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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End The Housing Crisis
🕑 Added 2024-10-28 20:40:48 +0000 UTCTracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, co-founders of the LA Tenants Union, join Breht to discuss their organizing and their new book "Abolish Rent". Together, they discuss the housing crisis, the role played by private equity, developers, politicians, and landlords, the history and experiences of LA Tenants Union, the importance of political education, how the housing struggle is tied to land struggles, how the housing crisis is inexorably tied to the broader crisis of capitalism and connected to almost every other issue we care about, the forms and strategies of fighting back (rent strikes, eviction defenses, etc.), the socialist struggle and the communist vision, advice for other organizers, and so much more!
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Comments
Jamila Surpris
Yes to all of this. I'm actually moving abroad and I'm getting now a global perspective on how fd rent is everywhere. Definitely a lot more affordable and less predatory where I'm moving, but the sheer fact that almost no matter where you go in the world, there is always a landlord who makes you pay them a salary so you have somewhere to live, is unhinged capitalism at best.
Gabriel Alvarado
Love it! Informative and inspirational on how to move the ball forward given the wonderful insight the two host have from their long experiences in organizing.
