Revisiting Einstein’s "Why Socialism?" in 2026

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by Bleu Cease, Curator

Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) presents Sanctuary: Borders & Belonging in 2026, an exhibition bringing together national and regional artists, creatives, and documentarians in response to the current political and social landscape surrounding immigration. On view October 2 through November 14, 2026, the exhibition centers the human lives behind political rhetoric, examining how belonging is made and denied, and how care, resilience, and solidarity persist amid increasingly hostile systems and cruel public narratives.

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Sanctuary: Borders & Belonging in 2026 brings together national and regional artists, creatives, documentarians, and community members in response to the political and social realities surrounding immigration and migration. The exhibition amplifies immigrant voices, documents criminalization and detention, examines border politics and architecture, and creates space for people to share the complex experiences that shape belonging. Through testimony and creative resistance, these projects center the human lives behind political rhetoric while also countering simplistic and divisive narratives, insisting on dignity and human rights for all. Together, they ask how belonging is made and denied, and how care, solidarity, and resilience persist in the face

The installation honoring Dolores Bustamante, created in collaboration with Erica Bryant and Carly Fox, places portraits of a generous farmworker, grandmother, and community leader alongside 137 letters of support, turning a local campaign for her release into a public shrine honoring the woman at the center and our community’s mutual aid, collective care, and resistance to immigrant detention.

Bringing Tom Policano’s photographs from Slim Pickins into conversation with Cher Valentino’s recent paintings inspired by those images, this installation connects the conditions of migrant farmworkers documented in the 1970s to their continued vulnerability today. The pairing reminds us that poverty and unjust labor practices persist, now compounded by immigration enforcement targeting these workers, compressing decades of limited progress into an urgent shared present.

Julio Salgado’s project I Am UndocuQueer features heavily alongside the artist’s own personal reflections in the video My Name Is Julio, making visible undocumented queer people’s leading role in the immigrant-rights movement, and confronting fear with pride, humor, joy, and self-representation, even in the face of deportation.

Arleene Correa Valencia’s textile artworks transform family photographs, letters, clothing, and culturally specific fabrics into haunting portraits of migration, family separation, memory, and longing; where incomplete or absent figures represent the lives interrupted by borders, policies, and immigration enforcement.

Sound of Sanctuary, an immersive listening installation, created by Anaglog (Sean Mulligan) in partnership with RoCo, launches a live-recorded album and brings together five first- and second-generation immigrant artists and five Rochester musicians with the understanding that sanctuary is not a fixed place, but a shared culture of listening, relationship, attention, and care

The Community Interview Project: The Immigrant Experience presents nearly 100 intimate recordings with immigrants from Rochester and the surrounding region into the gallery, grounding political debates in the voices and stories of our neighbors, presenting immigration as a diverse collection of lived experiences through which this community and the U.S. as a country have continually been built.

(I’m)Migration is an exhibition within an exhibition; a collection resulting from an open call for visual art by immigrants in the Rochester region. It includes more than 60 artworks by immigrants and immigrant collaborators, bringing together stories of arrival, belonging, separation, resilience, cultural practice, and transformation while emphasizing the power of many voices speaking alongside one another.

The short advocacy film When They Come For Me: Hope and Fear for Immigrants in the Promised Land by Worldwide Documentaries brings together local immigrant advocates and community perspectives to document the effects of inhumane immigration policies in Rochester, the Finger Lakes region, and Western New York.

In Border Wall and several accompanying photographs, Saman and Sasan Oskouei use mirrors, fencing, barbed wire, and steel to fracture the apparent permanence of borders, transforming barriers into boats, doorways, flowers, flags, and passages toward freedom, movement, and envisioning another future.

Jim Mott’s ICE Detention Facilities and the American Landscape (Seven Studies) uses paintings based on field observation and digital reconnaissance to consider how the growing for-profit immigration detention system has become embedded within familiar rural and urban communities, connecting the concrete realities of incarceration to the economic decline, infrastructure, and broader culture of the places that host and enable it.

In Resist or Surrender, Annette Dragon’s compassionate photographs show that resistance is not an exceptional act but an ongoing local practice. She honors the ordinary people who gather throughout the region to advocate for immigrants and human rights while holding close the personal absence of her friend who is imprisoned at a nearby detention center.

Saints of Our Time by Pamela Araya reimagines Catholic devotional portraiture through three highly visible contemporary figures connected to immigration, Latin American identity, and cultural memory. The three paintings honor Liam Conejo Ramos in Hope, Bad Bunny in Voice, and Renée Good in Testimony, as embodiments of suffering, cultural power, courage, and the ongoing struggle for dignity and belonging.

Pamela Dodds’s installation Documenting Border Barriers transforms meticulously rendered drypoint etchings of fences, walls, razor wire, and surveillance systems into an imposing visual and information archive of the architecture of exclusion. It arranges the prints like a wall across the gallery and reveals these structures as deliberate, mostly contemporary acts of political control.

Installed outside the gallery, the related work of public art BELONG by Gianna Stewart confronts censorship and erasure by incorporating hundreds of words that have been removed from government websites, publications, and grant applications into a large graphic. This brave artwork makes visible the absurdity and the danger of this attempted erasure, while also reclaiming public space to insist that we all belong.

Sanctuary: Borders & Belonging in 2026 continues RoCo’s longstanding support for artists who engage urgent social and political questions. It also reaffirms our commitment to art practices that center testimony, witnessing, imagination, and action. At a time of censorship and fear, the exhibition amplifies artists who, often at great personal or professional risk, speak truth to power and advocate for human rights and a more just, equitable world. As global inequality, climate change, and the politics of fear lead to increasingly barricaded and surveilled borders, and immigrant communities face intensified criminalization, Sanctuary demands solidarity. To listen to one another. To defend one another. And to recognize that our freedom and safety are bound together.

Upcoming Events:

• Film Screening: Ice Breaker / Match Maker
. [Friday, October 16, 6:00pm – 9:00pm] 
A screening and related gathering exploring migration, connection, and the social realities of immigrant life. 
• Surviving Suppression: How Artists Experience and Overcome Censorship. [Friday, October 23, 2026, 6:30pm – 9:00pm] 
A panel and conversation examining the pressures artists face when their work addresses politically charged subjects, and the strategies they use to continue speaking through art. 
• Sound of Sanctuary: LIVE
. [Friday, November 13, 6:30pm
] A live performance of Sound of Sanctuary which is being launched in partnership with RoCo as an installation and listening station in the main gallery. 

Sanctuary: Borders & Belonging in 2026 will be on view October 2 – November 14, 2026, at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, [137 East Avenue]. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 12:00pm – 5:00pm, with extended hours Fridays until 9:00pm. Suggested admission is $2; admission is free for RoCo members.

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By Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers.

The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automakers, other bold contract fights, and new organizing campaigns.

It marks the second time members have voted for their top officers in the union’s 91 years. UAW members voted to switch to a one-member-one-vote system in December 2021.

Fain received 68 percent of the vote, against five opponents. His nearest competitor, incumbent vice president Rich Boyer, had 13 percent.

Fain ran as part of the United UAW slate. His slate-mate for secretary-treasurer, Brandon Campbell, also garnered 68 percent, against two rivals including incumbent Margaret Mock.

The slate’s candidates for the three vice president spots appeared on track to be elected with 19–25 percent each in a field of 11 candidates. (VP candidates needed 16.7 percent to win.) The slate also won all the regional director races that it contested.

The sweep means that the slate will hold all the seats on the union’s International Executive Board except for one regional director.

Fain won a majority of the vote in most locals, from assembly plants to legal services, and a plurality in almost all the rest. Boyer, who heads the union’s Stellantis division, won just two of the union’s dozens of big locals: Local 140, Warren Truck, his home local, and Local 1700 at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, both near Detroit.

Turnout was low and similar to the 2022 election, with a little over 10 percent of the union’s 400,000 active members and 600,000 retirees returning their mail ballots. (Retirees vote on top officers in the UAW.)

While some expected Fain’s strongest support to come from the higher education and legal aid locals on the East Coast, turnout there was down by more than half from 2022, with fewer than 2,000 ballots mailed in. Turnout was up in Local 4811 at the University of California, which went 75 percent for Fain, but still only 2,500 of 60,000 members there voted. As in the last election, it was members in the big manufacturing locals that were key to Fain’s victory.

Perennially online candidate Brian Keller had 7 percent of the presidential vote. As the ballots were counted he took to Facebook Live to swear at members for 30 minutes and call them “morons” for not voting for him.

MOTIVATORS

In phone interviews with a dozen members, auto workers cited pensions and post-retirement health care as their key motivators for backing Fain. They also raised concerns about tackling automation and job security.

But the biggest issue was the better contracts the UAW has won since Fain took office.

“Infighting” between Fain and his opponents on the outgoing International Executive Board — Rich Boyer, Margaret Mock, and Mike Booth — came up, but people drew widely different conclusions, with many repeating the phrase Fain “isn’t perfect.” Jeep worker Megan Fagan in Toledo said some members have checked out due to the internal drama, reinforcing the cynical view that not much has changed.

For most, though, disagreements at headquarters were not of interest or on their radar. They looked at their pay stubs and voted accordingly.

Boyer, Mock, and Booth came together to form the Integrity Slate but failed to offer a counter to Fain’s focus on fighting the companies and launching new organizing drives. Boyer’s main pitches in his campaign statement in the UAW magazine were to lower union dues and reduce the staff at union headquarters.

“Fain and his slate are the only ones that have a real program for the future of the union,” said historian Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit. “You’d think the other people would have come up with something aside from they want to reduce dues, which means basically cripple the new organizing.”

“The members chose Fain, despite the Monitor’s best efforts to create turbulence, because we’re ready to fight for retirement health care and protection from A.I. layoffs in 2028,” said Gary Chynoweth, vice chair of the reform network UAW Member Action, in a statement. “Our work now is to keep helping members step up as leaders in a union that’s ready to fight.”

KEEP ON TRACK

UAW Local 551 member Candyla Brown is one of 5,000 workers at Ford’s assembly plant in Chicago. She said she backed the United UAW slate to keep the union on track in 2028, to win pensions, post-retirement health care, and pay bumps that keep up with inflation.

To win these demands, “we need strong leadership,” she said. “We had a good experience with the 2023 strike, and I’ve been watching the new organizing efforts,” she said. “I think the UAW has come a long way since Fain got into office.”

She said organizing in the South is a bright spot. Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted to join the UAW in 2024, becoming the first unionized foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the South.

At Daimler Truck in North Carolina, Jon Greene, president of Local 3520, said Daimler has staffed up its labor relations personnel in preparation for another showdown, and corporate HR has been closely following the election. “We tripped them up with the last contract,” said Greene. “It wasn’t any more of that friendly bargaining that had been happening over the years with International, so we caught them off guard.”

RENEWED MANDATE

With a renewed mandate, the pressure is on Fain’s team to organize members to step up when contracts expire at the Big 3 automakers on May 1, 2028.

In 2023, the companies were caught off guard, accustomed to a sedate strike, if any, and modest union demands. When the union launched a spreading strike against all three companies at once, with more plants walking out week by week, company bargainers were blindsided. They gave up more in that one contract than they had in the previous four contracts combined.

They will likely be better prepared for May Day 2028. Unions may face another obstacle in 2028 — in an election year, Democratic politicians traditionally bring heavy pressure not to rock the boat, fearing blame from voters. In 2023, though, a poll found 78 percent of Americans supported the UAW’s strike.

Some expensive union demands were left on the table last time: pensions and retiree health insurance for workers hired after the big concessions of 2007–2009, and protections against mandatory overtime and automation.

Flush with victory in fall 2023, Fain urged other unions to line up their contracts with the Big 3’s, for a united assault on corporate coffers.

Domanick Moss, of Local 1853 at General Motors’ Spring Hill, Tennessee, assembly plant, said he backed United UAW because it built a broad coalition and set a goal of preparing for a potential May Day 2028 general strike.

“I think that we have a solid ground laid in terms of how we’ve been connecting with other unions,” Moss said. “If enough of us go on strike, we could get more attention on universal health care. I would like to see Medicare for All and the PRO Act passed. I would like to see consequences for corporations doing rampant automation.” (The PRO Act would make it easier for workers to organize and secure contracts.)

GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF UAW

The election results are a sharp rebuke to the government-appointed monitor, Neil Barofsky, whose original mandate was to oversee clean-up of the endemic corruption that sent 13 union officials to jail.

Barofsky developed a strong antagonism to Fain when the UAW Executive Board passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in late 2023, which the monitor said could be seen as “antisemitic.” Fain resisted Barofsky’s attempts to reverse that stance. Ever since, Barofsky has issued a series of reports criticizing Fain and siding with his opponents on the Board. Some UAW members who followed the drama drew cynical conclusions, but apparently most voters found Fain’s actions spoke louder than the monitor’s words.

Barofsky’s mandate is set to end in early 2027, but the consent decree keeps open the possibility of extending the monitorship. If Barofsky’s previous behavior is any indication, he may push to stay in place longer.

Fain’s opponents made much of the monitor’s reports, which accused Fain of misdeeds including retaliating against Boyer and Mock, after he relieved them of some of their major responsibilities. Opponents spent most of their energy attacking him personally and detailing their own grievances, rather than talking about the direction of the union. Their campaigns did not have much reach.

Fain, on the other hand, reminded members of the union’s achievements and tried to keep the disagreements from looking personal.

Despite encouraging leadership at the top, the UAW has a long way to go to become a member-driven union that consistently takes on the boss. While Fain has charted a new direction, much of the union bears the scars of decades of concessions, or is still stuck in the old, company-friendly ways of operating. That includes seeing the union structure as a career ladder, a way to get off the factory floor.

Years of one-party rule means that the bench of members able and willing to push the union in a new direction is still shallow. That has the potential to change in locals where the International has brought big resources for contract campaigns and strikes.

The UAW Member Action network is slowly working, through education and trainings, to build up the bench. After this election, it looks like the UAW will continue to be back in the fight.

{A longer version of this article appeared in Labor Notes and Jacobin.]

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A rural, wine-producing area is exposed to new ways of thinking as like-minded socialists find each other — and win.

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15: GREEN MOUNTAIN DSA ANNUAL CONVENTION

Green Mountain DSA’s annual convention will take place on Sunday November 15th at the Socialist Labor Party Hall (46 Granite St) in Barre, VT.

The convention will run from ~11:00 AM until the late afternoon. You can participate in-person or virtually. More details to follow.

For planning purposes, please register in advance here: https://greenmountaindsa.solidarity.tech/green-mountain-dsa-annual-convention

Submit resolutions or bylaws amendments here BEFORE NOVEMBER 1st: https://forms.gle/J7h8XDZHCyTTsbGk8

Make nominations for chapter officers and committee chairs here: https://forms.gle/mJYoXD4qtGku47he9

The convention bulletin will be published in early November.

AG CLARK MUST DROP THE CHARGES; GMDSA STANDS WITH WILLISTON PROTESTORS AHEAD OF SHUT DOWN ICE WEEK OF ACTION

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

Last week, Vermont’s Attorney General Charity Clark brought charges against 13 people who took non-violent direct action in front of an ICE surveillance facility in Williston. Clark boasts on her website and social media of the lawsuits her office has brought against the Trump administration and highlights the importance of “battling federal overreach.” Yet, as our communities fight back against the monstrous activities being committed by ICE, Clark’s choices have displayed her commitment to “order” over justice, as Dr. King describes.

Read the rest of the statement on our website at: https://greenmountaindsa.org/statements/ag-clark-must-drop-the-charges-gmdsa-stands-with-williston-protestors-ahead-of-shut-down-ice-week-of-action

Read our other two statements released this month re: UVMMC and Molly Grey here: https://greenmountaindsa.org/statements

GMDSA-ENDORSED CANDIDATES WIN BIG IN VERMONT THIS SUMMER: HELP GET THEM OVER THE FINISH LINE NOVEMBER THIRD!

This summer, Green Mountain DSA-backed candidates showed that socialist and working-class politics can win in Vermont. But winning a primary is only part of the fight. On November 3, our endorsed candidates will face voters in the general election, and they need our help to finish the job.

Elections are not a substitute for organizing, but they are one arena where organized working people can challenge the power of landlords, bosses, corporations, and the wealthy. Every door knocked, voter contacted, volunteer recruited, and conversation with a neighbor helps build the organization we need beyond Election Day.

Over the next month, GMDSA members will be canvassing, making calls, spreading the word, and working alongside our endorsed candidates across Vermont. Whether you have been organizing with us for years or have never canvassed before, there is a place for you in this work.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Help us send working-class champions to Montpelier.

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TAX THE RICH: MONTPELIER AND WINOOSKI CANVASSES FOR TOWN MEETING DAY 2027 BALLOT QUESTIONS

Working Vermonters are being squeezed while the richest continue to benefit from tax cuts paid for by cuts to healthcare. Medicaid and ACA subsidies are on the chopping block, putting tens of thousands at risk. This is a choice. We can let working people carry the burden, or we can demand that the wealthiest pay their fair share.

We are calling on the Vermont Legislature to pass legislation that raises taxes on the richest 5 percent, taxes wealth proceeds, and invests that revenue into affordable and accessible healthcare for all. Half measures are not enough. Policies that only target the top 1 percent or shift taxes around without raising new revenue will not meet this moment.

Sign up to help us collect signatures on our Tax the Rich ballot petitions (advisory questions for the Town Meeting Day Ballot in Montpelier and Winooski)!

Winooski -- Saturday, October 10, 1-3 p.m. @ 53 Lafountain St.

Montpelier -- Saturday, October 17, 1:30-3:30 p.m. @ Christ Episcopal Church (64 State St.)

Sign up: https://forms.gle/dEngxC4rR9giKGx27

GREEN MOUNTAIN DSA MONTH IN REVIEW

Change rarely arrives all at once. More often, it is built through dozens of small acts: a conversation at a door, workers standing together on a picket line, neighbors meeting one another for the first time, or someone deciding they are ready to organize.

September gave us plenty of those moments.

Across Vermont, Green Mountain DSA members joined workers, candidates, organizers, and community members in building power together. We gathered at the Labor Day Festival of Resistance, supported the continued growth of socialist organizing in Southern Vermont, stood alongside Healthy Living Workers United, marched with our endorsed candidates at Pride, and knocked doors for both our electoral work and the Tax the Rich campaign.

Just as importantly, we spent time together. We talked, marched, laughed, organized, and strengthened the relationships that make sustained political work possible.

No single march, canvass, meeting, or campaign builds socialism. The work accumulates. Every conversation creates another connection. Every campaign develops new organizers. Every act of solidarity reminds workers that they do not have to face bosses, landlords, politicians, or the wealthy alone.

Join us this month of October for a spooky themed month of building solidarity and pushing for a better Vermont for all.

WE’RE BUILDING A FAMILY-FRIENDLY GMDSA

Green Mountain Democratic Socialists of America is working towards making our organization more accessible to parents and guardians. In August we were approved to receive a chapter Growth and Development grant from DSA national to help with this effort, among other priorities. You can help us by letting us know if you would benefit from childcare being offered at our general meetings.

Please fill out our Childcare Needs Survey: https://forms.gle/6Mq1KHWGrc3QgLGv8

UPCOMING GREEN MOUNTAIN DSA MEETINGS

Our Labor Committee meets on the second Monday of every month at 6:00pm on Zoom, including Monday Oct 12.

Talk about your job and learn about shop-floor organizing from peers at Workers' Circle (co-hosted with the Green Mountain IWW) on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, including Wednesday Oct 14 at 6:00pm at Migrant Justice (179 S. Winooski Av in Burlington).

Our Electoral Committee will meet again on Wednesday Oct 14. The electoral committee meets at 6:00pm on Zoom.

GMDSA's branches will come together for our monthly general meeting on Saturday Oct 17 at 11:30 a.m. at Christ Church (64 State St in Montpelier). Newcomers are encouraged to show up at 10:30am for an optional “DSA 101” orientation. Everyone is welcome to join for coffee hour with snacks and discussion at 11:00am prior to the start of the general meeting.

Our Tax the Rich Working Group will meet on the first and third Sundays monthly, starting Sunday Oct 18 at 6:00pm on Zoom.

Find out how you can help our Membership Committee improve recruitment and involvement in our chapter on Monday Oct 19. The Membership Committee meets on the 3rd Monday of every month at 6:00pm on Zoom.

Our Palestine Solidarity Committee will meet on Monday Oct 26. The Palestine solidarity committee meets on the 4th Monday of every month at 6:00pm on Zoom.

Our Communications Committee will meet on Monday Oct 26. The communications committee meets on the last Monday of every month at 7:00pm on Zoom.

Our Steering Committee meets on the first Monday of every month at 7:30pm on Zoom, including Monday Nov 2. All members are welcome to participate in the meeting discussion, only members of the steering committee can vote.

Tuesday Nov 3 is ELECTION DAY. Stay tuned to learn where you can poll-stand with our endorsed candidates and celebrate with GMDSA and our newly elected socialists in office after the polls close. Check the GMDSA calendar and the campaign volunteer form.

Our annual chapter convention is Sunday Nov 15 at the Socialist Labor Party Hall (46 Granite St in Barre). This is the most important GMDSA event of the year!

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IMPORTANT DATES THIS YEAR

• GMDSA October General Meeting: Saturday October 17 in Montepelier

• General Election: Tuesday November 3

• Next GMDSA Convention: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 in Barre, at the Old Labor Hall!

• Next DSA National Convention: August 2027 (Date TBD)

Gen Z is warming to socialism though they’re not ready to be labeled. This and more in Red All Over, Democratic Left’s occasional round-up of media coverage.

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By organizing statewide to back State Rep. Shaun Scott’s push to tax the rich, DSA had an impact much larger than its legislative delegation. The state's socialists-in-office committee discussed the experience at a recent retreat.

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How San Diego Tenants Went on Strike Over Their Utility Bills – and Won

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The tenants at the La Suzanna building in San Diego were recently hit with a massive increase to their cost of living. The landlord brought down on them a “change” to the way they would be billed. This scheme is referred to as RUBS, or “ratio utility billing system”, and it’s just another way for landlords to squeeze blood from a stone, separating utility costs from the rent and passing the burden of payment onto the tenants. Some tenants in the building reported their utilities going up from $60 per month to over $450!

So what did the tenants do? They fought back by first going on RUBS Strike, a tactic we’ve seen play out in numerous locations across the country. The landlord retaliated by sending them a nearly $4000 bill for trash collection! The tenants negotiated but the terms were far more favorable to the landlord and they were ultimately rejected. The tenants then got in touch with the Tenant Councils of San Diego, an ETOC cadre tenant union, and formed a tenants’ association, the La Suzanna Tenant Council.

Finally able to negotiate collectively, they got the utilities capped at $100 per month in a year-long agreement. However, the flight clearly doesn’t end there as future negotiations will likely push for more utility money year over year. This shows the need for sustained, politicized tenant unions and communities of strong solidarity in our buildings; just the kind of thing you’ll get at the ETOC cohort training sessions!

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