Posts Tagged: housing
Stop gentrification! Make the BeltLine for all Atlantans!
Aug 14, 2018
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Community activists in Atlanta are standing up against gentrification and displacement.
Lead Out Now! Campaign against lead poisoning in Chicago
Aug 04, 2018
Why are volunteers with LEAD OUT NOW! Chicago, a project of the Chicago branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, hitting the streets to build...
LA tenants fight back with massive rent strike
Jul 26, 2018
Three adjacent apartments owned by one company on Burlington Avenue in Westlake, Los Angeles, faced with the potential eviction of nearly a hundred fa...
How LA’s “emergency” homelessness measures fail
Jul 15, 2018
A regressive sales tax funds only "temporary" housing for the homeless.
Cedar Resistance fights gentrification in Long Beach
Jul 12, 2018
On May 15, dozens of Long Beach renters and supporters rallied outside a landlords' meeting at the convention center, at an action called by the Long ...
New Haven protesters fight homeless crackdown
Jun 29, 2018
A coalition of New Haven-area activist groups rallied outside and inside of the Ives Main Branch Public Library on June 27 to voice their protest of t...
Los Angeles tenants launch direct action against landlord abuses
Jun 25, 2018
By publicly showing unity and strength in the face of slumlords who profit off of the poverty of the majority, the protest showed how power lies in ...
Housing Crisis in Lancaster, PA, “The New Brooklyn”
Jun 25, 2018
The basic, fundamental right to adequate housing is being denied to the people of Lancaster and many other cities across the United States.
Seattle repeals head tax under pressure from big business
Jun 12, 2018
By striking this extremely modest and already heavily compromised tax, the Seattle City Council sent a message that the needs of big business will a...
San Diego PD arrest non-violent housing activists
Jun 07, 2018
Instead of worrying about homeless people and renters at risk, the city unleashes its police to abuse the homeless, while refusing to provide real an...
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.