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 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:..

Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference at Gibb Mansion this morning to announce a new initiative that would help homeowners facing tax liens to pay off their debt and avoid foreclosure. The enitre press release is...

PACC was featured in ANHD's latest edition of their newsletter, The ANHD Reader! Our work with The Ricks Family, left homeless due to a fire, is highlighted on page 2. : )
Click here to read the story.

Tomorrow at 7:30 PM, Deb Howard (PACC's E.D.) and Rhonda Lewis (CEO of BSDC) will be on the WGBO Journal radio show on 88.3 FM. They will be talking about the economy and what the Coalition for the Improvement of Bed-Stuy (CIBS) is doing to help residents in central Brooklyn. The show can be streamed through the link below.

http://www.wbgo.org/news/journal/

One of our staff members tragically lost his sister earlier this month. Our good friends over at  The Ft. Greene Local, NY Times Blog covered the story. Please send cards, donations and condolences to The Johnson Family c/o PACC 201 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11205 or call 718-522-2613 x 22 for more info.

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