Amram

Twenty-two years at the same warehouse. Replaced, essentially, in a single afternoon. I poured him a drink and listened, because that was the only thing I actually had to offer.…

I went in expecting a fairly simple story about a bad landlord. What I actually heard was messier, and more useful, than that. Sat in on a tenants union meeting…

The wage theft happened to me directly. Removing the personal stake felt, at first, like being asked to lie about why the piece existed at all. Spent most of today…

We raised more money in one night than I expected. I am still angry that raising it was ever necessary at all. Our bar hosted a genuinely chaotic, genuinely wonderful…

We voted on it as a staff, ran it for thirty days, and the outcome didn’t split cleanly along the lines any of us expected going in. Our bar wrapped…

Solidarity is a genuinely difficult practice to maintain when your own rent is due Friday Tuesday. Tenant union meeting tonight in the basement of the co-op, twenty-three of us on…

Four thousand dollars raised and the whole room broke into genuine cheering, not polite applause Thursday. DJ set tonight at the collective’s monthly fundraiser, three hours behind the decks raising…

Years of scattered fieldwork suddenly cohered into something with an actual spine Sunday. Wrote for six hours on the actual dissertation today, a chapter on mutual aid network resilience that…

Twenty-three testimonies now sit permanently in the official record for every future tenant fight Tuesday. City council public comment session tonight, the tenant union’s turn finally arriving after weeks of…

The review clause already becomes the next fight’s opening line before the celebration ends Friday. The council vote happened today, a month of waiting resolving in an actual meeting that…