Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (11/14/24)

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today. Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world. This episode is part of a series in collaboration with Tracy Rosenthal centered around the growing tenants’ movement and their book, co-authored with Leonardo Vilchis, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Transcript forthcoming. Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent 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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0:00.8	I think in terms of our organizing, though, it really pushes us to look back at the tactics that have been used by these movements in the past, which have often involved occupation, right?
0:10.6	Like, if we can't be on the sidewalk, if we can't be anywhere in public, yet there are all of these vacant buildings, what does that tell us?
0:20.3	And I think one of the things that as organizers,
0:23.1	it's really vital for us to understand
0:25.1	that, like, if we are in a war, which we are,
0:28.8	we can't, like, allow this to discourage us.
0:31.5	Rather, we have to escalate.
0:33.6	And I think that escalation looks like
0:36.7	doing more of seizing the means of reproduction as we've been talking about.
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1:42.5	I'm Beatrice Soutler Bolton, and I'm here today with my co-host, Tracy Rosenthal.
1:47.0	Hello.
1:47.9	And today's episode is the first in a series that we've been developing with Tracy
1:52.1	centered around the growing tenants movement
1:54.5	and their book co-authored with Leonardo Vilcichie called Abolish Rent,
1:59.1	How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
2:01.6	For a longtime Death Panel listeners, Tracy may need no introduction, but for those who are not
2:06.2	familiar, Tracy is a tenant organizer and writer, who we most recently had on to speak about
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