Getting lots of messages from folks who "want to go on a rent strike but ____" followed by a potential consequence of rent strike: my landlord won't renew my lease; my credit will be impacted; i'll have to go to housing court when this is over... 1/?
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we're in a unique moment where millions of people are turning to rent strikes, perhaps for the first time. rent strikes are powerful tactics. but the reason they are powerful is *BECAUSE* they are risky. you can't win big things without taking risks -- no one ever has. 2/7
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under COVID-19 some people are realizing for the first time that the world is built for the property-owning class, not for us. it's an obvious white privilege to realize that for the first time in 2020. 3/7
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it's not right that anyone should have to pay rent right now or that anyone should be evicted, ever. that much is clear to many more people today than it was a week ago. but the foundation of our "democracy" is built around property rights, not around people....4/7
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...and as some of y' all learn that for the first time, know that will time, soon, when those who CAN pay will be forced to chose if their long-term interests are more with their landlord or with their neighbors and the homeless. 5/7
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we're all a lot closer to being homeless than we are to being billionaires, but we don't usually act like it. especially white folks who are recognizing for the first time, in the last decade, that "homeownership" might be a trap or just impossible. 6/7
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anyway. the point is. now is a time to welcome new rent strikers with open arms, and now is a time for training, political education and deepening our commitment to each other, and taking risks together, because it's not going to be an easy fight. it's exciting! 7/7
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