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DESCRIPTION:As we approach International Workers Day, we're highlighting the historic 
 fight for the International Hotel (I-Hotel).\n\nIn 1977, all residents of 
 the hotel were violently evicted after the building was purchased by a 
 multinational corporation. However the tenants, who were predominantly poor 
 migrant Filipino and Chinese workers, organized and led a powerful fight 
 against the eviction and helped to spark the modern housing rights movement 
 that continues to have a lasting impact today.\n\nThe I-Hotel was a 
 single-room occupancy hotel located in what was known as Manilatown in San 
 Francisco.\n\nExplicitly racist "urban renewal" policies targeted 
 predominantly communities of color under the guise of removing "blighted" 
 ares of the city. In reality, these efforts reflected a collusion between 
 government and private financial interests, using state power to create 
 vast profit opportunities at the expense of working people.\n\nFilipino 
 migrant workers were the majority of the hotel's tenants. Forced to migrate 
 due to US and Japanese imperialist plunder of their homelands, they faced 
 further labor exploitation in the US.\n\nBut where there is oppression, 
 there is resistance!\n\nIn response, tenants organized for their right to 
 housing, building a broad-based mass movement with community organizations 
 across the city that brought together thousands of activists to confront 
 the police on the day of eviction.\n\nCome to the WSTA general meeting to 
 hear directly from I-Hotel activists and learn how their struggle continues 
 today amid modern forms of urban renewal like upzoning and 
 YIMBYism.\n\nDoors open at 6:15pm; Program begins at 6:45pm \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/17/18885618.php
SUMMARY:International Hotel: The Struggle for Housing Justice
LOCATION:St. James Church ~ 4620 California St (between 8th & 9th Ave)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/17/18885618.php
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