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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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You know, if Fox News is agreeing with you, maybe you should stop and consider whether you're on the right side.
Sideshows are not "reckless driving". They're community events. But the community they come from is poor and black so the Nextdoor scolds work themselves into a panic and put up barricades to block roads.
To be fair, Oakland's government is corrupt bottom to top. If these streets were blocked with trash instead of barricades they wouldn't do shit. But that's not the problem here.
I somewhat agree with the essay but I don’t think they’re making the case that people should be allowed to drive recklessly anywhere they want just because it’s a community event. There are good reasons people don’t want this happening next to their house. It’s dangerous and very loud, which you seem to gloss over but the essay affirms.
You don’t get a pass to harm people just because it’s a community event.
A sideshow near me ended with everyone fleeing after a Charger drifted into a traffic signal and knocked out power to the block.
That's reckless driving, man.
Like, takeover a Walmart parking lot. Drift at Costco. Doing it at an intersection next to an apartment? C'mon.
If your "community event" has such a high carbon cost of needlessly burning fossil fuels and destroying tires, not to mention the noise pollution and safety aspects, maybe it's time to find a new community event.
Why not a street take over of bicycles? How about meeting up at a third space like a park, bar or cafe? What about collectively doing some tactical urbanism to improve your community - paint some crosswalks, add bollards to force pedestrianization.
This has so many buzzwords it feels like trolling