Keith McHenry - The Plot to Intern Homeless Americans

Keith McHenry - The Plot to Intern Homeless Americans
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Keith McHenry is an American activist, best known as the
co-founder of Food Not Bombs. He also co-founded Homes Not
Jails and contributed to the founding of the Independent Media
Center.Homes Not Jails is an American organization that is
affiliated with the San Francisco Tenants Union. It describes
itself as an all-volunteer organization committed to housing
homeless people through direct action. The group was formed in
1992. Homes Not Jails does public actions as well as
legislative advocacy and squatting (occupying empty buildings
for free). Homes Not Jails groups do "housing takeovers", acts of
civil disobedience in which vacant buildings are publicly
occupied, to demonstrate the availability of vacant property and to
advocate that it be used for housing. The group has done many such
occupations. Homes Not Jails has also done and assisted with
hundreds of "covert" squats in which vacant buildings are broken
into so that people in need of housing can move in.








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