local struggles in world of crashes
This is a follow-up to the article
The New Joads: Trying to Survive in the Spectacle-Commodity Society
written by another participant in the project:
On Saturday April 5 four friends and I went to the homeless encampment in Sacramento, California and built a simple pit latrine. With all the media attention this camp has received, and all the [...]
Two US comrades investigate the tent city in Sacramento, California
I’ll be around in the dark. I’ll be ever’where. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad…An’ when our folks [...]
As a result of the crises of gentrification, housing and now foreclosures, Take Back the Land has been liberating public and foreclosed land and homes since 2006.
“What is called the “subprime mortgage crisis” reflects a fundamental crisis in the housingsystem of the United States. Subprime mortgages are mortgages given to borrowers whose incomes or credit ratings or the equity in whose property does not justify a conventionalmortgage at the prevailing interest rate on prevailing terms. Instead, subprime [...]