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This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human landscape of one of America’s most storied bohemias. In over fifty chapters, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Christopher Mele, John Macmillan, Jim Feast, Al Orensanz, Allan Antliff, Lynn Stewart, Thomas McEvilly, Frank Morales, and many others cover topics ranging from the early settlement houses and sweatshops to squatters, rioters, artists, ...

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This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human landscape of one of America’s most storied bohemias. In over fifty chapters, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Christopher Mele, John Macmillan, Jim Feast, Al Orensanz, Allan Antliff, Lynn Stewart, Thomas McEvilly, Frank Morales, and many others cover topics ranging from the early settlement houses and sweatshops to squatters, rioters, artists, activists and organizers. Resistance is jam-packed with fascinating first-person accounts of the battles, triumphs, failures, and lives of a neighborhood that is rapidly being lost to gentrification.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781583227459
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • Publication date: 11/15/2006
  • Pages: 638
  • Sales rank: 841,054
  • Product dimensions: 8.58 (w) x 10.87 (h) x 1.33 (d)

Meet the Author

Canadian-born CLAYTON PATTERSON is a photographer, artist, community activist, and outlaw historian. He lives and works on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Table of Contents


Foreword: Resistance: A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side   Jeff Ferrell     ix
Intros
Intro   Clayton Patterson     xiii
Intro - Welcome to Our Resistance: The What and Why of the Tompkins Square Park Rebellion   Alan W. Moore     xxi
The Center of the Fringe World   Richard Kostelanetz     xxxvi
History
Revolution Elsewhere   Al Orensanz     1
The Origins of Loisaida   Fred Good     21
Twenty One Years on the Lower East Side   Thomas McEvilley     37
Making Art and Policing Streets   Christopher Mele     40
Beginning My Political History   Lynne Stewart     48
Lynne Stewart: Convicted: A "Chilling Effect" for Legal Community   Bill Weinberg     51
Homelessness and the Lower East Side   Joe Flood     55
Documenting the Italian-America Civil Rights League   Aldo Tambellini     65
The Midnight Demolition of 172 Stanton Street   Steve Zehentner     69
Money, Politics and Protest: The Struggle for the Lower East Side   Janet L. Abu-Lughod     79
Christodora The Flight of a Sea Animal   Yuri Kapralov     87
Under the Tar theBeach   Peter Lamborn Wilson     101
Squatting   Colin Moynihan     104
The Tompkins Square Anarchists   Seth Tobocman     108
An Interview with Father George Kuhn, former pastor of St. Brigid's Church   Clayton Patterson     112
Anarchist Art from the Lower East Side   Richard Kostelanetz     123
"Some Habitation Attitudes and Practices on New York City's Lower East Side, 1982 to 2002"   Eric Miller     126
Housing/Squats
The Struggle for Space - 10 Years of Turf Battling on the Lower East Side   Sarah Ferguson     141
Homelessness, Madness, the Power Elites and Final Battles of the East Village   Seth Farber, Ph.D     166
Writing the RFP   Joanne Edelman     180
Leaving the Building (or Then I went Home and Made Lunch)   Joanne Edelman     182
A Tenant's Story   JoAnn Wypijewski     184
DLA Statement - Squatting on East Seventh Street   Daniel Edelman     187
Cooper Square   Chris Brandt     189
Frank Morales   Aaron Jaffe     193
Squatting on the Lower East Side By Fly with research assistance from RAP   Kurt Allerslev   Steven Englander      213
St. Brigid's Church 119 Avenue B and East 8th Street, New York, NY   Carolyn Ratcliffe     219
Zoning: What is it good for? The Committee For Zoning Inaction   Richard Kusack - founder     221
The Soul War for the East Village   Roland Legiardi-Laura     227
Tenants of 47 East Third Street Fight Mass Eviction Attempt   David Pultz     235
Timetable   Laura Zelasnic     237
Poems Housing, Preservation, & Development   Tom Savage   Shari Woodard     252
Death of a Neighborhood   Will Sales   Mac Mcgill     253
Photo Section
Tompkins Square
A Short History of the Tompkins Square Neighborhood Revolt: 1988 to 1991   A. Kronstadt     291
Excerpts From Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty, Memoirs of a Street Activist   Ron Casanova   Steven Blackburn
Tent City     315
Up From the Wounded Streets     325
May Day! The Tompkins Square Park May Day Riot of 1990   Ellen Moynihan     336
Tompkins Square Park Riot   Police Officer John Mellon     344
Lower East Side Class War and the Subversive Media Spectacle   Joshua Rothenberger     350
Tompkins Square Park: 1989-1991   Chief Michael Julian      359
Looking Back on the Tompkins Square War     371
Tompkins Square Park and the Lower East Side Legacy of Rebellion     375
'Anarchy' Versus 'Police State'? The Stakes Get Higher In The Battle Of Tompkins Square Park     388
Tompkins Square Park as Police State Demolition Underway; Battle Rages in Courts and Streets!   Bill Weinberg     401
Media
The Anarchic Politics of Clayton Patterson and the Lower East Side   Alan Moore   Allan Antliff     419
Trial and Error   Elsa Rensaa     437
Guerrilla Video and the Battle of Tompkins Square Park   Richard Porton     448
Radical Artifacts   Richard Porton     455
Chris Flash   Aaron Jaffe     464
The Underground Press vs. The Mainstream Media: The Story Of The Shadow Or "Freedom Of The Press" Is Guaranteed To Anybody Who Owns One   Chris Flash, Editor     476
Activism By an Activist   Kenny Tolia     478
Villains or Victims: Are East Village Artists Willing Agents or Gentrification and the Displacement of the Poor?   James Cornwell (aka Jim C.)     483
Poems   Peter Missing     499
Biography
Alfredo Irizarry Profile     505
A Brief History of The Yippies and An Interview With Dana Beal   Cheryl Guttman     507
The Living Theatre on Third Street   Hanon Reznikov     521
Jerry the Peddler - The Squatter Movement, Its Anarchist Roots, and Its Conductor   John Beresford     526
Garbage Guerrilla: The Mystery Man Behind the East Village Art Gang with the Unprintable Name   John McMillian     532
Ben Eagle   Eve Hinderer     543
Taking the Plunge   Osha Neumann     546
Once Here and Again   Michael Rosen     556
Changing the World From His Couch   Virginie Rocky     565
My Loisaida - An Overview   Mary McCarthy     568
Carmen's Garden - Loisaida, 1986   Mary McCarthy     572
William Parker Interview: Land Without Lords   Steve Dalachinsky   Jim Feast     573
AIDS
Alphabet City Finishing School: The Education of an AIDS Activist   Jay Blotcher     585
AIDS on the Lower East Side   Jim Feast     589
Author Biographies     601
Index     610

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