Mamaz/Families
El pecado de el desaplazamiento y el aburguesamiento/Why Gentrification is Not Good for Our Communities
El pecado de el desaplazamiento y el aburguesamiento (scroll down for English)
DeGentrification Zones (DGZ)- a poor people-led plan to take back this stolen land
(Image of a young sista-mama from the Black Riders Liberation Party at the 1st Anti-gentriFUKation DGZ bbq in Oakland)
Resting Place
April 15, 2014
Three figures repose in the fallow soil, holding hands, gazing skyward, two small figures flanking a larger one. The mother’s arm raises to point at a cloud above, the twins heads moving to follow.
Empty Vessel
April 15, 2014
The bedroom is a refuge, its walls boasting photographs of a young life as it unfolded. Little league, first communion, high school prom. A SWAT team had violated its sanctuary immediately after the shooting, looking for something to validate the police officer’s version of events. Sage and prayer restored purity to the room.
No Justica en las cortes para inmigrantes/ No Justice in the kkkourts for immigrants
No Justicia en las cortes para los inmigrantes (scroll down for english)
The New Freedom Ride...Against GentriFUKation
We stood strong youth and elders together walking, calling, singing manifesting spirit. The spirit of our African ancestors, our indigenous ancestors, our Freedom Riders, Our Freedom walkers, into the hallowed, marbled floors of City Hall to save another Black family from forced Out Migration.
Privatization = Eradication: Black Families Face Criminalization While Public Housing is made private
“They just told us they sold the building, none of us knows whats going to happen but now we know why all of our young people are being criminalized and their families evicted,” said Mary X, one of the long-time residents of the now no longer public housing project known as Plaza East. She was referring to a confusing announcement made by Housing Authority on Friday, Feb 28, 2014
Criminalizing Our Children for Eviction-Housing Authority implements RAD and we get Removed
