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“In the second part of my interview with L.A. Tenant Union organizers, Celeste Kessler, Lucio Maldonado, and Paulo Suarez, the organizers show a critical distance from the founding of the Union while engaging with the Union's commitment to base-building, popular power, and the praxis and experimentation of popular education. The organizers talk about a shift in their own praxis from bringing tenants closer to the Union to bringing the Union closer to tenants. This means that the forms and practices of tenant organizing are translated into the material reality of a specific neighborhood where the Union strives to establish a new common sense among residents regardless of the depth of their relationship to the Union.”

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BRINGING THE UNION TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD A Conversation with L.A. Tenant Union Organizers in Koreatown, Part Two

"In the weeks before Christmas, Radio Ultra-red had the opportunity to join a Zoom conversation with three L.A. Tenants Union (LATU) organizers; Celeste Kessler, Lucio Maldonado, and Paulo Suarez. All three are part of the Union’s Koreatown chapter and, for a few years now, have been accompanying tenants with Unión de la 8, a neighborhood committee located in the Oaxaca corridor of Koreatown [. . .].

"In the first part of the conversation with the Koreatown organizers on December 3, 2025, I ask them to give us an image of the Koreatown neighborhood and then to situate themselves as organizers in relation to that neighborhood. Understanding the context and the positions of the organizers helps them to then map the terrain of education as it functions in the community organizing of Unión de la 8."

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IN THE TERRAIN OF EDUCATION A Conversation with L.A. Tenant Union Organizers in Koreatown, Part One