If you look up at the balcony on Henry Granville-Widener's third floor apartment, you'll probably

notice the signs.

One says rent strike.

The others in Spanish.

It translates as divided wee bag, united wee bargain.

I called Henry up at his lunch break the other day to talk about why he hung these signs

up.

The tape's a little rough here, but you'll get the idea.

How long have they been there?

Since the rent strike started in April, April 1.

Did you ever have any second thoughts about putting them out there?

I get calls pretty frequent.

I've gotten calls and emails about it from the leasing office.

It does scare me.

The last time I had a conversation with the office about it, and I was shaking, very scared

about confronting this reality that they don't like this.

How many times have they asked you to take it down?

Oh, probably four or five.

If they're paying attention to that sign, it means that we're going to be hurt.

So it's going to stay up until we get what we want.

What Henry and his neighbors want is a promise that even though some of them might be short

on rent, they won't get evicted.

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