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Cordell Cleare
Cordell Cleare is an activist and advocate. In 2017 she ran for City Council to represent the 9th district. She is currently the Democratic District Leader for the 70th Assembly District, Part A. She also co-founded the Michelle Obama Community Democratic Club which is located in Central Harlem.
She has fought for environmental and social justice, tenants' rights and better educational opportunities and resources for public school students. The recipient of the 1997 Brooke Russell Astor Award for advocacy and work to prevent childhood lead poisoning, Cordell chaired the New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning (NYCCELP). NYCCELP is the grassroots organization that spearheaded the fight to effect the most comprehensive childhood lead poisoning prevention law in the nation (Local Law 1 of 2004).
Cordell served on the staff of former City Councilman and Deputy Majority Leader Bill Perkins where she advocated for individuals as well as the community on a wide range of issues. Her work in that office brought positive results; restoring public benefits, preventing illegal evictions and uncovering national scandals. She worked extensively with former City Councilman Perkins on a variety of critical community and legislative matters including black male unemployment, land use & historic preservation, infant mortality, justice for the Central Park 5 and lead poisoning prevention.
Cordell was elected to Community School Board District 3 and served from 1999 – 2004. After the Mayor's dismantling of school boards, Community District Education Councils were formed. In 2004 Cordell was elected by parents to the District 3 Community Education Council in 2004, and again in 2005. As an education advocate she has supported the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, and she joined the fight for badly needed resources, funding, and technology and capital improvements, particularly in the most under served and lowest performing schools in the district. Parent empowerment and involvement, hiring qualified teachers, as well as policy reforms are among many issues for which Cordell advocated. She served as Perkins’ Chief of Staff in the State Senate, where she continued to work on important issues affecting the community.
As the female Democratic District Leader in the 68th Assembly District in Harlem (2007 – 2015), Cordell organized and participated in many efforts to build and improve the community. She encouraged participation in the political process. Through the Sojourner Truth Democratic Club, she supported and worked successfully to get numerous Democratic candidates on the ballot and elected to federal, state, city and party positions. After the 2010 Census and the redistricting that followed in 2012, Cordell was drawn into a new district (70th Assembly District) where she ran for and won the vacant seat in 2015 and was re-elected to the position in 2017.
In 2007, she served as Coordinator of “CD 15 for Obama” and led petitioning efforts to get Barack Obama on the ballot in the 15th congressional district in New York, gathering the second highest number of signatures for his Presidential race than any other congressional district on the East Coast. Cordell also sat as an Obama delegate in the historic 2008 National Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Early life
Cordell Cleare was born in the Bahamas and raised in Harlem. Her work in the community started when, as a resident, she addressed community issues and housing conditions. She is an advocate against lead poisoning which affected the building where she lived. She organized tenants and community around lead paint poisoning.
Career
Cordell Cleare has worked for over 15 years for New York State Senator Bill Perkins (politician). She is a member of the Sojourner Truth Democratic Club based in New York City, NY, and New York City District Leader for District 70. She is currently running for Harlem City Council seat of Inez Dickens. She was a New York Delegate for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She has served as chair to the New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning. Her family was directly affected by lead poisoning. She says, "as chief of staff she has been able to help the Harlem community to navigate the system". She has been Democratic District Leader. As a delegate, she supported Barack Obama's run for presidency.
She is on the Advisory Board for the African American Day Parade, and has worked with the African Day Parade.
Cleare and Bill Perkins advocated for justice in the Central Park jogger case.
She has worked and supported "New York Health" bill to establish universal healthcare system for the state of New York.
In 2008, Cleare campaigned for President Barack Obama's 2008 run for the presidency.
She was a Bernie Sanders delegate for the Democratic Party Convention in 2016.
As of 2017, Cleare is running for Harlem Council Member to represent District #9. She was recently endorsed by New York's Amsterdam News: "....we clearly understand the significant role she played during her years working in the City Council and State Senate. Now, it's her turn in the election arena".
2017 - The League of Pissed off Voters of New York endorsed Cordell for District 9 City Council, stating that "she is exactly the kind of grass-roots figure we want to see taking up offices throughout this city".
Quotes
"I'm not tired of serving". It has been a constant learning experience and constant fulfillment providing leadership for this community. I wake up everyday thinking about this job."
"We've dealt with this, we've lived with this, we've withstood loss of property, loss of irreplaceable items, photographs, record albums, artwork, loss of days from work, and just by the grace of God no one has been physically injured," said tenant Cordell Cleare.
Awards
1997: Brooke Russell Astor Award - Co-Chair of the New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning*
IMIX
Kin 101: Red Planetary Dragon
I perfect in order to nurture
Producing being
I seal the input of birth
With the planetary tone of manifestation
I am guided by the power of universal water.
True knowledge is based on experience of both the external and internal worlds. The external world is the effect; the internal world is the cause.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
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Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)
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