This Sunday, February 15, the tenants' union is calling on people across the island to join their closest neighbourhood branch for a day of flyering, postering, stickering, and door-knocking.

We are starting to receive yet another wave of rent increases that for many of us spells further poverty, burnout, or eviction. We will not pay for the riches of landlords. Don't let them take the city while we sleep! We need every hand on deck to organize our neighbourhoods into mass fighting organizations for our self-defence and liberation.

Where and when to join us:
in #Hochelaga: tenant circle at 12 pm; postering and flyering meet-up at 2 pm at 1800 Letourneux
in #MileEnd / #Outremont: 1 pm at 5550 Parc (YMCA du Parc)
in the #PlateauMTL / downtown: 12 pm at 3516 Parc
in #CentreSudMTL: 3 pm at métro Frontenac
in #VerdunMTL: 2 pm at métro de l'Église
on the #LigneBleue: 12 pm at métro Parc

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantPower #TenantUnion #TenantOrganizing

«Die #Wohnungskrise ist kein Problem, das gelöst werden muss; es ist ein #Klassenkampf, der geführt und gewonnen werden muss». Aus dem Buch «Abolish Rent» von Tracy Rosenthal und Leonardo Vilchis. Zitiert aus der #WoZ vom 18.12.2025.

#Wohnen, #Mieterstreik, #Mietergewerkschaft, #TenantUnion

Solidarity is our sword and shield ✊

Today was powerful. Our organisers met with comrades from the @beldensawyertenants Association to share stories, strategies, and the unshakable belief that a better world is possible.

From across so called Australia to the USA, our struggles are connected. We’re all fighting the same system:

- Where we pay too much in rent to fund a landlord’s next investment.
- Where we get sick from mould so they can drive a nicer car.
- Where we struggle to put food on the table so their plate can be fuller.

The fight for safe, affordable, and appropriate housing is a global one. And together, across borders, we are building the power to win.

#InternationalSolidarity #TenantPower #RAHU #HousingJustice #GlobalStruggle #TenantUnion #Organise #LandlordsAreOrganised

At the end of the month, Firestorm Books and Asheville Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to host "Abolish Rent" co-author Tracy Rosenthal for a virtual conversation! This free event caps off a tenant organizing book club facilitated by DSA and is open everyone.

"Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" is a deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centering poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. The authors take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line.

Locals can join this author conversation in-person while remote participants should register for access at https://firestorm.coop/events/3431-abolish-rent-author-event.html. We hope you can make it!

#TenantOrganizing #TenantUnion #AbolishRent #FeministBookstore #AshevilleDSA #FirestormCoop (- L)

'“We refused to pay for our own misery. We won’t pay one dime in back-rent, and we won’t pay with our lives ever again,” tenant-leader Anna Heetmann told The Defender in the press release announcing the deal.'

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VICTORY OVER SLUMLORDS: After 248 Days, KC Tenants Wins Largest Rent Strike in KC History – The Kansas City Defender

https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/victory-over-slumlords-after-248-days-kc-tenants-wins-largest-rent-strike-in-kc-history/

#RentStrike #TenantUnion #KansasCity

SLAM has a union training coming up this Monday (March 24th), 6pm, at 251 avenue des Pins (the Cité-des-Hospitalières). It is for people already familiar with basic union principles which can be found in our constitution, see here: https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1mYUow0AD3dn42doxNhh9cm2Dhf4LBWvr&export=download

We'll be discussing how to get building meetings together, how to keep them on track, prepare agendas, do one-on-ones with neighbours, map out our potential sources of power and support, as well as how to plan pressure campaigns against our landlords.

We've been seeing a large number of people in our networks participating in the #RefuseTogether rent increase campaign, and see a high demand for support with building unionization & support to keep tenant councils alive once they've gotten going. We planned this training in our education committee's most recent meeting.

See you there! Tell your friends! Please boost!

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantPower #TenantUnion #TenantOrganizing

Our call for tenants to organize with their neighbours to refuse together is doing well this year. Already, many tenants in our union have organized meetings with their neighbours to plan collective refusals. Supporters of our union have been hand-delivered hundreds of pamphlets that have found themselves distributed to their neighbours' doors and mailboxes. We are already hearing some stories of tenants negotiating down their increases through this tactic.

Today and tomorrow, our neighbourhood chapters in Verdun on the one hand, and the Gay Village larger Centre-Sud area on the other, have planned workshops on how and why to organize collective refusals. Join them Tuesday, 6pm, at 4811 rue Verdun; or Wednesday, 6pm, at 1426 rue Beaudry.

Please let us know if you would like to come and would need childcare!

For people who can help boost these events online, it definitely helps us when members and supporters reshare these events. Please post our posters on other socials if you can.

Together we can beat our rent increases!

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion

Our union is organizing a neighbourhood discussion in #Hochelaga on this year's #RentIncrease. The discussion will be in French, but we have a similar workshop in English coming up soon, organized by our Centre-Sud / Village tenant council (stay tuned).

The workshop in Hochelaga will be this Saturday, 12pm, at 1800 Letourneux. Childcare and food will be provided. All are welcome!

In this public meeting, we will be discussing how to start organizing with your neighbours, how to refuse increases together, and how to win negotiations with your landlord by applying pressure through collective actions for reductions in our rent increases.

Landlords and the Tribunal are not on our side. We are fighting rent increases this year that are the highest they’ve been in decades. Say, “No!” to hikes TOGETHER as neighbours. If you would like help fighting against your rent increase, don't hesitate to reach out.

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion