Blue Cat Cafe made some big announcements yesterday. One, they don't deny that Nazis were part of their protection that attacked our picketers 2 weeks ago.
Second, they're saying Rebecca Gray has stepped down as the main director of the business.
We just want confirm that the new investors are not only inheriting a cat cafe, they're inheriting a community boycott and our opposition.
The Blue Cat Cafe is still under boycott. It still sits on the ruins of Jumpolin, on land that is still owned by the men who called Mexican immigrants 'cockroaches' and squashed their business under their feet.
The land value continues to rise thanks to gentrification and their act of white supremacist violence. It is part of the same pattern that causes the astronomic increases in rents and taxes for longtime, working-class residents.
We called on the community to boycott this business and its example of gentrification, not on Rebecca Gray. But it was Gray who responded to our boycott with escalation that illustrated how profit protects itself.
Gray called the cops on us every time we picketed, meaning she thinks we deserve state violence for expressing our opposition to profit from gentrification.
She falsely accused us of vandalism and went on Infowars to call us 'terrorists' and a 'hate group', embracing the Trump-supporting trolls who sent us death threats and donated to her gofundme.
Then, this month, she welcomed her nazi brother and his nazi friends to attack a lawful picket. She was just fine with their white supremacist ideology that celebrates racist, classist displacement embodied in gentrification, as long as they're 'protecting' her business.
But, enough about the past. We're interested to find out who the new investors are. Are they going to still welcome the Nazi and alt-right support that has flocked to Blue Cat Cafe? Are they still going to call the cops on protesters?
The new owners are still profiting from the demolition. Their business is still profiting landowners Jordan French and Darius Fisher and contributes to the erasure and displacement of the East Austin Barrio. The boycott on Blue Cat Cafe stands.
