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  • WE WON'T MOVE: Poems and Photographs of the International Hotel Struggle. by Lim, Genny, Teri Lee, Nelson Yee, Al Robles, Janice Mirikitani and others.
    Lim, Genny, Teri Lee, Nelson Yee, Al Robles, Janice Mirikitani and others.
    WE WON'T MOVE: Poems and Photographs of the International Hotel Struggle.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop 1977. A scarce booklet featuring poetry and photography by members of the Kearny Street Workshop - including Teri Lee, Nelson Yee, Al Robles, Genny Lim, Janice Mirikitani and others - documenting a 10 fight attempt ing to stop the eviction of the elderly Filipinos for whom the hotel had been home for many years. Originally built as a luxury destination in 1854, moved from Jackson St to Kearny St in 1873, and rebuilt after the Great Earthquake of 1906, by 1968 it had become a low-income single-room-occupancy residential hotel in what was left of Manilatown. While originally the fight was to halt the tragic eviction process and larger community demise, it also sparked grassroots…

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    San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop 1977. A scarce booklet featuring poetry and photography by members of the Kearny Street Workshop - including Teri Lee, Nelson Yee, Al Robles, Genny Lim, Janice Mirikitani and others - documenting a 10 fight attempt ing to stop the eviction of the elderly Filipinos for whom the hotel had been home for many years. Originally built as a luxury destination in 1854, moved from Jackson St to Kearny St in 1873, and rebuilt after the Great Earthquake of 1906, by 1968 it had become a low-income single-room-occupancy residential hotel in what was left of Manilatown. While originally the fight was to halt the tragic eviction process and larger community demise, it also sparked grassroots activism for affordable senior housing and was influential in developing a nationwide activist Asian American Movement. This copy has two newspaper photographs carefully taped inside the covers - in the front, the police on horseback are shown brutally riding through the phalanx of over 2000 protestors who tried to create a blockade to protect the building and in the rear is the infamous picture of Sheriff Richard Hongisto taking a sledgehammer to an apartment door, and on the final page is the handwritten comment 'Eviction carried out 8/4 at 3:00 AM" 40 pp. The front cover features a photograph of Felix Ayson standing in front of an International Hotel posting that announces a "rally to stop eviction." The eviction of the International Hotel tenants outraged the nation, and ended the developer's plans. After the building was demolished the lot stood empty for many years, until almost 30 years later, the city of San Francisco completed a new I-Hotel to provide affordable housing for senior citizens and low income residents and to house a Manila Cultural Center.

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    Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers.

    Book ID: 88646
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  • CHANGO'S FIRE. by Quinonez, Ernesto.
    Quinonez, Ernesto.
    CHANGO'S FIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Rayo / Harper Collins, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in Spanish Harlem in New York City, a story which reveals the changing face of the American city. "Julio Santana is an arsonist. [He] has pocketed thousands of dollars from people who want to profit from the forced gentrification of his neighborhood, money he has used to make his parents proud by purchasing them a place of their own.. . As Julio struggles to live up to his decision, he is surrounded by characters who both complicate and enlighten his life. From the well-intentioned neighborhood pastor who sells illegal American citizenship papers to undocumented workers, to the Santero priest who is wise sage…

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    New York: Rayo / Harper Collins, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in Spanish Harlem in New York City, a story which reveals the changing face of the American city. "Julio Santana is an arsonist. [He] has pocketed thousands of dollars from people who want to profit from the forced gentrification of his neighborhood, money he has used to make his parents proud by purchasing them a place of their own.. . As Julio struggles to live up to his decision, he is surrounded by characters who both complicate and enlighten his life. From the well-intentioned neighborhood pastor who sells illegal American citizenship papers to undocumented workers, to the Santero priest who is wise sage to all who know him, to Julio's doting, streetwise parents, the characters here are given life by Quionez in a novel whose themes are both current and timelessly universal." INSCRIBED on the title page. 272 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82647
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  • CHANGO'S FIRE. by Quinonez, Ernesto.
    Quinonez, Ernesto.
    CHANGO'S FIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Rayo / Harper Collins, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in Spanish Harlem in New York City, a story which reveals the changing face of the American city. "Julio Santana is an arsonist. [He] has pocketed thousands of dollars from people who want to profit from the forced gentrification of his neighborhood, money he has used to make his parents proud by purchasing them a place of their own.. . As Julio struggles to live up to his decision, he is surrounded by characters who both complicate and enlighten his life. From the well-intentioned neighborhood pastor who sells illegal American citizenship papers to undocumented workers, to the Santero priest who is wise sage…

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    New York: Rayo / Harper Collins, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in Spanish Harlem in New York City, a story which reveals the changing face of the American city. "Julio Santana is an arsonist. [He] has pocketed thousands of dollars from people who want to profit from the forced gentrification of his neighborhood, money he has used to make his parents proud by purchasing them a place of their own.. . As Julio struggles to live up to his decision, he is surrounded by characters who both complicate and enlighten his life. From the well-intentioned neighborhood pastor who sells illegal American citizenship papers to undocumented workers, to the Santero priest who is wise sage to all who know him, to Julio's doting, streetwise parents, the characters here are given life by Quionez in a novel whose themes are both current and timelessly universal." SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82646
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  • THEM. by McCall, Nathan.
    McCall, Nathan.
    THEM.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - McCall's third book and first novel, set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood, where gentrification causes inevitable clashes between the working class blacks and the more affluent white families moving in. 338 pp. ISBN: 9781416549154.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (remainder line)

    Book ID: 61951
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  • THEM. by McCall, Nathan.
    McCall, Nathan.
    THEM.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - McCall's third book and first novel, set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood, where gentrification causes inevitable clashes between the working class blacks and the more affluent white families moving in. 338 pp. ISBN: 9781416549154.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58416
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  • THEM. by McCall, Nathan.
    McCall, Nathan.
    THEM.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2007). First edition - McCall's third book and first novel, set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood, where gentrification causes inevitable clashes between the working class blacks and the more affluent white families moving in. 337 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (the red, white and black cover is very different from the final version on the trade edition)

    Book ID: 58357
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