HELP US MAKE SIGNS FOR AN EMERGENCY RALLY - Meet by the Joan of Arc Statue!

A tenant at Channel Square Apartments (325 P Street SW) was arrested for attending a tenant union meeting in her own building. As residents gathered to discuss unsafe conditions — including rodents, mold, plumbing issues, and lack of heat — property management called the police. They used a previously issued “barring notice” to justify arresting a tenant leader for entering the building’s common space to meet with her neighbors. This barring notice was not issued by a judge, meaning the landlord got to play judge, jury, and executioner with a tenant that has been vocal about building condition issues.

This is not the first time. A tenant leader at Marbury Plaza received the same barring notice, which prevented the tenant union from meeting on property for months.

This is retaliation. This is union-busting. It's a direct attack on the District's Right to Organize law.

And if they can do it to one tenant, they will try to do it to all of us.