Beschreibung:
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.
1 Turning statistics into people: From sick talk to the politics of solidarity2 What dumpstered soup tells us about violence, charity, and politics
3 Parks, permits, and riot police: Understanding the politics of public space occupations and negotiated management policing between the city of San Francisco and Food Not Bombs
4 The war against the homeless: Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless politics in San Francisco
5 The Homeless fight back: The politics of homeless resistance
6 Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation: Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification
7 Towards an anarchist "Right to the City"
Coda: Theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance
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