Defend Venice is an outspoken Indigenous and native Venetian media and social movement—the only BIPOC organization directly challenging classism and displacement agents in the unceded Tongva territory we now call Venice, CA. Since 2013, Defend Venice (formerly Save Venice) has documented and confronted the policies, politicians, and property interests displacing our communities while mainstream Westside media looks the other way.
This site provides the media, perspectives, history, and political, racial, and class analysis you won’t find in any other local publication: unapologetically Indigenous, unapologetically local, rooted in the traditional Venice that existed before the flood of real estate speculators arrived.
We center historically marginalized and working-class communities—those most harmed by capital-driven displacement.
