Mom to Lilly and Avery. Leader with @kctenants. Northlander. “Momma Bear of the Neighborhood.” Jill of all trades
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Tomorrow @1030a: Finance Committee will consider a deal to provide million$ to a billionaire's business with no detail on the return for that public investment.
Show up and demand our public dollars provide a clear public good & transparency in our government. See you tomorrow!
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HAPPENING NOW:
The KCMO City Council will vote on a plan to build a $25 million, 100+ bed "modular jail" ahead of the 2025 World Cup. This comes after community members rallied widespread opposition to the jail at Tuesday's Finance Committee meeting. Updates posted below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Three tenant unions launched in the Kansas City area this week. They all share the same New York-based landlord, Capital Realty Group.
Tenants have dealt with roaches, mice, flooding and unresponsive management. My latest: kcur.org/housing-development…
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More jails don’t equal more safety! 🚫 BlaqOut stands with @DecarcerateKC and over 20 local orgs in opposing the use of KC's public safety tax to fund a new detention center. Building more jails only expands a system that has historically harmed our communities.
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The federal regulator is cordially invited to sleepover at Quality Hill Towers or Independence Towers.
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RENT STRIKE DAY 31. This month tenants in Kansas City launched strikes in federally-backed properties, targeting landlords AND federal regulator @FHFA. Rent is due again tomorrow, November 1. Tenants organizing in Michigan, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana, Illinois...
When the Democrats to lose this election, I hope they listen go back to interviews like @JohnFetterman on @nytimes the Daily podcast.
“It was a young [Palestinian] child who was killed taking the pager to her parent.”
- reporter
“That’s because Daddy, was a member of Hezbola… he brought that danger into their home… her father was a terrorist for Hezbola” - Fetterman
Jenay retweeted
Rent strike day 24. FHFA promised bargaining with striking tenants and then scrapped the plan, instead prioritizing coordination with Fannie Mae, the entity they are meant to regulate. Gross negligence. More from @KatyODonnell_ in @politico:
subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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RENT STRIKE DAY 18: After a week of retaliation and lies, Quality Hill strikers delivered dirty sink and tub water, roaches, mice traps, and photos of structural damage to the management offices.
I want to live in a world where poor & working class people know our power & fight back.
For tenants, our power is our rent. At Quality Hill & Independence Towers tenants are using that power. When we win it will change history for every tenant in this country.
#RentStike
HAPPENING NOW: Striking tenants burn late fee notices they received today in Quality Hill Towers in downtown Kansas City. Sentinel Real Estate is retaliating and the union won’t stand for it ☄️#rentstrike
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QUALITY HILL & INDEPENDENCE TOWERS, WE GOT YOUR BACK!
Tenant Unions on #RentStrike are asking you to stand with us! Please join us this Friday at 5pm to hold the picket line at: Quality Hill Towers,
905 Jefferson St., KCMO 64105
WEAR YELLOW!
A leader at Quality Hill Towers union meeting last night —
“Some people will hear what is happening at QH and say just move. Well I did move and I ended up here. My question for them is where do we go? What options do we have? Because for me it is looking grim.”
Been wild busy cooking up some exciting shit. Finally have time to circle back and ask @madibee98 — how many walks are we going on before winter comes??? I expect to see our foot prints here 🙃
Jenay retweeted
Tonight in KC! Join @DecarcerateKC @MADPMO and @Melissafpoet’s ANIE for a celebration of the poetry of Marcellus Khaliifah Williams. We’ll hear readings of Khaliifah’s poems from local KC poets. Doors open at 7, with performances starting at 8.
Turnsol Books, 1664 Broadway Blvd
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In a heart-wrenching, outraging tragedy, a 3-year-old Black toddler fell to his death from an 8th-floor window in Independence MO after his parents had repeatedly asked their slumlord to fix the broken window.
Yet, prosecutors jailed and charged the grieving Black parents. 🧵
We live in a world where the conditions destroy our babies and then blame us for the circumstances. Parker Webb neglected his property and the safety of his tenants and now a parent’s baby is dead and the state places blame at their feet. We deserve better. 💔
Our statement on the tragedy at Independence Towers, including a call for charges against the parents to be dropped. KC Tenants is collecting donations for the family, including diapers, Simulac Advance baby formula, juice and snacks. You can also donate: gofund.me/f308a252
