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It happened here, a podcast about things falling apart and how to put them back together again.

And I'm your host, Mia Wong.

This is one of the most acute places where everything is falling apart,

and one of the most acute attempts to put it back together again. We're just going to get right into it.

With me to talk about a potential Brent Strike that there is significant organization going on for

right now in Minneapolis as a reaction to the federal occupation is Tara Raghavir, the director of the

Tenet Union Federation. Tara, welcome to the show. Thanks so much, Mia. So, okay, let's rewind a little

bit. Can you talk a bit about what the specific conditions of the occupation and also just sort of

the preoccupation world for tenants got us to a point where there is

essentially the largest rent strike we've seen in a century being organized right now.

Yeah, absolutely.

So first of all, thank you so much for having me.

And I am hoarding live from the Twin Cities where we've been in a really intense organizing drive now for many weeks.

And of course, the people of the Twin Cities have very ferociously fought back against this federal occupation for nearly three months.

But I appreciate your question because I think actually to take us back a little bit is critical to understand the

circumstances we find ourselves in now. So the first and most basic thing to say is the rent is

too damn high. Yep. People cannot afford the rent in any corner of the country. You know,

it's been true for many years now that a person earning minimum

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