North Side Residents Protest City Pandering To Corporations
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PITTSBURGH -- A group of North Side residents protested the city government, accusing officials of pandering to large corporations and neglecting their neighborhood problems.
“It’s the North Side not the North Shore,” protesters chanted. “This land is our land; it’s not yours.”
The protestors assembled outside the Delmonte Foods building, choosing the corporation as an example of the city’s corporate pandering.
They criticize the city’s selling of taxpayer-owned land at $8 a square-foot to corporations in sweetheart deals while crime and violence continue to escalate in their neighborhoods.
“Seven shootings on the North Side in a 14-day period …violence at a peak … children dropping out of school … unemployment at staggering rates, the highest in the city,” said North Side activist Michael Glass.
“What we're saying is that the city needs to do something about that, and you don’t do that by giving away our land,” he said.
Pittsburgh police informed protestors blocking the entrance to the Delmonte Foods building that they were doing so illegally. Some protestors refused to move after being warned, and were arrested.
PITTSBURGH -- A group of North Side residents protested the city government, accusing officials of pandering to large corporations and neglecting their neighborhood problems.
“It’s the North Side not the North Shore,” protesters chanted. “This land is our land; it’s not yours.”
The protestors assembled outside the Delmonte Foods building, choosing the corporation as an example of the city’s corporate pandering.
They criticize the city’s selling of taxpayer-owned land at $8 a square-foot to corporations in sweetheart deals while crime and violence continue to escalate in their neighborhoods.
“Seven shootings on the North Side in a 14-day period …violence at a peak … children dropping out of school … unemployment at staggering rates, the highest in the city,” said North Side activist Michael Glass.
“What we're saying is that the city needs to do something about that, and you don’t do that by giving away our land,” he said.
Pittsburgh police informed protestors blocking the entrance to the Delmonte Foods building that they were doing so illegally. Some protestors refused to move after being warned, and were arrested.