GRINGO TAX FUND MANIFESTO

We are a group of volunteers including Mexicans, gringos, and Chicanxs taking a stand against the violence of gentrification and displacement. As a collective, we see liberation as a mutual process*.

We seek to inform ourselves and to engage in a cultural shift that dismantles supremacy and disrupts power structures benefiting from oppression, marginalization, exploitation, injustice, violence, dehumanization, obscene inequality, and human misery.

We work to co-create a future full of new regenerative systems while supporting more just and equitable communities today.

We use solidarity as an instrument of liberation alongside dialogue, cooperation, and political organizing to confront inequality, displacement, racism, xenophobia, classism, and colonization across Mexico City.

We believe that meeting immediate needs now will help support the critical and ongoing work around displacement and enable us to collectively engage bigger systems interventions in the future. 

We know individual actions are not sufficient, AND each of us can make a difference. We strive to be good and principled ancestors for future generations.

Together, we commit to critical reflection, and collective action through praxis and principled action as well as consistent, meaningful, and lasting solidarity.

We invite you to join us.

*”Liberation— not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process.” - Paulo Freire

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future.

Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”

Sara Ahmed

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SOME FAQS

  • Generally speaking, the word GRINGO is used to refer to folks from the United States HOWEVER, we challenge ALL foreigners and locals with to examine their privilege and respective impact on the local community, regardless of country of origin. 

    Do you…

    • Earn in USD, Euros or any currency that is significantly stronger than the Mexican Peso?

    • Have a passport that allows you to travel freely without extraordinary fees or application and interview processes?

    • Own multiple properties in Mexico and/or rent out one or more of these properties through Airbnb?

    • Live in Mexico City because it is cheaper than your country of origin and thereby allows you to have a higher quality of life?

    You may want to consider donating to the Gringo Tax Solidarity Fund.

    • According to the Oxford dictionary: gentrification is the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

    • Similarly, Merriam Webster dictionary states that gentrification is the process in which a poor area (as of a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses and which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents

    • We believe that gentrification is part of a larger, complex system based on the legacy of racism, classism and colonization. It can occur when folks move from one neighborhood to another or, in this case, from one country to another. 

    • Gentrification is not solely the result of individual actions or choices, but rather systems that permit/enable/incentivize OR limit/prevent/discourage certain behaviors.

    • Learn/educate yourself!

    • Be curious and humble.

    • Donate to the Gringo Tax Solidarity Fund.

    • Join political education events, workshops, and praxis groups.