one struggle against cops trying to evict you from your home for the sake of a soulless petite bourgeois landlord to do real estate development. What's the difference between gentrification and settler colonialist displacement?
one struggle against cops trying to evict you from your home for the sake of a soulless petite bourgeois landlord to do real estate development. What's the difference between gentrification and settler colonialist displacement?
In San Francisco there is a strong suspicion that Landlords are committing arson to their valuable property as a way to evict long-term (usually poor) residents and small shops. It's totally understandable why people strongly sympathize with Palestinians.
Some sources:
https://sfist.com/2015/11/25/are_mission_landlords_really_burnin/
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/2/hot-rental-market-sparks-suspicions-of-landlord-arson-in-san-francisco.html
https://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-is-burning