Family : Caribbean homeowners in Bed-Stuy who were illegally evicted from their home due to deed theft. Please help them rebuild their lives!
Support the Sandersons : An intergenerational family of 13, who were illegally evicted from their home in Flatbush due to deed fraud / theft by the real estate agent who sold them their house. Please help them through this crisis!
Help buy a security gate for Kookies & Kream Creamery : Please Help this Black woman-owned Flatbush business recover from a recent theft & upgrade their security. Also please try their chicken wings, smoothies, the pear as well as mango sorbet. They also have Ital (vegan) options. Please visit them at 1431 Flatbush Ave or contact them at 347-350-6558.
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 (732)641-3923
En Kréyol: EnKreyol@equalityforflatbush.org or (929)244-0885
#NOEVICTIONZONE #MYNYCLANDLORD #BeforeItsGone
2273 Church Avenue
POB# 260505
Brooklyn, NY 11226
B4G@equalityforflatbush.org