Mechanical Freak

Everything That Is Old Is New Again


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Greg and Brian get together to discuss the innovative new solution to the homelessness crisis before discussing the Council’s bold new plan on where to put all the poor people they are going to be arresting.

Read about the last time Seattle had banishment zones in Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert, Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/banished-9780199830008

Read about Seattle’s previous efforts to police their way out of the capitalist-created housing crisis on the Mechanical Freak website:
https://www.mechanicalfreak.website/island-nightmares https://www.mechanicalfreak.website/seattle-and-its-discontents

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