CCED #ChinatownIsNotForSale

Chinatown is in a pivotal moment. Gentrification threatens to forever alter our community—no longer a lifeline for working-class immigrants, only a playground & piggy bank for the wealthy. We say no! 🙅💰 JOIN OUR BOYCOTT. DON'T SELL OUT CHINATOWN! 🧵 Commit to these 7 pledges:

Today!

We are excited to host our tenant leaders from Hillside Villa’s tenant union in a panel with @LATenantsUnion who will be sharing about how they won their 5 year long rent strike—one of the longest tenant struggles in LA history ✊ Join us this Saturday 2pm at @MidnightBooksLA!

The panel will be facilitated by Leonardo Vilchis, co-author of Abolish Rent with @tracyrosenthal_. You can read about how Hillside Villa tenants began their 7-year-long struggle in their book: haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abo…

SHAME on Triumph Residential for their blatant mistreatment of tenants! Help support Triumph Tenant Council by contacting them and echoing the tenants’ demands 👇👇

Triumph Tenant Council grievances include illegal fines, rent increases, violations of privacy, and lack of translated notices for non-English-speaking tenants. Triumph refused to engage in good faith, re-affirming it WON’T translate notices while ignoring other demands ON FILM!

FOUR tenant unions in LA with the same management—Triumph Residential—just announced the formation of TRIUMPH TENANT COUNCIL and presented collective demands to management and press on Tuesday! CCED and @LATenantsUnion are joining forces to support their organizing ✊

The Hillside Villa case represents one of the longest-running rent strikes in recent Los Angeles history, occurring amid a broader housing crisis that resulted in more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA County last year. bit.ly/3Gf0bpr

After a difficult, historic, hard-fought five-year rent strike, the tenants of @hillside_villa won an monumental victory. Their landlord is canceling over $700,000 of rental debt for 20 tenants, and no one is getting evicted.

When we fight, we win. We didn't get eminent domain, but we got a deal that lets us stay in our homes.

One of the greatest tenant organizing victories in LA history—though not all demands were met, @hillside_villa’s 5+ years-long rent strike, supported by @LATenantsUnion @ccedLA, not only prevented evictions, but also won years of affordability, with tons of rent debt erased.

🚨JAIL SUPPORT LA 🚨 Going to a protest? Have a plan. Avoid arrest if possible but make sure you have someone at home that knows your name & birthday & can reach out to Jail Support LA. Call or text 424-610-3020 Be water. Don’t just hand yourself over to the state. Prepare.

If you think you may come in contact with toxic air like tear gas we do recommend a P100 respirator with proper filters & goggles but if an N95 is all you have access to, wear one.

Look at the violence & terror brought on our community by LAPD pigs. Bootlickers are quick to blame protestors but it is the state who has a monopoly on violence. It is this fascist empire who makes our resistance necessary as they kidnap our neighbors off the street.

There are truly *hundreds* of LAPD pigs still clogging the streets of Little Tokyo like the vile cancer that they are. This is the police state in full effect.

‼️We are hosting a block party this SATURDAY, May 3, 3pm, at Alpine Park‼️ Two tenant unions on Yale St will share about some wins in their campaigns against rent increases and eviction threats. But their fights are not over yet! Come learn about how you can support them.

@reporterliz @LAPublicPress This is a pattern of behavior by Bass's "Inside Safe". They did the same thing to an encampment on the other side of Chinatown on March 6, 2024 - bulldozing and removing shelters in the middle of a heavy rainstorm: instagram.com/p/C4MIt0vPAin/

Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm?  lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-rai… via @LAPublicPress

We're in dire need to keep raising money because of the expenses of keeping all of the eSIMs topped up. For the latest about our project: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/cri…