BED BLOG
“Where the organization becomes conscious”
Announcing a Temporary Pause to Our Intake Program
Dear Comrades and fellow tenants, We are sharing this message to announce a temporary pause of our Intake Program. For the past three years (it’s...
Rent Strike Rally At 170 New York TA!
170 New York TA (Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union - Local #44) held a rally to celebrate their 3 months long rent strike against their...
Solidarity Statement for Jordan Neely and New York City’s Working Class
On Monday May 1st, Jordan Neely was choked to death on a F train by a former Marine with the assistance of two men and passive complacency of...
May Day Rent Strike! 281 Crown TA on the rise!
281 Crown TA, part of the Hager Tenant Council, BED Tenant Union Local #42, has been investigating massive overcharges in their rent stabilized...
Historical Materialism in Action: A BED Study Group
This ten-session study group (starting My 21st) looks at three foundational materialist studies of capitalist development–all written by...
Battling for Democracy in Mitchell-Lama Cooperatives
Last night the tenant/shareholders of the Harry Silver Housing Complex convened for the first meeting of the re-awoken Co-op Association! As you can...
Brooklyn Eviction Defense stands in solidarity with the vendors, people and organizers of Plaza Tonatiuh in Sunset Park.
Brooklyn Eviction Defense denounces the state-sanctioned eviction of the peoples’ market. And we demand an end to the harassment and policing of the...
2121 Beekman TA is growing; the landlord is fearful!
The tenants of 2121 Beekman TA are fighting for decades overdue repairs. They are reclaiming their common areas that have been overrun with refuse...
810-828 Midwood Tenants have had enough!
Yesterday the tenants of 810-828 Midwood told their story. Theirs is a story of neglect, corruption, exploitation and harassment. The tenants live...
Organizing gets the goods! Victory for 649 Empire TA!
Our bargaining committee delegates from 649 Empire TA (representing over 70% of a 54 unit building who signed on to our collective demands ) met...
649 Empire tenant power on the rise!
The bargaining committee at 649 Empire TA met last night to iron out our demands and resolve for today's negotiation with our the Landlord! We sent...
Tenant Union As Eviction Defense: History and Strategies of Tenant Organizing
In conversation with the Justice Initiative of the Brooklyn Public Library: Part One Part Two We discussed what New Yorkers can do to organize...
A General Assembly For All Worker-Tenants
Tenants from across Brooklyn came together at the Central Brooklyn Library last Sunday, March 5th, to reflect on the organizing work, health and...
Why Tenants Need To Organize – Panel Discussion
Members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense took some #CancelRent banners to the dance floor at Nowadays this October on a panel with our comrades from...
Greenrock Tenant Council – Fight Back!
What does building tenant power, karaoke, and catering trays full of fried chicken have in common? the Greenrock Tenants Council! Greenrock tenants...
NO GAS = NO RENT. RENT STRIKE NOW!
On Sept 17 2022, the 219 13th St Tenant Association(@219tenantsbk), with full support of our community, announced that our much overdue RENT STRIKE...
East New York Tenants Organize For Dignity
Back in September, the tenants of 950 Rutland met for the first meeting of their relaunched tenant association! A past tenant association fell apart...
Outpost Club (slumlords) Watch Out!
Outpost Club, the property manager at 662 Madison Street, has been neglecting outstanding repairs, threatening rent hikes, and harassing tenants....
Fidele’s Demands Power For Worker-Tenants
On Saturday March 4th, in front of the offices of slumlord David Spindler, tenants across Brooklyn stood with Fidele — one of our most inspiring...
Fight Back Against Rent Hikes!
Across the city, and particularly in neighborhoods being targeted by mega-landlords and developers for gentrification, tenants are facing massive...
No Evictions! Not Now, Not Ever (republication)
originally published in the Brooklyn Rail 1 Brooklyn Eviction Defense formally condemns the ending of New York State’s eviction...
OUR COVID POLICY and POLITIC
Our understanding of safety and our analysis of violence strive always toward the social totality. As such, we've developed COVID protocols,...
Letter: On Including People Who Pay a Mortgage in Our Definition of Tenant
After posting our Points of Unity on Instagram, BED received a critique regarding our second point from our comrades at the Reverie Tenants Union in...
Letter: On Including Incarcerated Folks in Our Definition of Tenant
After posting our Points of Unity on Instagram, BED received a critique regarding our second point from our comrades at the Reverie Tenants Union in...
The Passion of 964 Park Place (republication)
originally published in Jewish Current by a CHTU member Ari M. Brostoff A standoff between tenant organizers and yeshiva students over the fate of a...
Letter: Burn Your Eviction Notice
Another paradigm is possible - alternatively, where dispossessory pieces of paper (eviction notices) are unenforceable; where profit-motives...
Stop The Sweeps, End Homelessness NOW! A Joint Statement From Rent Refusers Network And Brooklyn Eviction Defense
WE DEMAND THE CITY IMMEDIATELY STOP ITS VIOLENT SWEEPS AND IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE HOUSING—GOOD, CLEAN, SAFE, COMMUNITY-CONTROLLED HOUSING—FOR EVERY...
POINTS OF UNITY
Our organizational Points Of Unity, drafted and formalized Spring 2022. Our Points of Unity are a concise expression of our politics and our...
What do we mean when we say abolish private property?
"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." Karl Marx says in his...
Statement on Eric Adam’s Escalating War on Our Houseless Communities + The Liberal Housing Coalition’s Liberal Behavior
Please follow NYC Sweep Alerts on Twitter for immediate, rapid-response calls. This week, following the directive from Cop-Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD...
Letter: On Stoopwatches
A letter on organizational practices, direction and democracy Recently our organization pulled back from a lot of the court-case outreach we had...
Should We Participate in Bourgeois Coalitions?
a paper written by comrade on the stoop during the 964 Park Place Defense - 2 March 2022 During a recent Housing Justice For All (HJ4A) field call,...
Eviction Defense In Crown Heights (Outlive Them NYC Statement)
replubilshed statement by Outlive Them NYC: Last night, we were honored to welcome in Shabbat with the Robinson family and their supporters...
An Interview With Frank Morales
Frank Morales is a priest and activist involved in housing justice in NYC since the 1970s. Frank has more recently been organizing with GOLES, a...
Letter: Your Landlord… Cannot… Evict You?
“Reminder,” State Senator Jabari Brisport tweets, “Your landlord cannot evict you. Only a judge can, through a formal process.” Brisport then goes...
Tenant Power Keeps The Lights On: WE KEEP US SAFE!
On Sunday, January 30th, a beautiful rally was held. Flocks of neighbors emerged from bodegas, restaurants, apartments — descended were the...
DON’T RELY ON ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PROTECT US FROM EVICTION
We are tenants in New York City. During the pandemic many of us were sick, lost our jobs, faced unexpected financial difficulties, separated from...
When Our Neighbor Is Under Attack What Do We Do? Stand Up Fight Back!
On Monday, January 24th our neighbor Fidele in Flatbush, a tenant leader with Flatbush Tenant Coalition, organized a rally to demand SAFE HOUSING. Dozens of angered tenants and neighbors spoke passionately outside of Fidele’s building while the oppressor peeked from behind the second-story window’s curtain — rightfully scared of the power of the mobilized tenant movement.
ON THE END OF THE EVICTION MORATORIUM
The eviction moratorium in New York State has ended on January 15th. The parties responsible for the restarting of the deadly eviction machine are...