Tag: Tenant Organizing
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Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #3 – the Southeast
This is the third installment of our Anarchists in the Tenant Movement series. You can find the first installment here and the second here. The interview below was conducted with an organizer named Mario, involved in a tenant union in the US Southeast. We’ve concealed Mario’s specific location at his request. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor…
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Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #2 – Salt Lake City
This is the second installment of our Anarchists in the Tenant Movement series. You can find the first installment here. The interview below was conducted with an organizer named Espy, involved in building a tenant organization in the western Salt Lake Valley. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor Movement, this series presents insights and perspectives…
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Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 – SF Bay Area
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Tenant Movement. In this interview, we speak with E, an organizer with the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) in its East of Lake local. Like our other series Anarchists in the Labor Movement,…
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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…