… After the meeting, Neubarth admitted that the expulsion of the journalist from a public event on public property was illegal and violated the First Amendment. But he claimed that he was only a volunteer and that he had no control over the two women who tried to expel our journalist. As our reporter went to get his camera, witnesses said they saw Neubarth walking with the owner and the real estate agent. Peggy Foy, Esq.: As a board member of NYS CCLP, Ms. Foy is a longtime resident of Suffolk County and a graduate of Touro Law School. She has worked as a lawyer for over 25 years, specializing in family law and criminal defense. She currently volunteers at CCLP, providing pro bono legal advice and speaking at Know Your Law sessions. The CCLP is committed to fighting miscarriages of justice and removing constitutional protections that affect the growing portion of our population that does not have access to meaningful remedies.
Topic: What difference meaningful access to justice makes in the lives of low-income people. CCLP continues to operate in accordance with current public health policies and guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic, as our program is needed more than ever. We answer our calls seven days a week and conduct telephone legal consultations with our pro bono lawyers. We reach out to our constituency and other organizations in our Bay Area communities to ensure our recipients receive the support they need. The CCLP is community-supported and does not accept government or other funding that would compromise the association`s ability to provide a vehicle for fighting for legal remedies, including challenging government policies targeting segments of our population because of their economic and/or minority status, or suing the government itself. Through these sessions, CCLP has helped thousands of people: we have saved homes from foreclosure; prevented evictions; wages recovered, due but not paid; assistance with immigration problems; protected people from consumer debt they didn`t owe, and more. While volunteer lawyers guide those seeking help through the legal problem-solving process, participants are united in developing organizational solutions in their communities using a range of activities to publicize their efforts and contact everyone affected by the issue – including legal meetings; production of posters, pamphlets and other publications; Write letters, phone calls and presentations at public hearings, in the classrooms of universities, unions, churches and other organizations… According to CCLP`s Verdict magazine, the CCLP is an organization dedicated to issues of freedom of expression and prison reform.
Providing information on the eviction of social tenants and how to lose strong protection against rent increases seems to contradict the group`s goals as stated in its magazine: “The judgment is a forum that encourages the participation of lawyers and other people who are active or seeking legal and organizational solutions to problems, that our low-income communities face. Mission: The COALITION OF CONCERNED LEGAL PROFESSIONALS (CCLP) is a purely voluntary, non-government-funded lawyers` association that works with organizations whose members are finding it increasingly difficult to access remedies. Volunteer lawyers, assisted by pro bono lawyers, provide free legal advice to members of service worker organizations, temporary workers, independent contractors, workers and other low-income workers without job protection who are struggling to survive in today`s gig economy. Volunteer lawyers also organize free “Know Your Law” information sessions for member organizations on areas of law, including labour rights, wage theft, immigration, debt and credit issues, and landlord tenancy law. Susan E. Prensky: She spent 15 years organizing low-income service workers from New Jersey to Boston. This experience taught them the necessity and general unavailability of meaningful access to justice for the poor and workers. In 1998, she assumed the role of Director of Operations for the New York State Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals (CCLP). She has been a professional volunteer organizer for over 38 years. We are temporarily moving while our building is being renovated. You will find us at 1668 Bush Street, Trinity-St.
Peters Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA 94109… In this segment, we reported on the actions of CCLP or Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals at a recent event they held on the evening of Monday, March 12 at the Brooklyn Public Library, the same day as the Met Council event at City Hall. The event was titled “Know Your Law: Landlord, Tenant and the Law” (the pamphlet misspelled the lawyer`s name). Our reporter asked if the speaker would be willing to give an interview in front of the camera after the presentation… While trying to contact someone from the CCLP for comment, our reporter noticed that the group`s phone number and address in Manhattan matched Neubarth`s official address, which was submitted to the bar. In CCLP`s Verdict magazine, Neuibarth`s name is above the following on page five: “Congratulations on the publication of this issue of Verdict magazine.” NEW 16.11.02! More information about this group can now be found on the RWN Forum… After learning that our reporter was from Rent Wars and noting that Rent Wars had reported tenant issues, CCLP hosts tried to forcibly kick the reporter out and block all coverage of the event. They refused his camera, and they refused his presence on the grounds that “he is a journalist. We do not want journalists here. The lawyer says he can`t. We don`t know the answer to the above questions, but Rent Wars is still interested in this story. If you have any information about what happened in the first half of the meeting, or information about this group or attorney Neubarth or a group that falsely defends tenants, please let us know.
In these troubled times. It is time to act. An organized community is the ultimate dish! Join a winning team… The tenants` questioners received from Neubarth a look at the attention and at least one obviously wrong answer. When asked what a rent-stabilized tenant should do if the landlord refuses to give a lease, Neubarth vigorously explained that the tenant should force a lease with DHCR. When asked by our reporter why a rent-stabilized tenant would want to force a lease when stabilization acts like a lease with no rent increase, Neubarth replied, “Oh yes, I think that`s a point.” The show`s host, Scott Sommer, noted that he had never heard of the CCLP. For more information or to learn more about volunteering, please call CCLP today at (212) 791-1364… The exclusion of a press representative also seems to contradict the following statement in his magazine: “The principle of an independent press must be organized and defended by all who can see the writing on the wall.” Several guards rushed to follow their orders while the camera rolled. Sergeant Masters came and took over and defused the situation after seeing our reporter`s press cards. The journalist convinced him that, as a member of the press, he had the right to report on public meetings on public property. The sergeant agreed, but only on the condition that the camera be checked in the safety switch, but that he could carry his reporter`s notebook.
This whole process resulted in our reporter missing more than half of the presentation. But what he heard when he entered was shocking! Do you know who we are? Do you know what we hid from the press? … Why does the CCLP disclose harmful information to tenants and social assistance recipients when they claim to be helping the “low-income community”? Why are they hostile to the independent press when they claim to support it? Is Neubarth a shy man who uses CCLP as a cover to harm tenants? Make secret deals with landlords behind the backs of its tenants? Or is the whole CCLP a façade? RA Our April show included a video of the exclusion process and outraged comments from a tenant attending the meeting. (First broadcast in spring 2001)… Undeterred, we tried to call his Los Angeles number and contacted a man who didn`t want to give his name or talk about what had happened. “I don`t know anything about what`s going on in New York,” he said, taking a message. Rent Wars did not receive a response to our requests. None of our other sources had ever heard of the band. Although this group did not want to explain its actions and obvious contradictions, it actively attracted tenants to Neubarth. In the April 30 issue of “Housing Notebook” on WBAI, an unidentified caller revealed the group`s name, address and phone number and asked another caller to contact him with a notice of a Section 78 filing. “They can help you.” …
At the meeting, lawyer Richard Neubarth discussed ways to evict tenants on social assistance and advised rent-stabilized tenants to waive their protection against rent increases.