It’s a chronic condition of capitalism that lower-income people in the income distribution of any city are not going to be able to house themselves decently and legally. That’s true if you’re in Nairobi or Lima or New York.
Gentrification is class war from above which must be answered with struggle from below. This requires accessible projects that can establish a broad and militant praxis.
“Our demands are clear. The municipality should withdraw from the demolition plans and the project of the new Rog Center. We want a cooperative relationship with the municipality. The Rog Factory has enormous potential, and the flourishing of this potential is in the public interest and in the interest of the city.”
Poverty isn’t just a reflection of lower incomes; it’s also an expression of extractive markets.
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Detroit cannot be measured by what downtown looks like, when tens of thousands of people—children—are living without water.
As long as there are these camps, and people are not regarded as people, these kinds of crimes will continue to be committed.
Tim had convinced even himself that Swiss society was more open and tolerant than America with its smiling corporate fascists and their military police. In Switzerland, colorful, militant dance demonstrations were so common!
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
