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The majority of tenants in the Cosmopolitan Houses complex in Woodside, Queens have joined a rent strike that hopes to enlist upwards of one million New Yorkers, set to begin May 1, organizers told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
Strikers in New York are expected to be joined by groups in Philadelphia, Chicago, multiple California cities and elsewhere across the US.
Led by the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, the New York rent-strike movement has brought together an impressive coalition of tenants' rights and labor groups to petition for a total suspension of all payments for the duration of Governor Andrew Cuomo's 'New York Pause' order, which has brought the state's normally-bustling economy to a standstill and thrown millions into unemployment. They also want a $10 billion investment in affordable housing, to include improving the quality of existing public housing, repurposing vacant properties into permanent housing for the homeless, and topping up the budget for subsidized housing.
Just 55.7 percent of New Yorkers surveyed by PropertyNest expected to be able to pay their rent "as usual" come May 1, though a sizable percentage more (15.8 percent) planned to borrow the money, pay late, or work out other agreements with their landlords.
"Everyone knows that Trump has a bizarre infatuation with Russia's autocratic leader and that Trump constantly plays into Putin's hands."
Comment: Their strategy seems to be: make an example of prominent and popular writers/journalists to frighten all others into silence or submission. First they came for Assange, now they're 'spreading their wings' to target dissenters of all stripes.
While internal British issues like 'Brexit' and Scottish secession may have motivated the prosecution of Murray, it strikes us that it's more likely Murray came on the Clinton gang's radar for his hints that he has evidence concerning who and how exactly the Podesta and DNC emails were sent to Wikileaks in 2016...