On March 8, 2013, we held our second Welcome to Class Warfare training, this one focusing on Displacement: Place, Power and Race. Agenda (.pdf, includes the Phat Beets’ collective’s powerful statement on gentrification).
Highlights included:
James Bealum, a Black Panther Party community organizer, on organizing against urban renewal in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s.
Darwin Bond-Graham returned from the previous training to talk about the transition through Foreclosure-To-Rental-Mills (.pdf).
Tony Marks-Block, an organizer for Stop the Injunctions, spoke about the role of gang injunctions in displacement.
Finally, Brooke Terpstra from the Foreclosure Defense Group spoke on “Methods and Models for Organizing.”
Foreclosure Defense Group 