#tenant action

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Happy to be a member of the Kingston Workers History Project in Kingston, Ontario. I've neglected to share some of the articles we are putting out, so here's one on tenant activism in the 1960s and 1970s:

"In 1968, a group of tenants and activists came together in Kingston to form the Association of Tenants Action in Kingston (ATAK). They opposed high rents, argued that tenants should be able to bargain with landlords, and built a wider movement to defend working class and poor people in Ontario against unjust housing conditions. Led by tireless activists, ATAK used diverse tactics to challenge rising rent prices, low vacancy, and hostile landlords. ATAK provides us with an important historical lesson about the effectiveness of grassroots organizing and the dedication of intelligent, diligent leadership to hold governments accountable and advocate for tenants, workers, the poor, and the unhoused."

- "ATAK: Tenant Action in the ’60s and ’70s," Kingston Workers' History Project. November 27, 2022.

[feral-radfem]

'Radical feminist' is a role you have to perform and actively work towards not a label you can identify into. Lest any of y'all have forgotten: we are meant to be examples to the women and girls around us that you can exist and have a fulfilling life while defying patriarchal teachings and practices.

[thoughtportal]

The Tenant Union Federation is a union of unions.

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Fair play to these tenants who have very obviously deliberately messed up their flat as the estate agent came around to take pictures!

It's like a work of modern art.

[katierosefun]

watched the ahsoka trailer and while i am always excited to see more of ahsoka (just because she personally means. so much to me, truly the character i actively grew up with, and maybe if i had a nickel for every time ahsoka tano came back to me in a significant coming-of-age moment in my life, i’d have like. three or four nickels which isn’t a whole lot, but it’s funny it happened that often), i’m still so. annoyed that this show isn’t animated, and it makes me a little bitter that disney/lucasfilms focuses more on cgi/live action stuff these days. i think what bothers me most is just that. ahsoka got her origins in animation, and the ahsoka show also looks like it’s a prequel of rebels, which is also an animated show . . . but oh well, we digress.

[fangirlinglikeabus]

That pretty child is now a fine young man; he has realised his mother’s brightest expectations, and is at present residing in Grassdale Manor with his young wife—the merry little Helen Hattersley of yore.

shaking my head while reading the tenant of wildfell hall by anne bronte so people know i don't endorse the implicit restoration of the upper classes

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Pass the Stop Wall Street Landlords Act

15 so far! Help us get to 25 signers!

The housing crisis in our nation is reaching unprecedented levels, making homeownership increasingly out of reach for many hardworking individuals and families. A major contributor to this crisis is the unchecked activity of Wall Street firms and institutional investors who are treating homes as mere speculative assets, driving up prices and pricing out potential homebuyers. We cannot stand idly by as private equity giants and corporate landlords continue to exploit the housing market for their own profit, at the expense of our communities. The Stop Wall Street Landlords Act seeks to put an end to this predatory behavior by implementing sensible regulations and disincentives for large investors to hoard single-family homes. This legislation represents a critical step towards restoring balance and fairness to the housing market, ensuring that homes are available and affordable for those who need them most. I strongly urge you to support this bill and prioritize the needs of everyday Americans over the greed of wealthy investors. Our constituents deserve the opportunity to build equity and achieve the dream of homeownership without being priced out by exploitative corporate tactics. Together, we can take meaningful action to address this crisis and make housing more accessible for all.

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[milesaerach]

Maybe I should start sharing CATU stuff on Tumblr, no clue how many irish people are on here lol

[queen-mabs-revenge]

To reiterate one of the students' signs: Join CATU - Community Action Tenants Union

Like industrial unions, tenants unions are the way that we can collectively wield our power against the ruling class; we organise to take strong collective action as tenants against landlords and private property owners. Our rent is what makes their profits - if we organize together, we can exercise that leverage and protect each other not only to save our own homes against evictions and malicious neglect, but to force the expansion of student accomodation, public housing, and end the selling of public land to private developers - to guarantee homes for all of us.

CATU has successfully protected the homes of people all over the country -- in Limerick, when multi-millionare shithead Pat McDonagh attempted to mass evict residents of the Shannon Arms, CATU helped residents organise and now two years later, all residents who joined CATU are still in their homes.

CATU is explicitly anti-racist, anti-fascist and believes that fighting for our right to homes means fighting for all of our rights to homes. As the song says, no force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, but the union makes us strong!

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

[communistkenobi]

I don’t really want to wade into discourse too much today because I know everyone is extremely miserable online rn but I think if you want to give people genuine advice on what to do politically, “join a union/get involved in your current union/organise your workplace” or “join ACORN/a tenant union/etc” is much more actionable advice than like “build community.”

the problem with “community” is that it doesn’t have the same formal infrastructure / resources / political connections / organising capacity that allows your hard work to have reach far beyond your immediate circle (which is what a union has), and also because like, “community” is an extremely vague and abstract concept that can mean anything from a local restaurant run by your neighbour to a church to your dnd friend group. Reaching out and helping your neighbours is a good thing, lots of people are having a really tough time and helping people around you pay rent or take care of their family or etc is a good thing and you should feel good doing that, but in response to the complete institutional and political failure of electoral liberalism I think the next best option is to turn towards already existing national infrastructure that can mobilise people without requiring you to individually maintain dedicated personal relationships with everyone around you. In my experience + the experience of many long-time activists that I know, relying on interpersonal connections to organise and get things done leads to highly sectarian, disorganised, toxic, and unpleasant organising conditions. The cold impersonal bureaucracy of union membership is legitimately a good solution to this problem.

there are many little positions of power available in these organisation that become open to you for as low a cost as showing up to zoom meetings. I have personally been elected to positions in various unions/orgs literally because I was someone who showed up to meetings! Nobody goes to committee meetings! You get annual budgets! You get to pass votes, organise events, spend money on organising materials! You get to buy food for people! Organising is so much easier in these spaces.

And of course, you are going to face the same ideological resistance, apathy, ignorance, incompetence, and bigotry that you would at your local queer meet-up or community neighbourhood council, and I have no illusions about the institutional limits of unions (which can also be reactionary, bigoted, highly disorganised, incompetent, toxic, and so on), but if you want to avoid completely exhausting yourself and resenting everyone around you, you don’t need to build “community” from the ground up, there are already structures out there where you can do good work. For all the resistance there is to unions and union activity, you will face that same level of resistance with local organising but have none of the power, resources, or institutional legitimacy already secured by unions

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"JOBLESS KEEP VIGIL TO PROTECT FAMILY," Toronto Star. April 16, 1934. Page 16. --- Maintain Ceaseless Watch Though Bailiffs Fail to Appear ---- New Toronto, April 16. - Although bailiffs, who threatened to evict three Sixth St. families on Saturday, did not appear, unemployed who guarded the houses are to-day continuing their vigil. While a close watch is being kept on the houses, members of the Workers' association are standing by, ready to turn out at a moment's notice to forestall any action.

Present Art Exhibit The gymnasium of the Seventh St. school presented a colorful display Saturday as members of the Lake Shore Association of Artists exhibited over 300 works. Oil paintings, water colors, etchings, pen and pencil studies gave evidence of the growth of the organization started last year.

Finds Missing Boy After having left his home Saturday morning, Ambrose Darling, age 15, Seventh St., was found on Widmer St., Toronto, by Mrs. F. Carlson, who heard a radio broadcast of the boy's description. She had noticed a strange boy playing with her son.

Tells of Gideons' Work The Gideons have placed one and a quarter million copies of the Bible in hotel rooms in Canada and the United States, W. J. Mowbray, Toronto, told Century Men's club yesterday as he outlined their work since 1898.

Conduct Experimental Service In spite of the heavy rain last night, the first of two experimental gospel services held at Century WestSide Sunday school building attracted 75 worshippers. Rev. G. W. Robinson, pastor emeritus of Century church, officiated. The services are being held in the western section of the town and if there is a sufficient response regular services will be instituted.

[missingpetrock]

Official Description: "There's a Fire in the Building is a satire about Deborah, a dog, who tries to get signatures from her neighbors on a petition to put out the fire actively burning their building." I love this animation alot, and I really believe in the collectivist spirit of it. It's simple in character design, in punk aesthetic kinda honesty, and the VA is also delivered earnestly.

[agayconcept]

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[thiefscant]

[ aligned ] sender lays their hand flat against receivers, lining up every digit to compare sizes - feeling normal about them ↳ @bolyde (astarion) — memes / accepting!

        they're growing dangerously fond of mornings like this: stirring with the sunrise to the soothing rhythm of astarion's fingers carding through their hair, gently working out any tangles that have formed overnight. it is...peaceful, and they can scarcely remember a time in their life when they've ever known such peace. but they turn their thoughts abruptly away from that, lest thinking on it too much start to sour the feeling.

        anais stretches, catlike, and turns, nuzzling her face into the cool familiar curve of astarion's neck. it's been days—a fortnight?—since she last slept alone in her own tent, and she doesn't miss it yet.

        perhaps tomorrow.

        he passes a hand down their back and they shiver. (not because you're cold, she assured him when it happened more than once. just because it's you. he seemed to like the sound of that.) anais draws back just enough to peer up at him in the half-light, eyes heavy with lingering dreams, and traces a fingertip down the bridge of his nose. astarion catches their hand in his, brings their fingers briefly to his lips, then flattens their palms together.

        anais watches a strip of early morning sunlight fall between the tent flaps and play across their hands, casting them in a warm glow. their fingers slip through his as they crane their head to press a soft kiss to the underside of his jaw. "...g'morning," they mumble, and bury their face in his neck once again.

[renthony]

In the flood of "Americans, you have to go vote" posts, this is a small reminder that voting is the literal least you can do.

Join a workers union. Join a tenants union. Volunteer for Food Not Bombs or other mutual aid groups. Sign up to be a poll worker or drive people to their polling stations. Go to city commission meetings. Follow what's going on politically in your community and figure out where you can help.

People get excited to join organizations and organize protests in an election year, and then they disappear after voting day or whenever the less-exciting tasks need to be done. It is a huge pain in the ass to get people to stay involved in things when there isn't a big flashy protest, and the work at hand is something like "file paperwork with the state labor board" or "take notes during an organizer meeting." People get bored or demoralized and just...vanish. When that happens, the workload increases on those who are left, and burnout accelerates. Then nothing gets done.

We need you to organize. We need you to support your community. Don't be the person who yells at people to vote but literally never shows up to union meetings. Don't be the person whose political engagement starts and ends with a single action once every four years.