San Diego, it is time to rise up as a comunidad!!! Please come out and
support our 650 companeros and companeras that are workers at the Hotel Del
Coronado this Friday June 29th at 12pm! On Saturday please join us at 11am
at the Sherman Heights Community Center at 2258 Island Ave to rally with the
comunidad to battle against the gentrification of Sherman Heights, Barrio
Logan and Golden Hill. Our gente are once again under direct attack from the
rich. They are trying to kick us out of our own barrio because of that
damned ballpark that will turn our barrios into a huge mall for the rich!
Most of the hotel workers are Raza and the hotel is even threatening to
deport them if they keep fighting for better wages, worker seniority, health
benefits and fair work expectations. A lot of them have also been unjustly
fired, demoted, threatened, bribed and intimidated. Some of the women
housekeepers are expected to clean 14 hotel rooms (the rooms at this rich
ass hotel are huuuuge) a day when it takes them about an hour to do each
one. The workers have already two one-day strikes and the Del Coronado still
isn't treating their workers with respect! That is why the workers are sick
of that shit and they are now ready for another rally. Please come out and
support June 29th at 12pm in the public area in front of the Hotel at 1500
Orange Ave!
In Sherman, Logan and Golden Hill, many people have already been asked to
leave including the owner of the restaurant El Comal. Unless we do something
about this, our barrio will be bulldozed (like they tried to do before we
fought for Chicano Park) and our rich history in those barrios will be
erased! For more information contact Rene at 619-282-3910 or Genoveva at
619-516-1713.