Building an autonomous tenants movement in Los Angeles School of Echoes Los Angeles   Tenants are the new proletariat. Rents are among the main sources of global capital accumulation, and tenants’ vulnerability is increasing accordingly. Using their shared experiences as a basis for struggle, School of Echoes tells the story of community organizing against gentrification, taking issue with the misleading discourse of affordability and the institutionalized housing movement.   ‘For Kléber [Ramírez Rojas]…building communal power meant dissolving political power into the community itself; it meant a broadening of democracy in which the communities will assume the fundamental powers of the state’ From Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Ciccariello-Maher ‘Being in a tenants association taught me how