Research Catalog

Title

No trespassing! : squatting, rent strikes, and land struggles worldwide / Anders Corr.

Author

Corr, Anders

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c1999.

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Details

Description

244 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Trata das invasões e conflitos de terra.

Subject

• Squatter settlements
• Low-income housing
• Rent strikes
• Housing policy
• Land use > Government policy
• Squatter settlements > Case studies
• Low-income housing > Case studies
• Rent strikes > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : Grounds for radical action ; Of punks and peasants ; Theory and practice ; When I squatted ; Definitions of movement actions ; Hidden histories of housing ; Rural rebels ; Urban squatting -- Homes Not Jails: the secret success of a squatting movement to house the homeless : Homelessness and the growth of U.S. squatting ; The power and ethics of media-savvy squatters ; First squat: serendipity on Golden Gate Avenue ; Bolt cutters and bicycles: the art of covert squatting ; First public takeover: sleazy slumlord at 250 Taylor ; Public takeovers: the politics of homeless action ; Battling the big boys and winning: Homes Not Jails and religious witness vs. the U.S. Army ; quiet victories: the secret success of Homes Not Jails -- Battling the banana baron: rural Hondurans bloody Chiquita Brands International : The land revolt ; Another day, another dollar: Chiquita evicts again ; Chiquita's criminal conduct ; The chilly history of Chiquita: "Machine-Gun" Maloney and worse ; IMF increases rural poverty in Honduras ; Tacamiche resistance pays off -- Philosophy to squat by: the new challenge to property : Need over property, compassion before accumulation ; Demanding a fair share: squatter ethics of equality ; Squatting expresses personality: suppress squatting, and you suppress personhood ; I worked for it, I get it ; Property makes peace? Ahistorical fences and good neighbors ; Water under the bridge: adverse possession and the drowning of the past? ; Culture, neighborhood, and squatting ; Lazy squatters: the case of dissolute youth -- Tell it to the judge : Direct action and the law ; Direct action grows from frustrated legal change ; Morality and power ; Dual use of law and direct action ; Problems with litigation ; Refusal to litigate -- Violence and cycles of reform : Repression in the United States: Native Americans ; Other U.S. repression: People's Park, Tompkins Square, and rent strikes ; Repression in international context ; Mexican squatters of the 1970s ; Revolutions that evict squatter: Portugal and Nicaragua ; Fear and the deactivation of movements ; Reinvigoration of struggle ; Elasticity of squatting ; Movement use of violence ; Direct action and the birth of revolutionary movements ; Effects of revolution on land and housing movements ; South Africa's rent strike ; Cooptation ; Reform ; The co-op city rent strike, 1975-1976 ; The continuum of struggle --^
• Tactics and mobilization : The primacy of power ; Mass organization, individual power, and reoccupation ; Timing, surprise, and affinity ; Mobilizing support and the ripple effect ; Labor unions ; Intellectuals ; Religious groups ; Pacifists and anti-nuclear activists ; Other land and housing campaigns ; Children in the struggle ; Double-edged swords: using mainstream media ; Erosion of subservience ; Encouraging further direct action ; Diversification of issues -- Conclusion : The future of land and housing movements : Components of change.

ISBN

• 0896085953
• 0896085961

LCCN

^^^98056182^

OCLC

• 40608814
• SCSB-11087846

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library