Rent Striking to Save the South Bronx

Working Class Heroes Radio

This show kicks off a month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants. On this week's show, Julian Guerrero speaks with the South Bronx Tenants Movement's main tenant organizer, Manny Pardilla, about the housing crisis plaguing the Bronx before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, their ongoing rent strike to save the South Bronx from widespread landlord neglect and why the Bronx is a ticking time bomb. Music credit: In Every Ghetto - Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, Rapsody Glamour Life - Big Punisher Hero - Michael Kiwanuka 7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan