The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the next conversation in our series “Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future”

The crises of 2020 have left millions unable to pay rent. In a society where almost all rental housing is in private hands, tenants are demanding a shift in power. New approaches to stop evictions, control rents and create cooperative ownership opportunities are surfacing in Minnesota and across the country. Once unthinkable proposals are now on the public agenda.

Join Tom O’Connell, former Metro State University Professor, Professor Amanda Huron, author of Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington DC, and Jennifer Arnold, Co-Director of Inquilinx Unidxs Por Justicia (United Renters for Justice) as they explore these approaches and their relationships to tenant organizing in the past.

You will be able to add your own comments and questions as the conversation develops and for a period of time after the speakers have concluded.

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