[Bobby Williams]
From the EV Grieve inbox...
NO 7-Eleven, a grassroots movement resisting the spread of chains and franchises, is holding a neighborhood-wide meeting tonight. Their goal is to require that all corporate clone stores, including banks, be required to obtain approval before opening a new location so the community can have a say in the number and location of corporate chains and franchises. Details below. Please spread the word.
Limit corporate clone stores before they limit our food, our commerce, our labor, our streets and our New York City character
7-Eleven is opening a new location on the corner of 11th Street and Ave. A in June.
7-Eleven already opened 32 locations in Manhattan and has an additional 100 stores on the way!
Their plan is to over saturate the neighborhood with locations and remove any and all competition.
If you are as concerned about protecting the East Village and future of the city, please attend:
Next 'No 7-Eleven' Meeting
6:30-8:00pm
93 St. Marks Place
Between First Avenue and Avenue A
More details:
The No 7-Eleven blog ... Facebook ... Twitter...
Other news items from the No 7-Eleven group include:
1. 'NO 7-Eleven' just won a grant from Citizens Committee. "One important concern for them is the low quality of food offered to low-income neighborhoods. We share that concern and hope we can make a difference with our effort to have all corporate 'formula' stores (including banks, btw) throughout our fair city go to the local community board for approval before opening."
2. 7-Eleven Corp. has delayed its opening on 11th Street and Avenue A by a month, from May 13 to June 13. And it still has no franchisee.
3. NO 7-Eleven will be featured at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival, May 4 on the Bowery. "We'll have our Community Wheel of Fortune and our NO 7-Eleven Players there to perform."
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] More from the anti-7-Eleven front on Avenue A and East 11th Street
Avenue A's anti-7-Eleven campaign now includes arsenal of 20,000 stickers
'No 7-Eleven' movement goes global with BBC report
The New Museum's Ideas City Festival is a great way to bring herds of tourists into the area and to mask the gentrification by pooling everybody together (homogenization). Makes the New Museum seem progressive and concerned when all the while they are infiltrating the East Village. They aren't in the East Village. They are on the Lower East Side.
ReplyDeleteOf course they are in it because it's all about drawing attention to their cause and themselves. it's just another form of self promotion.
N7E is taking on labor issues? I'll be interested to see their perspective on this.
ReplyDeleteThank god that resistance is still alive in the hood!
ReplyDeleteNot as interesting as your spam smdh
ReplyDeleteWill they be doing a panel discussion on how the opening of the New Museum helped destroy the Bowery and the rest of the LES?
ReplyDeleteThe 7-11 is the least detrimental business on the Bowery.
ReplyDeleteHey 1:20 -- Can't destroy it: use it.
ReplyDelete@ rob
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what they want.
Many moons ago I would have had to travel to Madison Avenue in the 40s to buy 300 dollar pants. Now I can just walk around the corner.
ReplyDelete@ 4:59 -- call me a ho, but we're gonna get the message out May 4
ReplyDeletesmdh good to see you at No-Life NYC
ReplyDeleteI like 7-11. It's food and laxatives all in one.
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