Nick Ballard
@_NickBallard
Head Organiser at @ACORNunion. Opinions my own, retweets & likes not endorsements. Just a good lad trying my best.
The people who tell you rent controls don’t work/aren’t needed are the same people lining their pockets from this!
“The pressure has led to some tenants making decisions about jobs based on rent in the area, and parents who are helping their grown-up children with living costs.” When rent dictates your career and your parents are your safety net - the system is broken. We need rent controls…
We see this again and again and again. They think your deposit is theirs to keep by default. That’s why we have to be organised and fight back.
This is just attempted theft. Plain and simple.
This is a moral stain on the soul of humanity. When we look back in the future, anyone with a shred of decency will ask themselves and anyone they ever meet - did we do enough. And the answer will be no. So get up off your fucking knees and fight back against this.
Gaza.
Day in, day out, we keep our members in their homes. There is power in our communities. We just have to build it!
Huge vibes at the Eviction Resistance in Spon End✊Abdoubaiyda & family were meant to be booted out their home by the agent but ACORN members stepped up to stop it! We're still organising negotiation meetings with the agent so we need members ready to act🙌
“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
1/3 of people in Gaza haven’t eaten for several days in a row. Huge swathes of the population are facing famine conditions. But this isn’t a famine. It’s forced starvation at the hands of the Israeli death machine. It’s genocide. And our government is complicit.
Welcome to amateur hour.
We The Curious bosses start smear campaign against ACORN! After our action, CEO Donna Speed emailed accusing us of being "intimidating" & treating visitors with "aggression". Then, anonymous accounts started making the same accusations online This shows what REALLY HAPPENED
🇵🇸 A message from @PSCC_Palestine: “Do not underestimate whatever actions you are doing for Palestine. Every single action is watering us and fostering our resolve. Because we know we are challenging the empires and capitalism all over the world.” bristol247.com/news-and-featu…
“War on landlords” and it’s just basic fundamental regulation. Let me get my tiny violin out.
Landlord propagandists live in a completely different reality to the rest of us.
Place First is a massive property developer spanning the entire country. They thought they were too big to be defeated. But when a community comes together and gets organised, there’s nobody we can’t beat💪
🎉 Announcing a HUGE WIN in @AcornLiverpool’s Welsh Streets campaign, with hundreds of households winning an 80% reduction in a planned massive rent hike…
They have to lie and misrepresent the facts because reality is not on their side. Rent controls now!
Rent control opponents just come on the internet and lie. Rent in Buenos Aires, in 2025, has increased by 16.3%, which is ABOVE the (already shocking) 14.7% inflation rate. This is a 45.5% cumulative increase in the recent 12 month period.
This desperate, criminal government can ban an organisation, stamp on our civil liberties & try to take away our freedom but as long as people stay strong, they will never succeed. Peaceful direct action is not terrorism. Resist, fight back, hold the line. Take back what’s ours.
We are all @Pal_action
Rent control opponents just come on the internet and lie. Rent in Buenos Aires, in 2025, has increased by 16.3%, which is ABOVE the (already shocking) 14.7% inflation rate. This is a 45.5% cumulative increase in the recent 12 month period.
Today Labour MP Jon Pearce spoke in favour of banning @Pal_action as a terrorist group & he smeared them as antisemitic As @zarahsultana subsequently pointed out, he forgot to declare hes chair of Labour Friends of Israel & accepts gifts funded by pro Israeli lobby organisations
Just a snapshot of what our members have been up to in June 🔥 🧵 ⬇️
After a persistent and brave 18 month campaign, ACORN members in Barton House, Bristol are now very close to a huge victory in their fight for justice. Please watch the video below and complete the consultation👇
🚨 We're close to a HUGE win! 🚨 After campaigning for justice for Barton House for a year and a half since the chaotic evacuation, we're now urging everyone to complete BCC's consultation to secure housing for the victims of this crisis. ⬇️Consultation guidance below ⬇️
Is Barton Hill Disabilities Group in the room with us now, @BristolCouncil ? 🤔
Is Barton Hill Disabilities Group in the room with us now, @BristolCouncil ? 🤔