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Title: Protest the Central City Association (Gentrification)
START DATE: 6/1/2012
START TIME: 8:30 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
626 Wilshire Blvd. (Wilshire/Hope)
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For info - see the notice of the first day's action:

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The CCA is pushing for plans to criminalize homelessness by criminalizing constitutionally protected behaviors like sleeping at night on one half of the width of the sidewalk.

It's all part of the oppressive gentrification happening Downtown.

The system is rigged. The rich get police protection, and the poor get police abuse. The developers get easy profits, the politicians get campaign contributions, the poor get evicted and ejected.

The homeless don't get homes, the people of Occupy get beat by the police, but the new loft dwellers are getting a dog park next to City Hall.

Downtown gentrification is a long-term project that has been ongoing since the 1940s. The ejection of people from the area, to make space for the rich.

1940s - removal of Little Tokyo residents to concentration camps during WW2.

1950s - removal of Bronzeville (African Americans who replaced Japanese Americans in Little Tokyo) to build warehouses (in the area along Alameda, Central, San Pedro.) Removal of LT adjacent to CIty Hall to build Parker Center LAPD headquarters.

Removal of the Bunker Hill community, mostly seniors, immigrants (Italian, Filipino, Mexican mainly).

Removal of residents of Chavez Ravine, for public housing... but eventually given to the Dodgers.

1960s - razing Bunker Hill, and moving banks from the old Downtown to the new Downtown, next to the 110 freeway. Trade off is creation of subsidized senior housing on the hill.

Ongoing redevelopment of the area south of 8th St, which was residential, into industrial uses.

1970s - redevelopment of Little Tokyo with money from Japan, ejecting poor residents, mostly African Americans and older Asians, from LT and toward Skid Row, away, or into subsidized housing.

Continued moves of business from old Downtown to new Downtown.

1980s - huge increase in homeless population due to federal defunding of mental health services. (Thanks, Ronald Reagan.)

Rapid deindustrialization of Los Angeles creates vacancies. Downtown, now vacated of banks, becomes sweatshops, and warehouses along Alameda and Santa Fe increasingly become rented by artists as illegal live-work spaces.

1990s - mayor Richard Riordan makes a big push to gentrify old Downtown. Starts taking NYC gentrifier Tom Gilmore to meetings.

In San Francisco, a new policy called MATRIX is a set of laws that criminalize behaviors that homeless people must engage in, like sleeping in public.

Staples Center opens. To build it the City had to remove a community of poor people along Figueroa.

2000s - gentrification in old Downtown takes off. Homeless population (largely people who need mental health services) start to suffer increased police repression. The City of LA pushes for Safer Cities and Broken Windows policies, which are really similar to MATRIX.

Increase of redevelopment in Koreatown due to Korean money coming in from the Korean industrial boom. Lower income residents of Koreatown, who are mostly Korean American and Latino, are moving outward from Koreatown.
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