Squatting in Europe

Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles

Squatting in Europe Kollective

Squatting offers a radical but simple solution to the crises of housing, homelessness, and the lack of social space that mark contemporary society: occupying empty buildings and rebuilding lives...

Stay Solid!

A Radical Handbook for Youth

Matt Hern

This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes,...

Take Back the Land e-book

Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Max Rameau

In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...

Take Back the Land

Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Max Rameau

In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...

The Almighty Black P Stone Nation

The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang

Natalie Y. Moore

This exposé investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven...

Killing the Poormaster

A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

Holly Metz

On February 25, 1938, in the early days of the welfare system, the reviled poormaster Harry Barck—wielding power over who would receive public aid—died from a paper spike thrust into his heart....

Back to Full Employment

Robert Pollin

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin...

Hungry for Peace

How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not Bombs

Keith McHenry

Food Not Bombs has proven to be an effective project for social change. Hungry For Peace passionately makes the case that we should take action to end hunger, poverty and war providing...

The Housing Monster

Prole

The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal...