‘That’s when they got rid of me’ When Thompson was evicted, she figured she’d need a lawyer if she was to contest it, something she couldn’t afford. So she just accepted that she’d have to leave. “I didn’t have a fight in me,” she says. “It was deep COVID t...
This betrayal was a classic example of the cooptation of one part of the movement combined with the intensification of repression against the remainder. The prefect repeated many times during the buildup to the first wave of evictions that she would only evict the houses near the road. During ...