Description
Product ID: | 9781526107350 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Contemporary Anarchist Studies |
Title: | Cooking Up a Revolution |
Subtitle: | Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification |
Authors: | Author: Sean Parson |
Page Count: | 160 |
Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Political science and theory, Law and society, sociology of law, Human geography, Political science & theory, Law & society, Human geography |
Description: | During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. This 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. -- . On Labor Day in 1988 two hundred hungry and homeless people went to Golden Gate Park in search of a hot meal. There, fifty-four activists from Food Not Bombs, surrounded by riot police, lined up to serve them food. The following arrests proceeded like an assembly line; an activist would scoop a bowl of food and hand it to a hungry homeless person, a police officer would handcuff and arrest that activist, immediately the next activist in line would take up the ladle, scoop and be promptly arrested. By the end of the day all fifty-four activists had been arrested for ‘providing food without a permit.’ These arrests were not an aberration but part of a multi-year campaign by the City of San Francisco against radical homeless activists in an attempt to remake the city. |
Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-12-05 |