“We make the community by defending it:” neighborhood resists eviction of homeless people by local nonprofit board and business owners
“We make the community by defending it:” neighborhood resists eviction of homeless people by local nonprofit board and business owners
This article was originally published in Fight to Win, a publication of the General Defense Committee (GDC) in so-called Michigan. by Lindy and LK GROWING HOPE, GROWING FENCES Wednesday, August 23rd, the board of the local nonprofit Growing Hope called the cops and evicted all people staying underne...
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Calling police on people that don’t have a house is a violent act to those seeking shelter in the community they belong to. More than 70% of Ypsi residents are renters and close to 80% of those rentals are owned by slumlord Stewart Beal. Nearly half of the black community in Ypsi is defined as living below the poverty line.
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Why does it say "published in so-called Michigan"?
IGD is an anti-colonial, anarchist publication that acknowledges and seeks to rectify the genocide of America's indigenous people.
The land has many different names from the indigenous people who were violently pushed out of their sovereign nations to create what we today call Michigan.
Calling it "so-called Michigan" is one small way to challenge the legitimacy of land claims White settlers continue to hold over ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami).
Understood, thanks
@theksepyro @Five because anarchists don't recognize the State.