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The history of homeless unions is known to few. Below is a collection of struggles fought for housing justice in New York City and beyond.
A Short History Of The Tompkins Square Neighborhood Revolt
The Tompkins Square Neighborhood Revolt, and I am calling it that only because I have to call it something, occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Read moreStanding Up for Tompkins Square Park
In the past few years, whenever I began to lose heart over Tompkins Square Park, I reminded myself that throughout its troubled history it has continually triumphed over strife and violence to survive as a haven for residents of the East Village.
Read moreTent Made With Flags Set Up in Tompkins Sq.
About 200 homeless people built a tent made of four large American flags in Tompkins Square Park yesterday afternoon to protest a New York City Parks and Recreation Department policy prohibiting structures in the park where police officers and park workers destroyed 35 tents on July 5.
Read moreTent City in Tompkins Square Park Is Dismantled by Police
The ramshackle tent city of the homeless in Tompkins Square Park was torn down yesterday as scores of city and park police officers mounted a long planned, long announced operation of nearly military complexity.
Read moreNeighbors' Attitudes Shift as Park Declines
The ramshackle encampment of the homeless in Tompkins Square Park is drawing mounting criticism from residents of the Lower East Side, a community where rioting broke out last year when police tried to sweep the homeless from the park.
Read more"Tent-City": A Diary of Tompkins Square Park
July 5 1989: Two hundred riot cops were called to Washington Square Park on Wednesday, July 5, as sanitation workers removed shanties allowed to accumulate over the past month by the Parks Department.
Read moreTent City, Union for the Homeless
Tent City is an organization that developed out of the homeless situation that was present within Tompkins Square Park.
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