Tag: tenants
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Louisville’s Tenant Union is Part of a Growing Movement
Written by Fran Quigley for Waging Non-Violence, published on March 10th, 2023 under CC-BY 4.0 Despite the South’s challenging political geography, Black and white tenants are transforming Louisville and setting the pace for the wider movement. Private police officers guide a line of late-model SUVs through the January morning’s cold rain into a lane of…
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Toward 100 Chapters of the Los Angeles Tenants Union
LATU builds toward a future without rent by addressing immediate needs, building power and transforming the political consciousness of tenants in LA. By the Los Angeles Tenants Union for roarmag.org In 2017, tenants living around the corner from the famous Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles received a sudden, massive and legally-permitted rent increase. The landlord…
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Run This Town: Building Class Power in the City
Posted originally on linchpin.ca (now defunct) By Three Hamilton Members, One Toronto Member of Common Cause The Marxist urbanist Henri Lefebvre wrote that the working class is made out of urban material. His point was that to understand the working class and to organize it, one had to look at everyday working class life from…
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Organizing Tenants in the Rentier Society
Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, new grassroots organizations are emerging to challenge landlords and governments and to organize tenants. By Michael Byrne for roarmag.org he financial crisis of 2008 was not just a crisis of the global economy but also a crisis of the “home ownership dream.” The bursting of the debt…
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Build Your Own Solidarity Network
By Cold B and T Barnicle Originally published by the Seattle Solidarity Network Republished here from LibCom.org, links throughout added Downloadable PDF Pamphlet version below Contents Introduction ~ Defining the scope ~ Prerequisites ~ Starting Fights ~Demands ~ Strategy ~ A Taxonomy of Tactics ~ Meetings ~ Mobilizing ~Structure and organizing capacity ~ Inside organizing…
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The Angry Workers’ West London Solidarity Network
Originally published in chapter 2 of Class Power on Zero-Hours from PM Press, CC BY-NC 4.0 In this area of town, where English is a second language and people are getting to grips with the bureaucracy of a new country, navigating life and work can be tricky. We should find ways to support each other…
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