The newest Seth Toboccman work outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the 21st century—from post 9-11 New York City, to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. In his bold comic style, Seth chronicles events as they happen, musing not on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against it. Includes an introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal and a call to action that you cannot ignore!

"Crowded together in the inner city, poor people could communicate, organize, and create resistance. Their solution was to break up the mass of people and push them out of the city."

A squatter, former anarchist punk, social activist and cartoonist, Tobocman lived on Manhattan's Lower East Side and participated in grassroots efforts to take over abandoned tenements in the late '80s and early '90s. Along with a ragtag neighborhood collection of working-class blacks, Puerto Ricans and whites, as well as artists and homeless people from all backgrounds, Tobocman secured affordable housing. As the neighborhood gentrified in the late 1980s, the squats became the center of a housing movement that collapsed under the weight of its diverse membership and unrelenting opposition of real estate developers, police and city government. Tobocman revisits the violent battles with the police, the local characters who organized and rehabbed the squats and the slow disintegration of the movement. He presents the complex infighting among the squatters, who not only were fighting a prevaricating city hall but confronting poverty, paranoia, drug addiction and class conflicts within their own membership. The combination of the stark black-and-white woodcut-style of his drawings and the passion and the brutal honesty of his narration ultimately produces an amazingly compelling story of urban housing.