#tennants

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David: One of Job's sons is played by a very promising young actor called Ty Tennant. He's got a great future ahead of him, I hope, because I'm hoping he'll pay for my old folks home when I retire. This is my father-in-law, Peter.

Peter: Hello.

David: And this is my son, Ty. And Peter is playing Ty's father in this particular scene.

[tennantology]

Hey, sorry, let me just move away from you a bit and never talk to you again.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

This is a memorial from Roussay on Orkney to James Leonard, an early tennant organiser. He was ultimately evicted from his land by the infamous landlord Frederick William Traill-Burroughs. Following his eviction, three of his children died of diphtheria. But his work in organising the tennants and giving evidence to the Scottish government ultimately got more protections for the crofters and may have helped prevent other clearances on Orkney.

Despite this he failed to win protection in time for the crofters of Roussay, and the island's population has gone from over 1000 at the time of the clearances to less than 100 today.

James Leonard's words still ring true today: "I am prepared to speak the truth and will not be cowed by landlordism" and "We are under the despotism and terror of the landlord and we want that removed ; even though I should fail in this battle, I will fight it out."

Today, James Leonard's farm stands derelict, and the land he rented unfarmed. Meanwhile, Burrough's grand house was gutted by a fire in the 1980s and also currently stands empty.

[gerudoe]

Please look and see if there's a Tennants union in your city

[anti-patriarchybarbie]

Poster by Art Twink

Being a landlord as a "job" is not a sustainable business model. If they're worried about income during a global crisis, they need a reality check and a healthy dose of accountability that their renters must face every day. Landlords took a risk by betting on being a parasite on the backs of working class families as their retirement plan. If the laborers wages are not secure then their's aren't either. Being a landlord as a business model only motivates them to be unethical in an attempt to increase profit margins. Landlords expect their assets to retain value irrespective of reality and market forces with complete disregard for what is humane. Also, flippers and landlords are essentially gentrifying the neighborhoods they interact with by buying up more homes than they need, many of which are the cheaper fixer-upers or starter homes that young people just starting their families and lives can afford and then creating housing shortages which artificially inflates pricing in the housing market leading to a depressed local economy. More states need to regulate rental properties, institute fair and affordable housing as a human right, and protect working class families and neighborhoods from predatory landlords.

[crumbly-redacted-a]

Get some fucking morals first

[evakilgrave]

Georgia, Georgia The whole day through Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind (c) 🎶