Castro Creepy Crawl - A Halloween March Against Evictions

The specter of evictions is haunting San Francisco! Housing affordability is at a crisis point, and houseless residents are being bashed. Holly Park Collective, #AntiEvictionQueers, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, and the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Club will lead a Halloween-themed march around the Castro to exorcise the ghoulish spirits of greed, evictions, and homelessness. We will have speakers from housing rights organizations open the march and then we will perform an “exorcism of greed” as participants bless the cleansing with “fairy dust” at each stop during the march. The Brass Liberation Orchestra will provide music and entertainment. Visuals include tombstone signs, ghosts on poles, masks, and with marchers dressed as leechy landlords, poltergeist politicians, rabid realtors, and spooky speculators.

WHO: Holly Park Collective in alliance with #AntiEvictionQueers, Housing Rights Committee SF, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Club, and other housing rights organizations.

WHERE: Harvey Milk Plaza (Castro and Market streets)
2401 Market St, San Francisco, California 94114

WHAT: Protest and March for housing rights, against evictions

WHEN: Saturday October 29, 2016 at 1 PM - 2 PM

SPEAKERS:
Cleve Jones, UNITE HERE and LGBTQ Advocate
Rev. Israel Alvaran, Holly Park Collective/Anti-Eviction Queers
Peter Gallotta, President - Harvey Milk LGBTQ Club
Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, Executive Director - Housing Rights Committee of SF
Deepa Varna, Executive Director, San Francisco Tenants Union
Kelley Cutler, Coalition on Homelessness
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Housing Rights Committee of SF
TBA, representative of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
TBA, representative of Causa Justa-Just Cause

#AntiEvictionQueers is a grassroots movement of Political Queers, Housing Rights Activists and Allies who resist the eviction, displacement, and disappearance of the working class in San Francisco. Its organized by the Holly Park Collective - a queer POC housing collective that is under threat of displacement and eviction by their landlord, #AntiEvictionQueers is an emerging social movement that is building alliances with groups in San Francisco that resist the forces of speculative greed that attack renters, houseless people, and working class families.
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