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1:00pm CDT

Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps from our work at PUMA. We will also explore libertory practices towards community care that centers unhoused and precariously housed persons.

Speakers

Ndindi Kitonga

Ndindi Kitonga, Kenyan-American Educator and long-time community organizer who writes on Black anti-colonial movements; she co-founded Angeles Workshop School, a democratic secondary micro-school in Los Angeles.

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Mapping Landlords and Their Technologies for Housing Justice and Rent Abolition

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

In this workshop, members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Landlord Tech Watch will share methods that they use to map corporate landlords in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well techniques for better understanding and organizing against surveillance technologies that landlords use to automate evictions and carcerality.

Speakers

Benjamin Bartu

Benjamin Bartu lives in Oakland, California, on unceded Ohlone land. He is the disabled ecologies lab manager at UC Berkeley, and a member of the anti-eviction mapping project. His chapbook Myriad Reflector was published by Poetry.Onl press in 2023, and his writing has appeared or... Read More →

Nathan Kim

Nathan Kim is a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information. As a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, he's helped build the Evictorbook tool for landlord research and the Worst Evictors of San Francisco and Oakland website. He's also an organizer with... Read More →

Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, where their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, empire, fascism, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing and transnational solidarities... Read More →

Sponsors

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Landlord Tech Watch

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro