Now distributed by AK Press, Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army is our newest offering to the housing justice movement.
Our takeovers are the most common sense solution for homelessness: house people, now, with the houses that already exist and aren’t being used. That isn’t the hard part. The hard part is doing it safely in the belly of the beast that needs us to feed it with our suffering and blame ourselves for its cruelty. In this book we’re sharing our underground tactics for out-manoeuvring the forces that push us down and staying strong together in the face of impossible hardship.
We formed the Poor People’s Press to bring this book into the world. If you can’t afford a copy, request a solidarity copy by emailing us at PPEHRCorg@gmail.com.
Praise for Takeover!
"We can always trust the Poor People's Army to tell us the truth and speak the truth to power. All activists who care about poverty should read this book."
-Loretta Ross, Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, activist and pioneer in human rights
"This publication is not just a guide on housing struggles but a historical and theoretical rearticulation of the meaning and evolution of human rights. Combining theory with years of frontline practice, it captures the fact that human rights must emerge from and ultimately will be protected and advanced by the organized people themselves."
Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace, International human rights pioneer, Green Party nominee for Vice President (2016)
"This book shouldn't have to exist but l'm glad it does for people who are being crushed and killed by poverty in America. My mother has crafted a radical and powerful manual showing people how to save their lives, the lives of their children, and anyone else being brutalized by capitalism and fake democracy. This book wakes up sleeping souls to remember the power of the people will never be defeated."
-Mark Webber, Actor, Filmmaker, Formerly homeless son of Cheri Honkala
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