Popular Education for Tenant Power: How We Built the LA Tenants Union

Founded in 2015, the Los Angeles Tenants Union is a bilingual Spanish-English movement of 3,000 members based in 13 local chapters across the city. LATU has reversed illegal evictions, won repairs, organized successful rent strikes, and built a membership committed to the long-term project of tenant power. Central to LATU’s work is a commitment to popular education: processes of group inquiry and listening through which members collectively develop an analysis, a political vision, and a strategy. Dont Rhine will lead a conversation on the role of popular education in the LA Tenants Union and the movement for tenant power.

Dont Rhine is a popular educator and a co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, the Los Angeles needle exchange Community Health Project / Clean Needles Now, and the international popular education collective Ultra-red.

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and co-author of Abolish Rent, forthcoming from Verso.

Host or Publisher Autonomous Tenants Union Network