No Trespassing!: Squatting, Rent Strikes and Land Struggles Worldwide Book

In No Trespassing! Anders Corr offers an international study on how people have taken over vacant buildings and unused land-and why it's a good idea. Personal research grounds Corr's writing, including a detailed study of fired banana plantation workers in Honduras whose homes, churches, and schools were bulldozed by Chiquita Brands International. In 1998, this small community forced the Cincinnati-based multinational to allot alternate land, rebuild homes and infrastructure, and provide for new self-managed business collectives. Corr also provides a vivid, insider's portrait of the San Francisco squatting organization Homes Not Jails, taking his readers along as activists wield crow-bars and savvy social skills to open vacant buildings and house dozens of homeless people every night. Based on examples from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the United States, No Trespassing! offers timely insight not only for activists and academics interested in a global perspective on land and housing, but for everyone searching for strategies of social change and sources of popular revolt. Read More