SIT-IN TODAY! Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office at 1PM! Change the Name of SLAVE TRADERS(Faneuil) HALL!

What:  Sit-In! Asking Yet Again, for a Meeting with Mayor Michelle Wu to discuss the ‘Name Change’ and “re-enforce our awareness of the embedded racism in Boston and our commitment to an inclusive process of reparations.”

When:  1:30 PM Eastern

Where:  City Hall, Mayor Wu’s Office

Faneuil Hall is the 7th most visited tourist site in the world, that’s like 18,000,000 visitors per year. It is a 280-year-old market and meeting place once owned by Peter Fanieul, a slave trader. This tourist site was the Auction Block.

Long ago the property was given to the city of Boston and was named after Peter Faneuil. Today it is described as America’s first mall to tourists, they don’t know human beings were sold there. Of the 143 businesses housed there, zero are owned by POC according to Kevin Peterson. Boston’s previous mayor Marty Walsh refused to even allow a hearing on changing the name of Faneuil Hall. Current Mayor Michelle Wu “moderated a panel discussion about monuments and equity in 2017“, but has remained silent about the name change and the larger task of reparation.