The BMCC community is invited to meet Rob Robinson, a formerly homeless community organizer and activist based in New York City. His work focuses on changing people’s fundamental relationship to land and housing.
Join us via Zoom: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/85726350504
Meeting ID: 857 2635 0504
Passcode: 693451
About the Speaker
Rob Robinson was a cofounder and member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land Movement and is currently a staff volunteer at Partners for Dignity and Rights (formerly known as NESRI). After losing his job in 2001, he spent two years homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York City shelter. He eventually overcame homelessness and has been in the housing movement based in New York City since 2007. Rob was chosen to be the New York City chairperson—for the first ever; official mission to the US; of a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. He works with social movements around the world including the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil (MAB), the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil (MST), Abahlali base Mjondolo in South Africa (the Shackdwellers movement) and the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages in Spain (the PAH). Rob is the USA-Canada Coordinator of International Alliance of Inhabitants, an alliance of 12,000 members worldwide which supports a Zero Evictions Platform.
In the US he works with communities on several social issues including, poverty and debt, police violence against the poor, gentrification and access to broadband. He has lectured at several US law school human rights institutes, including University of Miami, Northeastern University in Massachusetts, University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. He is a regular guest lecturer at The New School and the City University of New York Graduate Center. At The New School he also mentors students and supports their thesis projects in an architectural master’s degree program called Design and Urban Ecology.
All BMCC students, faculty and staff are invited to attend.
The Economics, Equality and Environment Club is an academic club that aims to increase awareness about sustainability and responsibility on the BMCC campus through panel discussions, field trips, experiential and action learning opportunities of current local and global economic, social and environmental issues that affect life on Earth.
If you have any questions, contact Professor Christine Farias at cfarias@bmcc.cuny.edu or Jesse C. at bmcceeeclub@gmail.com.
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