Updates ★WHAT IS VTU? Upendo Umoja Evict ICE! Not Us! If not us, then who? Naming the moment Grant Park YMCA Downtown Local Transitional Housing Read the PDF Printable Version Updates What is VTU? Valley Tenants Union is building poor and working-class power, block-by-block, in the so-called Phoenix Metro area. Landlords organize to profit off unlivable conditions, to get away with their abuses, to raise our rents, to displace us from our homes and even the streets, so we org

Updates ★WHAT IS VTU? Upendo Umoja Comites Working Group Grant Park Eviction Defense Downtown Local Transitional Housing Ordinance G-7467 Read the PDF Printable Version Updates What is VTU? Valley Tenants Union is building poor and working-class power, block-by-block, in the so-called Phoenix Metro area. Landlords organize to profit off unlivable conditions, to get away with their abuses, to raise our rents, to displace us from our homes and even the streets, so we organize a

I conducted this interview with Steve Boese in June, a short time after I first met him in May at Civic Space Park. Steve has a wealth of tech knowledge and a history of lending these skills to the long work of community organizing. One of the websites he was an architect of in  2006, www.beyondexgay.com , provided a safe online space for survivors of religious abuse and conversion therapy to share experiences and resources. In Phoenix, neighbors look to Steve for accurate an

Hello everybody ☺︎✮☺︎ and welcome to November in a city where landlords run rampant like desert rats and our union is taking pest control into our own hands!! 🐁🐁🐁🐁🪤🪤🪤🪤 In october we worked on our same 2025 big goal projects like w our locals/TAs in west & downtown phoenix. Even though we’re working on our Soft Power day in and day out, we could def use more support & organizing energy ALL OVER PHX! Read this newsletter today and then commit to knocking on a few doors