By tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
My hands caressed the edges of the Coors can – it was softer than the 211 can, almost like velvet. And unlike the Coke, Pepsi, or Sprite cans, they were always empty when I found them. Tonight as I sorted my cans and bottles, one of the many ways this po’ displaced mama has survived through harder times, I prayed for all my brothers and sister poverty workers/ recyclers on the racist, classist streets.
“Cans not Condos, Cans NOT Condos!!! Cans Not Condo
-Bill Gandy, Community Housing Partnership organizer
The most recent attack on the already broken and trying to mend backs of us po’ folks in what I am now affectionately calling GentriFUKation City is Safeway’s move to close all of its recycling centers that have been housed in their giant parking lots for years, providing a dire service to elder and disability worker-recyclers and mama, youth, and daddy recyclers just trying to bring in a few extra dollars to survive. (more after the jump)
