Here's are some third party sources - http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4124&IssueNum;=165  
 From this article you'll see that the Venice Beach Free Expression Protection Working Group is an organization made up of boardwalk performers and has nothing to do with gentrification in Oakwood. 

 http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=362&IssueNum;=22 
 This is an LA Citybeat article about how gentrification in Oakwood has fundementally changed Venice gang culture.