What the elite from both ruling parties want is division

The only real question is at what point will the working class of this country stop blaming ourselves for our inability to make ends meet, and start truly fighting back?

By paying the rent, the impact you’re having, like it or not, is to undermine the efforts of those who won’t pay, and to undermine the dreams of those who can’t

Since the police raid, what was limited to one house is now a neighborhood-wide conflict

To state what is abundantly clear to anyone involved with either one, if Black lives matter, then the working class matters, and affordable housing matters

The fires here in Oregon have further exposed the deep divisions in this society, as have all the other previous or ongoing catastrophes, from the 2008 financial crisis to the current global pandemic

Can you imagine a society where the prospect of a forced eviction is considered completely barbaric, and is virtually or entirely unheard of in practice?

One story of surviving as an artist in the USA, from the collapse of the music industry to the housing crisis to the pandemic.

If we don’t collectively reject the narrative that there is something “violent” about illegally occupying roads, bridges and buildings — if we allow the media and the political elite to successfully equate “legal” with “nonviolent” — then we’ve already lost

Real rent control is possible, and we can do it here, too.  It starts with a rent strike.  It ends with victory.  Join us