Gentrification Collection
47 videos • 314 views • by by Ray Balberan Ray Balberan Mission Mediarts Archives YouTube Channel Playlist Dormancy Films GENTERFARCATION COLLECTION El Tecolote Newspaper I was first schooled on Los Siete de la Raza by Eric Quezada in the days of the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC). MAC came together in the face of the first dot-com boom, the illegal construction of live-work lofts, an explosion of evictions, residential hotel fires, and the creation of a Mission “gang injunction” zone. What we experienced in the early 2000s was part of a history of resistance to these forces of control and speculation. For Eric, organizing meant learning our own histories, thinking about what block parties. Santana had played to raise funds for an eviction fight, or where Siete ran their scrappy revolutionary coffeeshop. As a city planning student, I had read about the Mission’s. successful fight to stop urban renewal, the subsequent rise. and fall Mission Coalition Organization (MCO) and its role in creating today’s network of Mission nonprofits. The lessons of Los Siete filled a gap in that story, defining an alternative.radical politics of self-determination, and giving it a relevance I saw unfolding in real time. What Los Siete struggled against—police brutality, a neo-colonial relationship with city government, the link between policing, transportation investment and gentrification, and the power of capital to transform. a city—were the issues we were living through. Today, the community is experiencing a “revancha” of that fight: a second wave of tech-fueled gentrification and evictions, private shuttle buses dominating the streets, and large-scale. luxury development. This is the scene of the police murders of Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez, Luis Góngora Pat, and Jesus Adolfo Delgado Duarte, guilty of being. Brown in the wrong place—in their own neighborhoods targeted by tech money. Plaza 16 moves forward with making The Marvel In The Mission a Reality! Story by: Plaza 16 Coaliotion (December 11, 2020)