Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE! Paseo Boricua Parranda 2009 on Dec. 19 at 4 PM, starting at La Estancia Apartments 2753 W. Division St. Bring your instruments & flags! Posted at 2:57 AM Dec 17 view more
Since 2004, our efforts are geared at challenging gentrification and preventing the displacement of Chicago’s oldest Puerto Rican community. We hope to engage residents in a serious dialogue meant to insert longtime residents into the process of building the future of Humboldt Park.
We are an initiative of the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center, a 35-year community organization. We developed in response to the lack of educational resources on gentrification and how residents of the Humboldt Park community can resist it. The “¡Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE!” campaign, during its first phase, has therefore began to conduct community surveys, host community educational and resource events, and disseminate through multiple media outlets truthful and hopeful views of Paseo Boricua-Humboldt Park. We also organized a 250-strong community march and housing summit.
For more information or if you want to get involved, please contact us at participatorydemocracy@prcc-chgo.org or call (773) 227-7794. Check out our website www.prcc-chgo.org/pdemocracy
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The U.S. invaded Puerto Rico on July 25th, 1898 and for over 100 years has exercised colonial control over the people of Puerto Rico. International Law defines colonialism as a crime against humanity and gives a colonized people the right to use all means at their disposal to end the colonial domination by a foreign power. United Nations Resolution 1514 calls for a transfer of all political power to the colonized nation, the withdrawal of all military and paramilitary troops, reparations and the freedom of all political prisoners for a process of de-colonization to be genuine one, in compliance with International Law.
heyy. just wanted to drop some love on here & tell you that I, as a native boricua of Humboldt Park, truly appreciate you & your people's efforts in fighting gentrification & keeping Humboldt Park for Boricuas!!
I am what I AM! Because of HUMBOLDT PARK .......and I lay my right hand on my heart...and sodemly-sware to PUT ARE BARRIO on the MAP......HUMDOLDT PARK .....the WORLD aint seen nothing YET!!!!!! one love....
(we gatta make shure that humboldt dont change like spanish harlem is).. As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change.
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Inside a wooden shack set in a garden on East 117th Street, a group of Puerto Rican men, many of them in their 70s and 80s, are playing a spirited game of dominoes on a rainy winter afternoon. A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.
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Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Work under way on East 117th Street between First and Pleasant Avenues.
Multimedia Graphic A Puerto Rican Enclave
But outside their little retreat, a thick dust, the pounding of hammers and the shouts of construction workers inundate the block, signaling the transformation of East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio (the neighborhood). Many see it changing from the Puerto Rican enclave it has been for decades to a more heterogeneous neighborhood with a significant middle-class presence, luxury condominiums and a Home Depot.
It is a familiar story of gentrification in New York City, but this one comes with a twist: the many newcomers who are middle-class professionals from other parts of the city are joining a growing number of working-class Mexicans and Dominicans.
The result is a high degree of angst among many Puerto Ricans who worry they will be unable to prevent their displacement from a neighborhood that is far more than a place to live and work. “We’re in crisis mode right now, and as far as retaining the Puerto Rican and Latino identity in the neighborhood, we’re in red alert,” said Rafael Merino, who is on the local community board. “If we don’t pick up speed, we’ll lose a lot of it.”
While East Harlem — which had previously been an Italian neighborhood — was not the first place Puerto Ricans settle
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