Eviction resistance

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Eviction resistance is a tactic used by tenants, often through tenants unions, in order to prevent a eviction from being successful. It involves moving furniture that has already been removed from a apartment or home back into the building where the eviction is taking place, and then calling for neighbors, tenants or tenant organizers to actively resist further attempts at eviction by police or marshals. [1]

In the US, this tactic was popularized in the 1930s during the Great Depression, in part by the Communist Party led Unemployed Councils. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Naison, Mark (1986). "From Eviction Resistance to Rent Control: Tenant Activism in the Great Depression". The Tenant movement in New York City, 1904-1984. Internet Archive. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. ISBN   978-0-8135-1203-7.
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