2022 Banner drop by tenants organised with le Syndicat des locataires autonomes de Montréal, Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union, (SLAM)1
This collection appears on the totally different housing crises tenants have skilled throughout Canada from the 1900s till the current and particulars how they responded, efficiently and unsuccessfully, via techniques of neighborhood and/or class-based direct motion and constructions primarily based in grassroots direct democracy. We hope that by placing ahead these examples, we are able to higher inform the actions of activists within the current. Every weblog publish on this collection centres on a single neighborhood and/or organisation, contextualises their existence inside the situations of their time, and recounts necessary moments or struggles, drawing classes for or parallels to the current.
Fred Burrill, Tenant Resistance to the Fable of “Provide and Demand”
Collection editors Zakary Hartley-Dawson and Sofia O’Reilly.
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