March Against Eviction Profiteers

March against Eviction Profiteers and Global Displacement
When: 3:30 PM, Friday, April 20th,
Where: Gather at 3:30 Powell and Market
March Begins: 4:00
Celebration: 5:30 Portsmouth Square, Kearney and Clay

March against Eviction Profiteers and Global Displacement
Join the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, Just Act, and the Coalition to Stop the Free Trade Area of the Americas in a march against eviction profiteers, gentrification, global displacement and the struggles against global “free trade.” Tenants who are being evicted under the Ellis Act by an eviction profiteer will be there to speak out against their evictor. Organizers who are fighting global displacement and global “free trade” are marching in solidarity with tenants and connecting local evictions with a larger movement against increased corporate power through the FTAA that displaces people globally. The weekend of April 20-23rd, activists are staging demonstrations all over the hemisphere in a solidarity campaign against the FTAA, making the links between local and global struggles for justice.
San Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly introduced legislation to regulate these types of evictions. The legislation prohibits senior evictions for condo-type units like tenancy-in-commons, gives tenants relocation benefits and the first right to by their units. Profiteering at the expense of working families will be increasingly difficult to challenge under the FTAA.
The profit system and “free trade” displaces people here and abroad making a few people rich at the expense of immigrants, people of color, workers and the environment. Working under conditions of increasing exploitation, people are forced to constantly migrate in order to survive. In SF, unregulated TIC conversions under the Ellis Act allow real estate eviction profiteers to evict working families. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the next step in globalizing this kind of agenda. The FTAA is an international business deal that will increase corporate power while endangering the lives of the millions of people who stand in the way of these money-making schemes.