Online Meeting - Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZMtc...
The time for Direct Action is Now.
A home is a basic right. But so many of us live in fear. What if we can’t pay the rent or the mortgage? How will we heat our homes when the prices go up again? What’s the effect on young people that there’s just nowhere affordable to live?
There are many policy solutions to the housing crisis on offer, such as the The People’s Housing Charter (https://radicalhousingnetwork.uk/.../sign-the-peoples...), providing alternatives to the profit-driven chaos of our current housing market, and showing how we can meet everyone’s need for a decent home and also protect the environment we all depend on.
However, the reality is that as well as policy action points, we will need mass action to force the change we need.
Our politicians are failing us but we have alternatives. There are many types of direct action we can take to deal with our housing problems head on.
Disrepair? high rents? Organise a rent strike
Empty homes when there’s a huge shortage of housing? Organise an occupation
Threatened with eviction? Get community support to resist
New developments with no social rents? Redecorate the hoardings to expose the truth
Decent homes being demolished? Block the bulldozers
The government is threatening to clamp down on all forms of protest and that can be genuinely frightening, especially for those in vulnerable situations, but the government is doing this precisely because they know that the level of anger is growing and they are terrified of the power that could unleash.
When we see that the rich and powerful are prepared to sacrifice absolutely everything, even the future of our planet, rather than give up an iota of their wealth and privilege, then we know we have no alternative but to fight back. We need to draw strength and courage from each other to take the most militant action that each of us is capable of.
This meeting is for people who want to back up our policy demands with resistance and direct action. We look forward to hearing your ideas and working together.