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Low Income Tenants in East Harlem File Suit to Save Their Homes

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Fri, 10/26/2007 - 15:43
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The Movement for Justice in El Barrio in East Harlem, New York just
filed a lawsuit against the London Based Corporation Dawnay Day. The
organization claims the company has harassed residents and plans to
evict low income and immigrant tenants who live in the 47 buildings
that the company recently purchased. But as Andalusia Knoll reports,
The residents of East Harlem have a long history of grassroots
organizing: They say they will not allow Dawnay Day to evict them.