Dia de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead for the Homeless

Why people can riot over the outcome of millionaires playing a children's game, as San Francisco did tonight, and pale in scale in our attempts to rise up over matters of life and death and economic justice, is a mystery. But while you were drinking beer downtown or watching your Jombotron TV, we were participating in some anarchy.

Last night, Novemeber 1st, Homeless Families and individuals celebrated Day of the Dead, to honor victims of homelessness and class, race and gender oppression in San Francisco and across the world. We held a candle lit vigil and procession to honor deceased friends, family, immigrants, police brutality victims, domestic violence victims, revolutionaries, and victims of local and global capitalism.

We then marched from Tenderloin Children's Playground to the vacant Leslie hotel on Eddy and Larkin st, which had been taken over by Creative Housing Liberation and other organized homelessness folks. Speakers reminded the crown of about 70 that there are still 36,000 vacant housing units of housing like the Leslie Hotel in San Francisco alone, while 6,000--20,000 families and individuals continue to sleep in the streets, shelter, and overcrowded roach motels, and punctuated our words with a die-in to illustrate that capitalism is killing our community. We stated solidarity with homeless people, workers, and landless people's movements in other cities and across the world and speeches were given in spanish an english.

The procession then moved to the Arnett Watson Apartments, to honor the memory of Arnett, and then to City Hall where speakers said no matter who wins the election on Nov 2nd, homelessness, poverty, and budget cuts among other oppressions will still be a reality to fight. An Altar was erected with candles and pictures of loved ones and revolutionaries who dies in struggle this past year, and the evening ended with tamales and revelry.

Please remember us, and join us as we build a movement to win a future where human rights are valued over property rights and resources are not squandered by undeserving capitalists, such that innocent men, women, and children are forced into the streets to die.

Arnette Watson; Lourdes; Marilyn Buck; Richard Aoki; Al Robles; Oscar Grant; Archie Green; Colin Ward; Howard Zinn; AJ Trasvina; Aiyisha Hassan; Tyler Clementi; Asher Brown; Seth Walsh; Justin Aaberg; Raymond Chase; Billy Lucas; Rodney Curiel ♥ presente!