Advocating success for diverse East Side Businesses is front and center this week. Last Thursday the march that took place from Dayton's Bluff was a spotlight on immigrant contributions to our economy. Nothing could be more central in our focus to support minority owned businesses than to highlight all the positives they bring to our neighborhood.
At least a dozen businesses closed in support and 3000 people marched down from the bluff to join thousands more at the Capital. People on their lunch hour or in coffee shops on E. 7th came out to join.
Along the same stretch on February 28th we'll focus on Transit as it relates to our corridors with a gathering to Bring Transit to the People.
Finally, two events coming up highlight resources for minority owned, women owned, and small businesses - one around the Super Bowl and procurement and one with our State's largest minority owned contractor Thor Construction. See details below.
Working with you, you remind me we have powerful things in common as we live and work on this incredible land. We have important contributions from immigrants throughout our history and we have deep roots in communities that lived here before there were immigrants and that live here still. We also have responsibilities to all people here now: to consider what is ours to do, ours to fix, ours to change, ours to make, in this crucial time.
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