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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Grounds for Radical Action | |
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| Of Punks and Peasants | |
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| Theory and Practice | |
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| When I Squatted | |
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| Definitions of Movement Actions | |
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| Hidden Histories of Housing | |
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| Rural Rebels | |
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| Urban Squatting | |
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| Homes Not Jails: The Secret Success of a Squatting Movement to House the Homeless | |
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| Homelessness and the Growth of U.S. Squatting | |
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| The Power and Ethics of Media-Savvy Squatters | |
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| First Squat: Serendipity on Golden Gate Avenue | |
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| Bolt Cutters and Bicycles: The Art of Covert Squatting | |
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| First Public Takeover: Sleazy Slumlord at 250 Taylor | |
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| Public Takeovers: The Politics of Homeless Action | |
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| Battling the Big Boys and Winning: Homes Not Jails and Religious Witness vs. the U.S. Army | |
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| Quiet Victories: The Secret Success of Homes Not Jails | |
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| Battling the Banana Baron: Rural Hondurans Bloody Chiquita Brands International | |
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| The Land Revolt | |
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| Another Day, Another Dollar: Chiquita Evicts Again | |
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| Chiquita's Criminal Conduct | |
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| The Chilly History of Chiquita: "Machine-Gun" Maloney and Worse | |
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| IMF Increases Rural Poverty in Honduras | |
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| Tacamiche Resistance Pays Off | |
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| Philosophy to Squat By: The New Challenge to Property | |
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| Need over Property, Compassion before Accumulation | |
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| Demanding a Fair Share: Squatter Ethics of Equality | |
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| Squatting Expresses Personality: Suppress Squatting, and You Suppress Personhood | |
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| I Worked For It, I Get It | |
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| Property Makes Peace? Ahistorical Fences and Good Neighbors | |
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| Water Under the Bridge: Adverse Possession and the Drowning of the Past? | |
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| Culture, Neighborhood, and Squatting | |
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| Lazy Squatters: The Case of Dissolute Youth | |
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| Tell It to the Judge | |
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| Direct Action and the Law | |
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| Direct Action Grows from Frustrated Legal Change | |
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| Morality and Power | |
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| Dual Use of Law and Direct Action | |
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| Problems with Litigation | |
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| Refusal to Litigate | |
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| Violence and Cycles of Reform | |
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| Repression in the United States: Native Americans | |
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| Other U.S. Repression: People's Park, Tompkins Square, and Rent Strikes | |
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| Repression in International Context | |
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| Mexican Squatters of the 1970s | |
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| Revolutions that Evict Squatters: Portugal and Nicaragua | |
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| Fear and the Deactivation of Movements | |
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| Reinvigoration of Struggle | |
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| Elasticity of Squatting | |
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| Movement Use of Violence | |
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| Direct Action and the Birth of Revolutionary Movements | |
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| Effects of Revolution on Land and Housing Movements | |
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| South Africa's Rent Strike | |
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| Cooptation | |
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| Reform | |
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| The Co-op City Rent Strike, 1975-1976 | |
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| The Continuum of Struggle | |
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| Tactics and Mobilization | |
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| The Primacy of Power | |
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| Mass Organization, Individual Power, and Reoccupation | |
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| Timing, Surprise, and Affinity | |
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| Mobilizing Support and the Ripple Effect | |
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| Labor Unions | |
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| Intellectuals | |
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| Religious Groups | |
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| Pacifists and Anti-Nuclear Activists | |
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| Other Land and Housing Campaigns | |
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| Children in the Struggle | |
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| Double-Edged Swords: Using Mainstream Media | |
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| Erosion of Subservience | |
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| Encouraging Further Direct Action | |
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| Diversification of Issues | |
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| Conclusion: The Future of Land and Housing Movements | |
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| Components of Change | |
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| Notes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |