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Santa Ana Savage: Fighting Gentrification Through Music

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The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted every year to Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.

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Project Submitted by: IllNes Infection

Project Summary: Telling the untold stories and history of community transformation through music

BHC Site: Santa Ana

Born and bred in the streets of Santa Ana where I became who I am today. The Mexican American, Golden Era HipHop junkie, the street minded poet who's fighting against the gentrification in the city. Billionaire investors beware the Santa Ana Savage is coming to expose you!!!

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