Students in universities around the UK are taking part in, or are intending to take part, in rent strikes.
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UK: 5,000 students are going on rent strike – On the past and future of our movement
UK. This essay by student Rent Strike organiser Matthew Lee gives an overview of the escalating confrontation between students and university management.
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London. UK. Support the London-wide day of action against evictions on August 24th.
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The following is a statement from the Americas Coordination / Coordinadora de las Américas, a joint project between Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S), Solidaridad (Chile), and Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina).
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Athens. Greece. We take to the streets to demonstrate as tenants and workers, regardless of ethnicity, race and gender. We take to the streets because more and more people can’t pay their rent. We take to the streets, because more and more people are threatened with eviction. We take to the streets, as we can’t continue working all day long for shitty wages and spend most of our salary on rent. We take to the streets, because the greek state is eager to listen and legislate for the sake of bosses and landlords, while we, as tenants, remain invisible and vulnerable.
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Madrid. Spain. During these weeks of confinement and in the framework of the international rent strike, we wanted to point out and alter the normality of some of the tools with which they take advantage of the needs and miseries in terms of housing.
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Ottawa. ON. Since March, several possibilities have opened up in this city for tenants to work together in our interests against landlords. While Herongate Tenant Coalition was formed in May 2018 by tenants across our neighbourhood in the south end of so-called Ottawa to defend against Timbercreek’s massive demoviction campaign, this pandemic has created another urgency; this time for working class people across the city to unite to proactively address our suffering under these specific conditions we share. Hence why the Keep Your Rent strategy rang so powerfully here as it did in other cities.
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Call for a rent strike in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Rent Strike Aotearoa.
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Olympia. WA. Call for a rent strike cars parade in May Day 2020.
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Hamilton. Ontario. In the last week, tens of thousands of Hamiltonians have applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the government’s COVID-19 income support package which provides payments of $2,000/month for up to four months. In this post we look into the nuts and bolts of the CERB rollout and consider what the government hopes to accomplish by ladling out all this cash.
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