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Public Employee Press
City Council honors DC 37s Belinda Dixon At a City Hall tribute to Black history, culture
and achievement featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, DC 37s Belinda Dixon
was among six African Americans honored Feb. 24 by the City Council with an Advance
Woman of Achievement Award. Dixon, a member of Clerical-Administrative
Local 1549 and a longtime political activist, was cited for outstanding
advocacy, sterling achievement and unfaltering dedication to the well-being of
neighbors and community. I was truly humbled to learn I was
being honored with people I consider legends the late Ed Bradley and Katherine
Dunham, and Assemblyman José Rivera, who fought to end the Navys
practice bombing on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, said Dixon.
Dixon led a decade-long campaign for a public library in her Mariners Harbor
neighborhood on Staten Island. A $10 million capital project to build the library
is now in place. Now she is fighting for a public hospital; Staten Island has
none. Dixon is a Democratic district leader, a Democratic County Committee
member and a local NAACP executive board member. City Council member Michael McMahon
nominated Dixon, who credits her community work to the training she received from
her union. When you hang out with people like Lillian Roberts,
Cleve Robinson and Al Sharpton, you are taught by the best, said Dixon.
After talking with them you realize you have a responsibility to do more
for your community. I am blessed to share DC 37s rich heritage, its power
and resources. To have all that and not use it to help others would be almost
sacrilegious. Diane
S. Williams
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