How can we resist and organize against gentrification to preserve community and history?
This discussion, led by Public Scholar Mieko Tarrius creates a dialogue on the ways race informs gentrification and how communities get organized to fight back. With a wide range of panelists discussing their experience: Dr. Margaret Marietta Ramirez, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University; Dr. Ted Rutland, Associate Professor at Concordia University; Simone Chen, Worker-member, Coopérative de Solidarité La Place Commune (Park Extension) & Member, Parc-Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project; Wawa Li, former Chinatown Working Group member, independent fashion designer and student at Concordia University; and Andy Hiep Vu, Urban planner, Montreal's Chinatown Roundtable.