#propertyistheft — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #propertyistheft, aggregated by home.social.
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An old friend of mine -- it'll be fifty years next fall -- lives in an illegal rental in Oakland, California. It's illegal in the sense that it was never registered with the Oakland rental board. His original landlords sold the property to a flipper a few months ago and the new owners have been trying to get my friend to move out.
They started by offering him cash for keys a few months ago, but two different lawyers advised him not to take the deal because it came with onerous conditions (that I can't remember right now) so he didn't take it. Then they progressed to yelling at him and calling him names.
A couple weeks ago they escalated to smashing out his car windows and a few of the apartment windows. They also spraypainted the word "PEDO" on an exterior wall. The cops, doing their job by protecting the landlord, refused to do anything because there's putatively no proof that the landlord had it done. They also told him to remove his personal belongings from the bathroom and the kitchen because they were going to start demolition, they said.
Then last night they escalated again. At around 2 am he was working at the computer when someone smashed both the windows near his desk and sprayed pepper spray through the holes. They also smashed out all his car windows again, sprayed his front door with pepper spray, and painted "PEDO" on the side of his car. S again the cops, who were apparently personally sympathetic, still said they couldn't do anything. One of the cops advised him to file a civil suit pro se.
He's physically unharmed and is talking to lawyers and doesn't feel like giving in yet, but of course he's worried, especially given last year's murder of a tenant by a landlord who wanted the property vacant to increase the sale value. If you follow me chances are good that you already understand the intrinsic scumminess of landlords, and I do too, but it's still surprising and shocking to see the lengths they'll go to to collect money they are absolutely convinced is theirs by right.
#OaklandCalifornia #Oakland #California #Landlords #Rent #RentIsTheft #PropertyIsTheft
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There should be a wall of shame database listing all flats in prague being used for short term rentals. #propertyistheft #praha
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Abolish rent. Yes, for real. | Waging Nonviolence
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/abolish-rent-yes-la-tenants-union-book/
#PropertyIsTheft #UBI #CapitalismKills #SecondBillOfRights#TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax
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Meet the Billionaire Investors Behind the US Housing Affordability Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/housing-crisis-wall-street-investors
#PropertyIsTheft #LateStageCapitalism #SecondBillOfRights #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax
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The extent of the absolutely stunning tagging on this abandoned condo project in downtown Los Angeles and the skills on display are just incredible!
H/T @PaperFrank on Twitter for the video
#LosAngeles #Graffiti #DTLA #LA #OceanwidePlaza #Tagging #Anarchism #PropertyIsTheft #DowntownLosAngeles #StreetArt #MastoArt #UrbanArt
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Absolutely triumphant Los Angeles taggers cover abandoned high rise!
Also, why are 27 stories of abandoned condos vacant in downtown Los Angeles while homeless people are dying on the sidewalk below?
“With all due respect, shit’s abandoned, doing nothing. Let’s put some color on this bitch and do what we do if they ain’t gon finish the job,” one ... tagger, Hopes, said.
#LosAngeles #Graffiti #DTLA #LA #OceanwidePlaza #Tagging #Anarchism #PropertyIsTheft #DowntownLosAngeles #StreetArt #MastoArt #UrbanArt
https://lamag.com/news/downtown-high-rise-graffiti-artists-speak-out
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Now we’re having fun! This week’s DenseDiscovery newsletter asks “what if we abandoned land ownership?”
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"The thrill of private ownership is the fruit of an underground common."
— Anna Tsing, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" @wd-Q60786968
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I despise the term “net worth.” It doesn’t measure a persons worth. Quite the opposite. “Net cost to society” would be closer to the truth. #PropertyIsTheft #BanBillionaires
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These outrageous acts of socioeconomic cleansing (see thread linked below) give the lie to all the mendacious claims that evictions of poor people’s encampments are about public health, safety, or “environmental impacts”. Even those that are exemplary models of minimizing those impacts are being evicted all over the country to appease landlords and upper-middle-income gentrifiers who have many times more detrimental effects on the local community and global ecology.
This is not about public safety, the environment, or even “quality of life”. It’s about maintaining extortionate housing prices and propping up the system of rentier capitalism by comprehensively criminalizing the mere act of existing anywhere, in any way whatsoever, without paying the banks and landlords their monthly pounds of flesh and engaging in the consumer economy at a level that the wealthy consider “respectable”.
There is simply no conceivable moral justification for this legalized neo-feudal protection racket, where if you don’t keep making skyrocketing extortion payments every month, the landlord / “property investor” class sends a band of sadistic psychopaths with guns to rob you of your belongings and displace you from your home by violent force.
This is happening practically everywhere and every day across the entire USA. And it’s not going to stop until people of conscience start organizing in large numbers to say, “No more! We won’t be forced to pay rent to live on the earth where we were born!” Every time these thugs show up for another round of evictions against the most marginalized people in this country, they need to start finding themselves faced with overwhelming resistance, including support for elements willing to engage in vigorous, forceful self-defense if necessary. That’s the only way we’re going to keep these crimes against humanity from continuing to accelerate.
This is, for me, on an equal footing with the climate and ecological emergency as the most urgent domestic problem in the US today, and it is inextricably intertwined with all the others. If we have no right to exist (and no, something we have to purchase is not a right - it’s a commodity), then none of our other rights count for a goddamn thing. This country’s unhoused people are on the front lines of one of the most crucial and urgent social justice struggles of our time, and need a hell of a lot more solidarity than they’re currently getting. Let’s all step up!
https://social.coop/@mlncn/110436188668525614
#Housing #HousingJustice #SocialHousing #Homeless #Houseless #Unhoused #RentStrike #RightToExist #PropertyIsTheft #Capitalism #SimpleLiving #Police #Minneapolis #Minnesota
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@KevinCarson1 on just how hard the landlords have it these days:
"[S]ome of his other comments are especially laughter-inducing. For example, 'the government has made owners’ livelihoods dependent on the political system.' My dude, it was the political system that created that model of 'livelihood' for them."
#Landlords #Enclosure #Anarchy #Georgism #Capitalism #PropertyIsTheft
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CW: Property isn't theft, it's armed robbery.
Robbery is theft with threats of violence, but it's not possible to sneak away in secret with land. Without violence there's no private property. Property isn't theft, it's armed robbery with the police as the weapon.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Capitalism #PropertyIsTheft #PrivateProperty #Property
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There is a lot of revision to do on this text, but I am very pleased to be able to share a draft translation of Proudhon's Third Memoir on Property. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-proudhon-library/p-j-proudhon-avertissement-aux-proprietaires/
#proudhon #workingtranslations #newproudhonlibrary #propertyistheft #anarchistliterature #anarchism
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From elsewhere: For Proudhon, property could be "liberty"—or a useful tool for the production of liberty—precisely because it was "theft." Also, by the stage in his career where he explained himself on that question, "liberty" was not necessarily treated as a good in isolation. #proudhon #anarchism #mutualism #propertyistheft
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I haven't worn a hat since forever but this one's worth the style fail.
#indigenousland
#fucksettlercolonialism
#propertyistheft
#anarchists
#mutualaid
