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Fracturing? Wishful thinking. It's all local and money wins eventually.
Came across this excellent article on anti-gentrification clashes in LA and other cities (Seattle, Austin, Chicago, etc.). The amazing thing is that the protesters are attacking what most would consider liberal establishments like art galleries, coffee shops, craft beer bars, etc. in their neighborhoods. Will we begin seeing the fracturing of the Democratic party? The left's tea party?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-gener...100000522.html
LOS ANGELES — The protest at Mariachi Plaza didn’t seem, at first, like a declaration of war.
In fact, the Feb. 7 event looked like the same sort of grassroots, anti-gentrification gathering that might have taken place in any big American city at any point over the past 10 years as higher-income transplants have increasingly colonized lower-income urban communities, remaking once marginalized neighborhoods in their own cold-brew-and-kombucha image.
But this one was different.
That’s because it was organized by Defend Boyle Heights, a coalition of scorched-earth young activists from the surrounding neighborhood — the heart of Mexican-American L.A. — who have rejected the old, peaceful forms of resistance (discussion, dialogue, policy proposals) and decided that the only sensible response is to attack and hopefully frighten off the sorts of art galleries, craft breweries and single-origin coffee shops that tend to pave the way for more powerful invaders: the real estate agents, developers and bankers whose arrival typically mark a neighborhood’s point of no return.
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Yet throughout the event there were also hints that something less civil — and far more confrontational — was afoot. “F*** Hipsters,” read the shirts for sale. A few activists clutched bright red hammer-and-sickle flags. And behind the attendees stood silent men and women in black ski masks — “comrades,” said emcee Facundo Rompe, “who are here to protect us.”
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Defend Boyle Heights’ first target — the first stop on its tour — was a seemingly unlikely one: Self Help Graphics & Art, at the corner of First and South Anderson. Founded in 1970 by a Franciscan nun, the not-for-profit arts collective has long promoted the work of Chicano and Latino artists. Last summer, Self Help attempted to broker a truce between the newer galleries and the activists. It did not end well.
“In no time, the meeting went south,” the Los Angeles Times reported, “as about a dozen mostly young activists, some wearing the brown berets of their 1960s Chicano Movement forebears, barged in. One woman covered her face with a red bandana. They accused Self Help Graphics of helping to roll the Trojan horse of gentrification into Boyle Heights by supporting art galleries popping up in the neighborhood.”
To outsiders — and to many Boyle Heights residents — Self Help seems like part of the solution: a nearly 50-year-old refuge for local artists that says it wants to lift up the surrounding community. But Defend Boyle Heights sees Self Help — with its outreach to the new galleries and board members who support redevelopment and urban renewal — as part of the problem: a vendido, or sellout.
“Self Help has a board of gentrifiers!” shouted one of the march’s masked ringleaders. “We don’t want them here because we hate art. We don’t want them here because they’re f***ing displacers. F*** Self Help!”
Fracturing? Wishful thinking. It's all local and money wins eventually.
I think you'll see the older hipsters (27-35) shift to the right as the younger millennials attack so loudly/violently.
I had no idea that anti-gentrification was an organized thing. I thought it was more just a few nostalgic folks that whine about the good old days dying.
They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em
No no no
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Same here...that's why I think it's the starting point. Definitely an interesting article that isn't overtly political...
i dont think whining teenagers are going to cause me to drastically rethink my positions on tax/environmental/education/etc policy
They dont need art galleries. They just drive them out with property taxes.
Those hipsters are also being crushed by rents, and house prices way beyond their reach
If hipsters are in the lower 80%, then they will crushed, fleeced by the upper 20% as Capitalists viciously extract their pound of flesh in their Class Warfare to increase inequality
The hipsters GAIN NOTHING by "shifting to the right"
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-05-2018 at 12:42 PM.
Wishful thinking.
lol violently.
Not sure what else you call it...
“Obviously I can’t tell you everything we’re going to do, because the cops have really big pig ears,” Rompe said as he gestured toward a pair of plainclothes officers watching from a silver car at the edge of the plaza. “But what I’ve found is that the only thing that works to stop gentrifiers is intimidation. The only thing that works is fear — the fear of harm. Because they are harming us.”
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As a result, gallery-goers have been pelted with water bottles, shot with a potato gun, surrounded, chased, harassed and harangued at any number of events over the last two years— including the opening last October of Laura Owens’s mid-career retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, which Defend Boyle Heights activists traveled thousands of miles to crash.
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In Austin — now home to three of the five most expensive zip codes in Texas — a collective called Defend Our Hoodz has focused its fire on the Blue Cat Café, a vegan eatery with more than 200 felines available for adoption. For eight years, the site at the corner of Navasota and Cesar Chavez streets was home to Jumpolin, a beloved, family-owned piñata shop. But in February 2015, the store was suddenly demolished on the orders of the landowners, sparking community outrage. Since late 2015, when the Blue Cat took Jumpolin’s place, Defend Our Hoodz and other activists have staged dozens of protests outside, at one point spraying “You Gentrified S ” on the side of the building and gluing its doors shut. The latest clash, in early February, ended with stun guns, slurs, arrests, blows and at least one man bloodied on the ground.
Landlords, Your Lease Is Up: A New Movement for Rent Control Is Spreading Across the U.S.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/2091...g-real-estate/
Wow. a guy fell on the ground in Austin?
That will definitely turn half a generation to Trump.
They might not go all the way to the right...but I think you'll see a louder far left faction that will push some people more to the center.
Nah. right wingers pimp the far left more than anyone because:
1) They like being afraid.
2) They really hope the radical left is as powerful as they advertise the radical left to be -- so they can be more afraid.
In addition to 1000s of people in the peninsula and below living in cars and RVs, now this
Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — In search of reasonable rent, the middle-class backbone of San Francisco —
maitre d’s, teachers, bookstore managers, lounge musicians, copywriters and merchandise planners —
are engaging in an unusual experiment in communal living:
They are moving into dorms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/t...francisco.html
Thanks. That was a good article and reinforces my initial point, I think these issues will split the Dem party like the Tea Partiers split the Republicans. In the end, we all lose, since even less will get done/fixed.
Progressive legislators in Illinois also have pending legislation that would repeal restrictions on rent control. And in California, a first-of-its-kind “national renters day of action” in September 2016 helped propel rent control to victory at the ballot box in two cities and launch new campaigns in at least seven others. While rent control remains a controversial measure among mainstream Democrats (many of whom receive hefty donations from real estate lobbies), these campaigns are attracting support from a broad swath of local unions and community organizations, as well as socialists who see rent control as the first step toward weakening the market’s grip on a basic human need.
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California housing rights groups are waging a multi-pronged campaign to repeal Costa-Hawkins and allow cities like Sacramento and Los Angeles to enact stronger rent control laws. A bill to that effect was introduced in the state assembly in 2017 but was slow to attract support, even from Democrats. In January, the bill died in committee.
The tenants in this article are the exact people that the protesters in the first post are trying to intimidate and get out of their neighborhoods.
anti-gentrification is mostly low income minorities being priced out of their own neighborhoods and fighting back.
Lol at San Fransisco housing. Just move out. Free market will correct itself.
This is exactly what the original article noted. But now, they are making the fight national, it's no longer just a neighborhood issue. The interesting thing, to me at least, is that they aren't just fighting back against conservative investors/1% ers (rich white guys). They are now fighting back against other liberals, some of whom are minorities, making 70-100K annually.
Charles Barkley was right; it's not really about race, it's rich vs. poor.
ing DUH
LOL, California Dems ed California and now its un able.
Lmao. NIMBYs are traditionally conservative if anything
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