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Status meeting August 2020

 Thanks for the attendance. 

Mara, Carlo

Simcha, Jordan

Zoom Meeting DPE update and snapshots of meeting

History discussed, current financial relief and individual members situations.
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The Last Emperor of Flushing at 70 Mulberry St.

New Video:
The Last Emperor of Flushing at 70 Mulberry St.

...Restore Chen Dance Center & the Arts to 70 Mulberry St.
“Now you can tear a building down, But you can't erase a memory…”
From "Open Letter (To a Landlord)" by Living Colour & Tracie Morris


Last October, Wendy and I had the honor of presenting a
10-minute excerpt from my memoir monologue, “The Last Emperor of Flushing,”
at Chen Dance Center in the historic 70 Mulberry St., building in Chinatown, NYC.
This work humorously recalls Alvin’s odd odyssey of growing up in one of
Flushing’s few Chinese families in the 1970s––that ran a Hand Laundry on
Union St, no less!––to later becoming one of its few citizens who could
not speak fluent Chinese. Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown!
(Eng is currently expanding this work into a prose memoir.)
Please
click here to see The Last Emperor of Flushing at 70 Mulberry St.

As many of you know, 70 Mulberry St.,
a longtime artistic and spiritual hub of the Asian American/NYC Arts world and Chinatown,
suffered a devastating fire on Lunar New Year’s Eve, 2020.
The building is being razed by the city right now.
Please consider joining us in a crucial action...
There is a Community Board 3 Meeting on Thursday, May 14 at 6:30 pm.
Please consider writing a Letter of Support to demand that NYC officials
assure that the displaced Chen Dance Center and the Arts have a home in
the “new 70 Mulberry St.” Please submit Letters of Support by COB Tuesday,
May 12 to Dian Dong at diandong@chendancecenter.org
so that she can submit them to the Community Board.

New Video…
The performance was part of Chinatown Arts Week presented by Think!Chinatown.
In many ways, this elegy to a pivotal turning point in
NYC/Asian American history was a perfect fit on that storied
Chen Dance Center stage…please join us in the fight to restore this
home to the Arts in Chinatown, so we can once again create and
celebrate our history and legacy at 70 Mulberry Street.

(Still photos courtesy Chen Dance Center & Think!Chinatown)

alvineng.com

AFL-CIO meeting agenda

MEMORANDUM
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u3w5iptTua4k1rpfetgRSkEJ8IrqIO7G/view?usp=sharing



TO: General Board Representatives



FROM: Richard L. Trumka, President



Please find attached the latest DRAFT Agenda for the AFL-CIO’s 2019 Summer Executive Council meeting being held Thursday, September 12 – Friday, September 13, at IBEW Local 134, 2722 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL.



Thank you.



AFL-CIO

Office of the President

815 16th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006>

Possible House vote tonight to cut NEA funding

Hi everyone,

The House Rules Committee ruled in order an amendment by Rep. Grothman (R-WI) to cut NEA and NEH funding by 15% each. This amendment cutting funding to the NEA and NEH could receive a floor vote as early as tonight. (Amendment text is here: https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/GROTWI_092_xml71318155501551.pdf)

DPE is drafting a statement of opposition for release this afternoon that will list the names of the AEMI unions. Because the AEMI unions are on record in support of full federal arts funding, we assume that your union opposes the Grothman amendment that cuts funding. Please email me ASAP if your union does NOT want to be listed on the statement opposing the Grothman amendment.

DPE also advises AEMI unions to ramp up social media advocacy in support of full federal arts funding through at least tonight. For unions wishing to direct their members to take action, the ask is to call their representative and urge a NO vote on any Interior amendment that cuts funding to the NEA or NEH.

We are in touch with Rep. Pingree’s office, who is helping to keep us updated on developments as they unfold. Rep. Pingree will speak against the Grothman amendment when floor debate on the Interior bill commences at approximately 6 pm this evening. Rep. Pingree will also send a Dear Colleague letter urging opposition to the Grothman amendment if there is a floor vote, and she would like to include the AEMI’s opposition in that letter.

Thank you in advance for your quick response to this attack on federal arts funding. We will keep you informed as we learn more.

Best,
Michael

Michael Wasser
Legislative and Outreach Director
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO