The Berkeley Agitator; an independent radical newspaper, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1987) Shantytown trial halted
Berkeley: The Berkeley Agitator, 1987. Newspaper. [4p]., folded tabloid style format; photos., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307232
Homeless
Call to action [leaflet]
San Francisco: San Francisco Union of the Homeless, [1987]. 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet, very good. Complains that conditions in the Episcopal Sanctuary / Canon Kip shelters are substandard, and that organizers of the Homeless Union are being harassed. Asks the reader to join a strike. More
Cat.No: 329906
Cops Bust Mother Theresa [handbill]
Oakland: Humanists of Oakland, 1991. 8.5x11 inch handbill; small stain on front, else in very good condition. "While the headline above is false, the effects of their actions are the same. San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley police arrest and harass people who feed the homeless and unemployed..." More
Cat.No: 328496
Food for the homeless, not bombs for oil wars. 3rd Annual Labor Day Protest! Monday, September 3, 1990. Serve free food in defiance of the new law against feeding the homeless.
San Francisco: Food Not Bombs, 1990. Pamphlet. Handbill, 5.5x8.5 inches; photo., mild handling, else very good. More
Cat.No: 298018
Half the sky and still no roof. Battered women are still homeless. A report on the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977
London: National Women's Aid Federation; Welsh Women's Aid, 1978. 23p., staplebound pamphlet, light handling wear. More
Cat.No: 223789
History's what we make it; Perpetual OCAP
Toronto: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, [c2007?]. 26p., calendar + description of the coalition, glossy 8.5x11 inch staplebound calendar; dates don't correlate to particular days of the week assuming the patron could use the calendar any year. Most dates are filled with activist achievements over the last several decades. More
Cat.No: 321378
Homelessness: 'The People' exposed. The criminal hypocrisy of a Sunday newspaper
Dartford, Kent: Friends of King Hill, 1967. Four-page, 8.25x10 inch pamphlet, edgeworn. The Friends of King Hill, an organization aiding the homeless in Kent County, attacks a local newspaper for its sensationalistic coverage of the homeless crisis and its campaign of mockery against a homeless man, Roy Mills, described by..... More
Cat.No: 239027
Join the occupation and rent strike at the Claridge Hotel 634 15th St. Downtown Oakland [handbill]
Oakland: Housing Action Squatters Project :: East Bay Food Not Bombs :: [The Tenants' Association], nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; slight toning on edges, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 315632
Long time coming
Madison, WI: Quixote Press, 1972. 61p. staplebound booklet, very good. 5.5x8.5 inches. Quixote Vol. VI no. 6. "This mag is brought to you by Freedom House, Inc., a community supported free Freehigh for low income and street people, usually 14-18." Collection of poetry and drawings. More
Cat.No: 333724
Raphael House annual report 2000
San Francisco: Raphael House, 2000. Magazine. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, program descriptions, volunteer and donor lists, statistics, history, photos, very good booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 219717
Reaganville II, the homeless fight back, in a "progressive" city far, far away...
Berkeley: n.pub. [1981]. Handbill. leaflet, 8.5x14 inches, creased, minor toning on the left edge otherwise in very good condition, printed on one side only. Includes a call for help in erecting a tent city "Reaganville II" and call for a "Poor Peoples March" from Peoples Park to City Hall. More
Cat.No: 341671
[Twelve tenant activist handbills, primarily from the Berkeley Tenants Union c1980s-1990s]
Berkeley: Berkeley Tenants Union, [c1980s, 1990s]. Handbill. Small archive comprised of twelve handbills: eight handbills and brochures by the Berkeley Tenants Union; a bulletin of the Berkeley Citizens Action on renter tax relief; and three other handbills on housing activism in the Bay Area, including a Union of Homeless and..... More
Cat.No: 315219
UC Police Brutalize Activist Lawyer / Drop the charges against Osha Neumann! Dismiss the offices involved! Stop the harrasment [sic] of the homeless! [handbill]
Berkeley: Cop Watch, [c1990]. 8.5x11 inch single sided handbill; minor folding crease, minor wear, else very good. Neumann was a member the guerilla art group Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers! More
Cat.No: 339359
Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures
San Francisco: Western Regional Advocacy Project, [c2004]. Paperback. iv, 33, [38]p., wraps, illus., tables, graphs, charts, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 340905
Workers in the ERB - Attention! [handbill]
New York: Association of Workers in Public Relief Agencies, [1935]. 8.5x14 inch mimeographed handbill, minor toning "1935" penned in lower left corner. The AWPRA was part of the rank and file movement among Social Workers in this period. Warns of the impending closure of transient shelters. "The transient clinic will..... More
Cat.No: 329528
WRAP: Western Regional Advocacy Project
San Francisco: WRAP, nd. Six panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, illus., very good condition. The organization was founded in 2005 and advocates for people experiencing homelessness and poverty on the West Coast. More
Cat.No: 288937
A length of stay survey of shelters for homeless families in Marin and Sonoma Counties
San Francisco: [SF State University], 1997. Paperback. 46p., standard leaves under a plastic cover. Master of Social Work thesis, copy submitted to advisor. Includes copies of survey materials used to collect data on homeless families. More
Cat.No: 120336
Poems from Street Spirit --- Justice News and Homeless Blues ---
Berkeley: ARC Press for the author/activists, 2005. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 115p., illustrated with two small sketches and three color cover photos; softbound in 8x5 inch glossy wraps, a perfectly clean, sound, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 234914
On being homeless; historical perspectives
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1987. Paperback. 176p., 8.x11 inch wraps; wrap corners slightly curled from use, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 290386
The Unsheltered Woman: Women and Housing in the 80's
New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1985. Paperback. xxviii, 313p., wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps lightly worn, sticker shadow on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 290407
Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco
Oakland: PM Press and Reach & Teach, 2011. Paperback. 173p., wraps, illus., new, signed by author and illustrator. Juvenile fiction for all ages. Illustrated by Brian Bowes. More
Cat.No: 169193
"Broke;" the man without the dime
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. Hardcover. xviii, 369p., front., photographic illus. as called for, original brown cloth case binding is gilt-titled and bears a vignette photo portrait of the author. Boards somewhat edge worn, hinges a little soft, spine lettering eroded, previous owner's name on front blank endpaper, sticker..... More
Cat.No: 139465
America's homeless; numbers, characteristics, and programs that serve them
Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1989. xi, 176p., paperback; in very good condition. Urban Institute Report 89-3. More
Cat.No: 334540
Story of the Good Will Institute and Golden Rule Farm Homes
n.p. 1917. 106 page hardcover, ownership signature, boards somewhat smudged and worn, interior clean. Written by the founder of the Nashua, NH-based Institute, a Methodist minister. The Homes were referred to as "New Hampshire's Boystown." More
Cat.No: 350175
The Random Thoughts Trilogy
[Berkeley, CA]: Self-published by the author, 1987. Pamphlet. 39p., wraps, photocopied zine format; front wrap is somewhat toned, else in very good condition. Collection of materials Campbell wrote between 1986 and 1987, discussing squats at the Crossroads shantytown in Berkeley, competing Marxist and Anarchist groups and their various activities in..... More
Cat.No: 157400