"Adams Morgan is not "gentrifying," it was gentrified years ago. Adams 
Morgan is filled with corporate chains and yuppie bars and is an 
entirely appropriate target for some anti-capitalist fun.

So the the folks who own happy hour bars, night clubs and pizza stands who probably mostly serve college educated 
professionals are the main face of capitalist domination today? Interesting theory.



"I have one friend who lives near 18th and Columbia Rd. He's an older 
white radical who has lived there for years. He doesn't have much money 
and is facing increasing pressure to move out as young white people take 
over his apartment building, which used to be more multi-ethnic and 
working class."

Well, you could join the various tenant and homeowner organizing groups who are fighting rent increases, and for 
property-tax relief for low income residents. You could join with the the already long list of community, labor, 
tenants and reiligious groups which are pushing the DC City Council to adopt Mandatory Inclusionary zoning which 
would require all new buildings in DC to put aside a percentage of their new housing for low-income residents. 

But spray painting circle A's and being rude to yuppies is probably more likely to help your friend and other 
working class residents out in the meanwhile.


"If you are going to start smashing capitalism, you have to go where 
capitalism is, right? ;-)"

Well it is DC you know and it seems like one could find slightly more suitable targets of "capitalist oppression" 
to trash if that is your idea of social change. I mean we have the White House, Congress, the IMF, World Bank, 
embassies of various evil governments and you folks can only manage to pick on a strip of hipster bars. Its kind 
of like choosing to smash up Greenwich Village as opposed to treking a few block over to Wall Street.  


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