The Coalition to Protect Chinatown and LES endorses the LESON STRATEGY  to stop the construction of the 4 megatowers in Two Bridges.

The Coalition to Protect Chinatown and LES is an association of community groups, elected officials, senior centers, small business, students, workers and families. We are uniting for fight displacement and take control of our community––Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

Coalition members (list in formation):

• 318 Restaurant Workers’ Union
• 83-85 Bowery Tenants Association
• Action by the Lower East Side
• Art Against Displacement
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
• Broadway Residents Coalition
• Chinese Staff & Workers Association
• Concerned Tenants of Knickerbocker Village
• East River Park Alliance
• Educators Against Displacement
• Harlem Consumer Education Council
• Hotel Chinese Association
• LaGuardia Houses Tenant Patrol
• Lands End 2 Resident Association
• Legal Services Staff Association UAW Local 2320
• Lower East Side Anti-Displacement Project
• LES Dwellers
• Mujeres y Hombres Luchadoras
• National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
• Orchard Street Block Association
• Professor Peter Kwong (1941-2017) from CUNY-Hunter
• Project Reach
• Professor Juanita Díaz-Cotto from SUNY-Binghamton
• Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir
• Sixth Street Community Center
• SoHo Alliance
• Two Bridges Against Displacement
• Youth Against Displacement

Endorsers:

• Frank’s Chop Shop
• Legal Services Staff Association UAW Local 2320
• Movement to Protect the People
• S & J Grocery Inc.
• Take Back the Bronx
• Trinity Lutheran Church of Sunset Park
• UPROSE