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A humble attempt to weave stories from our organizing experiences with @ccedLA and @hillside_villa into a sort of theorizing about how to actually build abolitionist power—starting from the particular concerns of working class Asian tenants in LA Chinatown

This week City Council’s Housing & Homelessness Committee (chaired by Nithya Raman) agendized LAPD's request for $4.4 million in additional overtime. If approved, cops will get paid $105.08/hour to target and criminalize unhoused people at sweeps and near shelters.

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!

who else is up and feeding their moon

@DSACommunists @hillside_villa @LATenantsUnion @ccedLA was also crucial in the struggle!

A massive victory tenants of @hillside_villa and @LATenantsUnion: stopping evictions, freezing rent, cancelling debt, and controlling the terms under which they live A victory won by a long rent strike with Spanish, English, & Cantonese language tenants fighting together

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

$700,000 of rent debt forgiven, affordability extended for 10 years, zero evictions - Hillside Villa has finally ended its nearly FIVE YEAR LONG rent strike!!

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 7+ years organizing w/ @ccedLA @westsidelatu @UniondVecinos w/ @LATUVyBe , @hillside_villa achieved what many said was impossible: cancellation of nearly 5 years of back rent from a rent strike! HSV will only pay back 9 months spread out over 10 years and rents will remain as they were in 2018. In the deal for the tenants made btwn Eunisses and Botz, the tenants would have paid ALL back rent over 10 years resulting in an $800 monthly rent increase. In the new deal, they’ll pay about $60 increase. Tenants, don’t put your trust in any politician or land/lord (they often work together), organize and don’t give up the struggle - act as if your life depended on it bc it does. Eviction = ☠️ .

it is so embarrassing to openly admit you want a Dem in the WH so you can go back to pretending ICE raids aren't happening

“A rare university attack on government to join the government attack on universities.” !!!

translations and linguistic justice is literally a matter of life and death. never forget that

1) how is this wide-ranging tariff program “strategic” at all? 2) does this outweigh Stellantis firing 900 workers in five plants in the same region because of the tariffs this week? 3) how is GM hiring underpaid temp workers for this increased production a win for labor?

Hong Kong Marxist collective Pioneer’s first post-Handover issue in 1997. It was one of the few political groups agitating against the government’s collaboration with the IMF, be it under British or Chinese sovereignty.

NYPD officers just arrested elderly Asian home care workers, who are protesting their agency forcing them to work 24/7 while stealing their wages. Instead of paying back their wages, the agency (CPC) is hosting a Gala outside of Wall Street

Jun Li is one of few Hong Kong directors who centers the struggles of trans and homeless people. He called out Germany’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians and now the Berlin police is after him. Proud of fellow Hongkongers supporting Palestine—solidarity with Jun Li!

LANDLORDS ARE ORGANIZED, ARE YOU? The landlords are once again rallying to turn out for tomorrow - email from one below. All to preserve their precious right to make other people homeless. If you're off work tomorrow, show up!

We see many politicians calling for enforcement of price-gouging protections — it’s easy to support laws that already exist. We need an EVICTION MORATORIUM immediately. Where are the so-called socialist elected officials? Their silence is deafening. 1/

In the midst of all this destruction, eviction courts are still churning. The 6th floor of the downtown courthouse is packed today. Thousands and thousands more people will lose their jobs from these fires. WE DEMAND AN EMERGENCY EVICTION MORATORIUM AND A RENT FREEZE.