Station 40 is Resisting Eviction

from Indybay by Friends of Station 40

Station 40 has provided a place to gather and affordable housing in the Mission for eighteen years, and supporters of this space are fighting to keep it from being evicted by predatory landlords.

Station 40 is a collective anarchist space that has housed countless individuals when they most needed it and hosted benefits, fundraisers, info sessions, workshops and community events throughout the last eighteen years. In March 2020, as the pandemic began to take hold, Station 40 joined thousands of other households in a rent strike. All over the world, people chose their own health and safety over paying their rent, prioritizing their needs over their landlords.

Now, even in the face of ongoing crisis, temporary local moratoriums have expired and evictions have resumed. The State is offering limited rent relief that does little more than bail out parasitic landlords and get people back to work and paying their full rent again. Station 40 will not take this path of bread crumbs, and is instead choosing the path of squatting, occupation, and everything for everyone.

On Sunday, January 23, over twenty supporters of Station 40 held a noise demo at the residence of the Jolish family, the landlords that are attempting to evict the space for the second time in the last several years. Places like Station 40 are always under threat of gentrification, and once they disappear they are gone forever. Landlords and developers need to know that this fight is not over!

Hands off Station 40! Resist Evictions! Abolish rent!

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In the context of the evictions of several thousand working and poor people from the neighborhood where Station 40 is situated, the Station 40 "crew" did an excellent job of keeping their heads down.

All these people weren't part of their gang/network/milieu, I guess?

That'd entirely make sense within a social context of intense regressive collectivist politics, where being a "stranger" equates to being a loser who's also nonexistent.

So true.

I'm really into the identity and feeling of belonging that being homo economicus has provided.

I love when trolls reply to themselves only to reveal butthurt and complete disconnection from the topics that hurt they butts.

Resist hard! I hope you find moments of beauty in this time of resistance. At the very least be a thorn in their side.

"Places like Station 40 are always under threat of gentrification, and once they disappear they are gone forever."

What piteous narcissism.

Much more importantly, "always under threat of gentrification, and once they disappear they are gone forever" could be said about places like the one-time low-income, solidly working class, largely Latino and immigrant neighborhood that your space is physically situated in -- but you somehow couldn't be bothered to notice this, or contribute anything to real world collective action on this score, over the course of roughly a decade and a half!

As ye sow, so shall ye weep...

^think you meant reap? or is that a joke about how your troll writing is trash?

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