MMPCIA invites you to join us for
Candidates' Forum: A Vision for Uptown New York
on Thursday, May 31 at 6:30 PM.
Who are your candidates? What are their credentials? How do they envision Uptown New York City
beyond 2012?
Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association is hosting an opportunity for residents of Harlem to engage in what promises to be a compelling discussion forum, moderated by Ted Shaw.*
This is your chance to listen, learn and question the candidates running for seats in New York's new 13th Congressional District (formally the 15th District).
Confirmed candidates:
Joyce Johnson Craig Schley
Clyde Williams
Invited candidates:
Congressman Charles Rangel** NYS Senator Adriano Espaillat Stay in the know. Join us: Thursday, May 31, 2012 Doors: 6:30 PM, Program: 7:00-8:30 PM Mt. Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church 15 Mount Morris Park West (W122 Street & Fifth Avenue)
*Ted Shaw, former director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and groundbreaking trial attorney is one of the nation's leading voices in civil rights. He has litigated civil rights cases with the US Department of Justice, at the trial and appellate levels, and before the Supreme Court, including representing African-American and Latino students in the University of Michigan affirmative action admissions case. Shaw currently serves on the Legal Advisory Network of the European Roma Rights Council based in Budapest, Hungary. He is also a professor at Columbia University, where he was awarded the Wien Prize for Social Responsibility.
**In Congress and unable to attend.
THE MOUNT MORRIS PARK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.
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