(image from SFWeekly; story )“You have a great little neighborhood field now that everybody wants to play on,” Rodriguez said. “It could have been a bunch of Russian guys. It could have been a bunch of taxi drivers. It could have been anybody.”
And while the antitech crowd might be using the video to sound the familiar themes against the changing face and rising cost of the Mission and the city in general, the conflict portrayed in the video has also been seized upon by both sides in the conflict over Propositions I and H on next month’s local ballot. Prop. I would allow the city to add lights and synthetic turf to the fields near the Beach Chalet at the western edge of Golden Gate Park, while Prop. H would ban those very improvements.
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The Democratic Club and other Latino organizations have viewed local soccer fields as a battlefront for several months now, and say this particular confrontation wasn't unique. Bloggers, not surprisingly, are widely characterizing the incident as a gentrification parable, and to that end, and the video speaks for itself.
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