Open A Community Center: Reject Digital Culture
In 2016, my best friend, Sergio, and I opened P.A.R.C. (Politics, Art, Roots, Culture), a community and cultural center located in the deindustrialized landscape of Michigan City, Indiana. Like so many towns and cities throughout the Rust Belt, Michigan City was once a vibrant manufacturing hub, where people worked for the railroad companies, steel mills, and various manufacturing plants scattered about the region.
Over the decades, however, Michigan City fell victim to neoliberal economic policies. Its population significantly decreased due to the offshoring of good-paying union jobs.