I. Introduction

1. At the Turn of the Century
Homes for the Homeless
Offset, 1997
New York, New York
14298

2. The Diggers Movement
From Your House Is Mine
Bullet
Silkscreen, 1988-1992
New York, New York
16442
The English Diggers Movement (1648-52) envisioned a society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. This statement is from their manifesto.

3. Homeless
Mariona Barkus
Photocopy, 1988
Los Angeles, California
1246

4. 1968-Rebelion en las Ciudades
[Rebellion in the Cities]
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, ca. 1980s
New York, New York
6334
[1. 1968-Rebellion in the cities
2. A commission formed to study the revolts.
3. Composed of representatives of the army, the business, bankers and the government
4. The commission does not admit that poverty caused the disturbances. They put the blame on the people. ]

5. Housing is a Human Right
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, n.d.
New York, New York
6331

6. ÉÉDefiªndela!!
[Defend It!!]
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, n.d.
New York, New York
6332
[This plan has resulted in a wave of people without housing.
What are the people going to do? This is your land!!
Defend it!! Free Puerto Rico Lives!]

7. Juntos y Apretados en los Centros Ciudadanos
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, n.d.
New York, New York
6333
Crowded together in the inner cities centers, the poor are able to communicate, organize and create resistance. Their solution is to remove the masses from the inner cities.

8. Areas con problemas fueron abandonadas
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, n.d.
New York, New York
6335
Areas with problems were left alone so that the police ignored the drugs and did not investigate suspicious fires. Later they offered bribes so that the poor would leave. Then the area was renovated for a "better" class of people. Thus the rents went up like rockets, and people had to sleep on the street. Meanwhile, the apartments are "stored," vacant.

9. Why Are Apartments Expensive?
Frank Morales, Chuck Sperry, Seth Tobocman
Silkscreen, 1986
Brooklyn, New York
11907

10. Join the National Rural Housing Coalition
George Ballis, National Rural Housing Coalition
Offset, ca. 1970
Washington, D.C.
11976

II. Development & Speculation

11. Schon Wieder Mehr Meite!
[More Rent Increases Again!]
The Green Party
Offset, n.d.
Germany
17273

12. Is this the house that we've built?
Quaker Social Responsibility and Education
Offset, 1993
England
17394

13. An alle Mieter!
[To All Tenants!]
Klaus Staeck
Offset, 1983
Heidelberg, Germany
14430
[To all Tenants! Now, you can finally choose: between rent increases and eviction notices. Your Tenants Rights Coalition.]

14. Real Estate
Josh MacPhee
Spray paint, 2000
Chicago, Illinois
14850

15. Luxury
Anton Van Dalen
Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PADD)
Lower East Side Printshop
Silkscreen, 1987
New York, New York
11944
Political Art Documentation and Distribution, (PADD), was a New York based artists' collective conceived by Lucy Lippard in 1979, and active through 1988. Its goals included demonstrating the political effectiveness of image making, and developing alternatives to the mainstream art system. This poster and #11986 demonstrates their concern with gentrification. The luxury highrise replaces an abandoned building, while the homeless remain.

16. Condozilla
Josh MacPhee
spray paint, 2000
Chicago, Illinois
14851

17. Greedy Politicians and Developers
Josh MacPhee
Spray paint, 2000
Chicago, Illinois
14852

18. Destruction
Leichhardt Anti-Expressway Committee
Silkscreen, early 1970s
Australia
2733
The large red "X" refers to houses marked for demolition in the Glebe Estates, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The devil ironically refers to the Anglican Church, owner of the property since the late 18th century, when Sydney was founded as a penal colony. The Glebe Estates includes the historic waterfront area known as "The Rocks," where the prisoners first landed. The Glebe Estate had become a low-income working class neighborhood, and the Anglican Church decided to sell it. Part of the property was to be used for an expressway that would have obliterated 25,000 homes through Glebe and nearby communities including Leichhardt. Expensive homes and shops were planned for "The Rocks" area. The Leichhardt Anti-Expressway Committee, including politicians and grass roots community members, formed to oppose the sale. They were so successful educating residents and organizing demonstrations, that the church was embarrassed and stopped the sale. The expressway was never built.

19. Saneren-Deporteren-Speculeren
[Sanitize-Deport-Speculate]
White Bicycle
Offset, ca. 1960s
Netherlands
14812

20. Und der Haifisch der Hat Z‚hne
[And the Shark has Teeth]
Klaus Staeck
Offset, 1975
Germany
12950
The title refers to a line from the song "Mac the Knife" from "Three Penny Opera," by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (1928). The lyrics refers to the difference between the shark, whose sharp teeth are obvious weapons, and the play's main character, the capitalist MacHeath, who "keeps his weapon out of sight." In this photomontage, Klaus Staeck represents the middle class veneer of a capitalist developer with the bowler hat and bow tie, yet whose true nature and intentions are evident in the sharp teeth of the steam shovel.

21. Woonlasten?
[Cost of Living?]
The Alarm Clock
Offset, n.d.
Netherlands
14803

22. Uitgewoond?
[Dilapidated?]
The Alarm Clock
Offset, n.d.
Netherlands
14800

23. Your Home Is My Kasse!
[Your Home Is My Cash Register!]
Artist Unknown
Offset, 2000
Germany
17289

24. The Citi Never Sleeps: But Your Neighborhood May Be Put To Rest
Gregory Sholette
Photocopy, 1978
New York, NY
2629

25. Coalition for the Homeless
Coalition for the Homeless
Offset, ca. 2000
New York, New York
12411

26. After A Successful Colonization
Janet Koenig
Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PADD)
Offset, 1987
New York, New York
11986
Another PADD project (see #11944), Janet Koenig's photomontage transforms the Guggenheim Museum into a space ship. Although the Guggenheim was built in 1956 and thus pre-dates the anti-gentrification movement of the 1970s and 1980s, this poster uses wit and humor to criticize the impact of the art scene on the real estate market. The reference to "colonization" refers to the unequal power relationship between developers and residents.

III. Homelessness & Poverty

27. Homelessness At Work from Your House Is Mine
Day Gleeson, Dennis Thomas, Bullet
Silkscreen, 1988-1992
New York, New York
16447

28. To Protect & Serve the Rich
Mark Vallen
Silkscreen, ca. 1989
Los Angeles, California
3330

29. This Is Not an Invitation to Rape Me
Charles Hall, Howard Schatz, Los Angeles Commission on
Assaults Against Women
Offset, 1993
Los Angeles, California
14226

30. How Can You Worship A Homeless Man
On Sunday And Ignore One On Monday?
Coalition For The Homeless
Offset, n.d.
New York, New York
14304

31. Jail is just a kind of warehouse for poor people
Peg Averill
Offset, ca. 1980
New York, New York
10606

32. Ist Das Alles Was Wir Jedem Bieten K‡nnen?
[Is That All We Can Offer Them?]
The Green Party
Offset, 1990
Germany
12433

33. La r»signation est un suicide quotidien
[Resignation is a daily suicide]
Alternative Libertaire
Offset, n.d.
Belgium
14620

34. Boutique
Artist unknown
Spray paint, ca. 1983
New York, New York
11969

35. America
Vicente Serra Lloret, Efecto Grafico describe 1992 portfolio from Mexico
Silkscreen, 1992
Mexico
11989

36. Homeless
Milly St. Charles
lithograph, n.d.
Santa Monica, California
17410

37. Homeless II
Milly St. Charles
lithograph, n.d.
Santa Monica, California
17412

38. Homeless III
Milly St. Charles
lithograph, n.d.
Santa Monica, California
17411

IV. Organizing Resistance

39. Tenants Organize
Santa Barbara Tenants Union?
Silkscreen, ca. 1979
Santa Barbara, California
17390
Although rent control has been around since the early 1900s, demand for it escalated in the 1970s in response to the inflation caused by the Viet Nam War and OPEC oil embargo. Wages did not keep up with rapidly rising rents, and gentrification further reduced the supply of affordable housing. The height of tenant organizing took place during the late 1970s, and rent control laws were enacted in over 170 cities, mainly in the Northeast and California.
The Santa Barbara Tenants Union (SBTU) was founded in 1978, and faculty and students from the nearby University of California campus provided experienced organizers. The SBTU organized tenants and tried to establish a rent control law in Santa Barbara comparable to other California cities, notably Berkeley and Santa Monica. Although it lasted approximately ten years, three unsuccessful electoral campaigns to vote-in rent control, ultimately drained the organization of its human and financial resources. Both Spanish and English versions were produced, during the organization's early years.

40. International Hotel Struggle
San Francisco Poster Brigade
Offset, 1979 see SAJE
San Francisco, California
16484

41. Stop The Nihonmachi Evictions
Coalition to Support Nihonmachi Tenants
Silkscreen, ca. 1976
San Francisco, California
10584
Nihonmachi is the Japan Town of San Francisco. When corporate redevelopment threatened numerous Bay Area communities in the 1970s, many grass-roots anti-redevelopment organizations formed. (see also the struggle to save the International Hotel, poster #16484)

42. The War Against The Poor...
Emergency Coalition Against Martial Law
Photocopy, n.d.
United States
16921

43. Freeze Rents Stop Evictions
Doug Minkler
Silkscreen, 1981
Berkeley, California
16887

44. Defend Venice
Rick Davidson, Richard Mackson info in LA book
Offset, 1975
Los Angeles, California
6980

45. Save Lincoln Place
Stephen Scheffler info from Steve Clare
Computer-generated, 2001
Los Angeles, California
16486

46. Profits Are Destroying Our Homes
Homefront
Silkscreen, ca. 1975
New York, New York
4430
Homefront was one of the many tenants' rights organizations that developed in New York in the 1970s. Tenants representing diverse classes, races, ages and ethnicities, join forces to thwart gigantic rat-villains representing landlords, banks and the government (federal, state and city). Each rat has dollar signs in their eyes and wears a hat to represent their roles: fedora for the landlord-rat, top-hat for the banker-rat, and "Uncle Sam's" hat, for the government-rat who holds a bag of money destined for the military. On the roof, as the tenant's money goes up in smoke to various utility companies, the bank-rat extracts a red dollar bill with Nelson Rockefeller's face framed by "United Monopolies of America." [Rockefeller was governor of New York (1958-1973) and was appointed Gerald Ford's vice-president (1974-1976)] The tenants fight the rats with the weapons at hand including a chair, brick, hammer, sickle, axe, pickaxe, wrench, machete, saw, dynamite and even an iron. Cultural icons and slogans of the time are also present¤a poster of Che Guevara looks out of one window above the slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre" [until the final victory]. A sign stating "we won't move" is on another window, and a woman atop a defeated rat raises a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book."

47. They Want Us To Leave
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, ca. 1982
New York, New York
6525

48. We Will Not Be Moved
Black Cat Graphics
Silkscreen, ca. 1980s
New York, New York
6432

49. Tantos Años De Falsas Promesas
[So Many Years of False Promises]
David G. Bragin
Offset, 1980
New York, New York
17409
[So Many False Promises - Now They Must Listen to Us - Participate in the People's Convention August 8 & 9 in Charlotte Street, South Bronx]

50. Housing Takeover!
Artist unknown
Photocopy, n.d.
Washington, D.C.
16907

51. Abandoned Buildings
from Your House is Mine
Sabrina Jones, Bullet
Silkscreen, 1988-1992
New York, New York
16455

52. Abandoned Buildings
from Your House is Mine
Sabrina Jones, Bullet
Silkscreen, 1988-1992
New York, New York
16456

53. Under The Brooklyn Bridge
from Your House Is Mine
Lady Pink, Bullet
Silkscreen, 1988-1992
New York, New York
16462

54. Operation Move In
Artist unknown
Silkscreen, n.d.
New York, New York
14310

55. Cliche Inversion
Mark aka Memphis Young
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18035

56. No Mas Tratos [No More Deals]
Garland Kirkpatrick
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18036

57. Community Control of the Land
Favianna Rodriquez
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18037

58. The Key
Jerolyn Crute
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18038

59. No Bullshit
Think Again
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18039

60. They mistook the determination in our eyes for hopelessness
Weston Teruya
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18040

61. Respect
Ricardo Mendoza
Silkscreen, 2002
Los Angeles, California
18041

War & Displacement

62. Is This Acceptable?
Ramya Solidarity Committee
Offset, 1991
Israeli-Palestinian Joint Project
17391
When Rachel Corrie, U.S. Peace Activist was crushed to death in March 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer, world attention once again focussed on ongoing Israeli destruction of Palestinian villages in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Yet the destruction of Arab villages within Israel is just as controversial if not as well known. In Summer 1991, 96 Palestinian Bedouin residents of the village of Ramya, in the Galilee region of Northern Israel, were notified that they must leave, and their homes demolished, so that apartment complexes for new Russian Jewish immigrants can be built on their land. The Ramya Solidarity Committee formed to protect the village. Using posters like this, the committee enlisted support in Israel and abroad. Organizations and individuals around the world joined the struggle. The ambassadors of Britain, the U.S., and the European Union visited Ramya or received delegations from the village. The U.S. State Department's Report on Human Rights for 1991-92 mentions Ramya as an example of discrimination on the basis of nationality.

63. Home˜
Mike Goldwater
Offset, n.d.
United States
17416

64. Forced Out
Artist unknown
Offset, 1989
Los Angeles, California
17252

65. 500.000.000$ Taglich. Kein Ruhiges Hinterland
Artist unknown
Offset, 1987
Germany
17297

66. Fýr Profit und Recht der Reichen
[For Profit and Right of the Rulers]
Artist unknown
Offset, n.d.
Germany
14769

Conclusion

67. R‚umt Den Knast Und Nicht Die H‚user
[Remove The Prisons And Not The Houses]
Arnim Stauth
Offset, n.d.
Germany
17275

68. Demonstration
Artist Unknown
Offset, 1996
Germany
17296

69. Now Ask Yourself....
Artist unknown
Offset, n.d.
Colorado
17389

70. End Homelessness
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace,
and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Offset, n.d.
Washington, D.C.
11201

71. Housing For People Not For Profit
Kat Brennan
Offset, 1980
United States
11947

72. Poletown Lives!
Nancy Vom Steeg
Offset, 1983
Detroit, Michigan
16711
Detroit condemned and razed this long-established neighborhood for the private benefit of General Motors

73. Let's Take Sides
Conference of Churches in Aotearoa-New Zealand; Comite International de Solidaridad con Guatemala
Offset, 1988
Christchurch, New Zealand
17395

74. Join Your Local Tenants Union
Rich Kees
Offset, n.d.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
14297

75. Fight Evictions
Red Pepper Posters
Silkscreen, 1977
San Francisco, California
11965

76. White Blight
THINK AGAIN
Offset, 1999
Boston, Massachusetts
10233

77. No Trespassing
Rich Kees
Offset, 1985
Minneapolis, Minnesota
10102

78. Class Consciousness
Press Gang Publishers
Offset, ca. 1978
Canada
11724