Call for Submissions: Neighborhood Threats: Exclusion, Displacement and Resistance

Posted by on January 30, 2004

[posted from Comm-Org]

From: jrt@riseup.net

NEIGHBORHOOD THREATS:
Exclusion, Displacement and Resistance

Call for submissions!

Neighborhood Threats: Exclusion, Displacement and Resistance will be an anthology of writing chronicling the on-going fights against gentrification and world wide displacement. We are inviting submissions of top-quality writing on the subject, due no later than March 1, 2004.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1) This book is designed as a tool for communities and organizers. Be accessible in your writing style. If one needs three college degrees to decipher your writing, we won?t accept it.

2) Illustrate larger political issues through stories of everyday people and how they react/organize to the threat of displacement.

3) Deal honestly with class, race and gender issues.

4) Be partisan. Have a point-of-view.

5) Draw lessons that others can benefit from.

The book will be roughly divided into the following sections 1) How gentrification happens 2) Case-studies of organizing against displacement 3) Alternative visions of the city.

Don?t even think about submitting anything after the deadline, Submit via-email to James Tracy