LVSN came out of a struggle to prevent the privatization of a public placita at the corner of Marshall Boulevard and Cermak Road. So it’s not about isolating anyone or about a class system-it’s about who really has the interest of the community at hand.” We need to understand the difference between a gentrifier and a person that comes into the community and wants to live within the community. Some of the people that we organize with are not from La Villita, but total allies, and some of the people who currently live in La Villita are newer transplants. That’s really important, because it also sets a line on who’s looking in and who’s looking out. When I first asked Pura, an organizer with Red de Solidaridad de La Villita, or the Little Village Solidarity Network (LVSN)-a group organizing against gentrification, evictions, foreclosures, stolen wages, deportation, and migrant child detention-about their work in Little Village, she wanted to clarify: “Little Village is what outsiders call what people inside the neighborhood call La Villita.
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