With Women in Exile & Friends against the camp system and racism On 4 August 2021, Women in Exile & Friends will return from their annual summer bus tour, this time to Hamburg, Bremen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. We will welcome them…
Tenants’ protest picnic against displacement at Südstern
The new tenants’ initiative “RUND UM DIE HASENHEIDE” (“around Hasenheide”)(Berlin-Kreuzberg/Neukölln) will be publicly constituted on Friday, 2 July, at 4:30 pm. The tenants will gather at Südstern for a joint protest picnic against rising rents, displacement and real estate speculation…
Frankfurt Tenants’ Union: Local leaders as key for organising
Not only in Berlin, but also in other cities, tenants and activists are trying to build tenants’ unions. We want to document their first steps, how they work and what they have already achieved. Because we can learn a lot…
Blaczko tenants fight back against bad rental practice and harassment!
Questionable tenancy agreements, permanent construction sites, harassment – the Blaczko property management company has worked hard to earn its bad reputation. Now tenants in 25 Berlin buildings are organising themselves and have founded the “Blaczko Tenants’ Initiative” together with us.…
IT Working Group in the making
You are against high rents and for a city from below? You have IT knowledge or interest in the topic? Then this could be something for you: The IT working group of the Mieter:innen Gewerkschaft Berlin is looking for new…
After Heimstaden sprint, union-building marathon continues
After November and December were strongly marked by our fight against Heimstaden, our initiative has now started the new year a bit more quietly. In this article we want to give you an overview of what has been going on…
Vote self-organisation!
Call for the block of the Mieter:innengewerkschaft Berlin for the demonstration against displacement and rent madness on March 27. Three years ago, we, the residents of this city, took to the streets for the first time in thousands to protest…
Heimstaden can swim home – we take action!
When we officially founded our association on September 18th 2020, we were determined to take on our first small rent battle. One that wasn’t too big for us but that we could grow from. So, we decided to support the…
Between initiative founding, first organizing and Corona
In the last few days, everything happened very quickly. Only four weeks ago, we founded ourselves as an initiative, and we have already arrived at the militant practice. Because the organization of the tenants from the houses, which landed only…
Media coverage of the initiative (Oct-Nov)
In the last few weeks, we have had a lot to do with organizing around the Heimstaden deal, and there has also been a lot of media coverage. But the actual union initiative is also increasingly finding a place in…