Cooking Up a Revolution - Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification Parson SeanPevná vazba
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…
Specifikacia Cooking Up a Revolution - Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification Parson SeanPevná vazba
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.These actions beg the question: why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In