Tag: Evictions

The Ethnic Cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

In 1983, Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said, “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” Today, we are seeing such attempts of dehumanization in Sheikh Jarrah – an area of occupied and illegally annexed East Jerusalem.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah

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The contradictions of “cancel culture”: Where elite liberalism goes to die

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Washington Post, which analyzed the public records of 125 defendants charged with taking part in the storming of the Capital on Jan. 6, found that “nearly 60 percent of the people facing charges related to the Capitol riot showed signs of prior money troubles, including bankruptcies, notices of eviction or foreclosure, bad debts, or unpaid taxes over the past two decades.”

The contradictions of “cancel culture”: Where elite liberalism goes to die

‘Cancel the Rents’: People Across the US Mobilize Calling for Housing Relief

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Party for Socialism and Liberation concluded its three-day nationwide campaign calling for the cancellation of rent and mortgages and to stop all foreclosures on January 31. The campaign started on January 29 with hundreds of people, along with housing rights movements and other groups in major cities, participating. The primary demand of the campaign was to seek government intervention in dealing with the ballooning housing crisis in the US.

‘Cancel the Rents’: People Across the US Mobilize Calling for Housing Relief

Senator Sinema Tells Mnuchin and Powell She Lived in an Abandoned Gas Station as a Child; Asks What they Plan to Do About Wave of Coming Evictions

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Senator Sinema Tells Mnuchin and Powell She Lived in an Abandoned Gas Station as a Child; Asks What they Plan to Do About Wave of Coming Evictions

No matter how one attempts to spin the economic reality of this crisis, Wall Street, once again, got bailed out while the average American continues to get sold out.

Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People

During a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can’t-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers.