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Hearing to Stop Evictions in Bayview-Hunters Point | |
Date | Tuesday March 07 |
Time | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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Come to the hearing on March 7 at City Hall room 416, 4pm. |
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Event Type | Meeting |
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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m. ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F. Companeros/companeras: Below please find an editorial by Willie Ratcliff, publisher of SF Bay View, about a March 7 hearing before Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the fate of Bayview Hunter's Point. Many of us have been saying for years that the Bayview will be the new Fillmore. March 7 is, as Ratcliff says, an eviction notice for the residents of Bayview Hunters Point. Not long after coming into office, Mayor Gavin Newsom did photo ops with young black men on a basketball court in Bayview (he was lavished with praise by our mindless media for that), but he knew damn well then that their displacement was imminent. It's all part of San Francisco's hypocrisy about racism and classism. "Oh, we're a liberal city, we oppose racism and classism..." people and politicians say, even as they stand idly by while more and more poor, working-class and people of color are pushed out of the city by Ellis Act evictions for TICs for the upper middle class and Redevelopment Authority's "negro removal," as it was called by black activists in the 60s. Why is it that removing "urban blight" from our cities means giving poor, working-class and people of color a one-way ticket to another city? Why can't Redevelopment work on building communities from within (with no-interest business loans and subsidies to homeowners and landlords to fix up their properties,) instead of declaring "eminent domain" and stealing the land from folks who have nothing else? If Redevelopment wants to do some real cleaning of urban blight why not confiscate the mansions in Pacific Heights and do a little redistributing of the wealth! But that's not the game in America. Redevelopment is a tool of the real-estate interests that want to gentrify all of our neighborhoods. It's about removing poor folks so that middle-class and upper-class folks can have their homes. It's a time-honored American tradition. Native Americans were pushed from their land as wagon trains of settlers, driven by manifest destiny, spread westward. Similarly, the new Bayview is not for the folks who live there now. As former Mayor Willie Brown himself said before he left office, the new Bayview will be market-rate condos with the best views in town. Your help is desperately needed. Come to the hearing on March 7 at City Hall room 416, 4pm. It is imperative that we stand with the residents of Bayview. It is imperative that people from all communities and struggles come together to oppose the annexing of 1300 acres of land next to the shipyard. No more Fillmores! No eviction notice for Bayview! No more gentrification! Redistribute the wealth, don't steal our homes! The land does not belong to the realtors or the rich! Nuestra tierra, nuestro mundo! Our land, our world! Estamos juntos en la lucha...we are together in the struggle--or we all go down separately! tommi avicolli mecca Read: Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point Editorial by Willie Ratcliff http://www.sfbayview.com/020806/evictionnotice020806.shtml |
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