• Spring, summer, fall, and winter. The four seasons of #CANCELRENT. 😤❄️📣 #UniteOurStruggles
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    Spring, summer, fall, and winter. The four seasons of #CANCELRENT. 😤❄️📣 #UniteOurStruggles
  • We are excited to invite you to a town hall event we are organizing with @newyorknico @newartdealers @nycartc @artiststudioap @indietheaterleague in support of #smallbusinesses. Tomorrow is December 1st: Rent is due 💸 shops are shutting down forever or have to negotiate alone for their survival. We won’t sit back and watch the lifeblood of NYC die. The City can and should act now! Artists and cultural spaces stand in solidarity with businesses across the city to demand @speakercoreyjohnson and @nyccitycouncil end the absurd practice of unchecked commercial rent prices that can skyrocket at any time and displace us. We need #CommercialRentStabilization to protect our city from rampant real estate speculation. Hey @markgjonajny @coreyjohnsonnyc 📣 Set a hearing for bill #1796. #FairRentNYC #NoSmallBizNoNYC Let’s Talk About Rent: Town Hall Wed Dec 9, 7pm @NYCArtC RSVP: NYCArtC.com
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    We are excited to invite you to a town hall event we are organizing with @newyorknico @newartdealers @nycartc @artiststudioap @indietheaterleague in support of #smallbusinesses. Tomorrow is December 1st: Rent is due 💸 shops are shutting down forever or have to negotiate alone for their survival. We won’t sit back and watch the lifeblood of NYC die. The City can and should act now! Artists and cultural spaces stand in solidarity with businesses across the city to demand @speakercoreyjohnson and @nyccitycouncil end the absurd practice of unchecked commercial rent prices that can skyrocket at any time and displace us. We need #CommercialRentStabilization to protect our city from rampant real estate speculation. Hey @markgjonajny @coreyjohnsonnyc 📣 Set a hearing for bill #1796. #FairRentNYC #NoSmallBizNoNYC Let’s Talk About Rent: Town Hall Wed Dec 9, 7pm @NYCArtC RSVP: NYCArtC.com
  • Luxury rezonings in poor brown neighborhoods can and should be considered within a lineage of "stolen resources" dating back to the origins of the US. Becoming educated about local land use and housing battles, as you all are doing, is an excellent way to get involved in stopping the mechanisms of violent #expropriation and #dispossesion. When we see #neocolonialism in action, it's up to us to call it out and do what we can to support each other. I'm sure many of you are reflecting today on the white supremacist history of #Thanksgiving aka #IndigenousDayofMourning. While celebrating family, gratitude, and nourishment are certainly important at all times of year, the erasure of #colonialviolence that this holiday represents has deeply harmful modern-day impacts. Native Americans today have the highest rates of #foodinsecurity, and are struggling with the disproportionately devastating impacts of Covid on reservations. ➡️➡️➡️Please visit our linktree for #mutualaid funds and #indigenousresistance campaigns that need your support.⬅️⬅️⬅️ Images: 1. #Landgrab illustration by Polette Rivero Villaverde 2. Loss of #nativelands over time 3. As you eat tomorrow consider that food insecurity is a serious crisis in native communities. Follow @ndn.o for more information 4 & 5. Spend some time with the Native-Land.ca map (🔗in bio) 6. 2010 census data on indigenous New Yorkers living in the 5 boroughs 7. Lessons from the @indigenouskinshipcollective 7/4 teach-in, honestly crucial context (👀watch in story highlights!) 8. The courts just ruled that the #Inwoodrezoning can proceed, the visualization blatantly shows the land-grab dynamics
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    Luxury rezonings in poor brown neighborhoods can and should be considered within a lineage of "stolen resources" dating back to the origins of the US. Becoming educated about local land use and housing battles, as you all are doing, is an excellent way to get involved in stopping the mechanisms of violent #expropriation and #dispossesion. When we see #neocolonialism in action, it's up to us to call it out and do what we can to support each other. I'm sure many of you are reflecting today on the white supremacist history of #Thanksgiving aka #IndigenousDayofMourning. While celebrating family, gratitude, and nourishment are certainly important at all times of year, the erasure of #colonialviolence that this holiday represents has deeply harmful modern-day impacts. Native Americans today have the highest rates of #foodinsecurity, and are struggling with the disproportionately devastating impacts of Covid on reservations. ➡️➡️➡️Please visit our linktree for #mutualaid funds and #indigenousresistance campaigns that need your support.⬅️⬅️⬅️ Images: 1. #Landgrab illustration by Polette Rivero Villaverde 2. Loss of #nativelands over time 3. As you eat tomorrow consider that food insecurity is a serious crisis in native communities. Follow @ndn.o for more information 4 & 5. Spend some time with the Native-Land.ca map (🔗in bio) 6. 2010 census data on indigenous New Yorkers living in the 5 boroughs 7. Lessons from the @indigenouskinshipcollective 7/4 teach-in, honestly crucial context (👀watch in story highlights!) 8. The courts just ruled that the #Inwoodrezoning can proceed, the visualization blatantly shows the land-grab dynamics
  • #PhoneZap: Call on #MayordeBlasio to Stop His #DisplacementAgenda! RSVP at bit.ly/notowersphonezap linked in bio As we celebrate Trump’s defeat, we understand that Trumpism still exists, and we need to continue organizing locally to defeat it. In New York City, Mayor de Blasio's policies have been displacing communities across the city, especially working-class communities of color. He is carrying out Trump’s agenda by representing the interests of big developers like Trump himself. In #Chinatown and the #LowerEastSide, de Blasio has violated his own #zoning laws to illegally approve four luxury #megatowers in #TwoBridges that will devastate the environment and raise real estate taxes, driving up rents and displacing residents and small businesses. When the community created the #ChinatownWorkingGroup Rezoning Plan to stop luxury high-rises, discourage privatization of public land and ensure truly affordable housing for the neighborhood, de Blasio rejected it as “too ambitious.” Even worse, now that we’ve *won* an injunction against the #TwoBridgestowers, de Blasio shamelessly tried to overturn the community’s victory by working with the developers to appeal it in court. In the pandemic, with little relief, #smallbusinesses are shutting down in droves and workers are struggling to cover their costs of living - all under de Blasio’s watch. Despite their party differences, de Blasio and Trump are two sides of the same coin as they both work to help the super-rich and destroy the livelihoods of tenants, workers and small businesses. Now de Blasio can no longer point fingers at Trump to cover up his own racist, pro-developer agenda. It’s up to all of us to put a stop to it! On Thursday December 3 from 1pm to 2pm, join us to call Mayor de Blasio and demand that he: 💥Stop the four illegal luxury mega-towers that the City approved to build in Two Bridges 💥Pass the FULL Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan. This action is brought to you by the #CoalitiontoProtectChinatownandLES of which we are a proud member. ✊🏽
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    #PhoneZap: Call on #MayordeBlasio to Stop His #DisplacementAgenda! RSVP at bit.ly/notowersphonezap linked in bio As we celebrate Trump’s defeat, we understand that Trumpism still exists, and we need to continue organizing locally to defeat it. In New York City, Mayor de Blasio's policies have been displacing communities across the city, especially working-class communities of color. He is carrying out Trump’s agenda by representing the interests of big developers like Trump himself. In #Chinatown and the #LowerEastSide, de Blasio has violated his own #zoning laws to illegally approve four luxury #megatowers in #TwoBridges that will devastate the environment and raise real estate taxes, driving up rents and displacing residents and small businesses. When the community created the #ChinatownWorkingGroup Rezoning Plan to stop luxury high-rises, discourage privatization of public land and ensure truly affordable housing for the neighborhood, de Blasio rejected it as “too ambitious.” Even worse, now that we’ve *won* an injunction against the #TwoBridgestowers, de Blasio shamelessly tried to overturn the community’s victory by working with the developers to appeal it in court. In the pandemic, with little relief, #smallbusinesses are shutting down in droves and workers are struggling to cover their costs of living - all under de Blasio’s watch. Despite their party differences, de Blasio and Trump are two sides of the same coin as they both work to help the super-rich and destroy the livelihoods of tenants, workers and small businesses. Now de Blasio can no longer point fingers at Trump to cover up his own racist, pro-developer agenda. It’s up to all of us to put a stop to it! On Thursday December 3 from 1pm to 2pm, join us to call Mayor de Blasio and demand that he: 💥Stop the four illegal luxury mega-towers that the City approved to build in Two Bridges 💥Pass the FULL Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan. This action is brought to you by the #CoalitiontoProtectChinatownandLES of which we are a proud member. ✊🏽
  • Friday, Saturday, Sunday and onward. Your solidarity weekend agenda. #freethemall #justiceforjamel #heatlaws #stoprad #fundnycha #publiclandsinpublichands #abolishice #openthecages #stopevictions #housingforall
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    Friday, Saturday, Sunday and onward. Your solidarity weekend agenda. #freethemall #justiceforjamel #heatlaws #stoprad #fundnycha #publiclandsinpublichands #abolishice #openthecages #stopevictions #housingforall
  • Stay loud. 🗯 We see you in all the ways y’all are stepping up to fight for your community and it’s beautiful. ♥️ Get your neighbors and comrades and let’s intervene in public space...Experiments in being free for a day. DM if you want to link for support, tips, or affirmations! #uniteourstruggles #cancelrent #fundnycha #freethemall #noevictions #housingforall
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    Stay loud. 🗯 We see you in all the ways y’all are stepping up to fight for your community and it’s beautiful. ♥️ Get your neighbors and comrades and let’s intervene in public space...Experiments in being free for a day. DM if you want to link for support, tips, or affirmations! #uniteourstruggles #cancelrent #fundnycha #freethemall #noevictions #housingforall
  • Here’s a 🔥 agenda for you this week. 1️⃣ 🧠 📚TUESDAY 630PM ~virtual~ The first of a two-part discussion led by Andrew, AAD member and our fave NYPL librarian. Reading in advance not required! Come chat. The Lofts of Soho examines how, from 1950-1980, residents transformed the New York industrial neighborhood of SoHo into an artists’ district, and created the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. The author argues that the methods of arts-driven urban development that took root in Soho (residential lofts, the adaptive reuse of industrial space, gallery-driven commercial districts, the idea of the artist as a central urban actor, and public policies designed to create vibrant neighborhoods through the arts) would catch on nationally and globally in the ensuing decades. #sohorezoning #sohonoho 🤓 Read the book online via link in bio and signing in with your library card. 2️⃣ 🗣WEDNESDAY 5PM ~IRL~ 🚨 action alert 🚨 go support the tenants on strike at 1616 President Street BK! #rentstrike #tenantsolidarity 3️⃣ 😾🏗WEDNESDAY 630PM ~virtual~ Community Board hearing 🚨 action alert 🚨 testify against predator #landlord of #PhippsHouses who wants a rezoning on #BarnettAve in Sunnyside. 4️⃣🧠📚THURSDAY 1PM ~virtual~ Reading group/discussion led by Vanessa and Naomi via Barnard College #UndesigntheRedline project. “Neighborhood Battles in NYC: the Politics of Zoning” Gentrification in NYC has been lamented as inevitable, partially applauded as ‘progress,’ or blamed on artists and young people. In this session, we will debunk common notions about gentrification by examining the real causes of these urban transformations that systemically displace low income communities of color. We will consider the tools used by the city government and private developers to create these changes (for instance: financial instruments such as geobribing and tax breaks, and manufactured public consent in the land use process). Readings Sam Stein & bashing DeBlasio 💘 link to RSVP in bio 5️⃣ ☎️ ⚡️ #cancelrent
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    Here’s a 🔥 agenda for you this week. 1️⃣ 🧠 📚TUESDAY 630PM ~virtual~ The first of a two-part discussion led by Andrew, AAD member and our fave NYPL librarian. Reading in advance not required! Come chat. The Lofts of Soho examines how, from 1950-1980, residents transformed the New York industrial neighborhood of SoHo into an artists’ district, and created the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. The author argues that the methods of arts-driven urban development that took root in Soho (residential lofts, the adaptive reuse of industrial space, gallery-driven commercial districts, the idea of the artist as a central urban actor, and public policies designed to create vibrant neighborhoods through the arts) would catch on nationally and globally in the ensuing decades. #sohorezoning #sohonoho 🤓 Read the book online via link in bio and signing in with your library card. 2️⃣ 🗣WEDNESDAY 5PM ~IRL~ 🚨 action alert 🚨 go support the tenants on strike at 1616 President Street BK! #rentstrike #tenantsolidarity 3️⃣ 😾🏗WEDNESDAY 630PM ~virtual~ Community Board hearing 🚨 action alert 🚨 testify against predator #landlord of #PhippsHouses who wants a rezoning on #BarnettAve in Sunnyside. 4️⃣🧠📚THURSDAY 1PM ~virtual~ Reading group/discussion led by Vanessa and Naomi via Barnard College #UndesigntheRedline project. “Neighborhood Battles in NYC: the Politics of Zoning” Gentrification in NYC has been lamented as inevitable, partially applauded as ‘progress,’ or blamed on artists and young people. In this session, we will debunk common notions about gentrification by examining the real causes of these urban transformations that systemically displace low income communities of color. We will consider the tools used by the city government and private developers to create these changes (for instance: financial instruments such as geobribing and tax breaks, and manufactured public consent in the land use process). Readings Sam Stein & bashing DeBlasio 💘 link to RSVP in bio 5️⃣ ☎️ ⚡️ #cancelrent
  • Last night near #WashingtonSquare. 50+ people were arrested by the #NYPD and some badly injured. One of our comrades was arrested and got a concussion after 10 cops jumped on her. Another comrade’s bike was smashed. People were asking for these videos to more easily share what is happening. In case there is any doubt, this is 1000% not over, more arrests were made tonight when cops attacked the angels on earth at @thestonewallprotests. In the last slide: video captured by @studiomhli. That helicopter searchlight is chilling. Some people were asking what we are protesting. There is no singular answer. People are frustrated and out of patience with a broken electoral system, and demanding to #protecttheresults of the election from armed right wing militias who have been threatening poll offices. We continue to protest for black lives, including the tragic murder of #AngelUnique on Tuesday. #restinpowerangelunique We protest against the wildly escalated militarization of the NYPD despite the people’s unheeded demand to #defundthepolice and the severe cuts made to other necessary agencies and services like schools and hospitals. The fact that NYC is all boarded up, dripping with cops (in *new* idiotic motocross body armor?), and buzzing with helicopters is evidence that ➡️ no matter the election results the state intends to suppress our reaction. Let me say it again: in anticipation of “unrest” the state is prematurely curtailing basic freedoms such as walking. We cannot let them further erode our right to move freely, congregate, and express ourselves, which they have already infringed for so many of our trans, undocumented, indigenous, queer, black, brown, and outspoken comrades. We must demonstrate our power. We must make our rulers fear they will lose control of the population. There are many ways you can participate. Non-participation is not an option. Please donate to @abolitionpark on Venmo for Jail Support. Start dreaming insurrection... we need your body, your voice, your wallet (and ability to withhold it), your brain, your labor (and ability to withhold it), your hands, your feet, your creativity. #policestate #blacklivesmatter #abolishthepolice
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    Last night near #WashingtonSquare. 50+ people were arrested by the #NYPD and some badly injured. One of our comrades was arrested and got a concussion after 10 cops jumped on her. Another comrade’s bike was smashed. People were asking for these videos to more easily share what is happening. In case there is any doubt, this is 1000% not over, more arrests were made tonight when cops attacked the angels on earth at @thestonewallprotests. In the last slide: video captured by @studiomhli. That helicopter searchlight is chilling. Some people were asking what we are protesting. There is no singular answer. People are frustrated and out of patience with a broken electoral system, and demanding to #protecttheresults of the election from armed right wing militias who have been threatening poll offices. We continue to protest for black lives, including the tragic murder of #AngelUnique on Tuesday. #restinpowerangelunique We protest against the wildly escalated militarization of the NYPD despite the people’s unheeded demand to #defundthepolice and the severe cuts made to other necessary agencies and services like schools and hospitals. The fact that NYC is all boarded up, dripping with cops (in *new* idiotic motocross body armor?), and buzzing with helicopters is evidence that ➡️ no matter the election results the state intends to suppress our reaction. Let me say it again: in anticipation of “unrest” the state is prematurely curtailing basic freedoms such as walking. We cannot let them further erode our right to move freely, congregate, and express ourselves, which they have already infringed for so many of our trans, undocumented, indigenous, queer, black, brown, and outspoken comrades. We must demonstrate our power. We must make our rulers fear they will lose control of the population. There are many ways you can participate. Non-participation is not an option. Please donate to @abolitionpark on Venmo for Jail Support. Start dreaming insurrection... we need your body, your voice, your wallet (and ability to withhold it), your brain, your labor (and ability to withhold it), your hands, your feet, your creativity. #policestate #blacklivesmatter #abolishthepolice
  • Big love to all the folks who have participated in the #UniteOurStruggles banner drop yesterday and today! We love to hear the people speaking. Stay up, stay strong. Stay loud.
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    Big love to all the folks who have participated in the #UniteOurStruggles banner drop yesterday and today! We love to hear the people speaking. Stay up, stay strong. Stay loud.