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10:00am CDT

⁠You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

“Transitional demands” are a strategy for mobilizing neighbors beyond individual housing issues by inviting deeply rooted connections and a collectivized consciousness. Learn from organized tenants from several tenant unions about organizing models for engaging in tenant-centered crisis response for black and migrant tenants in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Speakers

Stephen Gurney

Stephen Gurney is a friend, sibling, partner, educator, tenant organizer and lover of the hot weather. He has been organizing with the BED-Tenant Union in Brooklyn since 2022, during which he has taken part in several building and neighborhood based organizing campaigns across Brooklyn... Read More →

Amadi Ozier

Amadi Ozier has been a tenant organizer since 2020. They currently work with Madison Tenant Power in Madison, WI, and have previously worked with the Crown Heights Tenant Union in Brooklyn, NY. They have worked on several successful, high-profile neighborhood-level crisis responses... Read More →

Khadija Haynes

Khadija Haynes is Trinidadian-born Afro-Caribbean woman poet and writer. As an organizer with the Communist Party USA & Young Communist League, Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Crown Heights Tenant’s Union, Sisters In The Struggle, and Flatbush Tenant’s Coalition, Khadija Haynes... Read More →

Trevor-Anastacio Ortega

Trevor-Anastacio Ortega has been a tenant organizer since 2021. Currently working with the Puget Sound Tenants Union as the Secretary of the Capitol Hill Local, they focus on building sustainable sites of the working class struggle through the organization of reproductive labor. Previously... Read More →

Sponsors

Autonomous Tenant Union Network

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Green Social Housing

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

Rent is through the roof! Join tenant and housing organizers to discuss how tenant power and publicly-owned municipal social housing can solve the cost-of-living crisis.

Speakers

Renette Bradley

Renette Bradley is a tenant organizer with several grassroots organizations, and is part of Housing Justice for All. She has been a member of DSA since 2023, as a member of the NYC-DSA Housing Working Group, the Green Social Housing Organizing Committee, and working on the Good Cause... Read More →

Matthew Nursey

Matthew Nursey is an Organizer & Policy Advocate with Housing Justice League, based in Atlanta GA, and is a co-chair of Atlanta DSA.

Sebastian FG

Sebastian FG is a staff organizer for the North Carolina Tenant Union supporting the Triangle Tenant Union in Raleigh, NC and a member of the national DSA Housing Justice Commission steering committee. Originally from Colombia, he leads the HJC's weekly language exchange project to... Read More →

Nicole Murray

Nicole Murray has been organizing for better transit and housing in New York City DSA since 2019. She currently sits on the organizing committee of their “House the Future” aka Green Social Housing campaign, and co-chairs the national Green New Deal Campaign Commission which supports... Read More →

Sponsors

DSA

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Housing Justice