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And, as Mando Medina pointed out in that Facebook thread, 12 the whole FigJam thing was initiated by the BID.ДЄnd the question of why the BID, which after all is a business improvement district, would care to promote white-serving hipster businesses over other small businesses is a crucial one.

This provides pretty solid evidence that FigJam, despite Socorro SerranoвЂ™s denials, wasnвЂ™t much interested in promoting Latino businesses operating in Highland Park before the hipster apocalypse. ThereвЂ™s a lot of interesting material on their YouTube channel, but be sure to watch this compilation of their interviews.

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The issues seem intricate 11 but everybodyвЂ™s really concerned about impending protests against gentrification.ДЄnd evidently the protests were a great motivating force because soon afterwards, a group called Restorative Justice for the Arts began interviewing local Latino business owners as part of an investigation into whether FigJam and the HPBIDвЂ™s POA the North Figueroa Association, was promoting hipster gentrification businesses and ignoring long-time, mostly Latino-owned and patronized businesses and also whether they were being intimidated by highly selective enforcement of City laws against murals and advertising in the windows of stores. On the same day, and roughly at the same time, Misty Iwatsu was also engaged in an ongoing discussion with people from the City of LA and others about repairing some tile mosaics. ItвЂ™s by Mando Medina 10 and explains the impact of the lost murals. Ignore Stuart RapeportвЂ™s bitter juvenile sarcasm, 9 the video is really worth watching. Who/what is the North Figueroa Business Association? Which brings us to November 20, 2017, when HPBID VP Stuart Rapeport fired off this prickly little missive to various folks: As I said when I reached out to you by text and at the LATU meeting, our four volunteers are not a part of what Misty did two years ago with the murals or what she is involved with now. 8 And this claim is clearly not imaginary, because his interlocutor, Socorro Serrano, not only didnвЂ™t deny that Misty Iwatsu did something with the murals, she explicitly confirmed it: Most importantly, note the claim that Misty 7 acted against murals in Highland Park. So some of the organizers are saying Mitsy is not part of this years FigJam BUTДЄnd the permits for the event is under her nameДЄnd it has come to my attention that not only did Mitsy Iwatsu call to take down the Murals in Hlp BUT she also calls the cops on street vendors in Hlp

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UPDATE ON MITSY IWATSU AND THE FIGJAM EVENT

6 Mando Medina kicked things off with this remark: ThereвЂ™s a lot of interesting stuff going on in that conversation, and IвЂ™m looking into various aspects of it via CPRA, but for now the salient part is the debate between Highland Park community activist Mando Medina and event organizer Socorro Serrano 5 about FigJam 2017. Turn the page for all the details!Д¬hronologically, our story begins on November 17, 2017, when HPBID VP Stuart Rapeport fired off this terse little email to Titina Folliero, boss-lady supremo of the deservedly famous Highland Park pizzeria FollieroвЂ™s, and all it said was: 4 They only care about the interests of the owners of commercial property who, in this City at least, are predominately white. This story provides an excellent example of what pernicious gentrification looks like in Los Angeles, how it is covertly but significantly supported by the City government, and how property-based BIDs do not care a whit about the interests of business owners per se. ThereвЂ™s a lot of interesting material in there, 2 and IвЂ™ll be writing about at least a few more items over the coming weeks, but most interesting of all, I think, is some material from November 2017 about antigentrification activists in Highland Park and their understanding of the BIDвЂ™s role in social cleansing for the sake of financial gain. The Highland Park BID is a new client 1 of mine, and thus far they, in the person of their executive director Misty Iwatsu, have been exceedingly cooperative, for which I thank them very much. One purpose of this post is to announce the availability of a bunch of emails from the Highland Park BID from 2017 and early 2018.