Areas of work
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Zohran’s performative “Rental Rip-Off Hearings” ignore the city’s largest slumlord: NYCHA
In Zohran’s latest performance of empty promises, the administration had announced ‘Rental Ripoff Hearings’, forums in which “New Yorkers across all five boroughs are given a direct platform to share their housing experiences in one-on-one conversations with City officials and help shape housing policy”.…
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Fatal Gas explosion at Boston Secor Houses leaves one dead and more than a dozen people injured
Saturday, January 24th, at midnight, a gas line exploded in the Boston Secor Houses, a privatized NYCHA building under notorious PACT slumlord, Wavecrest Management. This explosion follows the gas explosion at the Mitchel Houses in the South Bronx in October. After the Mitchel explosion,…
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There have been 16,000 Housing code violations at PACT developments since 2021
Since 2017 NYCHA has broadcasted PACT – Permanent Affordability Commitment Together – as the all encompassing solution to repairing the buildings NYCHA let fall into disrepair. Today there are around 25,000 apartments under PACT at 564 addresses throughout the 5 boroughs. THE CITY newspaper…
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Democrats Run New Britain for the First Time in 12 Years, But What Will Actually Change?
Some people see Bobby Sanchez’s win as a sign of change to come and are cautiously hopeful. Many forget that nothing fundamentally changed the last time a “blue wave” swept across America in 2020. We can’t say for certain what will happen over the…
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Why Does Dare to Struggle Take Aim at the US Left?
In the United States, millions of people face grinding oppression from the capitalist system, and we’re not doing enough to try to stop it.
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Send Killer Cop Lunsford to Prison!
In August 2022, Las Cruces Police Officer, Brad Lunsford, shot Presley Eze in the back of the head. This public execution of a Black man made Eze one of the 32 people whose lives were stolen by police in NM that year. What is…
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Putting Top Donors of the FSC on Notice: What Side Are You On?
Endless Neglect and Exhausted Solutions The Friendship Service Center (FSC) shelter in New Britain is grossly mismanaged, mistreating its clients while the executives make 6-figure salaries. We’ve been hearing about this from people inside for years, and have been documenting it in our Oppression…
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Fri Oct 10th 9:30AM: First Day in Court for 3 Activists Arrested for Protesting
The first court date for the New Britain 3 is on Friday October 10th. We are lawyered up and ready to fight these bogus charges until they are dropped!If you believe in the right to protest, then stand with us at 9:30 for our…
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Dare to Struggle CT is Undeterred by New Britain Police’s Intimidation and Surveillance
On Thursday, July 31, Dare to Struggle CT held an impromptu protest after getting kicked out of the Assembly Room restaurant in New Britain for bringing in homeless activists. The Assembly Room called the police on us two times, but the cops left each…
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OPD is Covering Up the Hanging of a Black Man: We Demand Answers Now!
On June 30, 2025 a Black man was found hanging from a tree in Dimond Canyon, at Bridgeview trail in Oakland, CA. Within an hour and a half of “Preliminary Investigation” the Oakland Police Department (OPD) and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) were…
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