2017 40th Anniversary I-Hotel Eviction CommemorationNEW

Commemoration Program. Opening Remarks: Tony Robles, Manilatown Heritage Foundation Board of Directors President.  Unveiling of Chewang chi Biyeg Tapestry: Kalinga Master Weaver Jenny Bawer Young and Kalingafornia Laga
 
Original Defenders Panel - Moderated by Emil Guillermo, Journalist

Guest Panelists:
* Emil DeGuzman, I-Hotel Tenants Association President
* Estella Habal, Author "San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement"
* Pam Tau-Lee, Co-Founder Chinese Progressive Association
* Juanita Tamayo-Lott, Community Activist
 
Screening of "The Fall of the I-Hotel" with Director Curtis Choy
 
Current Housing Rights Activists Panel - Moderated by Joy Ng, Veterans Equity Center

Guest Panelists:
* Angelica Cabande, Organizational Director of South of Market Community Action Network
* Theresa Imperial, Veterans Equity Center Housing Case Manager
* Tony Robles, Senior & Disability Action Housing Organizer
 
Candlelight Vigil led by Emil DeGuzman
 
Also featuring Tony Remington's art exhibition Launching Point: Portraits of the Manilatown Manong

The I-Hotel
The International Hotel was a low-income residential hotel that became the most dramatic housing-rights battleground in San Francisco history. As a center for Filipino and Asian American activism in the 1970s, the building housed nearly 150 Filipino and Chinese seniors, three community groups, an art workshop, a radical bookstore and three Asian newspapers.  The I-Hotel stood on the last remaining block of Manilatown, a once-thriving Filipino neighborhood that was gradually displaced by San Francisco's expanding financial district.