Gentrification

Police Killing Inflames San Francisco Community

April 3, 2014 Joseph Mayton, www.occupy.com Resist! California, Gentrification, police brutality, Protest, Racism

Nieto is the latest in a string of police killings – in addition to beatings and other violent attacks against non-white males – that have inflamed passions in the Bay Area in recent years. The most famous incident, when police shot dead young African-American Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station on New Year's Day in 2009 – an event that was made into a film which won top awards at Sundance last year– was referenced by some community members at the vigil. The absence of white people attending the vigil, however, was notable, reinforcing the divide in the community. Occupy.com asked a number of white people seated at local, nearby cafes what they thought about the shooting – and none expressed distrust or frustration over the lethal action taken by police. "I think this is a situation where a troubled person was up on a hill, threatening others, and had a taser," said Josie, a 28-year-old web designer. "Why did he pull out the taser? This is a safety issue and we want the police to make sure our safety is where it needs to be."

Tenants Form Union to Fight Gentrification

March 13, 2014 Ian Marsh, www.bkbureau.org Organize! Gentrification, Organizing, Tenants

In the struggle to hold on to their places in a neighborhood where rents are rising rapidly, a group in Crown Heights is hoping there’s strength in numbers. The newly formed Crown Heights Tenant Union held a rally outside a building on Union Street to protest a wave of displacement in the wake of rapid gentrification in their neighborhood.

Jackson Mississippi Rising: Alternative to Urban Gentrification?

March 8, 2014 Bruce A. Dixon www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Gentrification

We can't even come close to blaming this on evil, immoral Republicans. Everywhere we look, black Democrats and their appointees have been the prime movers and shakers in displacing the black communities which provided the very constituencies that voted black mayors and legislators into office. You can look at Brooklyn or Columbus, you can look at Atlanta or Chicago, you can look at Tampa or Philly or New Orleans. In each and every case black public officials took it upon themselves to sell the dismantling of public housing and the razing of entire communities as a process to which there was no alternative.

It’s Not Artists, and Musicians Gentrifying Neighborhoods

February 28, 2014 Anthony Galluzzo, www.jacobinmag.com Educate! Capitalism, Gentrification

Even as the New York Times and its ilk now use hipster-bashing to delegitimize the new political awareness among the same un- and underemployed twenty- and thirty-somethings — previously taken to task for their avoidance of politics — the same bashers employ this all-purpose dummy to ventriloquize their own refined and slightly ridiculous consumption habits. And while Rupert Murdoch’s reactionary gazetteers at least acknowledge the ongoing, and (in the case of 13 Thames Street) partly political character of the evictions in which they delight, the enlightened New York Times will always opt for the “fucking hipster” show — the 21st century bourgeois liberal’s preferred flavor of minstrelsy — over any ‘hard times’ depiction of downward mobility among artists, anarchists and other riffraff.

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