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Across the Pond: Brighton Solidarity Federation in Action

January 15, 2018 lynx 0

Brighton SolFed has started 2018 with 6 ongoing housing struggles and, to meet increasing demand, our housing union is now holding a weekly drop-in at a city centre café. The idea is that we can collectivise housing issues by gathering …

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Anti-capitalism Anti-Racism Ecology Housing & Community

The Poisoning of Flint: Capitalism and Environmental Sabotage

February 18, 2016 Ideas&Action 0
By Mike Kolhoff
Cruel disregard of human life have been part of the capitalist package from the very beginning. To the ruling class our lives are important only to the degree that we produce profit they can exploit. In its …
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Anti-Racism Housing & Community

Incapacity, White Supremacy, and the Destruction of Detroit

June 30, 2014 Ideas&Action 0

By Mike Kolhoff

The destruction of Detroit continues according to the plans of Michigan’s Teapublican-controlled state government. Their racist intentions are obvious. They want to drive out the existing African American population, and replace it with one more to their …

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Anti-Racism Austerity Economy Housing & Community

White Supremacy and the Looting of Detroit

January 29, 2014 Ideas&Action 3

By Mike Kolhoff

The court has ruled, so the legalized looting of Detroit will go ahead as Governor Snyder has planned. The Emergency Manager has ordered the DIA to provide him with a list of the values of the many …

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Ecology Economy Housing & Community Ideas

Anarcho-Syndicalism and Principles of Urban Planning

March 26, 2012 Ideas&Action 1

By Scott Rittenhouse

Urban Planning is neither boulevards for conquerors, nor a landscape for the palaces of the rich, nor an opportunity for land speculators, nor a design opportunity for artists, nor a conspiracy for social engineers.

Urban planning is …

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Housing & Community Labor

Wage Theft in America – Two Approaches

January 14, 2011 syndicalist 2

From Trial by Fire

Mercedes Herrerra is a 39-year-old Mexican immigrant living in Houston, Texas. Working primarily for staffing agencies, she first started cleaning houses and sports facilities in 1996. Paid meager wages, working long hours and travelling some distance

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Housing & Community

Vacant Hotel Occupied

July 26, 2010 syndicalist 0

by Tom Wetzel

On July 19th members of Direct Action to Stop the Cuts occupied a vacant 41-room hotel in San Francisco’s Mission District. The action was intended to demonstrate the city’s inaction on housing. While thousands of people sleep …

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Housing & Community

Beating back a rent hike

May 15, 2010 Abbey Volcano 1

By Mike K (Seattle Solidarity)

I live at 2212 1st Avenue, the Kasota Apartments. It’s a pretty slummy place. I had been living there for about three years, and then the landlords – Sound Mental Health – told us they …

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