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The bookstore’s harm-reduction program and free store have made enemies of its neighbors and its landlord.
My local queer bookstore is being forced out of their gentrified neighborhood over their free narcan and fentanyl test strips, free store for the unhoused, and free narcan trainings.
Bluestockings is an incredible worker-owned community space that has been apart of the Lower East Side for 25 years. But in the last couple years, they've faced increasing harassment from the wealthier neighbors moving in and complaining about the presence of unhoused people around their store front. Despite all their community work being allowed by their lease, the landlord is pushing for an eviction.
Please help support Bluestockings! Visit them (if you're local), order books online, donate! We need more queer and community-oriented spaces, not another overpriced coffee shop or chain franchise.
Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's onl
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A new study has revealed that Barcelona is the most massified city by tourism in the whole world, with an average of 201,772 tourists per square km, and 916 tourists for every 100 inhabitants. That means that almost 90% of people in the city are tourists.
Just to get an idea of how many people this is: Barcelona is only 1 city (a pretty small city, too, when it comes to surface) and yet it receives more tourists than the whole countries of Australia and Brazil combined.
This is a huge problem for locals, who are expelled from their homes due to the touristic pressure and gentrification, where rents reach extreme heights that only wealthy foreigners can pay. As a result of the increase in tourism, Barcelona's quality of life has lowered drastically and inhabitants have become poorer (tourism creates low-wage temporary jobs that end up killing the other industries that paid better and had better conditions, at the same time that housing becomes too expensive for anyone who wants to live in it for whole months or years instead of short-term stays) and living in the city has become a nightmare for many, where loud tourists don't let the neighbours sleep, our services are over-saturated, pollution from cruise ships and planes cause hundreds of inhabitants every year to die a premature death, communities are erased as people are forced to leave their neighbourhoods which they can't afford anymore, and closing down of shops needed for locals to live in to be replaced for tourism-oriented shops.
And in this desperate context, the government is planning to destroy natural and agricultural areas to make the Barcelona airport even larger, increasing the destruction of what's left of the city and its community just to fulfil the capitalist expectation of eternal growth in a finite city with finite resources and to make money for a few.
Yeah, so this is why non Mexicans should NOT be trying to set up ofrendas and celebrate Day of the Dead. When actual indigenous Mexicans try to explain why non Mexicans shouldn't be inserting themselves into a culture and heritage they are not part of and then when these non Mexicans don't hear what they want to be told they IGNORE and DISREGARD OUR voices.
Imagine being a foreigner to Mexican culture and thinking you have any right to tell US what we can and cannot be done with OUR culture and traditions. Imagine thinking you have the right to tell indigenous Mexicans that we should just quietly accept the ongoing commercialization, gentrification and colonization of Day of the Dead - "It is not your choice. Get over yourself. Not everyone is like that, let others be." The fucking audacity and disrespect. This attitude and behavior proves that people only want to take and take from our Mexican and indigenous culture and roots all the while ignoring the actual people that these traditions and culture comes from. But sure, you're being "respectful' while ignoring everything I've and other indigenous Mexicans have said and the posts I shared that further explain this. I'm pretty sure, they didn't even read and watch those posts considering their disrespectful egotistical reply.
🇵🇷I am so angry🇵🇷
I’m not gonna pretend I currently live in Puerto Rico, but i still care about where I was born.
This is Viejo San Juan (which means old san juan)
It was founded in 1521 by the spanish but has over time been reclaimed by Puerto Ricans and has become a cultural icon.
It is older than literally every city in the usa and has had a vibrant community for centuries.
It’s the home of one of the island’s most important cultural symbols called El Morro which is a fortress overlooking the waters and was also built by the spanish.
if you know anything about the Puerto Rico you know how badly it’s being treated by the USA.
And now once again the USA being the USA wants to build a big stupid ass hotel and casino in the heart of the city Kuzco style.
The problems this would create include:
Blocking the community’s view of El Morro which would strip its designation as a UNESCO world heritage site, taking away it’s protections and allowing corporations to do whatever they want to it.
Tarnishing the historical significance of Puerto Rico’s capital city which as i said earlier, is over 500 years old.
Leeching off of Puerto Rico’s weak and struggling electrical grid which has frequent black outs as is.
Constructing new water infrastructure in a vulnerable area that already has faulty pipes and bad water service (due to the aforementioned electrical problems) and of course funneling the water from working class homes into the tourist trap.
Risking structural instability in the area since it would be built on land that was artificially filled in by the spanish hundreds of years ago, which could cause sinking among other things due to the lack of a bedrock foundation and the weight of the hotel.
Also risking the safety of the guests inside by building the damn thing in a flood zone.
Making driving a living hell in the already full city by causing an influx of people driving to get in and out of the hotel, making traffic jams and accidents more common.
Overwhelming the city with an abundance of waste and garbage created by the whole thing.
Ruining the peace of the city’s people even more due to all the light and noise and smoke and disrespect coming from overtourism.
Displacing the community of the Capital City of Puerto Rico even more by gentrifying it to hell and back making even more people not be able to afford and/or not be able to stand living in where they once called home.
Killing the economy of el Viejo San Juan by discouraging tourists from actually visiting any small businesses and instead staying in the very american Hard Rock Hotel.
Being yet another step towards turning the whole island of Puerto Rico into nothing but a gentrified tourist shop for rich white americans to satisfy their dreams of visiting their fetishized view of a caribbean vacation paradise while disrespecting the very real history and community of the beautiful island.
And many more i may have forgotten
the corporation already started building and will be done in 5 years according to them,
asking the poor city to pay 27 million dollars not even to permanently stop the construction of this parasite of a location but just to pause it which is horrible.
please spread the word about this, i want more people to be pissed about this disrespectful, irresponsible parasite being built in Puerto Rico.
source 1 (this one is just in Spanish and is where i learned the news)
source 2 (this one is also in Spanish but has English subtitles)
not a source but listen to LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii by bad bunny cause i can’t stop thinking about it.
si cualquier puertorriqueño quiere añadir más o corregirme por favor siéntanse libres de hacerlo, yo no vivo allí así que pueden haber cosas que yo halla dicho incorrectas.
have a nice day, and keep fighting.
thank you for your time.
really sick and tired of people saying “how can this be happening in our time??” “imagine screaming for help and no one listens” “why is no one doing anything??” “how could I be witnessing a genocide in 2024?” Black people are still going through ethnic cleansing today from colonialism of Africa to the trans atlantic slave trade to chattel slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration to BLM to Cop City. We have been begging and screaming and crying for help, for mercy, for people to wake up and pay attention and you guys have ignored us and continue to do so. If you are saying Free Palestine but you dgaf about BLM, you’re not speaking up about Cop Cities or you’re not educating yourself on DRC, Sudan, Haiti, Ethiopia, etc., you are and always have been apart of the problem. You have blatantly ignored Black bodies being murdered mercilessly in the streets, being robbed of clean water at Flint and Atlanta, our Black towns being bombed, gentrification of Black neighborhoods, our lack of reparations and so much more. I don’t want to hear anymore “how could they do this?? why does no one care??” because you guys didn’t care when it began, when it happened and as it’s happening right in front of you!! Where do you think Israel and most Western countries get their inspiration for colonialism and ethnic cleansing from?? Black people across the globe are still going through ethnic cleansing TODAY and have been since white colonialism touched Africa!! We have been on the front lines of most movements and you guys ignored us, called us violent, called us angry, called us ignorant. We’ve been saying we are not free until we are all free and everyone moved on with their lives and said “well this doesn’t affect me.” If you’re not going to check your anti-blackness at the door, be prepared for a failed revolution.
What white Americans need to understand of the messages of El Apagón, Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii y Debi Tirar Mas Fotos is gentrification is a form of colonial violence. From our Latino neighborhoods here in United States to our countries in LATAM is we see an increase of outsiders moving into our homes. This in turn results to culture erasure, pushing our families out, increase in rent prices, leases, mom and pop businesses not being able to be sustained, deprivation of economic aide during natural disasters, damage to the environmental resources and biodiversity.
Because at the end of the day for some of us we may have learned to call ourselves immigrants but we are actually native to the land and now walking through some of our neighborhoods feels unrecognizable
So yeah. Music is political. This was more than just a halftime show. This was a love letter to our people and also the systemic violence that has been placed upon us.
SoHo in the 1930s was a far cry from the trendy neighborhood it is today. The picture above is of 504 and 506 Broome Street. It shows a sign company with decorative ironwork along the roof and an auto radiator shop in three-story buildings, the elevated railroad just visible at right.
Above, the same location in 2024.
Top photo: Berenice Abbott via Vintage Everyday Bottom photo: Google Maps