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"We Reject Electoral Politics"
Why one of Canada's biggest tenant unions stopped looking to politicians for change...
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Jessa McLean
Basis of Unity: Vancouver Tenants Union
Vancouver Tenants Union organizers Asura Enkhbayar and Ben Ger provide insight into their work defending renters' rights and their organization's…
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Activate the Tenant Class with the Neighbourhood Organizing Centre
The Ottawa Neighbourhood Organizing Centre (NOC) discusses their work supporting tenants in their fight against landlords, and of course, capitalism.
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Defending Against Demovictions w/Bank Block Tenants
Ben Emond from Bank Street Tenants about their beginnings; how they came together to fight demovictions.
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Shifting Gears: Climate Justice Toronto
Climate Justice Toronto took a hard look at the environmentalist movement, studied Labour organizing models and decided to undertake a major shift in…
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Reclaiming Social Housing with 230 Fightback
Hear how the 230 Fightback campaign persisted through organizational changes, set backs and discouragement from their own City Councilor in their battle…
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Blueprints of a Rent Strike Victory
Bruno, an organizer with York-South Weston Tenants Union is back to share a victory from an unlikely place, the Ontario Landlord Tenant Board.
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Resisting Toronto's Tactics Against the Unhoused
Organizers with Voices for Unhoused Liberation share what they're doing to fight encampment evictions and against the war on the poor.
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Voices for Unhoused Liberation
Dredz Green and Nahum Mann, two community organizers with Voices for Unhoused Liberation, touches on strategy building, the limitations of advocacy work…
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Colonial Settler Urbanism
Andrew Crosby discusses his book Resisting Eviction and focuses on the case study of Herring Gate in Ottawa, which is labeled as the largest urban…
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Rabble Rants: Renters' Bill of Rights
Jessa McLean goes through the Renters' Bill of Rights.
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Fighting Renovictions Locally with Ontario ACORN
ACORN organizers Lorne MacMillan (Hamilton) and Even Bury (Ottawa) talk about the impact of renovictions on renters, the community and the housing…
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