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 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 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 5, 2023 | Movement Power, Political Education
Members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense took some #CancelRent banners to the dance floor at Nowadays this October on a panel with our comrades from Tenant Union Flatbush and Met Council on Housing to talk about building tenant power, one of many popular education efforts...
May 28, 2022 | Movement Power, Political Education
Across the city, and particularly in neighborhoods being targeted by mega-landlords and developers for gentrification, tenants are facing massive rent increases. In many cases, these rent hikes are tantamount to eviction. Most of us are already struggling to get by at...
May 10, 2022 | Political Education
Our understanding of safety and our analysis of violence strive always toward the social totality. As such, we’ve developed COVID protocols, synthesizing our politic and our analysis of the terrain. What follows are guidelines developed through study and...
