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We Live Here
Jeffrey Wilson
A graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combattingand beatingcalls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their communities, and winning.
We Live Here! is a graphic novel biography of the members of the local activist group Detroit Eviction Defense combattingand beatingcalls for their eviction. By illustrating the stories of families struggling against evictions, the book gives a voice to those who have remained in Detroit, showing the larger complexities at work in a beleaguered city. These are everyday people fighting back, organizing with others, going into the streets, and winning their homes back.
What will Detroit look like in the future? Today cheap property entices real estate speculators from around the world. Artists arrive from all over viewing the city as a creative playground. Billionaires are re-sculpting downtown as a spot for tourism. But beyond the conventional players in urban growth and development, Detroit Eviction Defense (DED) memberslike others engaged in place-based struggles all over the countryare pushing back, saying in effect, we live here, weve been here, there is no Detroit without us.
160 pages, 1 Illustrations, unspecified
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 30 de abril de 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781644212424 |
| Editoras | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Páginas | 160 |
| Dimensões | 257 × 168 × 19 mm · 420 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
