TY - BOOK AU - Patterson, Clayton ed. AU - Flood, Joe ed. AU - Moore, Alan ed. AU - Calef, Nancy ed. TI - Resistance: A radical political and social history of the lower east side SN - 9781583227459 U1 - 974.71 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Seven Stories Press KW - Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government KW - Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- History. KW - Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Resistance: A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side / Jeff Ferrell -- Intro / Clayton Patterson -- Intro -- Welcome to Our Resistance: The What and Why of the Tompkins Square Park Rebellion / Alan W. Moore -- The Center of the Fringe World / Richard Kostelanetz -- pt. 1: HISTORY -- Revolution Elsewhere / Al Orensanz -- The Origins of Loisaida / Fred Good -- Twenty One Years on the Lower East Side / Thomas McEvilley -- Making Art and Policing Streets / Christopher Mele -- Beginning My Political History / Lynne Stewart -- Lynne Stewart: Convicted: A "Chilling Effect" for Legal Community / Bill Weinberg -- Homelessness and the Lower East Side / Joe Flood -- Documenting the Italian-America Civil Rights League / Aldo Tambellini -- The Midnight Demolition of 172 Stanton Street / Steve Zehentner -- Money, Politics and Protest: The Struggle for the Lower East Side / Janet L. Abu-Lughod -- Christodora The Flight of a Sea Animal / Yuri Kapralov -- Under the Tar the Beach / Peter Lamborn Wilson -- Squatting / Colin Moynihan -- The Tompkins Square Anarchists / Seth Tobocman -- An Interview with Father George Kuhn, former pastor of St. Brigid's Church. Interview / Clayton Patterson -- Anarchist Art from the Lower East Side / Richard Kostelanetz -- "Some Habitation Attitudes and Practices on New York City's Lower East Side, 1982 to 2002" / Eric Miller. pt. 2: HOUSING/SQUATS -- The Struggle for Space -- 10 Years of Turf Battling on the Lower East Side / Sarah Ferguson -- Homelessness, Madness, the Power Elites and Final Battles of the East Village / Seth Farber, Ph. D -- Writing the RFP / Joanne Edelman -- Leaving the Building (or Then I went Home and Made Lunch) / Joanne Edelman -- A Tenant's Story / JoAnn Wypijewski -- DLA Statement -- Squatting on East Seventh Street / Daniel Edelman -- Cooper Square / Chris Brandt -- Frank Morales -- Interviewed by Aaron Jaffe in the Odessa coffee shop, Avenue A, Lower East Side Squatting on the Lower East Side / Fly with research assistance from RAP, Kurt Allerslev and Steven Englander -- St. Brigid's Church 119 Avenue B and East 8th Street, New York, NY / Carolyn Ratcliffe -- Zoning: What is it good for? The Committee For Zoning Inaction / Richard Kusack -- founder -- The Soul War for the East Village / Roland Legiardi-Laura -- Tenants of 47 East Third Street Fight Mass Eviction Attempt / David Pultz -- Timetable / Laura Zelasnic -- Poems Housing, Preservation, & Development / Tom Savage for Shari Woodard -- Death of a Neighborhood / Will Sales, Art By Mac Mcgill. pt. 3: TOMPKINS SQUARE -- A Short History of the Tompkins Square Neighborhood Revolt: 1988 to 1991 / A. Kronstadt -- Excerpts From Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty, Memoirs of a Street Activist / Ron Casanova & Steven Blackburn -- Tent City -- Up From the Wounded Streets -- May Day! The Tompkins Square Park May Day Riot of 1990 / Ellen Moynihan -- Tompkins Square Park Riot / Police Officer John Mellon -- Lower East Side Class War and the Subversive Media Spectacle / Joshua Rothenberger -- Tompkins Square Park: 1989-1991 / Chief Michael Julian -- Looking Back on the Tompkins Square War -- Tompkins Square Park and the Lower East Side: Legacy of Rebellion -- 'Anarchy' Versus 'Police State'?: The Stakes Get Higher In The Battle Of Tompkins Square Park -- Tompkins Square Park as Police State: Demolition Underway; Battle Rages in Courts and Streets! / Bill Weinberg. pt. 4: MEDIA -- The Anarchic Politics of Clayton Patterson and the Lower East Side / Alan Moore with Allan Antiff -- Trial and Error / Elsa Rensaa -- Guerrilla Video and the Battle of Tompkins Square Park / Richard Porton -- Radical Artifacts / Richard Porton -- Chris Flash / Interviewed by Aaron Jaffe -- 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 -- Activism By an Activist / Kenny Tolia -- Villains or Victims: Are East Village Artists Willing Agents or Gentrification and the Displacement of the Poor? / James Cornwell (aka Jim C.) -- Poems / Peter Missing. pt. 5: BIOGRAPHY -- Alfredo Irizarry Profile: -- A Brief History of The Yippies and An Interview With Dana Beal / Cheryl Guttman -- The Living Theatre on Third Street / Hanon Reznikov -- Jerry the Peddler -- The Squatter Movement, Its Anarchist Roots, and Its Conductor / Interview by John Beresford -- Garbage Guerrilla: The Mystery Man Behind the East Village Art Gang with the Unprintable Name / John McMillian -- Ben Eagle / Eve Hinderer -- Taking the Plunge / Osha Neumann -- Once Here and Again / Michael Rosen -- Changing the World From His Couch / Virginie Rocky -- My Loisaida -- An Overview / Mary McCarthy -- Carmen's Garden -- Loisaida, 1986 / Mary McCarthy -- William Parker Interview: Land Without Lords / Steve Dalachinsky and Jim Feast -- pt. 6: AIDS -- Alphabet City Finishing School: The Education of an AIDS Activist / Jay Blotcher -- AIDS on the Lower East Side / Jim Feast ER -