Cracking The Movement

Squatting Beyond the Media

Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal

Amoral tales of autonomous action and adventure from within the Dutch squatters' movement of the 1980s. Playful, clever, violent and bizarre sides of squatting are uncovered by theory and narrative...

No Trespassing!

Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide

Anders Corr

People all over the world are reclaiming unused buildings and land, regardless of who "owns" them. Here is a fantastic overview of where such struggles against private property are being waged, and...

June 13 1/2

Queens Park Riot Defendants

Following the policy viciously attacking a multi-racial demonstration on June 15th 2000, by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, more than 500 charges were laid against members of the...

India Divided

Diversity And Democracy Under Attack

Vandana Shiva

Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. She describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new...

Poor Workers' Unions

Rebuilding Labor From Below

Vanessa Tait

Domestic workers. Undocumented immigrants. Workfare laborers. Long regarded by traditional trade unions as "unorganizable," these and millions of other poor workers are becoming the new face of...

East End 1888

William J Fishman

East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack...

No More Prisons

On Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, Hitchhiking as Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy is the the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century!

William Upski Wimsatt

Having Bombed the Suburbs, Upski is now tearing down prison walls, both the walls of the concrete monsters popping up like mushrooms across the country and the other institutions which surround us....

The Moral Underground

How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson

"I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make."—Supervisor of a fast-food pizza placeHere is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who...

Survival Without Rent

Anonymous

An urban squatting manual from NYC, possibly originally written in 1986, this pamphlet is still practical today. Sections include "How to Form a Group," "Finding a Building," "Getting In,"...