We Will Not Move

"BUYER BEWARE
A case in HOUSING COURT to decide on the
CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION of the BUILDING is
still pending. WE WILL NOT MOVE."

This was the sign that our mother, Viviana Muñoz Mendoza, posted on the window of our rental apartment, our home on Dartmouth Street in the South End of Boston, that began what would lead to a precedent setting legal case for tenants to be able to place signs expressing views anywhere on their apartments as a matter of free speech.

This was when "condominium conversion" during the Reagan years was gentrifying neighborhoods of color all across cities in the U.S. Buildings were set on fire to vacate them for "renovation."

At Casa Myrna Vasquez in the South End of Boston, a shelter for battered women, a mother and child died in such a fire. Arson. Reagan's trickle down economics just rained down fire on ethnic neighborhoods.

Hoy, en este día de tu muerte, te recordamos por todo lo que nos enseñastes sobre la importancia de las palabras y las acciónes de resistencia.

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Mamá en el apartamento de la Dartmouth.