Even as millions of Americans are locked indoors, social protest has found ways to grow with an added urgency.
In the United States, as throughout the world, the struggle for social justice has not been stamped out by the Covid-19 lockdown. On the contrary, the crisis seems to be fueling a powerful wave of activism that’s larger and more radical than the country has seen for years. Many Americans are holding rent strikes and calling for rent freezes from coast to coast. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant is working with local activists to plan a May 1 rent strike to compel landlords and politicians to suspend rent, mortgage, and utility payments in the state of Washington.
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