On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Andrew Lee, an organizer and author of the new book out from AK Press, Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War. During our discussion, we speak with Lee about how elites...
BCC #14 – Rap against gentrification
A crew of anti-capitalists in Berlin were tired of yuppies turning their working class neighborhood of Wedding into some bougie “revitalized” area. So they set out in the night to let these fuckers know what’s up: housing is not a...
Tenants in Parkdale have launched another rent strike against above guideline increases.
Over the summer of 2017, around 300 tenants spread across 12 buildings in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale went on rent strike to fight back against the gentrification of their neighbourhood. After several months of escalating pressure actions...
Fire extinguishers filled with paint have been useful to anarchists in Montreal fighting gentrification, surveillance, and most recently, colonial advertising.