What's New at FUREE

On May 1st, FUREE joined allied unions and elected officials as the lead petitioners in a lawsuit challenging Downtown Brooklyn's largest development project.  The lawsuit represents an escalation in the community-labor joint effort to win good jobs and fair development at City Point. Read more »

FUREE joins other Non-Profits, Unions, and Faith-Based Groups to Urge Local and National Leaders to Create Transparent, Community-Driven Rebuilding Process

We Must Learn Lessons From Hurricane Katrina, Group Asserts in the Following Open Letter: Read more »

FUREE members have been knocking on doors and chatting with our neighbors about an exciting new opportunity to advance accountable development in our communities.

Council Member Stephen Levin is empowering residents in the 33rd District to engage in a bottom-up process of deciding how $1million will be spent on physical improvements within the community (like parks, schools and transportation).  And FUREE is on board, energizing our members, and making sure low-income people of color and public housing residents are at the table in the diverse district. Read more »

CITY YOUTH SHUT OUT OF BUDGET HEARINGS

Youth Jobs Group Challenges Bloomberg, City Council to Get Youth Input in Youth Budget Matters…With Tape Over Their Mouths

New York City, Today:  Several city youth staged a silent protest to symbolize the absence of youth at the City Council’s Youth Services Committee budget hearing Thursday morning, at a time when most children and youth are in school. Young people from the group FUREEous Youth, wanted Bloomberg and the City Council to see that the nearly 2 million youth who are directly impacted by the mayor’s proposed $118.32M cuts to youth services, child care, youth jobs and afterschool programs are shut out of the democratic process of providing testimony to pending city budgets.  Read more »