Cooking up a revolution

<p>During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid solidarity and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification broken-windows policing and anti-homeless laws this book provides activists students and scholars examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes.<br>This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 Zero hunger.</p>