Tag: Tenant Organizing
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How To: Organize Your Building
This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in Jewish Currents. It serves as a basic organizing guide for those seeking to build and use collective power to solve issues facing themselves and their neighbors. Both authors are veteran organizers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, one of the largest and most successful…
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How To: Organize a Neighborhood Popular Assembly
This is a basic guide on how and why to build structures for decision making and collective action at the neighborhood level, what we call popular assemblies. We emphasize the need for popular assemblies to be rooted in a defined geographic area and aimed at organizing the people who live, work, or stay there to…
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“Esto es peor que Cuba”: Miles de residentes de viviendas móviles en Miami luchan contra el desalojo
Miembros del Local de Miami de la Black Rose Anarchist Federation/ Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra han estado apoyando la lucha de los residentes del Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park contra CREI Holdings. En este informe, documentan la situación a la que se enfrentan los residentes, las élites empresariales y políticas que la están provocando, y…
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“This is worse than Cuba”: Thousands of Mobile Home Residents in Miami Fight Eviction by Affordable Housing Developer
Members of the Miami Local of Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra have been supporting the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents’ struggle against CREI Holdings. In this report, they document the situation residents face, the business and political elites who are causing it, and some next steps to stop the evictions. By Adam…
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Statement: Choose Food Over Rent
The following is a statement from the Americas Coordination / Coordinadora de las Américas, a joint project between Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S), Solidaridad (Chile), and Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina). Español Abajo The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already difficult situation for working class tenants everywhere especially affecting women and migrant communities. Over the…
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Livestream: Tenant Power in the Time of COVID
Amidst the calls for tenant strikes and as many as one-third of U.S. renters not paying rent this past month, Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation’s Quarantine Livesteam series kicked off with a panel discussion on tenant organizing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This panel brought together tenant organizers from the the…
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Tenant and Labor Struggles: Get Organized this Saturday
In this time of pandemic where millions are unsure how they will afford rent or food, or where others are forced to work under dangerous conditions – we need to step to the plate and show that collective action and organizing can address our needs. A popular saying in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of…
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Announcing the Quarantine Livestream!
Are you bored sitting at home? Feel like you’ve watched everything on every streaming service twice over? Instead of binging the same series for the tenth time, join Black Rose/Rosa Negra as we launch our quarantine livestream. Over the coming weeks we’ll be hosting a series of live panel discussions on a variety of topics…
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Rent Strike and Tenant Organizing Resources
In the past months millions have lost their jobs and many more have had their hours cut due to the social crisis of COVID-19. These conditions in many ways have fueled the wave of protest and uprisings against anti-Black racism following the murder of George Floyd. And now a new crisis looms as millions have…
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Post-Revolutionary Pioneer: Anarchist María Luisa Marín and the Veracruz Renters Movement
A history of the Mexican anarchist María Luisa Marín and the 1922 Veracruz Renters’ Movement by Andrew Grant Wood. By Andrew Grant Wood Compañeros: ¡Viva el amor Universal! ¡Viva la emancipación de la mujer! ¡Arriba el Comunismo! ¡Viva la humanidad libre! ¿Mujeres? ¡A la lucha! María Luisa Marín, 1923 When female prostitutes in the Veracruz…