At the end of the day, all of this comes down to a piece of paper that carries a notice of eviction.
A piece of paper, or 3,000 of them, do not have the power to displace, to rob 3000 families of their right to continued shelter.
A piece of paper is only a piece of paper but it finds power because we obey its orders. And we obey because behind the facade of rationality in that piece of paper stands the repressive power of state, I’m talking about the cops who have been escorting us all along today too. This power has no logic, knows no reason, humanitarian or otherwise, its only logic is that of violence. A piece of paper is a facade. Evictions are violence at the hands of the police.
We must physically resist this irrational violence. Tear up the damn pieces of paper. Tell the city we are through obeying. We are not disposable and we will fight them to prove this.
Hell no, we won’t go!