Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification

by Parson, Sean
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ISBN: 9781526148025
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Overview

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Parson, Sean
  • ISBN: 9781526148025
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 0.34
  • Number Of Pages: 192
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English

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