Tag: Tenants
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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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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…
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Tenant Organizing When Rising Rent Isn’t the (Main) Issue
Tenant organizing is once again on the map with much of the attention focused on soaring rents and gentrification in major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles and the Bay Area. But as Bay Area based Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) organizer Julian Francis Park writes, tenant organizing has also been taking hold in smaller…
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L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement
We reprint this piece from our comrades at Salvo Newspaper highlighting the powerful fights against displacement that tenants are waging in Los Angeles, fighting for their homes and building popular power. It’s well know that L.A.’s housing market is one of the most absurdly expensive in the country — rivaled only by the S.F. Bay…
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Tierra y Libertad: California’s Prop 10 and the Fight to Build Tenant Power
A Statement by Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Los Angeles Renters across California are facing a crisis: 9.5 million Californians are spending more than 30% of their income on rent with that number has increased by 3.7 million since 2000. The median cost of an apartment in LA or Orange County is 50% of the median…