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Thousands of tenants started a mass rent strike in New York

117
years ago

26 December 1907,

10,000 tenants started an income strike in New York. Faced with the risk that many neighbors would be left homeless, the young worker Pauline Newman and the Self-Sufficient Women group stopped paying the rent. Despite not meeting the goal, they knit the neighborhood's network of women.

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