DOT COMS and DISPLACEMENT
Mission District residents have witnessed phenomenal demographic change over the past few years. Block by block, entire neighborhoods are being economically displaced by increasingly monied newcomers. This Mission displacement has recent and ancient precedents (Fillmore District and Muwekma Ohlone tribal lands). We have heard discussions of the financial and legal underpinnings of this mass displacement, but little has been said of the moral and spiritual implications of this gentrification/recolonization.

The (Re)Generation Project of Galeria de la Raza presents Response and Remembrance:
an exciting, interactive evening of film and discussion to address recolonization and gentrification in the Mission District in San Francisco. Opening with films by Al Hernandez (That Mission Rising) and Veronica Majano (Calle Chula) this event will also feature a panel of community members speaking about issues of memory, relocation and neighborhood history. Audience members will participate during an open forum. The event will be videotaped for future broadcast on Channel 53.

When: Tuesday, January 26th, 1998
Where: City Visions Channel 53 located at 1855 Folsom Street (at 15th).
For more information contact: 826-8009
This is a FREE Community Event!

Response and Remembrance will take a critical look at changes happening in the Mission neighborhood Provide the opportunity for community membersÃ3especially those from the mission and who have lived here for some time nowÃ3to express their particular concerns, history, memories and viewpoints. This forum will also seek to address voices not typically recognized in the current public dialogue about this beast we call gentrification. These voices include area youth and elders, and perspectives from the Ohlone Nation, as well as contributions from low income/public? housing residents.

We believe that the current mainstream voices which both denounce (and praise) gentrification fail to address what is happening to memory, and history, in addition to the economic and (more overtly) political concerns. More specifically, with this forum we seek to address and open up for discussion the following questions: What happens to memory in the midst of colonization? How do we respond as artists, residents, long-time community members to the violence of gentrification? How do I situate myself in this debate? Do I dislocate as much as I am dislocated?