Join Young Friends of PACC for the Working in the Shadows Book Reading!

What is it like doing the back-breaking work of low-wage immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent the year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant and was fired from...

PACC's Deb Howard (E.D.), Drew Kiriazides (Dir. of Housing Development) and Jon Furlong (Community Organizer) will be special guests at the Fort Greene Association's next Meeting. Monday 2/22/10, 7:30PM, at LAPC, 85 South Oxford Street. See the FGA event page for more details...

PACC is a "News-Maker" this week!... Not only did we host Mayor Bloomberg's press conference on tax liens at Gibb Mansion this past Monday, but Stephan Dookeeram (Foreclosure Counselor) and Elana Shneyer (Director Of Community Organizing) were quoted in TWO separate news articles about the foreclosure crisis this morning! Links below:..

Hot off the press, here is our Annual Report. The report is comprised of stories and work that all of our wonderful staff has been doing over the past 2 years. We...

Here's a video of R3/Real Rent Reform and Housing Here and Now's year in review which recaps the 2009 efforts of R3 and HHN in their legislative campaign. This is a great summary of PACC's work and features our Organizing staff and tenant leaders (in Albany)...

We just received a trailer for the book, "Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do" from Gabriel Thompson, PACC's Former Dir. of Organizing!

WITS is based on Gabe's investigative journalism on the trials and tribulations of low wage migrant workers throughout the US. In the period of a year Gabe worked as a...

 

Tenants of local Dermot owned buildings voiced their concerns with help from Councilmember Letitia James. Check out this piece...

PACC's Community Organizing Department had a wonderful day! We just got back from a wonderful day of Rallying in Albany with...