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Demanding Compassion: Rent Strikes & Emergency Benefits

3/30/2020

by Emily Leedham

So you want to organize a rent strike?

On this week’s Rank & File Radio, Stefan Hodges discusses tenants unions, rent strikes & responding to evictions.

Alvin Finkel discusses the future of the Canadian social safety net after COVID-19.

https://soundcloud.com/rfradio-prairie/demanding-compassion-rent-strikes-emergency-benefits

Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy by Alvin Finkel
www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/co…=9781352003093

Tenants Rights Provincial Factsheets
*please note these may not be updated with gov’t responses to COVID-19 but can develop a baseline knowledge for how the system functions*
tenantrights.ca/facts

West Broadway Community Organization
www.westbroadway.mb.ca/wbco-programs/housing-2

West Broadway Tenants Committee
www.facebook.com/wbtenants/

Renters Action Movement – Calgary
www.facebook.com/RAMCalgary/

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Categories // Basic Income, Employment Insurance, Housing, strike

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