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Campaign to Protect Chinatown
Boston Chinatown is both a residential, working class neighborhood and the social, cultural, political, and economic center of the broader Chinese community of New England.
Chinatown’s land base has eroded for 50 years, housing is overcrowded, traffic is gridlocked, and its future is threatened by overdevelopment and gentrification. But in the struggle to preserve and expand Chinatown, the community is divided in its interests. The goal of the Campaign to Protect Chinatown is to strengthen the voice of ordinary Chinatown residents in order to unite and lead the broader community in determining Chinatown’s future.
We work to:
° preserve the working class, family neighborhood
° unite residents and ordinary community members around a vision for Chinatown’s future
° build residents’ grassroots organizing capacity and political mechanisms to change the community’s balance of power
° develop new community leadership which stands for the interests of the majority
° organize for greater community control of development and for Chinatown’s growth
° educate and organize residents for a healthy urban environment