Submission
On Thursday, Philadelphia city council approved 76 Place, the downtown basketball arena threatening Chinatown. Are we surprised? Philadelphia government has been auctioning off neighborhoods of color to the highest bidder for generations.
Less than 24 hours after the vote, while billionaire developers and their lackeys were still congratulating themselves on the buying off local government yet again, some autonomous artists dropped a multi-story banner off of a Center City parking garage with a reminder that the fight is just beginning. “76 Place Will Never Be Built,” it read. “From Philly to Palestine, stop land grabs.” The three billionaire housing moguls salivating at the destruction of Chinatown are the architects of gentrification and settler colonialism from the Black Bottom to Palestine. We’re just getting started. They will fail. Solidarity means attack.
