This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.
Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it’s illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the “left” whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.
It’s just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don’t disrupt our lives.
The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.
In college like a decade ago I was spending like 1200/mo in a studio apartment in Philadelphia that was smaller than the bedroom I’m currently sitting in. There was hardly any maintenance done on the place, there were giant roaches, my shower was broken for like 3 months where you couldn’t actually turn the water on in it basically forcing me to live elsewhere. That’s what you got in a semi-decent part of the city but not ritzy part. Can’t imagine it’s any better with rents skyrocketing with wages not budging.