| From the Villa ge of Brook ly n |
| VOL. 20 NO. 48
November 26 – December 2, 2015 |
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Follow the Money: City Spending Does Not Reflect City Diversity “This city does less than three tenths of 1% of its $18 billion in contracts with African-American owned businesses that represent 26% of the population. It does less than six tenths of 1% with Hispanic owned businesses and Hispanics represent 29% of this city’s population. That adds up to nine tenths of 1% for 55% of the population,” said Peebles. “Nowhere else in the civilized world does this happen. This is economic apartheid. This cannot go on.” Don Peebles, Chairman and CEO of the Peebles Corporation Black Institute, DuBois Bunche Center @ MEC Demand MWBE Contracts “In far too many agencies there are individuals within the body of these agencies who have not bought into the concept that you have to share the wealth of this city to all the companies in this city, including MWBEs. Part of the action must trickle down to those who are professional bureaucrats and know how to hold things up,” Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams "BP Adams Hosts MWBE Town Hall" ➔ Page 7 “Thanksgiving dates back to the seventeenth century when Pilgrims, the early colonists of the Plymouth Colony, celebrated a successful harvest season with 90 Native Americans who were invited as guests. “Except, in the following years, the Pilgrims had a Thanksgiving nearly
every time they slaughtered an entire village of Native Americans. “The genocide of Native Americans by colonists is one often omitted from historic records. “On Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks. We give thanks for being the invader, the exploiter, the dominator, the
greedy, the gluttonous, the colonizer, the thief, indeed the genocidaire,” said sociology professor Dan Brook from the University of California at Berkeley. “It’s been over 500 years since the beginning of the Native Americans’ era of genocide.
“Native Americans, at least those who have survived the over 500-yeargenocidal project, are the poorest ethnic group in the richest country of the world,” Brook said.” Sebastian Troitiño of The Daily Cougar
The Native American View by Jacqueline Keeler
The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James 1970
Child Development Support Corporation's Thanksgiving Experience
Protection Against Employment Discriminations for Victims of Domestic Violence
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