I’m having huge “I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion” feelings about leftists who bang on about class struggle and aren’t even mentioning what @moms4housing are doing in W. Oakland despite holding down their house even while being threatened with eviction by the sheriff.
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They’re refusing the legitimacy of state enclosure of the commons, refusing the idea housing is anything BUT a thing to which everyone is entitled, and flouting the decisions of a racist judiciary that prioritizes profits over people. All power to these women!
#IStandWithTheMomspic.twitter.com/bAqFw7baia
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The house the moms are in is <2 blocks from where I spent most of the past nearly 4 years living: an area where beautifully renovated homes are in proximity to some of the most abysmal encampments, where purchased homes sit empty so they can appreciate in value and get flipped.
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What one can do in the face of
@LibbySchaaf & the city of Oakland’s neglect of and violent dehumanization of houseless/precariously housed people than seize empty housing? There are enough empty homes for all the town’s houseless people, and yet. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/05/how-many-vacant-houses-are-there-really-in-the-bay-area/amp/ …pic.twitter.com/0pM0IMg5uO
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Enclosure of housing and allowing “the market” to dictate astronomical rent prices is theft, the city’s prioritization of luxury developers + its allowance of slumlords to intentionally leave vacant their properties in the face of a growing housing crisis is state violence.
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“.. housing and medical care and necessary social services” are literally enshrined as human rights; the UN Special Rapporteur for Housing literally described the housing crisis as “cruelty” on the city’s part. But poverty is a punishment, and houseless people aren’t human.
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It is so telling and moving and critically important in so many ways that it is black women doing the very thing that so many of us have offered to the ether as an option in lieu of provision of affordable housing: organizing around the claiming & occupying of vacant property.
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If you care about gentrification, if you care about black children’s safety, if you care about class warfare, if you care about the ways state violence & capital entangles itself in the lives & acts against the wellbeing of poor black women, you ought to care about
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Even in the hellscape that is this housing crisis, they remind us there is always a way of making life & community and that refusing the material/economic logics of this racist settler state is *always* an option. In unwavering solidarity with
@moms4housing!#IStandWithTheMoms
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I’m only really seeing it elevated here on Twitter and a bit on IG...this is a national story
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It certainly should be!!!
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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