Rally against gentrification

Old Tom Toles editorial cartoon when he was at the Buffalo News.

I am not gonna get into my point about distinguishing between neighborhood investment and displacement, other than to refer people to these blog entries:

-- More about Contested Space--"Gentrification"
-- Community Preservation and Gentrification
-- Gentrification article in USA Today (about Lance Freeman's work)
-- David Nicholson's Outlook Piece on Gentrification
-- The Onion on the process of neighborhood change
-- Historic Preservation in Low Income Neighborhoods.

In short, it's complicated...

From Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC:

CALL TO ACTION : SOLIDARITY ACTION AGAINST GENTRIFICATION!

Miami Activists Join DC Residents to Protest tat U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting & Gala

Date / Time: 4:30PM, WEDNESDAY, January 24th
Target: Mayors of DC and Cities Across the Country!
Location: National Building Museum, 5th & G sts, NW
(Judiciary Sq Metro)

Miami based organization Power U Center for Social Change has been in a long term fight against the City of Miami because its leadership continues to give away public land to rich developers. Miami is in a housing crisis (certainly not unfamiliar to most of us) and as these city officials continue to give away land, dollars, and process to rich developers for luxury condo’s poor black and brown residents are DISPLACED.

The US Conference of Mayors is an opportunity to shame city of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and any other Mayors in front of their peers and in the press. We believe we must continue to put pressure on the city and increase our power to claim what is OURS; our community, our housing, our LAND.

By joining us on Wednesday, January 24th at 5pm you will be participating in solidarity against gentrification with Power U Center in Miami, Florida, Jobs with Justice, DC and South Florida; Tenant and Workers United, Virginia; Miami Workers Center, Miami, Florida; ONE DC; National Organizers Alliance, DC; Empower DC; Hill-Snowdon Foundation, DC; Youth Education Alliance, DC… COME JOIN US SO WE CAN INCREASE OUR POWER IN THIS FIGHT!!

There are opportunities to join us for poster making Wednesday, January 24th 1pm -3pm at the ONE DC office, a dinner and debrief at 7:30pm Wednesday, Busboys and Poets; a breakfast gathering on Thursday, January 25th.

If you can attend any or all of these events or have questions please call:
Bernadette Armand, Power U Center organizer 954-709-7386

I still haven't read this book.

Flickr photo by Urban Pioneer.

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