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

The #Tenant Councils of #SanDiego
General Meeting is next Saturday August 2 at noon in the #CityHeights Library #Community Room
3795 Fairmount, Ave
San Diego, CA 92105

Joshua Newton & Grant Ruroede will present "Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives" explaining how some tennants may soon be able to afford own their apartment home.

#DSA #sd #Unions #TenantOrganizing #Rent #SoCal

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)

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

SLAM is organizing a rally this Saturday, January 25th, to give a helping hand to Melissa with her move and to demonstrate against her eviction. The rally starts Saturday, at 12pm, at 348 rue Argyle (the closest metro is Verdun métro).

Further details and information can be found on our Facebook and Instagram. We encourage people to share the event widely!

Last Sunday, January 12th, we hosted a public meeting in Verdun attended by dozens of tenants to plan an eviction defense for Melissa. You can check out our reportback on the meeting which is up on some of our socials (or write back and we'll send you a copy).

Why should we start to fight even when Melissa is moving? Because no one should have to be forced out of their home. Our message to landlords, who watch our actions, is that we will no longer leave our homes quietly, that there are certain actions and people we will make public. In this case, we are calling out the landlord, Lyne Cyr, who we are not afraid to name. Our message to fellow tenants: our renting conditions aren’t personal. We need to stop seeing them that way. When renting is expensive or oppressive it’s because of housing based on a market, profit-making, & hierarchy instead of community need & autonomy. This reality can be changed. We can build a rapport de force against landlord power -- tenant power -- but we’ll need everyone’s solidarity, coordination, and action in united defence against each attack.

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion

Reading interviews with organizers from three tenant organizers from different cities.
https://lux-magazine.com/article/tenant-organizing/

#housing #uspol #landlords #TenantOrganizing