Housing

Full-color illustrated catalog of the exhibition HOME at the artist-run non-profit art space ROOT DIVISION in San Francisco, featuring 30 artists in all media, with essay by curator Liena Vayzman.  read more »

by Yolanda Ward

"How could it have been possible for the surgical demolition operations in the minority neighborhoods of the cities to be so identical in all major American cities? Could any organization other than the Pentagon have done this?"

The United States’ most populous state, California is the world’s eighth largest economy. The state has some of the planet’s most productive farmland and in the 1990s enjoyed an extensive real-estate boom. But intensive, industrialised agriculture has polluted much of the environment and now, with more foreclosed homes than anywhere else in the world, it is also home to a growing number of tent cities. Gifford Hartman takes us on a road trip through California’s Central Valley to witness the toxicity: of mortgages and ecosystems, houses, drugs and human relations.

Using Space is a zine about squats, social centres and alternative ways of living.

Issue four features a visit to a squatted land project in central Amsterdam, the UK national squat meet in Bristol, a rumination on social centres, a large squatting action in Sweden, a fotoreport from the Dutch national squatting day and some recycled newspaper reports.

A5, b&w, 36 pages inc. cover

This is a template zine for organizing your neighborhood to resist gentrification. Just add in your local contact information.

Helpful for neighborhoods at all stages of gentrification.

Space Wars was released in October 2008 and includes discussions on graffiti, squatting in the woods and the city, liberating space and more.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/spacewarsfinal-web.pdf (15.1 mb)

Living Learning is the collected notes from an extraordinary series of discussions between militants of two key movements in contemporary South Africa, Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Rural Network. When, in late 2008, they made the decision to publish them, these authors explained that “this Living Learning is a living testimony and a record of how we made reflections and distinctions about what we face in life and in our learning. Living Learning is part of a living politics”.

[rent is theft]

this zine is free.

January 2009

SLUMLORD issue #1 (summer 2009) is a project that takes aim at a landlord in Portland Oregon for the purpose of demonstrating how people coerced into rental situations (due to lack of access to land outside of the control of the capitalist occupation military) can resist the exploitive relationship implicit in rent through the use of research and organization.
Issue #1 includes some characteristics of landlord Howard Willett in his own words, some analysis of landlordism, some history of the area discussed (north and northeast Portland), and a brief guide to some tenants' rights.  read more »

A zine (kind of) about affective delire.

Drifts and Care...

Love,

Yadira

~an info packed guide on housing water food health & other random stuff * living as though the system is down & falling~

French cities burst back into flames after President Sarkozy’s election on a ‘clean the scum off the streets with a high-pressure hose’ ticket. It won’t be the last time, as long as the factors necessitating the mass revolt of November 2005 remain in place, in France and elsewhere. This text, based on Emilio Quadrelli’s interviews in the Paris banlieues during and after the 2005 events, overthrows the whole spectrum of slurs against the racialised, pathologised racaille.  read more »

Rozsah tohoto čísla zpravodaje je 6xA5, najdete tu dlouhý text o Miladě, texty o útoku na DIY Guide, o nově vzniklém autonomním centru Cibulka, o Infokampani na severu, krátké postřehy ze zahraničí: rioty v Kodani, akce v Helsinkách, v Oslu nebo situace polského Rozbratu. V rubrice akce je program Milady a info o vaření FNB v Praze, Brně a v Hradci. Číslo uzavírá komix o psu Baskervillském.
Pro ty, kdo tisknou: strany 3 (s ležící kostrou) a 4 (nadpis Odjinud) jsou na malé A5, která je vložená uvnitř Info Usurpa (A4).

cracking the system - a zine inspired by the april2008 initiative

what links a bomb shelter in russia, a shop in the netherlands, a monumental building in germany, a house in geneva, a villa in greece?

the squatting movement, that's what! all over the world people squat to create residential and social space. in europe, despite increasing repression, autonomous centres still exist in many places and even more are being born.  read more »