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Cole Webber

@colewebber.bsky.social

legal clinic worker in Parkdale, Toronto.

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This framing might leave one with the impression that tenants generate the most emissions, when in fact the building category includes commercial and industrial buildings, and the industrial category excludes industrial building emissions

04.02.2026 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A five-song demo that attempts to make its own way, drawing from a deep well of musical influences, while still respecting convention.

Bleak, yet hopeful. Harsh, but catchy and melodic. For better or worse, Entroper walks its own path.

entroper1.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

23.01.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Faced with questions about the thousands of eviction applications they file, these landlords used to respond that it is not their job to house low-income people. Now, they just deny that eviction filings are evictions at all

20.01.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
demonstrators take the streets of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026

banners:

LAND BACK (upside down american flag)

FTP

demonstrators take the streets of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026 banners: LAND BACK (upside down american flag) FTP

Minneapolis responds

07.01.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.12.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Killing Hope – William Blum Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For th...
03.01.2026 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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01.01.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Neoton FamΓ­lia - Holnap Hajnalig '83
YouTube video by Remaster Neoton FamΓ­lia - Holnap Hajnalig '83

enjoy your evenings
youtu.be/YD1NjjSktMU?...

01.01.2026 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

www.instagram.com/_entroper/

29.12.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My band Entroper released our first song
entroper1.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

27.12.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel demolishes east Jerusalem building, evicting Palestinians Around 100 people were ordered to leave the building just hours before the building was torn down and their homes destroyed.

"Israel demolishes east Jerusalem building, evicting Palestinians"

22.12.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Toronto Housing issues eviction notices to hundreds of Parkdale tenants.

There is a troubling silence surrounding Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s (TCHC) β€œrelocation” of hundreds of Parkdale tenants from the 144-unit building at 300 Dufferin
parkdaleorganize.ca/2025/12/12/tor…

15.12.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available, and that's why it is completely uncontro...

Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

08.12.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8
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New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta

Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector

Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...

#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice

30.11.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#OtD 4 Dec 1969 Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI. Mark Clark was also killed, and other Panthers wounded. Learn more about the BPP: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

04.12.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 9
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Parkdale tenants rally to oppose β€˜ridiculous’ above guideline rent increase Starlight Investments said it applied to retroactively raise tenants’ rent because it poured 'significant capital investments' into upgrading the building’s windows
29.11.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Front and back book cover, details available on website

Front and back book cover, details available on website

Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.

20.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Rent Strikes Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

Even more so, I hope that it can inspire tenant activists of today to see themselves as part of a long historical tradition and to reflect upon past experiences.

uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

08.11.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Settler colonialism: What’s in a name? Once a radical breakthrough, settler colonial theory now dominates Canadian scholarship. In his review of On Settler Colonialism in Canada, Bryan D. Palmer welcomes its moral clarity but warns that it...

"Too often, the expropriation of land that made capitalist production possible and the separation of producers from their means of subsistence are depicted as consecutive rather than intertwined moments of a single historical process."
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

09.11.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords β€” and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing
ricochet.media/justice/hous...

06.11.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords β€” and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

Doug Ford’s war on tenants: Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords β€” and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back.

New from @colewebber.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/justice/hous...

#HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli

06.11.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords β€” and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing
ricochet.media/justice/hous...

06.11.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recent articles about Ontario landlords targeting racialized tenants for eviction have failed to mention the successful rent strike in Thorncliffe Park and to see the Ontario government's proposed changes to the eviction rules as a response to Thorncliffe tenants' organizing

05.11.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Virlene's LTB eviction hearing is scheduled on Tuesday, September 23 at 9am. Log in to observe the hearing:
bit.ly/ZLTBVideo145

16.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle.

illwill.com/theory-of-th...

07.09.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

A reporter attributed to Ricardo Tranjan comments that falsely implied the Thorncliffe Park rent strike dragged on because tenants did not know who their landlords were. In fact, Starlight and PSP could not subdue tenants' organizing because it effectively targeted both landlords

06.09.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Toronto tenants, landlord reach agreement after lengthy rent dispute, eviction threat TORONTO β€” Tenants at three buildings in Toronto’s east end and their landlord say they have reached an agreement to end a public battle that lasted more than two years.

'Philip Zigman says the fact that tenants got an acceptable agreement β€œspeaks to the power of working class organizing"...residents have set an example that could encourage other Toronto tenants to organize and start their own rent strikes'
www.torontotoday.ca/ontario-news...

05.09.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Around 100 households on rent strike and facing mass eviction reach β€˜amicable agreement’ with landlord Tenants at 71, 75 and 79 Thorncliffe Park Dr. began withholding rent from landlord Starlight in May 2023.

About 100 households in East York have reached an agreement with landlord Starlight Investments, seemingly ending a lengthy public battle that saw a large group of working-class tenants withhold rent from Canada’s largest private landlord for two years.

04.09.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Landlord knocks hundreds of dollars off rent increase after tenant stages protest The property owner cancelled a $283 increase, while the renters agreed to pay for hydro and call off future demonstrations

Landlord knocks hundreds of dollars off rent increase after tenant stages protest

01.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Landlord-tenant mess: How a multi-year ceiling leak spiralled into assault allegations, a lost job and eviction threats Tenants claim their landlord’s negligence has left them living in slum-like conditions, but the landlord denies it, alleging tenants have blocked much-needed repairs

After the landlord allowed the roof at 2866 Keele Street to fall into disrepair, the City of Toronto ordered the repairs that Lingyan Lu is using as a basis to renovict tenants
www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

28.08.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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