Books Briefly
Books Briefly Staying Put DISPLACEMENT: HOW TO FIGHT IT by Chester Hartman, Dennis Keating, and Richard LeGates, with Steve Turner National Housing Law Project, 2150 Shattuck Ave., No. 300,...
...300, Berkeley, CA 94704...
...Palestinian Conflicts JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM by Grace Haisell Macmillan...
...7.50 paperback...
...Each year, some 2.5 million Americans are forced to move from their homes and neighborhoods for reasons wholly beyond their control—such reasons as abandonment, foreclosure, redlining, and urban renewal...
...Going beyond the confines of tourist buses and official guides, Haisell witnesses life firsthand from the perspectives of both the occupier and the occupied and focuses on personal accounts of an American-born, right-wing Jewish settler in the West Bank, a politically progressive Sephardic Jew in Jerusalem, a Christian Palestinian college student, and a Moslem Palestinian in a refugee camp...
...Anyone who confronts the threat of displacement and has a mind to stay put would be well advised to consult this book...
...Displacement: How to Fight It describes and analyzes the various forms of people-removal practiced in our communities, but it does much more—it offers eminently practical and specific advice on how to fight back...
...These are our own boat people, cast adrift on the asphalt oceans of America...
...The authors are urban planners, lawyers, and community organizers who have been on the front lines of battles against landlords, real estate speculators, banks, insurance companies, and government agencies that specialize in pushing people out...
...Veteran journalist Grace Haisell has written a nonpartisan yet politically persuasive book on the conflicting aspirations of the peoples of Jerusalem and its environs...
...256 pp...
...It is ideal reading for those who want a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without weighty geopolitical polemics...
...225 pp...
...Neither an academic study nor a political essay, Journey to Jerusalem conveys more of the essence of the Palestinian problem than more formal studies possibly could...
...10.95...
Vol. 46 • June 1982 • No. 6
