Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24)

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

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Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all. Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Transcript forthcoming. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	Rent itself is the crisis, that power relationship that forces us to hand over our wages as a monthly
0:10.4	tribute which builds our landlord's wealth. We pay rent at the peril of our need and at the barrel of a gun.
0:17.5	And what's always missing is that this reality is produced by us. And just
0:21.9	like this reality is produced by us, it is us who must have to change it. And if we change it,
0:26.1	we will change it from the perspective of the most poor and marginalized. Welcome to the Doth Panel.
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1:28.4	underscore.
1:29.9	I'm Beatrice Outler Bolton, and today I'm really excited to be joined by our guest Tracy Rosenthal
1:34.9	and Leonardo Vealchise, co-authors of the book Abolish Rent.
1:39.7	Tracy Rosenthal is a dear friend of the panel, as well as a writer and co-founder of the L Tenants Union, and they have now been on Rent Strike for two years in New York City. Tracy, welcome back to the show. Always a pleasure to think together. Hi, B. I'm so glad to be here. Thanks so much. Leonardo Vils is a liberation theologist and a longtime tenant organizer in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, and also a co-founder of the
2:03.0	L.A. Tenants Union and the Union de Vecinos, which was founded in 1996 to stop the demolition
2:09.4	of the Pico-Eliso public housing projects, winning the right of return for 250 families.
2:16.2	Leonardo, welcome to the death panel. It is so great to finally get a chance to speak with you. Hello. Thank you for having us here. It's a pleasure to talk to you. I'm so excited to talk to you both about this book. As I mentioned at the top, they've co-authored the book, Abolished Rent, how tenants can end the housing crisis, which is published by Haymarket and officially comes out
2:34.6	next week on September 24th. Abolished Rent blends theory, historical analysis, and detailed
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