NYC Mayor DOUBLES DOWN On Calling Tenants Rights Activist A 'Plantation Owner'

After New York City Mayor Eric Adams said 84-year-old tenants rights activist Jeanie Dubnau acted like a "plantation owner" when she criticized his non-action on rent hikes, he decided to double-down on the comment. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. https://shoptyt.com/collections/justice-is-coming

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Read more HERE: https://www.newsweek.com/eric-adams-new-york-rent-increases-plantation-owner-1810822#:~:text=Eric%20Adams%20Called%20Me%20a%20Plantation%20Owner%20for%20Defending%20Tenants,-Jeanie%20Dubnau%20AND&text=Jeanie%20Dubnau%20and%20Michael%20Hollingsworth%20are%20tenant%20organizers%20in%20New,of%20the%20Rent%20Justice%20Coalition.

"I have been a tenant organizer with the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association in Washington Heights, NYC, since the 1970s.

This community is mainly Latino, with most of the people coming from the Dominican Republic. It is a low-income community and the people who do have jobs work in low-paying jobs like home attendants."

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