Anti-Condo Action in Riverwest

Taylor, 29.08.2006 22:19

A street artist transforms free scraps of wood into an anti-condo message surrounding the condo being built on Hadley and Bremen.

Over the past two weeks street artists have been using the condo's free wood to create their own message about the condos. Free wood is no longer being made available to the public. Three sightings of anti-condo work have been documented over the past two weeks. The condos are being offered for $200,000 including 2 bedrooms and an optional rec room. The following pictures are a combination of two consecutive nights of action. More pictures to follow if there is any interest.

/ 30.08.2006 - 02:43 wow. gentrification totally rules. you know, especially because it benefits the lower class people of riverwest. nice work. /> ... 30.08.2006 - 11:14 Who was supporting gentrification? AdP> cut it out! 04.09.2006 - 02:18 People who are supporting gentrification build buildings that cater to people who will bring the property value up and interest investors. People who have money and spend it on the area, or people who are percieved to have money, raise the property value of the surrounding area. It's not gentrification. What we really have a problem with is capitalism (and all the hierarchies that interelate with and reinforce it). Gotta make some profit, dude! What as white middle class people can we do to stop this? If we leave poor areas we only further segregate ourselves, but if we do care about gentifications negative consequences, then as white middle class people it is our duty to work toward it's destruction by means available and priviledged to us. cut it out! (as uncle joey would say) stephany tanner> gentry 04.09.2006 - 12:52 I think the cause of gentrification isn't people like me moving from shorewood to riverwest. I think the cause is when people like me and 10 of my shorewood friends all move to riverwest. Granted, I believe the process started in Riverwest much too long ago to be reversed now with ease. Riverwest has been considered a "cool" place for young artists and activists for decades. Outpost got it's start in Riverwest and it was home to much political activism in the vietnam era. In general, this process hasn't led to an end to segregation because us white middle class folks will only move back to the city under the right conditions. Example: If there are others like us moving to the same neighborhood. If there are segragated bars nearby. Why don't I live on the south side where I work? Because it's too far from all the house shows and the food Coop. Aytan> "us as" 07.09.2006 - 17:18 I think it's not a necessarily great idea to assume that all of us on MKE indymedia are middle class white folks. Percy> damn riverwest rats... 07.09.2006 - 21:06 God damn it. I hope you aren't slowing down the construction of those condos! I have a strict move in date, and I DO NOT want to have to reschedule my mother in-law's flight from the carribbeans. Whichever riverwest rat did this, I will track them down. even if this means going door to door in the neighborhood until i find that smelly bastard. i'll get my revenge when i get all my old frat brothers to move into the neighborhood to run out you bicycle-riding-hippie-scum. parade enthusiast> white people 08.09.2006 - 13:22 I wasn't assuming that people who are on indymedia are middle class white people. White people having the most value to capitalism in this society (because of it's racism and necessary deviciveness) will add to the value more than any other racial grouping, they are the ones with the percieved money. Whether or not they are poor college students or just poor white people, they are still percieved to and always do have the privilege to make more money than any other racial minority whenever they choose to use that privilege. What i'm saying is, that as white people what can they do to physically stop this? If they don't like the negative side effects of gentrication, but like the diversity of a neighborhood, what can they do? Should physically attack the businesses that are trying to profit off of privilege or make it some sort of economic and general disincentive to bring new non community centered business into the area? What do We who have the privilege to sit around and wait, do to stop this process? I'm trying to bring about debate or rally around this. Maybe the things we might want to talk about shouldn't be talked about on an open forum, but they should at least be thought about. best regards, stephany tanner> its about time there was some action there 20.09.2006 - 17:33 im not at all suprized it took this long for there to be any anti condo action, but what about those lovely dorms there putting in what are people doing about that. bitter> dorms 01.10.2006 - 23:13 riverwest folk are doing as best as they can with getting petitions signed against the dorms. the only thing left to do is burn them down if they go up riverwest> A Final Solution 19.10.2006 - 22:11 I say we petition the city to enforce zoning rules that keep middle-class people from moving into lower-class neighborhoods...and lower-class people from moving into middle-class neighborhoods...and maybe that will help to make people see that Milwaukee really isn't the most segregated city on the continent anymore. Fuck yeah! Idiots. 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