“The idea that they can start building illegally in a park is a dare to all of us to make them take it down.”- Juanita Irizarry, executive director of FOTPChicago, on the intrusive construction at Humboldt Park.| ✍️ DeannaIsaacs👇
Gippert presented the petition to the Park District at the December 14 meeting and asked that the partially completed building be demolished. He was one of a half dozen protesting speakers, including Mary Lu Seidel, Preservation Chicago’s director of community engagement, who summed the situation up as “a gross abuse of their lease” on the part of the museum.
Here’s what Irizarry told the board: “The idea that they can start building illegally in a park is a dare to all of us to make them take it down.” “I want to make an important point knowing that oftentimes conflicts like these get reframed in all kinds of ways to distract from the actual issue at hand. You can be Puerto Rican, love the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, be deeply engaged in organizing activism to keep our community in that space, and not believe this is an appropriate action. We urge you to respond accordingly.
“This is my community,” she said. “I’m just trying to do this in ways that are least damaging. We need to pull together Puerto Ricans who are on the statehood side, Puerto Ricans who are on the independence side, Puerto Ricans who are happy to just stay a commonwealth. I’ve heard from a lot of independence movement folks who think that this is wrong.
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