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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today's interview is with four

comrades who are organizers and leaders in the American tenant movement, Shanti Singh, Tracy

Rosenthal, Renee Moya, and Cia Weaver. This is a really important conversation because the places

where people live, in the relationships of economic domination that define the home, are critical

sites for organizing, parallel to the sort of organizing that must be done in the places where

people work, in the relationships of economic domination that define labor. As the contradictions

of real estate capitalism intensify, and the housing crisis becomes more generalized,

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