A big piece is missing from the stories told about punk and hardcore in the 1980s: Primarily, that marginalized spaces and communities in urban America gave a stage to the predominantly white subculture, allowing it to thrive.
, which hosted artist workshops for youth, theater, and music performances, and was founded by young Chilean leftists who had escaped the Augusto Pinochet regime.
The Wilson Center of the 1980s became a monument to resisting the politics that ascended with Reagan in the '80s — and this was what the punks and the community had in common. As Cynthia Connolly, a longtime participant in the DC hardcore scene and one of its first chroniclers, put it in her book“Looking back, I realize that the election of an ultra-conservative president was a catalyst for the rise of the American punk movement because our values were at opposite ends of the spectrum.
. Immigration activists enlisted the building into the national network for the Sanctuary Movement, hosting teach-ins and circulating communiques to publicize Reagan’s relentless attack on Central Americans.
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