NYCHA Residents Fight Back & Protests continue in Chile and Lebanon

We will start our program by discussing the ongoing people’s protests in Lebanon that forced prime minister Saad Hariri to resign in October and continue to this day. After, we will turn to the unfolding struggle in Chile and discuss the recent announcement of a referendum to be held in April to rewrite the Chilean constitution after months of protests in the streets. Later we will discuss COP 25 in Madrid, the 25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We will close out with a discussion with local NYCHA resident activists who have been organizing since 2015 against a proposed infill - a towering 50 story luxury building - to be built ON TOP of their playground. After incredible organizational efforts, NYCHA was forced to withdraw its infill plan at Holmes. We will hear all that and more in the next two hours.