Wall Street landlords and right-wing billionaires are desperate to take out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Why? Because he’s not theirs to control. He doesn’t kiss the ring. He organizes. He legislates. He wins. Queens, don’t let corporate parasites buy your voice. #ZohranForNY #TenantPower #ClassWar
#TenantPower
SLAM has a union training coming up this Monday (March 24th), 6pm, at 251 avenue des Pins (the Cité-des-Hospitalières). It is for people already familiar with basic union principles which can be found in our constitution, see here: https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1mYUow0AD3dn42doxNhh9cm2Dhf4LBWvr&export=download
We'll be discussing how to get building meetings together, how to keep them on track, prepare agendas, do one-on-ones with neighbours, map out our potential sources of power and support, as well as how to plan pressure campaigns against our landlords.
We've been seeing a large number of people in our networks participating in the #RefuseTogether rent increase campaign, and see a high demand for support with building unionization & support to keep tenant councils alive once they've gotten going. We planned this training in our education committee's most recent meeting.
See you there! Tell your friends! Please boost!
Our call for tenants to organize with their neighbours to refuse together is doing well this year. Already, many tenants in our union have organized meetings with their neighbours to plan collective refusals. Supporters of our union have been hand-delivered hundreds of pamphlets that have found themselves distributed to their neighbours' doors and mailboxes. We are already hearing some stories of tenants negotiating down their increases through this tactic.
Today and tomorrow, our neighbourhood chapters in Verdun on the one hand, and the Gay Village larger Centre-Sud area on the other, have planned workshops on how and why to organize collective refusals. Join them Tuesday, 6pm, at 4811 rue Verdun; or Wednesday, 6pm, at 1426 rue Beaudry.
Please let us know if you would like to come and would need childcare!
For people who can help boost these events online, it definitely helps us when members and supporters reshare these events. Please post our posters on other socials if you can.
Together we can beat our rent increases!
Our union is organizing a neighbourhood discussion in #Hochelaga on this year's #RentIncrease. The discussion will be in French, but we have a similar workshop in English coming up soon, organized by our Centre-Sud / Village tenant council (stay tuned).
The workshop in Hochelaga will be this Saturday, 12pm, at 1800 Letourneux. Childcare and food will be provided. All are welcome!
In this public meeting, we will be discussing how to start organizing with your neighbours, how to refuse increases together, and how to win negotiations with your landlord by applying pressure through collective actions for reductions in our rent increases.
Landlords and the Tribunal are not on our side. We are fighting rent increases this year that are the highest they’ve been in decades. Say, “No!” to hikes TOGETHER as neighbours. If you would like help fighting against your rent increase, don't hesitate to reach out.
SLAM is organizing a rally this Saturday, January 25th, to give a helping hand to Melissa with her move and to demonstrate against her eviction. The rally starts Saturday, at 12pm, at 348 rue Argyle (the closest metro is Verdun métro).
Further details and information can be found on our Facebook and Instagram. We encourage people to share the event widely!
Last Sunday, January 12th, we hosted a public meeting in Verdun attended by dozens of tenants to plan an eviction defense for Melissa. You can check out our reportback on the meeting which is up on some of our socials (or write back and we'll send you a copy).
Why should we start to fight even when Melissa is moving? Because no one should have to be forced out of their home. Our message to landlords, who watch our actions, is that we will no longer leave our homes quietly, that there are certain actions and people we will make public. In this case, we are calling out the landlord, Lyne Cyr, who we are not afraid to name. Our message to fellow tenants: our renting conditions aren’t personal. We need to stop seeing them that way. When renting is expensive or oppressive it’s because of housing based on a market, profit-making, & hierarchy instead of community need & autonomy. This reality can be changed. We can build a rapport de force against landlord power -- tenant power -- but we’ll need everyone’s solidarity, coordination, and action in united defence against each attack.
Landlords in #Berkeley held a "celebration" of pandemic era eviction restrictions coming to an end.
Members of a local tenant union crashed the party and violent clashes broke out. Check out the report from TANC here.
#Oakland #RentStrike #TenantPower #TenantUnion #SanFrancisco #BayArea
This Saturday we will be doing a BBQ and public forum 12pm at Parc Lafontaine (Panet/Sherbrooke) to discuss the rent strike. We will be going over the "whys and hows" of this rent strike of 5,000 tenants. It would be very useful if people could boost :boostRequest::boostRequest::boostRequest: this event on the Fediverse, on other social media and in your friends-only group chats!
Check out the photos attached to the French version of this post of a few banners that have been dropped: https://social.edist.ro/@slammatu/110907410554223830
each out to us for your own banner or for helping in making one yourself! We can use as many tenants as possible hanging banners from their balcony.
In case of a strong rain forecast, we may move to 3714 Parc. We will send another email out if this is the case. Otherwise, we plan to have canopy tents and chairs at the Parc!
En solidarité!
#Montreal #MTL #MTLPol
#QCPol #QCPoli
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion
#RentStrike #Housing4All
We present here a form for Montrealers pledging to go on #RentStrike either in Fall 2023 or when we reach the requisite amount of pledges. The rent strike is against #Bill31 (#ProjetDuLoi31 or #PDL31) proposed by the #CAQ, for housing the unhoused, and against the rent increases that #Quebec landlords have been demanding of tenants.
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/az8TFuwxk7WPseVABEzja5o8sTLqpSj8+9E9X07VFGE/
If 5,001 people fill out this pledge (that's five thousand plus one), a rent strike will be called. If 5,001 people do not fill out this pledge, then anyone who has filled it out does not need to go on rent strike. The rent strike committee will contact you for strike meetings and to let you know if 5,001 pledges to strike have been received.
#Montreal #MTL #MTLPol
#QCPol #QCPoli
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion
#Housing4All #AbolishLandlords
As radicals, we might think of elections as band-aid solutions at best--not the large scale change the world needs. But tenant organizers in Pasadena, CA, used an electoral campaign strategically to build class power and strengthen/synergize with their organizing efforts.
Listen to episode 12 now and hear the story of Measure H, as told by tenant organizers on the ground. Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
Episode 10 is dropping tomorrow morning (Sunday March 5). Featuring radical theory, on-the-ground organizing, and stories from two amazing tenants unions.
And some faint windchimes because I recorded my narration in a windstorm. Whoops!
#Podcast #Organizing #Union #Solidarity #TenantsUnions #TenantPower #Solarpunk #politics #journalism
Is there a group like the #IWW or #DebtCollective but for #TenantsUnions? One that helps renters organize across a really broad area? I keep looking but can't find any
RT @chactivist@twitter.com: The real estate industry is the most powerful industry in New York State. They spend more money electing Albany politicians than any other industry. Come out to this march on Thursday, join DSA, and let’s build a movement for #TenantPower and #UniversalRentControl https://twitter.com/housing4allny/status/1062372724130136065
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chactivist/status/1062532593218924545
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