FKA Bornstein & Bornstein

June 17
24 mins

View Transcript

Episode Description

A monologue revisiting a Truthout piece I wrote back in 2014 for this solo episode and stroll down memory lane featuring a Gay Shame action, crying in eviction court, and one of eviction lawyer Daniel Bornstein's boring-ass webinars where he explains the tricks of his trade.

Daniel (who runs Bornstein Law—formerly known as Bornstein & Bornstein) is a white guy who's used his adopted Black kids as a cynical marketing tool, and describes landlords as the state's "whipping boy." He counsels his clients on the best ways get around tenant laws so they can smoothly empty their properties of lower-income people, and jack up the rent till life is unaffordable for everyone except Zionist property owners like himself. 

Truthout: Tutors in the Fine Art of Eviction Under Fire in San Francisco

Gay Shame documentation of a direct action at the Bornstein & Bornstein offices, then located off Polk Street

Bornstein Law's webinar: Creating Vacancy Without an At Fault Eviction

'Villain' eviction attorneys Bornstein & Bornstein break up, sue each other (Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez in SF Examiner)

Oakland landlords hold rally demanding end to eviction moratorium (CBS News)

Bay Area Legal Aid (free lawyers for tenants)

Eviction Defense Collaborative (also free lawyers for tenants)

See all episodes