Forwarded from Strike Force
This is an excellent 35 minute documentary on a highly successful #RentStrike action in the fast-gentrifying #Parkdale neighborhood of #Toronto in 2017, which has continued to form the basis for more and more active tenants organizing inside of the neighborhood since then.
Plenty of replicatable techniques and strategies in here. Lot of talk and thinking about eviction defense, tenants organizing, and rent strikes right now. Put together a screening and discussion amongst your friends and comrades, and share the link around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHAkCxDPjg
Plenty of replicatable techniques and strategies in here. Lot of talk and thinking about eviction defense, tenants organizing, and rent strikes right now. Put together a screening and discussion amongst your friends and comrades, and share the link around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHAkCxDPjg
YouTube
This is Parkdale
In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing…
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM) pinned «Man dies while being restrained for 6 minutes on hot tarmac in Arizona because he stole a drink to survive on a hot day. This should anger everyone. The federal government has recommended stopping chases. Chases are the most common situation a non violent…»
Forwarded from P.U.R.R. Philly Uprising Response
philly power research
Leadership of New Pro-Police PAC Has History of Violence and Hateful Social Media Posts — philly power research
Protect Our Police PAC has raised at least $750,000 since forming in June 2020. Its leadership includes retired police officers with a history of violence and hateful social media posts.
Forwarded from Black Lives Matter Pitt
None of these covered the demands set by protesters. How about stopping cops from looking like army soldiers in camo uniforms? How about community control of policing like the Richmond model? How about defunding Pittsburgh police? How about abolishing Wilkinsburg Police? How about banning tear gas and impact weapons? What about social workers for your mental health calls I hear called on the scanners all day? How about addressing homelessness and poverty with permanent housing solutions? This does not satisfy us Mayor Peduto!
https://pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases/press-releases/4247
https://pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases/press-releases/4247
city of pittsburgh.
Statement by Mayor William Peduto on Police Interactions with Protesters
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
we are on scanners listening in about protesters being arrested
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
Police may stop communicating on this channel for Hastings Street Protest. We need folks on the ground to communicate back to us what they are seeing about police. message @GrittyBot
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
Coverage has stopped at hastings street. Police are on encrypted lines. We cant hear them. Protests have dispersed but on the ground sources have stated that police plan to patrol the area around the Mayors house overnight
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
Police are charging protester for having an instrument of crime. The item they are charging for and using as evidence? A megaphone...PPD is calling a goddamn megaphone an instrument to a crime
Forwarded from Washington DC BLM Protests
Twitter
ChuckModi
“We were literally out ther feeding people & reading the Bible together, and they just tried to mask it as ppl trying to damage things. No, it’s much deeper than that” One of many amazing protesters. Her commentary on the media-hidden ❤️ , warmth & solidarity…
https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1297270144947765248?s=21 we hope for your speedy recovery Robert!
Twitter
Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
While I am filming a right wing activist charges out and assaults me, breaking my finger with an asp baton. Sergio has more footage of the confrontation that follows https://t.co/gPdPsQ70b5
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
Plain clothes officers will not arrest protesters but plain clothes officers will still be at protests. dont believe the hype
https://wjactv.com/news/local/ap-pittsburgh-mayor-overhauls-how-police-handle-civil-protests
https://wjactv.com/news/local/ap-pittsburgh-mayor-overhauls-how-police-handle-civil-protests
WJAC
AP: Pittsburgh mayor overhauls how police handle civil protests
Pittsburgh's mayor is putting new limits on dispatching police to civil protests, and has halted the practice of having plainclothes officers in unmarked cars jump out and arrest people. Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto, on Friday, also ordered officers to stop…