Community Activists Successfully Stop Data Center Development Near Homes in Monterey Park
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Summary
Community activists in Monterey Park successfully organized to stop a 250,000-square-foot data center from being built just 500 feet from their homes. The article details how SGV Progressive Action, founded in 2020 to address Black Lives Matter issues, leveraged their existing volunteer network to mobilize quickly against the development. Through community organizing and strategic action, they forced the developer to withdraw the application within months, demonstrating how grassroots movements can outsmart developers and lobbyists.
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· 4 pulledWhen the people of Monterey Park found that their local government was going to approve a 250,000-square-foot data center just 500 feet from their homes, they organized.
Andrew Yip, an organizer with SGV Progressive Action, tells L.A. TACO that the organization's success started with their 'existing network of volunteers,' noting that 'the community was able to jump in at a moment's notice.'
SGV Progressive Action was founded in 2020 to 'address the Black Lives Matter uprisings,' Yip says. 'To support our Black community.'
These are lessons from San Gabriel Valley neighbors and activists who outsmarted developers and lobbyists.
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