How to Organise Your Building

How to Organise Your Building by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal

Authors: Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal

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This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in Jewish Currents. It serves as a basic organising guide for those seeking to build and use collective power to solve issues facing themselves and their neighbours.

Both authors are veteran organisers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, one of the largest and most successful tenant unions in the United States. Tracy Rosenthal is a co-author of the recent book Abolish Rent.

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AgitProp #17 – Some Ideas for Community Action

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These are a few ideas which are open to being added to, changed, and adapted to reflect the needs of particular communities.

Despite the efforts of politicians and professionals to lump together working class communities as problem areas to be policed, those of us who live in these communities often see things differently. For us the problems we encounter daily are often not of our own making. Poverty, inadequate housing and crime are problems that come with the way society is structured. By taking control of our own communities, and deciding for ourselves how we should manage them, we are not only getting rid of the parasites who cause our problems but also starting on the path to a new type of society where each of us can be free to live our lives as we choose.

Republished from Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism, #4, online at:
http://zabalaza.net/2003/06/04/zabalaza-4-june-2003/

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