{"id":7038,"date":"2023-06-23T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2023-06-23T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T17:17:34","slug":"same-struggle-same-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/same-struggle-same-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Struggle, Same Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7038\" class=\"elementor elementor-7038\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14ff298a elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14ff298a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-40bc9987\" data-id=\"40bc9987\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dbbdf5f elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile animated-slow elementor-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"3dbbdf5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7ffb7aef elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7ffb7aef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c4d486\" data-id=\"7c4d486\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43b29917 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"43b29917\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/X-4NYxVZ4R0\" target=\"_blank\">Photo: Silicon Valley De-Bug<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-28c1810d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"28c1810d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6643160d\" data-id=\"6643160d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ed0c5b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4ed0c5b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">6. 23. 2023<\/h3><h1>Same Struggle, Same Fight<\/h1><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>Andrew Lee<\/span><\/strong><\/h3><hr \/><p><br \/>The mid-Atlantic city of Philadelphia is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/business\/philadelphia-poverty-unemployment-racism-education-upskilling-20201013.html\"> poorest major city<\/a> in the United States, which is why its government says it is powerless to stop the displacement of poor and working-class people from gentrifying neighbourhoods and the deaths of unhoused people on the streets. The textile industry that once served as the bedrock of Philadelphia\u2019s economy has been gone for more than a generation, though the communities whose members once worked in those factories stubbornly remain in a city whose elites look to tourism, biotechnology, and medicine as the future.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local billionaire David Adelman is spearheading the development of a new arena for the 76ers, Philadelphia&#8217;s basketball team, adjacent to one of the few remaining Chinatowns on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Adelman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/billypenn.com\/2022\/08\/06\/david-adelman-sixers-arena-developer-campus-apartments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told a local paper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the planned arena, 76 Place, \u201cwill not displace one business or resident\u201d from Chinatown. He was evidently counting on his audience not being aware that just a decade after the Capital One Arena was built next to Washington, D.C.\u2019s Chinatown, the local Chinese population had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/17\/12\/01\/20-years-later-d-c-arena-marked-major-transition-chinatown\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dropped by 90%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compiling the results of hundreds of surveys and three community meetings, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinatown-pcdc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/76ers-Press-Release-3.23.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 93% of business owners, 94% of residents, and 95% of visitors to Chinatown opposed the 76ers arena. But with powerful<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/76ers-arena-chinatown-philadelphia-neighborhood-new-opposition\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">building trades unions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> supporting the project and developers spending USD $20,000 a month on lobbying, few politicians dared to oppose the development.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPhiladelphia politics have always been largely influenced by the building trades unions and developers, which is why we have a 10-year tax abatement for billionaire developers,\u201d says Debbie Wei, a co-founder of Philadelphia\u2019s Asian Americans United who is coordinating efforts to oppose the arena.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On March 23, 2023, the 76ers held a press conference with a score of Black clergy attracted by promises that 40% of the arena\u2019s concessions vendors would be Black-owned. \u201cI stand in full support\u201d of the arena,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/real-estate\/leading-african-american-clergy-back-sixers-arena-citing-jobs-20230323.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the reverend of a Baptist church in West Philadelphia, a majority-Black area itself threatened by gentrification from the expanding footprints of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. As the Revered Donald Moore framed the displacement of Chinatown as a victory for racial justice, students a few miles from his congregation were on the 31st day of a protracted sit-in to demand that Drexel University commit $10 million to the working-class Black residents of the U.C. Townhomes, 70 families<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2022\/09\/philadelphia-university-city-townhomes-evictions-explained-penn-history\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">facing eviction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to clear the way for the construction of a new research facility. The U.C. Townhomes are some of the few remaining buildings of the area once known as the Black Bottom.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHousing has been scaled down tremendously in the last two or three decades, even before my time. My mom used to tell me stories that this whole area was housing. Not only did they take housing away, they took businesses away, they took educational institutions away, and they put nothing back in the community for the people,\u201d says Melvin Hairston, an organizer and resident of the U.C. Townhomes.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 76 Place developers\u2019 blatant attempt to pit Black and Asian gentrifying communities against each other was met with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CqJHX8DMfNW\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resounding mockery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by locals, thanks in no small part to longstanding efforts by local organizers to build an alliance between the residents of the Black Bottom and Chinatown. In the midst of the sit-in to defend the U.C. Townhomes, Drexel student Hanna Pistorius called in to a virtual meeting to join the Save Chinatown campaign. \u201cPart of our demands are the removal of David Adelman and [U.C. Townhomes owner] Brett Altman from the Drexel Real Estate Advisory Council,\u201d Pistorius says. The evictor of the U.C. Townhomes and the aspiring engineer of Chinatown\u2019s displacement both serve on the same council, which is helping Drexel gentrify West Philadelphia. \u201cWe can see the connections between these men,\u201d Pistorious continues, so to \u201cisolate ourselves again would be doing their work of separating us for them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe fights are the same, talking about removing people and destroying a community all at the same time, and our communities have been engaged with each other for quite some time,\u201d says Hairston. \u201cWe\u2019re all in the same fight.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>Local fights for survival that birth international solidarities<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gentrification\u2019s apologists frame \u201crevitalization\u201d and \u201credevelopment\u201d as universal goods threatened by a certain racialized community\u2019s selfish, obstinate wish not to be obliterated. Meanwhile, that struggle for survival opens opportunities for building popular solidarities between communities and across borders. When a community\u2019s modest demand to continue to exist requires confrontation with the heights of the neoliberal global economy \u2013 fights against the tech firms and banks, developers and elite universities that are among the engineers of displacement \u2013 we may wonder: how might the struggles for our neighbourhoods connect to the struggle for the future of our cities? How might the struggles for our cities unfold into the struggle for the direction of the world?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The San Francisco Bay Area city of San Jos\u00e9 is the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/this-u-s-city-has-the-highest-share-of-superrich-residents-in-the-world-its-not-san-francisco-new-york-or-seattle-11625247163\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wealthiest major city<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the United States, which is why its government says it is powerless to stop the displacement of poor and working-class people from gentrifying neighbourhoods and the deaths of unhoused people on the streets. In 2017, fresh upon the heels of reports that 1.5 million Bay Area residents had been priced out of the area in the preceding years, San Jos\u00e9\u2019s government<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/notesfrombelow.org\/article\/learning-swim-bay\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced plans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to sell 200 acres of public land in the city core for a new Google campus, one even larger than the company\u2019s existing headquarters in nearby Mountain View. With labour unions angling to secure subcontracted workers at the campus as members, and local progressive non-profits\u2019 budgets buoyed by self-interested donations from the tech companies that are fueling displacement and homelessness, resistance to Google San Jos\u00e9 fell to a small grassroots collective. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stpsj_\/?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serve the People San Jos\u00e9<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> eventually opened communications with anti-gentrification forces in San Francisco to the north, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-25\/post-hq2-toronto-residents-try-to-block-sidewalk-labs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Block Sidewalk organizers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fighting the conversion of Toronto\u2019s waterfront into a Google \u201cSmart City,\u201d and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/may\/09\/fuck-off-google-the-berlin-neighbourhood-fighting-off-a-tech-giant-kreuzberg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berlin residents fighting a Google development<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the neighbourhood of Kreuzberg.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We coordinated various actions against Big Tech in a variety of cities,\u201d Katja Schwaller told me. Schwaller is a San Francisco researcher and activist with ties to Berlin. Banners calling for an end to \u201ctechsploitation\u201d in all the allied cities began appearing at coordinated actions from California to Germany. Katja reports that it was \u201cinvigorating\u201d for activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, contending with pervasive pro-development propaganda from the tech industry, to connect with Kreuzberg residents whose fears of \u201cSilicon Valley-style gentrification\u201d inspired their absolute opposition to Google\u2019s Berlin development plans.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe were motivating each other to keep going, seeing that we weren\u2019t alone in opposing a giant tech company and seeing them for what they are,\u201d says Liz Gonz\u00e1lez of the San Jos\u00e9 anti-Google campaign. \u201cIt\u2019s so much harder to do that here, where these companies started and have total control of the narrative that they\u2019re good, they\u2019re innovative, and they\u2019re going to solve the world\u2019s problems. It was exciting that we weren\u2019t the only ones taking on this corporation. The possibility of defeating Google and not allowing Google into our city seemed more possible because others were doing it with the same messaging: protecting their city and culture, keeping people in place.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>Not the nation, but the city<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first neighbourhoods to be gentrified in North American cities are almost always those populated by Black, brown, and\/or immigrant communities. The homes in US neighbourhoods of colour are undervalued by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tens of thousands of dollars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, meaning that property in such neighbourhoods is profitable for \u201credevelopment.\u201d Building connections between these gentrifying communities means bridging not only space but also race, culture, and language.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUntil quite recently, Asian Americans were a very, very small population in Philadelphia,\u201d says Debbie Wei, the Asian Americans United co-founder. \u201cYou take that tiny cut of the population, and then you take the cut that speaks fluent English. Then you take the fluent English speakers who are progressive, and we\u2019re down to not a whole lot of people.\u201d Language also complicates international coordination against shared enemies, though these challenges can be met in creative ways. For example, to help educate a German-speaking audience fighting projects such as Google\u2019s development in Berlin, Katja Schwaller edited a German-language book about anti-gentrification struggles in California.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe tech industry is a global conglomerate, with long supply chains, offshored manual production lines, e-waste dumped on the Global South, and severe effects on people\u2019s everyday lives around the globe,\u201d says Schwaller. \u201cIt needs to be fought by struggles that are adept at thinking the local and global together, with the aim of generating translocal solidarities.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The challenge of building between distinct communities involves the problem of coordinating tactics. \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to proceed from merely symbolic to material acts of solidarity,\u201d says <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schwaller.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Liz Gonz\u00e1lez of San Jos\u00e9 agrees. \u201cIf we were able to make these connections deeper, I think we could win worldwide, city-by-city. It feels like we could be connected to anyone. To make the ties and effort to overcome language barriers is something different, but it should be easier than ever to do right now. The possibilities outweigh the challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On some parts of the left, there remains a stubborn idea that solidarity across borders means only solidarity between nations. This suggests that revolutionaries should adopt organizing forms able to project power through the state, such as national political parties. It further suggests that international solidarity is an activity only ever carried out between such organizations in possession of (or aspiring to control) state power. The bottom-up solidarities constructed by communities facing expulsion today have little in common with such historic projects. \u201cI think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution,\u201d said<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/small-rebellions\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grace Lee Boggs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the post-industrial Detroit of 2014, \u201cwhereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.\u201d It is not the nation-state but the city that must meet \u201ctoday\u2019s big challenges,\u201d<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/350011468337792616\/pdf\/491660BRI0City10Box338943B01PUBLIC1.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the World Bank. The US Army<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/api.army.mil\/e2\/c\/downloads\/351235.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concurs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that \u201cin the next century, the urban environment will be the locus where the drivers of instability\u201d such as \u201cradical income disparity\u201d and \u201cracial, ethnic, and sub cultural separation\u201d meet. In their book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planetary Gentrification, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Ernesto L\u00f3pez-Morales<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wonder: \u201cDoes antagonism over access to urban space, infrastructure, and material flows of resources produce a collective consciousness the way that struggles on the shop floor once did?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These emergent transnational solidarities are structured by the contemporary contours of economics and empire, as multinational corporations play cities off each other to attract investment and white-collar workers. Those solidarities might be thought of as close to what the Black Panther Party\u2019s Huey P. Newton labelled revolutionary intercommunalism:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/intercommunalworkshop.org\/huey-newton-speech-at-boston-college\/?print=pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oppressed communities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> forging transnational alliances to combat the deprivations of the global market. Building solidarity between communities and across borders is an urgent strategic problem in part because many large gentrifiers are transnational actors<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">76 Devcorp\u2019s David Adelman shares co-ownership of the 76ers with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/people\/david-blitzer-2\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Blitzer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Global Head of Tactical Opportunities for Blackstone, one of the largest corporate landlords on the planet. UN rapporteur Leilani Farha<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/26\/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">criticized Blackstone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose portfolio includes properties across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, for \u201cwreaking havoc with tenants\u2019 right to security and contributing to the global housing crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe players now are these giant, multibillion-dollar equity firms,\u201d Philadelphia\u2019s Debbie Wei says. \u201cThey\u2019re not individuals that have their own little fiefdom. They\u2019re equity firms that have empires. It\u2019s very much like a colonial process: \u2018We\u2019ll come into your communities, occupy your communities, extract wealth from your communities.\u2019 If we consider that this is a new form of colonization, we have a common enemy.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a militant active in Chile\u2019s 2019-20 mass protests <a href=\"https:\/\/en.liaisonshq.com\/2019\/10\/22\/the-empire-is-trembling\/\">wrote to a comrade<\/a> in Paris: \u201cMetropolises of the world, gather together.\u201d Perhaps the tenants, neighbours, and students in resistance around the world offer a contemporary face of what Marx called the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/marx\/works\/download\/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf\"> real movement<\/a> to abolish the existing state of things.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49497c7c elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"49497c7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60aadfb8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60aadfb8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Lee is a resident of Philadelphia and the author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/defying-displacement.html\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a book about anti-gentrification struggles forthcoming from AK Press. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-260f1d7f elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"260f1d7f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2c1701ca elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"2c1701ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-780dce8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"780dce8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-default orientation-horizontal buttonsize-medium\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#595959\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.midnightsunmag.ca%2Fsame-struggle-same-fight%2F&text=Same%20Struggle%2C%20Same%20Fight&via=midnightsunmag\" title=\"Share on X\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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