Welcome, to This Is America, August 15th, 2023.
In this episode, we speak with two organizers of the Midwest Dual Power Gathering, taking place in Chicago next week. We then speak with Candice King, a resident of Eugene, Oregon who is currently on rent strike, along with a local anarchist who is helping organize eviction defense. We talk about how the rent strike is growing and the community that has been fostered around the defense of Candice’s home in the face of a recent failed police eviction.
A struggle between a property management company and tenants who have stopped paying rent to try to get the landlord to sell the property heated up Friday morning as protestors held a demonstration inside the company’s office. https://t.co/4MN15nawof
— KEZI 9 NEWS (@KEZI9) August 4, 2023
We then turn towards are discussion, where we unpack the most recent Trump indictment, what it means, and what is says about the lengths in which the Republican party pushed for an authoritarian takeover of the State in 2020.
All this and more, but first, let’s get to the news!
Living and Fighting
The struggle against Cop City in so-called Atlanta, Georgia continues, with the city government attempting to throw a wrench into attempts by voters to get a referendum on the facility on an upcoming ballot. In court, the city of Atlanta has attempted to claim the “referendum [is] “invalid” and a “futile” effort,” but a recent ruling has allowed the collection of signatures to go forward, as activists now boast to having collective over 80,000.
