Kevin Keating Collection
Period 1992-2008
Total size 0.25 m.
ConsultationNot restricted
Biography
Born in Washington DC, USA, 1960; local activist in San Francisco; involved in several actions; collector of documents on the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project, a direct action campaign to safeguard the working class character of the Mission Area in San Francisco and to prohibit its change into an expensive yuppie neighbourhood 1998-1999; editor of the anti-state communist 'The Poor, the Bad and the Angry. A magazine for Power-hungry Proletarians'; produced on his own the movie 'The ballad of a green beret'.
Content
Leaflets, letters, (photocopies of) prints of short stories, clippings and other documents relating to the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project and other actions in which Keven Keating has been involved 1992-2003; documents on The Poor, the Bad and the Angry. A magazine for Power-hungry Proletarians.
Documents on the efforts to foment a mass 'self-reduction' movement on San Francisco's Muni public transit system 2005-2006.
Prints from Kevin Keating's web page 'Love and Treason' 2008.
Arrangement
A copy of his movie 'The ballad of a green beret' has been transferred to the audiovisual department of the IISH.