Wilder Zeiser, Amari Owens, Delphine Brody, Dan Kabella
This panel will spotlight the campaign to remove the private prison operator GEO Group from 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, and to transform it into a community-owned space. Organizers from the Compton’s x Coalition will share how they’re confronting authoritarianism through zoning appeals, direct action, and just transition organizing rooted in trans, abolitionist, and decolonial frameworks. The conversation will explore how land use, privatized incarceration, and state violence intersect, and how targeted communities are building power to steward urban space for collective liberation.
