Molly Goldberg, SF Anti-Displacement Coalition; Katelynn Cao, tenant organizer and strategist; Erin McElroy, co-founder of Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Real estate and tech capitalists, including CEOs of prominent tech companies, form a key element of the far-right coalition mounting an authoritarian takeover of the country. What organizing strategies are proving effective in the fights against tech capital and their private equity backers? We’ll hear stories from the frontlines of tenants taking on these battles, and actually winning, here in the Bay Area. We’ll discuss what we can learn about how to wage the national struggle against fascism from focusing on local organizing against the real estate and tech agenda.
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.
