Protest the Brooklyn Museum's Bruce Ratner Celebration - An Affront to Brooklyn's Communities April 3, 2008

In the Brooklyn Museum’s words, Bruce Ratner will be commended for his “generous support of various activities of the Brooklyn Museum.” But the Museum’s $1,000-a-plate Annual Brooklyn Ball, in celebrating Bruce Ratner, conveniently ignores Ratner’s divisive and abusive campaign to promote his Atlantic Yards proposal, and the disastrous effect it would have on Brooklyn’s neighborhoods.

Join your friends, neighbors and the Brooklyn community to protest the Museum’s insensitivity to all those whose lives have been, and would be, turned upside down by Ratner’s Atlantic Yards – a project that has become the national posterchild for bad development.

We don’t question the Museum’s right to raise funds to support itself. We don’t even question the Museum accepting donations from Bruce Ratner. What we do take issue with is honoring and celebrating Bruce Ratner in light of what he has done and proposes to do to Brooklyn’s communities.

Bring your signs and friends.

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