Join us for a friendly anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist Feeder March through Uptown. We are marching through Uptown for both radical queer & trans visibility and to protest the gentrification of Uptown which is brought on in part by middle class white gays and lesbians moving into Uptown from Boystown and Andersonville, displacing many poor and working class people (predominantly people of color), including poor and working class queers.
Saturday June 25th
11:30 am PICNIC at Clarendon Park (Clarendon & Wilson)
12:30 pm FEEDER MARCH Steps Off from Clarendon and Wlison, goes west on Wilson to Broadway, north on Broadway to Foster, west on Foster to Ashland.
1:30 pm arrive at gathering point for Dyke March
2:00 pm Anarchist Contingent in DYKE MARCH
(Dyke March steps off from Foster and Ashland at 2:00 pm)
calling all sexy anarchists, genderqueers, sex radicals, tranny sex workers,
homeless queer youth, radical faeries, lesbian avengers, revolutionary
faggots, intersexed insurrectionists, transgendered direct actionists, riot
grrrls & riot bois, anti-assimilationist queers, feminist femmes, gender
binary smashing butches, pansexual perverts, ethicals sluts, drag kings &
drag queens, queers of color, anti-war burlesque performers, radical
cheerleaders, queer punks & homo-hoppers, dykes on bikes, bykes on bikes, genderfreaks on freak bikes, bisexuals in black bloc, autonosexuals in their undies, omnisexuals out of their undies, polyamourous situationists,
nonmonogamous mamas, naked union organizers, d.i.y. pornstars,
heteroflexibles, homoflexibles and straight but not narrow allies
and other sexual outlaws and gender nonconformists...
Join us for a friendly anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist Feeder March through Uptown. We are marching through Uptown for both radical queer & trans visibility and to protest the gentrification of Uptown which is brought on in part by middle class white gays and lesbians moving into Uptown from Boystown and Andersonville, displacing many poor and working class people (predominantly people of color), including poor and working class queers.
The anarchist contingent at this year's Dyke March is being organized in the spirit of mutual aid and solidarity. As anarchists, we are for the sexual liberation of all people. As radical anarchist queers, we love our dyke sisters!
There will be a bicycle bloc, a drum brigade and radical cheerleading. We encourage freak bikes, lowrider bicycles, drums, whistles, noisemakers, drag, fetish gear, signs and banners and full or partial nudity (nipple tape not required).
let's RECLAIM PRIDE together!
Say NO to assimilation and YES to queer liberation!
Organized by the Queer and Trans Caucus
of the Chicagoland Anarchist Network.
also...
Sunday June 26th there will be an Anarchist Contingent in the Pride Parade.
Anarchists and antiauthoritarians are encouraged to meet up with the Gay Liberation Network at Halsted and Diversy at 11:30 am sharp. Be there or be a log cabin republican. This will be the 5th year in a row that queer anarchists have marched in the Pride Parade to protest the corporate takeover of Pride. Our pride cannot be bought and sold to the highest bidder!
Comments
The Pink Panther Party endorses the Anarchist Feeder!
02 Jun 2005
Power to the People!
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
05 Jun 2005
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
09 Jun 2005
i heart dyke march.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
13 Jun 2005
Who are the assimilators/gentrifiers exactly? Land developeres? White people who get off on living close to danger? Socially and economically mobile citizens who prefer living on the fringe?
The march sounds kind of abstract and vague, what are you reclaiming pride in the name of? The funneling of capitalist investment in economically disenfrachised sectors of the city? Or, as your post suggests, residents from Boystown and Andersonville who can't pay rent and must find housing in cheaper areas?
Could you specify your agenda more clearly please?
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
22 Jun 2005
While many of you live in Pilsen?
Stop blaiming people for living where they want. YOu might want to consider looking at practices of the aldermen and land developers in the area and what effect they have on the government.
Rich people don't move to Uptown. People with some money safed up who want a better life do. and a few people who like living on the fringe. but mostly people who can't afford to buy anywhere else. just food for thought.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
23 Jun 2005
Look, I am an artist. I am white. I would like cheap rent but I am not about to move into Pilsen and make it more romantic and safer for rich land developers and daring, adventurous types with money to go slumming and pick up some nice real estate to make better lives on the backs of poor communities. Gentrification destroys communities that have a right to exist.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
24 Jun 2005
A community has a right to exist? According to??? Communities evolve, change, disappear, emerge, etc. Pilsen used to be Czech. That community doesn't exist anymore. You are way to static and inflexible to understand the dynamics of demographics.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
25 Jun 2005
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
25 Jun 2005
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
27 Jun 2005
You have been priced out? Well, I got a new job with a higher salary and I "priced" myself up to Wrigleyville.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
27 Jun 2005
why don't you price yerself back down to $1 an hour screwjobs like you did in 99
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
27 Jun 2005
Actually that was 96 right after high-school. But hey, I like my duplex in Wrigley. Nothing wrong with that.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
27 Jun 2005
why should people care about gentrification if latin@ landlords don't? Because it's not the landlords who are gonna get pushed out. What about the latin@ tenants who do have to worry? And not all the white people in pilsen are downwardly mobile middle-class folks. There are poor whites there who can be forced out, too.
Gnetrification is inherently a class issue, but it's a problem for working class and poor folks, not as much for landlords.
Re: Queer and Trans Anarchist Feeder to Dyke March 2005
27 Jun 2005
Maybe if you stoppend defining yourself as "working class" then you would have a better perspective. And if you considerably reduced your "political struggle" and focused more on learning and work, then you would have a better paying job. As simple as that. And then, with purchasing power, nobody will be able to "price" you out. Don't hide in the facade of "working class" when you truly dislike working.