Nov 24, 2023 | Organizational, Political Education
reposted from Newsletter #11 10/19/23 (bed-isms are bi-weekly explorations into some words, phrases, concepts, and dreams that our Union has cultivated for a few years.) Worker-Tenant The worker-tenant is both the Tenant Union’s unit of analysis and its historical...
May 23, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Tenant News
170 New York TA (Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union – Local #44) held a rally to celebrate their 3 months long rent strike against their slumlord Hager Management. Tenant leaders, young and old, new and lifelong, spoke of how they came together, how they...
May 3, 2023 | Organizational, Political Education
This ten-session study group (starting My 21st) looks at three foundational materialist studies of capitalist development–all written by revolutionaries. In the previous study group, where we read Marx’s Capital over the series of eleven sessions, we covered the...
Mar 14, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Tenant News
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 our demands out last monday and were met with a prompt response a day later from the landlord. This was no...
Mar 13, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Political Education
In conversation with the Justice Initiative of the Brooklyn Public Library: Part One Part Two We discussed what New Yorkers can do to organize tenant associations in their buildings, the history of working-class eviction defense, and what new strategies have emerged...
Mar 8, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational
Tenants from across Brooklyn came together at the Central Brooklyn Library last Sunday, March 5th, to reflect on the organizing work, health and capability of Brooklyn Eviction Defense. We heard reflections and report back from our working groups — including Black,...
