Tenant organizers and advocates say the only way to protect communities is to stay the course—organizing for housing rights, tenant protections, and political power. Shelterforce's Frances Nguyen reports.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/04/11/in-the-trump-2-0-era-organizing-is-the-antidote/


In the Trump 2.0 Era, ‘Organizing Is the Antidote’

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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about holding together political coalitions, friendships, and organizing partnerships in the face of a culture of disposability and a world on fire.

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(We're BACK!) - Teaser - Love in a Fucked Up World w/ Dean Spade (04/21/25)

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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about some of the major events that happened during our parental leave—from Trump’s kidnapping of protesters for political speech to the proposed autism registry—and what the first months of Trump’s second term tell us about the administration’s particular approach to fascism.

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Teaser - Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil (04/28/25)

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Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care.

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Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes (May Day Re-Air)

Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released September 27th, 2024 and is being re-aired today in solidarity with Palestine, and to be able to re-share Rasha's guided reflection near the end of the discussion (beginning 44:55). 

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Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how, as we near 11 months and 100+ years of genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine, it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive.

This episode was originally recorded at the 2024 Socialism Conference. We will be returning for this year's 2025 iteration for our third annual collaboration with the conference organizers, in Chicago the weekend of July 4th. (Masking required!) Details at https://socialismconference.org/

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Refusing Genocide, from Palestine to Pandemic w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Re-Air)

Revitalize democratic leadership by addressing aging pipelines, 2025 Senate changes, and strategies to strengthen diverse voter engagement and election success. Cultivating future wins requires intentional leadership renewal, bridging generational gaps to reflect evolving communities like the African American electorate. Democratic Party reforms must prioritize younger leaders and systemic mentorship to adapt to demographic shifts and ensure competitive governance.

Revitalizing Democratic Leadership Urgent Pipeline

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Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the Trump administration’s disbanding of the CDC’s HICPAC committee, the body that oversees infection control practices across the healthcare industry — and a committee that Jane was briefly involved with as part of an advisory workgroup since last summer. We also discuss the Trump administration’s staggering cuts across NIOSH, a key agency for workplace health and safety protections, and their significance within the broader “MAHA” agenda.

Jane Thomason is NNU’s lead industrial hygienist. She was last on the show in March 2024 and August 2023 to speak about a campaign against proposed infection control cuts being considered by HICPAC, after which she was added to a HICPAC workgroup that May. Jane returns today now that, with HICPAC disbanded, she’s once again able to speak more openly about committee deliberations.

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https://nnu.org/saveniosh

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Teaser - The Pro-Infection Presidency w/ Jane Thomason (06/02/25)

This episode brings together Joanna Wuest, Brittani Murray, and Jaz Brisack to discuss how queer organizers build community within their workplaces to support civil rights and social justice movements and share strategies for building power to defend workplaces and vulnerable communities, as we witness increased attacks on the rights and safety of LGBTQIA+ people, especially transgender individuals, at the same time as an unprecedented assault on all workers’ rights.

Episode 60 - Intersectional Organizing: Building Solidarity in the Labor and LGBTQIA+ Movements

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Beatrice and Vicky Osterweil discuss what the first months of Trump’s second term tell us about the administration’s particular approach to fascism, the holes in their theory of power this time around, and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself.

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Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil (Unlocked)

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Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.

Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (Re-Air)

Shelterforce is nonprofit and independent publication that covers topics from community planning to racial equity, affordable housing to the future of community development, and how policy intersects with it all. Here you can listen to authors read their latest Shelterforce articles, as well as our interviews with folks on the ground. For more, go to shelterforce.org.

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