The Squatter Movement: Seizing Housing - Frank Morales, #34

Interview with journalist, squatter and housing activist, Frank Morales, on the housing crisis and the origins and creation of "homelessness". Morales' direct action for housing in the South Bronx and lower east side of Manhattan in the late 1970s; bank redlining of loans to certain neighborhoods; Chapter 7 of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report; spatial de-concentration dispersal of the urban poor as a counter insurgency strategy; "The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission" by Samuel P. Huntington (1975); creation of the shelter system under FEMA. First aired November 5, 2003.  Re-aired: November 4, 2015 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org Subscribe to our newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/bmg4zf