Happy New Year!
We here at C.O.R.D. have much to be happy about this year!
GL has given some impressive New Year's "grades":
Participatory Democracy Award, Genuine Version
#1)!! The Carroll Gardens Development Moratorium movement. It started with opposition to a single building and became a neighborhood-wide cause.
And:
Community Groups of the Year
#1)!! CORD. They are loud. They are insistent. They have made enemies. But good community groups are supposed to do all those things.
Furthermore:
News 12 has listed us as a Top Story in Brooklyn this weekend with the headline: "Wall turns into protest of Carroll Gardens development." Here is the link to the live feed.
(12/30/07) CARROLL GARDENS - Fliers, messages and paintings on a wall have become a visual protest of a planned Carroll Gardens condominium building. The Carroll Gardens Coalition to Respectfully Develop, along with residents, has turned a wall surrounding a lot at 360 Smith St. into an anti-overdevelopment campaign. Newspaper articles and other items are posted at the site of a future 70-foot building.....
Furthermore: F.I.B. is featuring a story on C.O.R.D., the Democracy Wall interview, and 360 Smith street 12/31/2007.
