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Join us this Sunday for our next membership meeting! Our guest speaker will be Rent Board Chair @solialpert.bsky.social! He'll talk about regulatory changes to strengthen tenant unions in Berkeley, the effects of potential Section 8 cuts on evictions in Berkeley, and more!

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TOMORROW: Join OTU counselors at our virtual tenant clinic to learn your rights and get your questions answered! All of our clinics are free and open to all Oakland tenants. Register here:

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Bernie Sanders, with @organizeworkers.bsky.social, is holding a training next Tuesday for you to learn how to organize your workplace 🙌

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“The Berkeley Tenants Union, or BTU, collaborated with the Office of District 7 City Councilmember @CeciliaLunaparra.bsky.social and @DSAeastbay.bsky.social to highlight new ways Berkeley tenants can unionize [to] and negotiate for lower rent regarding livability concerns and lease violations.”

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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is WEDNESDAY, May 28 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, May 25 (i.e. THREE days beforehand).

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Interesting how no police organization is objecting to Medicaid cuts as bad for public safety idk almost like they do not care about that.

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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is WEDNESDAY, May 28 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, May 25 (i.e. THREE days beforehand).

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Join us SATURDAY to learn how to form a tenant union with BTU! Most Berkeley tenants now have a legally-enforceable right to unionize their building and collectively bargain with their landlord!

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Columbia is, again, breaking the law: "Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act guarantees unions the right 'to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.'" www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

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BREAKING: The Chicago City Council has voted to create a city-owned nonprofit housing developer. The city will now move ahead with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build affordable, mixed-income, sustainable housing.

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Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!

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Join us Wednesday for a know-your-rights training and learn how to unionize your building with the Berkeley Tenants Union!

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Manufactured opposition can’t silence real renter power. Landlords paid fake protesters to oppose rent control before, & now they’re spreading lies to stop #AB1157! Don’t be fooled. AB 1157 is a win for renters. sfstandard.com/2025/04/16/l...

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Join us Wednesday for a know-your-rights training and learn how to unionize your building with the Berkeley Tenants Union!

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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is WEDNESDAY, April 30 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, April 27 (i.e. THREE days beforehand).

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Join us April 30 for a know-your-rights training and learn how to unionize your building with the Berkeley Tenants Union!

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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is WEDNESDAY, April 30 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, April 27 (i.e. THREE days beforehand).

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Join us April 30 for a know-your-rights training and learn how to unionize your building with the Berkeley Tenants Union!

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Problems with your landlord? Find solutions at OTU's free virtual tenant clinic, coming up next Sunday at 3:00pm! Register here:

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Join us Saturday to spread the word about the new tenant right-to-organize law and help Berkeley tenants unionize their buildings with BTU! Make sure to bring comfortable shoes, a water bottle, and a charged phone.

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How do you start a union? We recommend these resources to get you started: 🧵

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Problems with your landlord? Check out OTU's IN-PERSON tenant clinic at the West Oakland Library tomorrow!

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Join us Saturday to spread the word about the new tenant right-to-organize law and help Berkeley tenants unionize their buildings with BTU! Make sure to bring comfortable shoes, a water bottle, and a charged phone.

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ATTN UC BERKELEY STUDENTS: Vote now at bit.ly/3E6hjwx for these BTU-endorsed ASUC candidates to support affordable housing & tenants' rights! Voting ends Wednesday at 11:59pm. All regularly enrolled UC Berkeley students - undergraduate or graduate - are eligible to vote in ASUC elections.

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Join us Tuesday at the ASUC Housing Commission's Housing Action Forum!

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ATTN UC BERKELEY STUDENTS: Vote now at bit.ly/3E6hjwx for these BTU-endorsed ASUC candidates to support affordable housing & tenants' rights! Voting ends Wednesday at 11:59pm. All regularly enrolled UC Berkeley students - undergraduate or graduate - are eligible to vote in ASUC elections.

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Join us Tuesday at the ASUC Housing Commission's Housing Action Forum!

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"[The landlord] began pitching a story that [it] couldn’t maintain its buildings b/c Venezuelan gang members had taken them over — even though complaints [such as] no running water, rodent infestations, and broken heat, had been documented as far back as 2020, long before the Venezuelans arrived."

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Introducing BTU Local 1! Big thank u to Tenants Together; East Bay DSA / @demsocialists.bsky.social; @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social; @alfredtwu.com / @alfredtwu.net, Xavier Johnson, and the rest of the Rent Board Slate; and esp. @uaw4811.bsky.social / @uawregion6.bsky.social 4 making this a reality!

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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is THURSDAY, March 27 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, March 23 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand).

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Join us, the ASUC Housing Commission, BTU-endorsed City Council Member @CeciliaLunaparra.bsky.social, the Berkeley Rent Board, and Bay Area Legal Aid tonight for a tenants’ rights panel!

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So wait: Billionaires control everything, corruption is endemic, almost everyone is struggling to afford necessities, life expectancy is declining, the ecosystem is dying, and… …liberal elites’ revelatory bestselling-book-worthy diagnosis is that local zoning regulations are the major problem?

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My critique of Abundance™ - a thread: - “We should have more good stuff” isn’t a revelation, it’s pedantry for bookselling (1/5)

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