NYC's squatters get their own graphic novel/historic documentation

2017-02-28T19:59:00-05:00

Amy Starecheski, oral historian, former squatter, and author of the recent book, Ours to Lose: When Squatters Become Homeowners in New York City, gathered a group who have been documenting the squatting movement from multiple perspectives, from firsthand experience to generational remove. Below, Amy guides us through some of the documents they have gathered and created: a graphic novel, a sketchbook with instructions for DIY electrical wiring, interviews, and installations...

Thanks to Amy Starecheski, the documentation of the gritty romance of squatting in city-abandoned NYC buildings in the 1980s and 1990s can now be perused, graphic-novel style:

Meet A.N.A.L., the Anarchists Squatting a Russian Oligarch's London Mansion and Housing the Homeless

2017-01-30T17:27:00-05:00

A veteran group of squatters has occupied an empty £15m central London property purchased by a Russian oligarch in 2014 and opened it as a homeless shelter. [...] The squatters – Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, known as ANAL – said they entered the building through an open window on 23 January and have accommodated about 25 homeless people so far, many of whom had been sleeping rough around Victoria station.

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NYC's squatters get their own graphic novel/historic documentation

Meet A.N.A.L., the Anarchists Squatting a Russian Oligarch's London Mansion and Housing the Homeless