New York | Quartier en guerre
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""Couvre-feu, violences policières, expulsions... Les politiques sécuritaires et la spéculation immobilière s’attaquent au quartier populaire du Lower East Side à Manhattan, au coeur des années Reagan. Ses habitants résistent : squats, manifestations sauvages, émeutes...
Ce roman graphique raconte une décennie de luttes par une succession de portraits où se croisent les vies tumultueuses d’immigrés, de sans-abri, de punks... des pauvres pour qui la solidarité et l’auto-organisation deviennent des armes.
Au plus fort de son art du reportage, Seth Tobocman signe un livre d’une rare finesse, écrit sur plus de dix ans, alors qu’il squattait lui-même à deux pas du centre mondial de la finance."
All of this activity led to an attempt by the city to crush the movement. But people fought back. From 1988 to 1992 there were a series of riots in the neighborhood. The Lower East Side became the focus of an international struggle for human rights.
I decided to get more involved and so I became a member of Umbrella House, a squat on Avenue C. I worked on renovating the building and ran a printing press on the first floor with the help of Sarah Hogarth. I was involved in defending the building against an eviction attempt, which got pretty hairy.
I also worked on defending the other squats and participated in lots of other protests. I was arrested about twenty times and convicted twice. Eventually my lawyer, Stanley Cohen, advised me to cool it. He said that the D.A. had justa bout had it with me and that if I continued the consequences would get serious."