Reportback: Albany Park Tenants Union Struggle Against Landlord

By: Comrade Edith The Eastwood Tenants Union (ETU) is currently engaged in a struggle against their property management company, City Habitat, after management raised rents by over 3x previous rates. Tenants have had enough and are fighting back due to the retaliatory nature of these increases. While management claims they are hiking up the rent due to “taxes” and “changing market value”, the tenants firmly … Continue reading Reportback: Albany Park Tenants Union Struggle Against Landlord

HOAP Report Back: Paper Tiger Alan Coyle Threatens to Sue and the Reactionaries at Allied Law

FTP-Chicago (Opportunist lawyer Colin Nguyen, gentrifier Alan Coyle, and running dog Nicholas Antonacci) This report highlights some of the most recent struggles of the Hands Off Albany Park movement and the pathetic attempts to destroy it on part of the targeted enemies, in particular developer Platinum Homes and it’s owner Alan Coyle. We wanted to be thorough in our report to expose the cowardice of … Continue reading HOAP Report Back: Paper Tiger Alan Coyle Threatens to Sue and the Reactionaries at Allied Law

Hands Off Albany Park: Gentrifiers Try to Infiltrate Meeting

FTP-Chicago On Sunday May 23rd, two cronies of capitalist Alan Coyle were booted from a Hands Off Albany Park organizing meeting by FTP and Albany Park – Organizing Committee (AP-OC) members. The meetings are open to all those who unite with the campaign to fight for the struggling masses of Albany Park and to identify the class enemies of the people. They are not a … Continue reading Hands Off Albany Park: Gentrifiers Try to Infiltrate Meeting

FTP-Chicago and AP-OC Hold “Hands Off Albany Park” People’s Forum

FTP-Chicago On May 2nd, For The People – Chicago and its mass organ, the Albany Park – Organizing Committee, held their first people’s forum to discuss the current advancements of gentrification in the neighborhood and publicly initiate the Hands Off Albany Park campaign. FTP and AP-OC members and volunteers canvassed throughout the neighborhood for the People’s Forum and invitations were sent out to supporters. Attendees … Continue reading FTP-Chicago and AP-OC Hold “Hands Off Albany Park” People’s Forum

“Operation End of the Line”: Pig Violence Aids Gentrification in Rogers Park, and Block Club Chicago Propagandizes It

FTP-Chicago (Rogers Park) A wave of violent suppression continues in Rogers Park. Around 11 AM on Thursday, April 1st, the Chicago Police Department swept across Howard Street, indiscriminately arresting anyone and everyone they came across. Approximately 38 people were grabbed off the street and taken to Cook County Jail. They call this “Operation End of the Line,” and bill it as a response to a … Continue reading “Operation End of the Line”: Pig Violence Aids Gentrification in Rogers Park, and Block Club Chicago Propagandizes It

Chicago Man Killed In Front of Family By Pigs

By Joe O’Ceallaigh CHICAGO: On Thursday, January 2nd, Thirty year old father Mariano Ocon Jr., was murdered after a traffic stop on the city’s Northwest side in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, from gunshot wounds caused by Chicago Pig gun fire. Police pulled over Ocon on the 6000 block of West Wellington Avenue at 12:30 PM for an unknown reason. Witnesses say Ocon stepped out of … Continue reading Chicago Man Killed In Front of Family By Pigs