Art galleries are leaving Boyle Heights, but more anti-gentrification battles loom on the horizon
'For more than two years, members of B.H.A.A.A.D., a coalition of anti-gentrification groups in Boyle Heights, have repeatedly demanded that galleries leave the neighborhood; what the neighborhood needs, the groups insist, is more affordable housing, as well as residential services such as grocery stores and laundromats. '
' Publicly vowing to “stop at nothing to fight gentrification and capitalism in its boring art-washing manifestations, the group has staged protests, called for boycotts and used social media in savvy and withering ways — for example, describing one gallery owner as bearing the “stench of entitlement and white privilege.”'
[–] ohgoodlord [S] ago
I'm reporting this to the Dept of Justice here: https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice
I know they won't do anything, but I want someone to at least have to read about Mexicans discriminating against businesspeople of every color here.