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New York City’s Anti-Gentrification Movements

Tomie Arai
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$6

"Tenant Power!" - "Save Our Homes" - "Housing Is A Human Right"

We honor the history of New York City housing rights organizations: AAFE - The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network - Brooklyn Rent Strike Committee - Bronx Is Not For Sale - CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities - Chinatown Tenants Union - Citywide Tenants Council - Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the L.E.S. - Charas, Inc. - Cooper Square Committee - DRUM - Good Old Lower East Side - Hate Free Zone - Mi Casa No Es Su Casa - Metropolitan Council on Housing - Mothers on the Move - No New Jails - Picture the Homeless - Seward Park Urban Renewal Association - Uprose - ...

This CPH poster printed at the worker-owned and union-run Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA.

This is #151 in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series.

Tomie Arai is a public artist who was born and raised in New York. She collaborates with local communities to create visual narratives that give meaning to the spaces we live in.


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