The Landslide is "a not for profit, urban farm dedicated to being a free source of healthy food for the community.", and "a neighborhood and volunteer run project committed to sustainability and focused on mutual aid." Recently an illegal eviction of the Landslide farmhouse was "overruled" by the response of community supporters and activist networks.

The mortgage crisis is also an opportunity, as this news article from Miami shows. Take Back the Land, which a few years ago had organized a long-term protest tent city called Umoja Village (watch a short documentary video on the Village here), is back with Take Back the Houses, a plan already underway to reclaim the houses left empty by the bubble's collapse with those in the most need of housing. Read a news story from the mainstream Miami press here. For more info on the campaign, see the Take Back the Land site. Also very interesting is the theory of "post-gentrification" underlying these actions. Max Rameau's Gentrification is Dead is essential reading for any discussion of contemporary urban struggles.

Conceived as a strategic reflection on the state of social movements in the US in the context of the presidential election and the counter-protests against the conventions, In the Middle of a Whirlwind, an online project of Team Colors published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, is a great collection of essays from a variety of activist strata and theoretical backgrounds. There's 4 essays in the collection that are directly relevant to the "City from Below":

• Basav Sen's Local Struggles, Global Contexts: Building movements in North America in the age of globalized capital
• Marina Karides' What’s Going On? The USSF, Grassroots Activism, and Situated Knowledge
• Daniel Tucker's Getting to know your city and the social movements that call it home/
• Harmony Goldberg's Building Power in the City: Reflections on the Emergence of the Right to the City Alliance and the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance