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Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Max Rameau
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781434845566
Publisher: Take Back the Land
Release Date: 2010-10-29
ITEM OVERVIEW
On October 23, 2006, a group of activists brought land struggle to the US. After seizing public land in Liberty City, FL, the Umoja Village Shantytown was born.

"[City officials argue] that Take Back the Land has made its point and that the residents should go home. Home? Where might that be? Backunder the I-95 overpass? A shelter where they can't keep their things, cook their own food, or come and go as they are able to do in Umoja? They certainly can't go home to any of the units that were promised to replace those that were torn down eight years ago because they haven't been built yet."—Kathie Klarreich