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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The Connecticut Tenants Union,

or CTTU, is building a model. It has a plan to build strong, organized, militant tenant unions

across their state, and then throughout the country. We are witnessing a nationwide

renaissance of tenant organizing.

This is something I discussed at some length in my last episode with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on their book, Abolish Rent.

It's an episode I encourage you to listen to and a book that I think you should really read.

Across the country, different organizations are trying out different strategies

all over the place. And that's a good thing, because if we all knew how to win, we would have

won already. I, for one, am a gigantic fan of the model that CTTU is developing, and I'm likewise

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