Cooking up a revolution by Sean Parson (Hardback Book)

Name: Cooking up a revolution by Sean Parson (Hardback Book)
Brand: Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press

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 \u2018providing food without a permit.\u2019 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.\nThese actions beg the\n\nCooking up a revolution\nFood Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using;