Dig: The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing
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🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Featuring Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, René Moya, and Cea Weaver on the politics and practice of organizing tenants.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.1 | and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.8 | One that you might like is Breaking the Impass, Electoral Politics, Mass Action, |
| 0:18.0 | and the new Socialist Movement in the United States by Kim Moody. |
| 0:22.2 | In his latest book, Veteran Socialist writer Kim Moody provides a masterful analysis of the |
| 0:27.1 | political impass, which has shaped the rise of a new Socialist Movement in the US. |
| 0:32.3 | Sharp inequality, state violence, climate catastrophe, and a globally ascendant right |
| 0:38.1 | precede a pace while the US political arena remains defined and dominated by two capitalist |
| 0:44.0 | political parties. Moody situates the historic electoral campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria |
| 0:50.6 | Casio Cortez along with the growth of organizations like DSA in this context and incisively assesses |
| 0:58.0 | the revived movement's focus on electoral strategies, ultimately arguing for an alternative |
| 1:03.9 | orientation based in the politics of mass action, anti-racism, and independent working class |
| 1:10.4 | organizing. Breaking the Impass by Kim Moody, out now from Haymarket Books and available at |
| 1:17.6 | haymarketbooks.org, where US and UK readers receive free shipping on orders over $25 and 25 pounds |
| 1:26.5 | respectively. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, |
| 1:41.2 | and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today's interview is with four comrades |
| 1:46.8 | who are organizers and leaders in the American Tenant Movement, Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, |
| 1:52.5 | Renee Moia, and Cia Weaver. This is a really important conversation because the places where people |
| 1:58.0 | live in the relationships of economic domination that define the home are critical sites for organizing, |
| 2:05.1 | parallel to the sort of organizing that must be done in the places where people work, |
| 2:09.0 | in the relationships of economic domination that define labor. As the contradictions of real estate |
| 2:15.2 | capitalism intensify, and the housing crisis becomes more generalized, those organizing opportunities |
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