Translations for „rent strike“ in the English » Chinese Dictionary

rent strike N

rent strike

集体抗租 jítǐ kàngzū

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English

Much more similar action is needed before all the lost confidence can be restored and widespread rent strikes can once more be effectively campaigned for.

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When the receiver took over, she states in a report, one of the buildings was on a nearly complete rent strike.

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In the mid-sixties, she picketed her own building when her landlord turned off her heat during a rent strike.

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As a result of this rent increase, there was a popular backlash against the landlords and a rent strike was initiated.

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Ab, who now owes her landlord over $102,000, claims she began her rent strike after not having heat in the gallery for four months last winter.

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This also led to large-scale immigrant protest movements, from the migrant workers' rent strikes in the 1970s to the hunger strikes and occupations by second-generation immigrants in the 1980s.

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It was also described as cruel, as new rent strikes would inevitably result in more evictions and boycotting as before, with all the associated intimidation and violence.

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From sit-ins and freedom rides we have gone into rent strikes, boycotts, community organization, and political action.

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It tried to organise a national rent strike.

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Tenant farmers had started a rent strike against absentee landlords who cared little about their estates.

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