In a beautiful piece of timing the Tote hotel is set to reopen just as our Anti-Gentrification festival is launching. If thousands hadn’t marched on the streets to protest its closure it no doubt would have slid quietly into oblivion as so many other low income arts & cultural spaces in the inner city have done before.
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People power works, people!
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MX cover featuring Kathryn Jamieson in the dress she designed from the Tote carpet with hair & make-up by Fiona Middleton
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So come along to the festival, maintian the rage, share your ideas. Housing in inner-city areas doesn’t have to be closed off to artists and other low income groups. There’s plenty for us all. Check the Earthsharing report that shows a 6.9% vacancy rate across the city (as high as 29% in some areas like Carlton!) question why landowners find it more profitable to hold speculative vacancies, pushing land prices up & driving us out & protest the system that encourages this.
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Regime change! Big Picture! System overhaul! Viva la revolución!