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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.56,0:00:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in Parkdale here they're threatening to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.94,0:00:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,withhold their rent starting tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.44,0:00:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Residents living at this building
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.85,0:00:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here near King and Dufferin say they
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.29,0:00:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shouldn't be forced to pay more rent.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They, along with tenants at other
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.53,0:00:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings owned by the same management
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.66,0:00:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,company say they're going on a rent
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.43,0:00:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike. It could be the biggest one
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.27,0:00:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale has ever seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.33,0:00:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of residents in Parkdale have
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.46,0:00:55.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refused to pay rent fighting back
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.71,0:00:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against rent increases in their
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.81,0:01:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood now tonight they plan to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.18,0:01:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take their action to the next level they
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.96,0:01:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are now planning to expand by doubling
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.39,0:01:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the number of buildings participating in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.28,0:01:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rent strike from six to twelve next
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.65,0:01:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month the rent strike here in Parkdale
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.23,0:01:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hit a new level today as residents set
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.66,0:01:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their sights on the decision maker this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.76,0:01:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,storm the hallways of the truck you know
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.62,0:01:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demanding the property manager met back
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.69,0:01:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scrapped the above guideline rent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.88,0:01:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increases for the entire neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.01,0:01:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the two sides are now sitting down to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.04,0:01:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk and could be close to an agreement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.05,0:01:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for these tenants getting to sit across
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.06,0:01:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the table from corporate giants is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.22,0:01:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vindicating after months of fear and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.56,0:01:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,criticism over their tactics what once
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.29,0:01:57.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems like an impossible task has now
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.33,0:01:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,empowered an entire community they hope
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.91,0:02:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others across the city can see them as
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.83,0:02:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an example that no corporation is too
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.32,0:02:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big to take on one of the reasons why I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.01,0:02:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,picked Parkdale as a neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.93,0:02:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there was a great community
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.58,0:02:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aspect so it just kind of feels less
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.77,0:02:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you're alone in a big city there's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.93,0:02:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite a few people that I see Brian our
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.82,0:02:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bikes taking their kids to school
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.86,0:02:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was just a very welcoming community and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.29,0:02:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really enjoy that when I first moved
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.79,0:02:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here I was a little bit afraid cuz
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.11,0:02:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale has a bad rep but I soon
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.73,0:02:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learned that it's one of the safest
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.74,0:02:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhoods in this city
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.91,0:02:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know I like the fact that Parkdale
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.04,0:02:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sort of close to everything so you
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.59,0:02:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know we got the gardener right here so
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.30,0:02:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's easy access to get onto the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.83,0:02:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freeways and highways but yet we're
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.66,0:02:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still in the heart of downtown you know
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.73,0:02:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,downtown is really only five minutes ten
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.13,0:02:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,minutes away I like living by the lake
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.17,0:02:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that cool breeze in the summertime I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.66,0:03:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,used to live in the North End of Toronto
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.79,0:03:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and neighbors weren't as friendly you
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.20,0:03:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know more well-to-do when keeping to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.33,0:03:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves Parkdale has a large low
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.99,0:03:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,income tenants population we have a ton
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.33,0:03:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of high-rise apartment buildings and for
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.07,0:03:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most part they're folks that have
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.27,0:03:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lived in the neighborhood for a very
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.53,0:03:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long time people knows me in Parkville
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.65,0:03:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't go in maybe everybody's
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.70,0:03:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,friendly they helpful
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.99,0:03:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's why I love the faggot 90% of the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.14,0:03:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20,000 people that live in this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.70,0:03:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood are renters and of them a
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.55,0:03:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,higher than average proportion are
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.92,0:03:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paying over 50% of their wages to rent
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.62,0:03:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly it's a community that is used
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.81,0:03:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to working class struggles people know
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.09,0:03:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we need to work together and we
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.80,0:03:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to kind of get on the same page if
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.36,0:03:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to see changes in our
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.38,0:03:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood for decades Parkville has
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.84,0:03:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been a neighborhood where a struggle has
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.94,0:03:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taken place between working-class poor
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.24,0:03:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tenants and their landlords or their
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.55,0:04:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bosses or the government it's a friendly
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.28,0:04:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood and people look out for one
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.05,0:04:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another I met my first neighbor on the
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.02,0:04:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,day I moved in he just said welcome to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.61,0:04:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood gave me a magnet that I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.46,0:04:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saw in my fridge and that's just one of
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.87,0:04:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things I have loved about Park girls
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.28,0:04:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's day one so the nice place to live
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.72,0:04:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale is really diverse and its
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.33,0:04:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really welcoming to lots of different
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.61,0:04:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,folks who are able to start families and
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.07,0:04:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stay in the neighborhood for a very long
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.60,0:04:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time people feel really supported and
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.46,0:04:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a lot of community services that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.20,0:04:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really in tune with different
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.05,0:04:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communities that they're serving there
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.94,0:04:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are over 20 primary languages spoken in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.07,0:04:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood and it has a high
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.96,0:04:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number of new arrivals from other
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.90,0:04:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countries to Canada living here as a
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.85,0:04:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refugee I've been living in other
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.21,0:04:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countries like Nepal in India and I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.76,0:04:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never had this sense of belonging and
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.48,0:04:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this sense of belonging that's a comfort
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.94,0:04:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zone for a new immigrant so that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.61,0:04:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't get lost in a new country in your
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.03,0:05:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,culture although we Tibetan people came
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.30,0:05:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here as a refugee scatter Canada
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.46,0:05:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,majority people are thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.48,0:05:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bulbulay especially if you're visiting
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.91,0:05:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale for the first time Gritty often
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.18,0:05:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your face this neighborhood is now on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.73,0:05:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gentrification fast-track how could
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.49,0:05:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it not be look where it is people have
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.35,0:05:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talked about Parkdale facing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.12,0:05:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gentrification for maybe 20 years now
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.03,0:05:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think the word gentrification can
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.31,0:05:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes make that process a little
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.08,0:05:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unclear for people when the process
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.15,0:05:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself is very clear in our neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.07,0:05:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a process of displacement it is
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.56,0:05:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly a phenomenon of force of economic
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.75,0:05:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and physical force exerted on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.61,0:05:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class people that destroys
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.35,0:05:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class life and working-class
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.12,0:05:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhoods rents are they increasing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.71,0:06:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if they increase too much rent that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.13,0:06:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we cannot effort landlords trying to
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.50,0:06:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pick up talent so that they can get milk
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.22,0:06:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from which they can get more money
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.74,0:06:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the landlord tries to get that tenant
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.99,0:06:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out so that they can do very surface
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.60,0:06:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,level renovations on the unit give them
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.12,0:06:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new appliances a new coat of paint and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.73,0:06:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they can jack up the rent
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.86,0:06:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes 50% and get a new sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.88,0:06:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10-inch into the building so not the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.25,0:06:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class tenants that live in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.78,0:06:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale not immigrant families that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.15,0:06:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in Parkdale
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.90,0:06:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but generally young professional well
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.87,0:06:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off white tenants and also the state
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.93,0:06:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plays into it as well deportations have
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.33,0:06:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gutted this name
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.68,0:06:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a lot of really severe ways up until
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.07,0:06:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only recently this had been a
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.57,0:06:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood in which a large number of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.52,0:06:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roma and Sinti Hungarian and checked
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.10,0:06:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refugees came and threw the concerted
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.71,0:06:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effort of the state they were they were
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.51,0:06:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systematically removed from this
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.34,0:06:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood and deported back to really
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.90,0:07:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deplorable conditions there's large
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.73,0:07:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of our community that are missing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.14,0:07:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Tibetans have been living here for
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.21,0:07:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost now 15 20 years so it seems that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.97,0:07:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's gentrification is disintegrating
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.70,0:07:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the social vibrancy in part a so that's
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.70,0:07:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really disheartening to see that part of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.37,0:07:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a poor neighborhood and everybody
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.86,0:07:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helped each other but other people move
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.23,0:07:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this area they acting like
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.46,0:07:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,differently like they are more important
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.62,0:07:28.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you and you believe he loved a
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.63,0:07:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different kind of local spots closing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.85,0:07:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they put in a Starbucks that's changed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.52,0:07:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the banks are moving out that's not a
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.47,0:07:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good thing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.04,0:07:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know the CIBC closed down and I
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.08,0:07:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believe the intent is to put up some
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.91,0:07:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,condo complexes there we have two condo
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.10,0:07:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,projects moving in and that's just the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.60,0:07:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning that's the thin edge of a very
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.34,0:07:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thick wedge I think so yeah I think it's
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.41,0:07:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a real issue for Parkdale is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.82,0:07:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gentrification Liberty Village is just
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.22,0:07:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across Dufferin and it's moving in this
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.14,0:07:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,direction bloggers and today I'm in
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.15,0:08:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Liberty Village one my favorite hood I'm
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.92,0:08:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to show you around Liberty Village
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.14,0:08:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is kind of a created community it was a
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.31,0:08:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of old warehouses in the
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.23,0:08:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood that have slowly turned
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.39,0:08:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a huge condo development another
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.06,0:08:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,version of condo land
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.62,0:08:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially it is not like single-family
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.71,0:08:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,homes it is not large apartment
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.57,0:08:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings like it is a very
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.79,0:08:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intentionally designed like professional
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.68,0:08:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,development that is designed in a way to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.41,0:08:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.24,0:08:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people out brewpubs and bistros and that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.68,0:08:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of environment here 24-hour metro
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.58,0:08:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expensive nail salons and waxing
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.89,0:08:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facilities and here's the spot if you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.66,0:08:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to get a mani-pedi on Sunday with
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.22,0:08:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your bestie they wanted to make this a
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.50,0:08:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Liberty Village West but it's not the
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.20,0:08:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty village West it's Parkdale I want
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.62,0:08:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say like I see Liberty Village coming
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.51,0:09:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cocktail I see things being more
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.76,0:09:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expensive I see more and more changes in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.16,0:09:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terms of identification and the types of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.81,0:09:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that are moving into the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.77,0:09:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood that may not care about the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.75,0:09:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood as much as we'd like them
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.54,0:09:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.08,0:09:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.48,0:09:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a lot of people in Toronto or even
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.58,0:09:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who heard about the rent strike
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.93,0:09:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of Toronto it seems like it
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.87,0:09:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started very suddenly that it was this
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.91,0:09:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge struggle of hundreds of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.74,0:09:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class tenants that just popped
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.90,0:09:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of thin air but the reality is that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.99,0:09:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it didn't pop out of thin air I have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.42,0:09:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen fliers kind of going about either
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.55,0:09:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on lamp posts or flyers in my building
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.19,0:09:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just kind of there's a bit of a buzz
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.87,0:09:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just happening I wasn't sure exactly
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.91,0:09:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it was but I knew that I wanted to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.67,0:09:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn more about it so I reached out to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.38,0:09:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale organized and then that's kind
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.18,0:09:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of where the ball started rolling I
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.83,0:09:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard about Parkdale organized somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.54,0:09:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put a flyer on my door so that's how I
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.70,0:10:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first got involved I mean colonisers
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.16,0:10:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really you have done good job the group
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.06,0:10:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale organized says they don't know
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.16,0:10:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just yet what their next project will be
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.95,0:10:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for now they're taking a much deserved
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.57,0:10:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,break after months of organizing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.88,0:10:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale organize is good with people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.86,0:10:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have come together to organize in
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.41,0:10:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our neighborhoods and people who are
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.24,0:10:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping to build the working-class power
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.22,0:10:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the neighborhood so that we can take
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.93,0:10:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control of the place that we live a
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.37,0:10:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,handful of people came together to try
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.89,0:10:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put an organization to the struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.86,0:10:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people in the neighborhood had been
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.30,0:10:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing working-class people face a
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.25,0:10:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myriad of individual struggles within
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.89,0:10:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood the idea was to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.84,0:10:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collectively through solidarity and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.63,0:10:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,direct action
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.32,0:10:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deal with those issues before the rent
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.97,0:10:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike Parkdale organized had been
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.77,0:10:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around for fifty three four years and we
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.52,0:10:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been organizing building by building
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.40,0:10:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knocking on doors with places where
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.75,0:10:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people had been facing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.99,0:10:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French increases disrepair pest problem
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.53,0:11:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and telling people that the thing that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.87,0:11:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they needed to do was get together with
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.73,0:11:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their neighbors and confront their
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.68,0:11:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,landlord directly we had organized at
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.50,0:11:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first slowly in a few buildings and it
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.25,0:11:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was always a hard sell who are you
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.38,0:11:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.92,0:11:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why are you knocking on my door what is
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.51,0:11:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it that you want me to do and we started
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.96,0:11:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have successes initially struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.60,0:11:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around a major new player in the real
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.12,0:11:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,estate market achelous which is a real
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.25,0:11:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,estate fund based in Scandinavia that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.32,0:11:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bought up a bunch of buildings up and
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.48,0:11:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down the boulevards in Parkdale tenants
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.09,0:11:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a park dale apartment building are
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.86,0:11:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting back against their property
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.72,0:11:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owner 188 Jameson the dreamer inside I
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.40,0:11:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know people on 188 where some of my
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.82,0:11:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relatives live also they had this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.50,0:11:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,problem for a few months long before
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.36,0:11:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other struggles that had kind of given a
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.85,0:11:52.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit broader conception of what it is
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.25,0:11:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that working people struggle against in
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.93,0:11:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this neighborhood was a worker initiated
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.88,0:11:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike over a food terminal two major
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.98,0:12:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food hub the largest in southern Ontario
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.87,0:12:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the largest in Ontario generally
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.00,0:12:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that employs a lot of tenants in in
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.57,0:12:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale they went on strike and people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.64,0:12:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the neighbourhood supported them as
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.44,0:12:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well once we had started getting those
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.02,0:12:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,successes are organizing became much
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.63,0:12:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easier pitch when a bunch of people's
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.34,0:12:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doors people had heard of us before we
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.95,0:12:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started to be able to just buzz up to a
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.93,0:12:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,random unit in the building and say hey
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.76,0:12:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're from Parkdale organized you want
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.14,0:12:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come talk to you about something and
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.61,0:12:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people would always invite us in those
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.01,0:12:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,campaigns started to put a different
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.34,0:12:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,idea out there within the neighbourhood
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.99,0:12:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was that the struggles that people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.67,0:12:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find themselves faced with not
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.35,0:12:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,individual struggles and don't need to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.61,0:12:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be dealt with individual
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.68,0:12:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that organizing around those issues not
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.17,0:12:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just protesting not just registering
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.27,0:12:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dissent and not just complaining about
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.59,0:12:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them but something that that could be
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.21,0:12:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done so when this situation presented
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.55,0:12:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself when met cap ridiculously applied
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.30,0:12:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for above guideline rent increases in
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.18,0:12:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,several buildings throughout the
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.59,0:13:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood all at once this rent
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.81,0:13:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike it emerged from from all of that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.84,0:13:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,previous organizing it for sure took the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.17,0:13:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actions of grade tenants in those
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.47,0:13:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings but it had also taken a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.63,0:13:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groundwork to get the neighborhood to a
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.67,0:13:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,point where it was ready for this type
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.20,0:13:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.62,0:13:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.23,0:13:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my cap is one of two large landlords in
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.62,0:13:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood those being Metcalfe
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.27,0:13:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Vicki leus Brent Merrill is the CEO
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.88,0:13:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now of Metcalfe
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.04,0:13:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also directly owned some of the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.20,0:13:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings in the neighborhood he is a
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.18,0:13:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greedy Pig he's not thinking about poor
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.75,0:13:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people he think he and only but himself
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.73,0:13:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they increase in each and every other
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.59,0:13:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rent then really we are facing problems
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.44,0:13:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been here for three years and I've
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.47,0:13:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gotten those rent increases year after
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.18,0:13:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year a lot of the tenants that have been
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.79,0:13:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here for a lot longer than I've been for
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.19,0:13:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decades on top of it from the stories
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.56,0:14:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they've been telling they've been
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.73,0:14:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going through those types of things for
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.55,0:14:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years and years and years has always
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.29,0:14:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been an above guideline rent increase
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.06,0:14:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and above guideline rent increase is an
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.09,0:14:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extra rent increased that landlords are
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.89,0:14:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowed to ask for on top of the annual
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.89,0:14:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provincial guideline the Ontario
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.99,0:14:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government says landlords are allowed a
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.55,0:14:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain amount and when the landlord has
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.50,0:14:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done extra work in the building if they
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.18,0:14:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have done some capital expenditures that
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.58,0:14:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cost a lot of money they're allowed to
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.26,0:14:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pass on these costs to the tenants to a
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.99,0:14:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maximum of nine percent over three years
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.12,0:14:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on top of a guideline amount so there's
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.09,0:14:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea that things are can remain
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.61,0:14:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,affordable because of rent control is
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.32,0:14:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually quite a first one percent on
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.42,0:14:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's say a standard $1000 is about $10
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.69,0:14:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right $15 to 1.5 percent whereas now
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.26,0:14:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're asking for four so $40 a month
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.96,0:14:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it may sound trivial and the small runs
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.54,0:14:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know for some of the people that
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.91,0:14:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in this area it's a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.80,0:14:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blue-collar working-class people and a
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.11,0:15:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of people that just came into the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.76,0:15:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,country you know so some people have to
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.68,0:15:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make decisions on whether they put that
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.93,0:15:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extra money to rent or you know spend
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.69,0:15:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that money on groceries or some other
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.06,0:15:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people it's them staying in the building
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.98,0:15:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not it's not just kind of my personal
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.91,0:15:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,position in it it's knowing that an
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.13,0:15:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire neighborhood and my friends and
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.50,0:15:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that I would call family are
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.21,0:15:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering along with me because they are
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.95,0:15:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unable to pay their rent for these
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.96,0:15:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unrealistic increase
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.46,0:15:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have tried to fight these above
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.47,0:15:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guideline rent increases in the past but
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.42,0:15:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were never winning like the law was
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.98,0:15:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not set up for tenants to win so they
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.93,0:15:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to come up with a new strategy if we
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.12,0:15:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were going to kind of take on the law
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.79,0:15:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the landlord an opinion had started
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.43,0:15:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to form in the neighborhood that we had
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.89,0:15:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had enough
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.64,0:15:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the treatment that we had faced we
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.35,0:15:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had had enough of our neighbors being
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.78,0:15:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushed out of our buildings one by one
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.09,0:15:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month after month and then we were going
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.19,0:15:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do something about it and at the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.20,0:15:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something we were going to do about it
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.73,0:16:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was going to involve direct action and
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.89,0:16:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was not going to be about advocacy it
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.19,0:16:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not going to be about lobbying it
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.96,0:16:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not going to be about raising
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.28,0:16:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awareness because all of those avenues
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.14,0:16:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had failed us rent strike was a tactic
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.21,0:16:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been discussed by various
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.59,0:16:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tenants doing various struggles up until
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.66,0:16:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this point what a critical mass was kind
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.55,0:16:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of achieved where enough people were
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.11,0:16:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about it and the people felt
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.52,0:16:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confident about the experiences that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.81,0:16:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had already been through that they
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.28,0:16:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were willing to take it on it started
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.48,0:16:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 87 Jameson steer the first ones to
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.84,0:16:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go on rent strike we decide to hold back
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.63,0:16:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rent for a certain time and see how
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.24,0:16:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's gonna respond and he wasn't too
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.58,0:16:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy from that more conversation
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.52,0:16:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started in different buildings around 87
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.40,0:16:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jameson liked on the same street in the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.26,0:16:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,same neighborhood to talk about if there
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.17,0:16:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was more people involved in this rent
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.88,0:16:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike if there was more people talking
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.35,0:16:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to each other and organizing then we can
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.51,0:16:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be a lot more effective and taking on
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.07,0:17:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the landlord 87 Jameson have early
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.26,0:17:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hauled off their rent strike and
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.32,0:17:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,initially tenants from that building and
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.39,0:17:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members from Parkdale organize set out
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.52,0:17:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to to make contact with other tenants in
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.98,0:17:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.52,0:17:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the other buildings came on
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.44,0:17:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,board because we had people coming
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.66,0:17:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizing Lobby meetings learning what
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.00,0:17:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've been going through and how what
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.25,0:17:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were suffering through listen to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.50,0:17:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've been going through in my own
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.30,0:17:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building or same thing that I'd seen
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.89,0:17:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other neighbors go through as well just
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.51,0:17:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unresponsiveness from that cab for
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.82,0:17:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me personally it was a pest control
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.74,0:17:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issue and the lack of follow-up by met
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.68,0:17:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cap in terms of cockroaches and mice I
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.68,0:17:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,joined the rent strike because of just
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.30,0:17:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way madcap treats people they took
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.34,0:17:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you like a second-class citizen and I I
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.17,0:17:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just thought it was time for a
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.40,0:17:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,correction in attitude I was happy to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.11,0:17:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,join the rent strike and the fact that
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.91,0:17:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a fantastic community I want to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.16,0:17:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organize I was just like it's time in
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.65,0:17:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March we went to met caps corporate head
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.75,0:17:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,office on Richmond Street I think it was
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.70,0:17:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 70 or 80 of us that went down to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.04,0:17:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,landlord's office all together they
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.90,0:18:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,locked us out they wouldn't take our
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.61,0:18:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,repair request they phoned the police
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.41,0:18:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they told us we were trespassing we
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.48,0:18:25.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,managed to get up to their front door
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.31,0:18:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they they were behind the glass
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.17,0:18:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughing at us that's how they viewed us
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.00,0:18:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not the first time they've been
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.56,0:18:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protested and they thought this was
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.93,0:18:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another flashing pan it would just go
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.61,0:18:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away at this time it didn't go away so
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.95,0:18:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tenants in this neighborhood are used to
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.11,0:18:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having meetings in their Lobby so we
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.27,0:18:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just had a meeting in the landlord's
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.77,0:18:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lobby to talk about like this was really
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.69,0:18:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disrespectful the landlord doesn't even
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.94,0:18:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to speak to their own tenants
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.35,0:18:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not addressing issues they're
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.88,0:18:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legally required to address let's let's
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.00,0:18:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's talk about doing a rent strike in
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.74,0:18:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood meet decide on what the
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.26,0:19:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next steps are providing these rent
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.75,0:19:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increases and forgetting the units
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.55,0:19:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we came here today to Trevor appeal to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.71,0:19:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them as people and they wouldn't even
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.99,0:19:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,address us so clearly the only thing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.21,0:19:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that matters is money so that's probably
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.40,0:19:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the direction we're gonna have to go
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.72,0:19:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a God to do something you got to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.52,0:19:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop because they are indifferent to us
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.50,0:19:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are disrespectful they are
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.95,0:19:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disregarding our concern so we got to go
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.26,0:19:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on land right a ranch site so we came
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.29,0:19:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back tried to think of next steps the
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.23,0:19:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next test was to follow the same line
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.66,0:19:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 87 was on and go on to rhetoric
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.40,0:19:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was a process that involves lots of
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.61,0:19:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,door knocking lots of Lobby meetings
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.31,0:19:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass meetings as well as escalating
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.31,0:19:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actions of engagement against my cat and
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.65,0:19:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest is sort of history now let's
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.98,0:19:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all go to the lobby let's all go to the
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.76,0:20:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lobby let's all go to the lobby to get
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.50,0:20:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ourselves a treat the lobby meetings
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.11,0:20:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were organized I believe by Parkdale
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.06,0:20:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organized a few people would show up and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.79,0:20:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk to us about what the living
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.01,0:20:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditions were like and about the rent
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.81,0:20:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increases we were facing and that way we
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.27,0:20:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started to get to know one another and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.28,0:20:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of explore what was happening and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.92,0:20:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we could do about it
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.33,0:20:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Lobby meetings help the good yet
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.07,0:20:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time to get opinions from different
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.80,0:20:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people different and learn how to
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.30,0:20:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strategize the lobby meeting this is
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.09,0:20:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly what it sounds like they are
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.35,0:20:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the only public spaces in our
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.17,0:20:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings where more than four people
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.18,0:20:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can get
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.86,0:20:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and discuss anything so a lot of times
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.26,0:20:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the building level that's where the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.55,0:20:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meetings take place unreal
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.47,0:20:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk about what's going on and what our
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.90,0:20:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next step on what we plan to do so you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.45,0:20:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could keep anything and it will be very
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.49,0:20:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often they took myself just going around
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.71,0:20:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the building letting people know when
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.69,0:20:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the next Lobby meeting will be you go
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.00,0:20:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around door to door you knock on
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.14,0:20:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people's doors you have conversations
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.67,0:21:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what's been going on with those
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.11,0:21:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people what it is that they think about
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.27,0:21:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it and you set a date for for a number
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.91,0:21:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people to get together from that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.41,0:21:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building and discuss what it is that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.91,0:21:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're gonna do about it you know
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.50,0:21:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obviously when they first started a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.12,0:21:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people were very skeptical like what
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.22,0:21:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this they can be chaotic sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.14,0:21:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's part Dale there's a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.70,0:21:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,characters and everybody has something
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.99,0:21:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say to me it struck me as being a
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.42,0:21:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little bit disorganized at first but I
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.10,0:21:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought this is worth getting involved
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.27,0:21:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in it's become more commonplace for
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.58,0:21:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people in the neighborhood meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.59,0:21:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people starts to know our face so people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.45,0:21:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are automatically in the building start
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.89,0:21:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stopping and start saying hey what's
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.27,0:21:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going on with this will you know what's
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.13,0:21:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the update what's the word it made me
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.69,0:21:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feel I had support going door to door
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.03,0:21:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting out flyers to let people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.88,0:21:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know what we're all about what we're
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.86,0:21:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hoping to gain by the rent strike our
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.22,0:21:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lobby meeting was just a good a good way
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.17,0:21:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get our neighbors connected and get
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.09,0:21:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them informed and make sure that they
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.86,0:21:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew that they weren't alone in the
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.94,0:21:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation some decisions get made their
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.04,0:21:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tops are giving up and then and then
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.32,0:21:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those tasks are carried out and then you
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.15,0:22:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have another Lobby meeting to go over
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.92,0:22:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's taking place and make further
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.78,0:22:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decisions talking to each other trying
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.39,0:22:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get a consensus important thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.76,0:22:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this every can and get involved
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.14,0:22:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inclusive nest
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.72,0:22:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.71,0:22:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the things I enjoyed the most was
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.54,0:22:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the march through Parkdale lots of
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.79,0:22:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support horn honking and people waving
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.16,0:22:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at us the march through Parkdale which a
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.50,0:22:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge amount of people showed up for the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.39,0:22:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,day we marched meeting in front of the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.19,0:22:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,library and staying there with a few of
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.81,0:22:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friends and taking up space and being
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.93,0:22:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loud and unapologetic about the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.39,0:22:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we weren't going to tolerate that
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.94,0:22:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cat's behavior any longer and getting
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.67,0:22:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out into the community and just like
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.04,0:22:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,marching around and just picking up
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.11,0:22:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people as we went along there were so
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.18,0:22:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many actions it kind of took on a life
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.86,0:23:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his own at protesting one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.02,0:23:02.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owners in Forest Hill this morning a few
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.59,0:23:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dozen tenants they boarded a yellow
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.75,0:23:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,school bus and took the protest right to
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.15,0:23:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the front doorstep of one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.92,0:23:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,property owners going to the tribunal
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.13,0:23:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everyone showing up there inside
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.90,0:23:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,court we almost nearly hundred people it
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.43,0:23:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a raucous start at the landlord and
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.29,0:23:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tenant tribunal hearing young and st.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.27,0:23:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clair protesters delay the hearing by
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.82,0:23:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than an hour calling for Metcalfe
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.07,0:23:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give in to their demands
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.69,0:23:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the incident when they tried to
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.19,0:23:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run somebody over the truck incident was
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.74,0:23:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,friend Merrill a protest in June saw
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.08,0:23:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metcalfe CEO Brent Merrill narrowly
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.45,0:23:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avoid hitting a protestor outside one of
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.70,0:23:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his bill
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.54,0:23:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having seen the video now I don't know
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.34,0:24:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it would happen if if I had gone
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.72,0:24:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the car as it goes off to the side
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.43,0:24:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really thought at some point he would
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.69,0:24:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slow down it was really shocking really
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.93,0:24:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shocking you always expect the worst for
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.06,0:24:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metcalfe that just blew me away I mean
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.49,0:24:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was just they just took the cake
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.26,0:24:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that day they had messed up in a massive
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.98,0:24:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way thankfully Kevin was all right but
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.52,0:24:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that moment I just like got them you
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.45,0:24:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know I don't want to make this the
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.62,0:24:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,centerpiece of what's going on today I
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.97,0:24:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think that what needs to happen is that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.56,0:24:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they need to recognize that this
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.12,0:24:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community is not backing down we're not
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.04,0:24:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving not the one force in all the
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.59,0:24:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building not one force everybody that's
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.50,0:24:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the highlight more than anything that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.18,0:24:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collective will and the collective
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.37,0:24:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strength was being fully accessed in
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.30,0:24:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,order to carry this out and that was a
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.50,0:24:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hell of a thing to watch and participate
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.72,0:25:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on my favorite part of the rent strike
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.07,0:25:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the way that it seeped into our
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.77,0:25:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyday lives he didn't feel as alone
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.99,0:25:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the building as you may have before
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.91,0:25:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you knew who was kind of fighting
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.57,0:25:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with you I think it has been like such a
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.73,0:25:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,positive thing for the neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.17,0:25:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing I think neighbors are now way more
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.72,0:25:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open to having conversations for a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.97,0:25:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of us you know I didn't really talk to a
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.29,0:25:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of people in my building before this
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.76,0:25:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it's sort of it brought people
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.67,0:25:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together I started running into people
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.68,0:25:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the street that would say hello to me
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.75,0:25:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I asked about the rent strike and it
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.19,0:25:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just made for a much closer community
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.98,0:25:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah I just helped build a community
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.48,0:25:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite a bit I feel like even those who
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.76,0:25:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not living in madcap tenants were
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.03,0:25:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking what's going on with madcap
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.83,0:25:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's happening now what the decision
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.44,0:25:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it got pretty normal that there would be
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.29,0:25:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an impromptu meeting in the produce
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.30,0:25:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,section of the no-frills
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.44,0:25:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was those those moments that they
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.22,0:25:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were honestly beautiful for me because
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.32,0:26:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so often politics are
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.87,0:26:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just wiped from from our daily lives and
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.69,0:26:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know people might go to a protest on
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.15,0:26:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Saturday you know somewhere that's
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.49,0:26:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like half an hour transit ride from the
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.32,0:26:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,house but this reality of not being able
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.62,0:26:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stand on my balcony not being able to
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.59,0:26:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go out on the street without meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.12,0:26:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone who was in this struggle with me
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.79,0:26:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been thinking about it all day
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.38,0:26:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like me who was worrying about it
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.78,0:26:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was making plans and really that
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.64,0:26:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling that we were in this together
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.47,0:26:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the only time in my life when I
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.35,0:26:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had really felt that level of
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.63,0:26:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,camaraderie with the people who I lived
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.57,0:26:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the people I was surrounded by and
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.46,0:26:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just added this wait this this
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.89,0:26:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,content to both our daily lives and the
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.11,0:26:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,struggle you know we were all at home
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.09,0:26:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking oh my goodness what's the next
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.92,0:26:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing I can do what else can I do to
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.66,0:26:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,help us win because the stakes were so
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.70,0:26:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,high it was so real and people are
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.13,0:26:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really curious about what's going on and
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.10,0:27:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are kind of really hopeful because they
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.51,0:27:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see that the tenants are like making
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.22,0:27:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some really huge wins and like wondering
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.99,0:27:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like well how can we do this in our
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.52,0:27:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building like how can we get involved
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.66,0:27:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people wants to do something and they
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.17,0:27:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like what is happening being the
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.39,0:27:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different people that sort of jumped on
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.13,0:27:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,board along with us social support so
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.11,0:27:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know Queen Victoria all the teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.42,0:27:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there stood out on the block and made a
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.07,0:27:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of noise on the corner of King and
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.99,0:27:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Jameson which is really amazing to
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.42,0:27:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see it hundreds of residents here in
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.88,0:27:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale are heading into their second
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.92,0:27:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month refusing to pay rent in protest of
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.07,0:27:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rent hikes here in Parkdale and now
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.13,0:27:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're getting the support of some
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.75,0:27:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlikely allies in the heart of South
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.42,0:27:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Park dale right at the corner of King
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.86,0:27:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jameson is a huge elementary school
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.69,0:27:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so many of the kids from South Park Dale
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.19,0:27:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to that school
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.12,0:27:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Parkdale elementary school is
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.10,0:27:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by 19 buildings owned by
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.77,0:27:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metcalf living five of them are facing
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.20,0:27:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rent increases above the provincial
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.18,0:28:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maximum conditions of poverty of
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.35,0:28:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,displacement those are things that are
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.46,0:28:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt most strongly by children
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.98,0:28:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the teachers in the schools are very
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.38,0:28:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aware of that they see it in their
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.88,0:28:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,students every day they see when they're
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.80,0:28:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tired they see when they're hungry they
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.66,0:28:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see when they have bed bug bites or when
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.88,0:28:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're afraid that their parents are
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.17,0:28:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to lose their home they see it
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.85,0:28:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the students don't show up at the
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.47,0:28:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next school year because they've been
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.64,0:28:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,displaced from our neighborhood you know
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.35,0:28:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were teachers at Parkdale
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.76,0:28:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elementary who tried to take action when
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.91,0:28:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roma students were being deported on
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.19,0:28:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass from the neighborhood there were
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.90,0:28:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know teachers who have talked about
Dialogue: 0,0:28:33.30,0:28:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the conditions at the school who have
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.01,0:28:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talked about conditions in the
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.15,0:28:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood but it's always a problem
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.19,0:28:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when those actions take the form of just
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.56,0:28:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,advocacy or raising awareness often the
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.95,0:28:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worst conditions that that we face are
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.68,0:28:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that are very legal but are wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.03,0:28:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these above guideline rent increases
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.71,0:28:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been displaced in our
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.42,0:29:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighbors are absolutely legal and what
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.29,0:29:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was so amazing about the support that we
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.41,0:29:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had from teachers in the neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.21,0:29:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was they've seen how this legal regime
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.30,0:29:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of above guideline rent increases has
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.42,0:29:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stripped our our neighborhood of its
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.63,0:29:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working class qualities has forced
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.94,0:29:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class people out of Parkdale and
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.15,0:29:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were willing in fact enthusiastic
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.03,0:29:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the opportunity to support
Dialogue: 0,0:29:23.75,0:29:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class people the parents of
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.04,0:29:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their students in their formation of
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.17,0:29:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class organizations that were
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.42,0:29:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,capable of taking on the things that are
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.61,0:29:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legal but wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.14,0:29:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in Parkdale we're striking tenants
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.48,0:29:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are putting away their protest signs and
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.94,0:29:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,banners now that a three month rent
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.25,0:29:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strike has ended with a negotiated
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.74,0:29:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,agreement with the landlord working
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.87,0:29:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,class people sat down across the table
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.30,0:29:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from people that represented hundreds of
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.36,0:29:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of dollars in capital and
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.73,0:29:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't budge I was there for the
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.62,0:30:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,negotiation process and that cap came
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.90,0:30:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had various employees from
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.29,0:30:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metcalf
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.32,0:30:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when their main investor showed up I
Dialogue: 0,0:30:04.33,0:30:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think our tenon team really walked well
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.39,0:30:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had discussions and meeting before
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.97,0:30:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the negotiations and we we knew what
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.61,0:30:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were up to and we knew our demand
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.98,0:30:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually had one or two representatives
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.69,0:30:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from each building who'd been involved
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.79,0:30:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the rent strike all along each of the
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.49,0:30:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,main buildings that were participating
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.41,0:30:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the rent strike had a couple of
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.79,0:30:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building representatives that kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.29,0:30:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spread information to the rest of their
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.66,0:30:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pens in their building as well as speak
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.76,0:30:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all of the tenants in the building to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.93,0:30:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see what people wanted to do moving
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.64,0:30:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forward the height there were close to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.56,0:30:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,300 people on the rent strike and the
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.32,0:30:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people at the bargaining table were
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.93,0:30:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 20 of us we went in there with
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.97,0:30:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very very firm demands we had to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.01,0:30:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,negotiate courts were not professional
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.56,0:30:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,negotiators so it was quite a learning
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.75,0:30:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience for sure
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.22,0:30:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so Parkdale Community Legal Services
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.26,0:30:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worked with those building
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.55,0:31:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,representatives through negotiations
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.26,0:31:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the landlord and the investment
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.54,0:31:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,person all in all the negotiation
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.40,0:31:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,process of it really really well and it
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.65,0:31:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a very good deal for Parkdale I
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.30,0:31:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would definitely consider this a win I
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.25,0:31:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think the tenants are really going to
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.47,0:31:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to talk about what the winners were
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.30,0:31:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the from these negotiations
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.44,0:31:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfortunately the details are
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.42,0:31:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confidential the numbers are good so
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.76,0:31:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good that Metcalfe has required a gag
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.54,0:31:28.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,order on
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.43,0:31:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the actual specific numbers I would say
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.41,0:31:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we won yes and there's a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.08,0:31:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people with smiles on their faces in
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.76,0:31:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parkdale I think the biggest and most
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.32,0:31:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important result of the red strike is
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.86,0:31:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Rennes strike has been
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.66,0:31:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognized by those that carried it out
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.84,0:31:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a tactic not an end in and of itself
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.92,0:31:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a tactic that's employed by
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.45,0:31:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizing by organizations that are
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.25,0:31:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,developed by working-class people there
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.81,0:31:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a shift socially and politically
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.15,0:32:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underway within this neighborhood and
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.04,0:32:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopefully hopefully outside of the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.05,0:32:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood as well which is that
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.93,0:32:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people are capable of doing things that
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.70,0:32:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are otherwise told by legal
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.13,0:32:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,convention and economic mandate that
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.41,0:32:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they cannot do cheers at a park dale
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.75,0:32:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building as residents mark the end of a
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.18,0:32:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long battle sadly there's no shortage of
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.88,0:32:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things for us to organize around so the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.01,0:32:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lesson that people should take is not
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.14,0:32:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they should move to a few other
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.00,0:32:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhoods in cariocans activity and
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.16,0:32:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other neighborhoods should carry on this
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.96,0:32:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activity different types of problems are
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.73,0:32:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there each and every losing
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.29,0:32:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gentrification is happening all over the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.12,0:32:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,city it's not just in Parkdale so I
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.95,0:32:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think it's important that people get the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.63,0:32:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,message that when you stick together we
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.61,0:32:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a lot more power as a group than we
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.32,0:32:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do as individuals I would suggest that
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.33,0:32:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.20,0:32:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hi rent increases to get together with
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.32,0:32:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their neighbors don't go alone you know
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.81,0:32:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get your neighbors involved he organized
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.79,0:32:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go as one which caused a unified front
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.07,0:32:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get organized meet with people in your
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.14,0:32:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building meet with people outside your
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.79,0:32:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building you're more powerful than you
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.14,0:33:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think a lot of people are really
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.79,0:33:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skeptical I mean I remember back in
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.60,0:33:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March and even an April we're starting
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.82,0:33:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to organize the rent strike like even
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.32,0:33:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the main organizers now we're
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.33,0:33:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you guys are nuts like this is
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.16,0:33:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never going to work
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.97,0:33:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone's they get evicted nobody in
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.04,0:33:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this building wanted to get involved I
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.48,0:33:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the only person some people told me
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.25,0:33:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't watch the boat it doesn't affect
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.14,0:33:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us but now that the rent strikes over
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.63,0:33:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the negotiations
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.98,0:33:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody was everybody just cheering
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.32,0:33:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this on right this is the greatest thing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.69,0:33:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since sliced bread some people are still
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.73,0:33:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calling us iMac so some other and strike
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.37,0:33:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like that Oh y'all did a great job when
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.01,0:33:41.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'all get started how y'all do this how
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.92,0:33:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'all do that you make you feel good but
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.49,0:33:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nation a difference I'm happy we
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.24,0:33:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work out very well
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.44,0:33:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm emboldened by this right people
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.56,0:33:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now even if something that happens next
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.59,0:33:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm having more people with joint
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.51,0:34:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you had that piece of big thing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.82,0:34:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's power in numbers and we had a
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.61,0:34:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loud voice in our voice with hurt that's
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.92,0:34:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what people in the neighborhood have
Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.15,0:34:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learned from this experience is that
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.97,0:34:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while there are individual working-class
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.87,0:34:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that are commendable the strength
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.96,0:34:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and authority that is latent within the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.15,0:34:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working class which annually is
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.92,0:34:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that no other social force can
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.20,0:34:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually touch and it just has to be
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.97,0:34:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organized and that organization takes a
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.98,0:34:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of work the lesson to take is do the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.47,0:34:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work do the organizing carry out the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.51,0:34:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,action win the day and prepare for the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.30,0:34:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next day
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.88,0:35:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.11,0:35:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Laughter]