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Temporary housing if you're homeless: hostels

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Find out about hostels - how to get a place, how much they cost and what they're like.

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Emergency housing if you're homeless: women's refuges

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Find out about women's refuges if you've experienced domestic violence - how to get a place and what they're like.

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The Working Class United Against Thatcher

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The Working Class United Against Thatcher

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"There's no such thing as society" -Thatcher

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A personal favourite video of mine is Nai Palm's. It's clear her mother wanted her to be creative and although shes now orphaned, she has clearly been impacted by those initial memories of her life. The stories she talks of are almost prophetic.

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Confronting Grief with Nothing But Nature: Nai Palm

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When the news of David Bowie 's death was confirmed Sunday night, it wasn't just one picture that flashed through my mind: It was a series of images of the artist in the many personae that spanned his years in the public eye.

There he was, lounging in a dress, transgressing against gender norms on the cover of "The Man Who Sold the World," then as flame-haired alien Ziggy Stardust in his glittery spaceman jumpsuits, only to morph into Aladdin Sane with the signature lightning bolt painted across his face.

Even the more traditional sartorial looks of his Thin White Duke character during his Berlin years and for his role in the film "The Man Who Fell to Earth" were startling: The mix of classic suiting with his delicate androgyny continues to inspire designers from Jean Paul Gaultier to Hedi Slimane.

These are only a few of the ways in which Bowie endures as an icon of style and fashion. There are so many other fashion stops Bowie took in between, including side trips to boy-next-door sportswear circa "Young Americans" in the mid-1970s, the New Wave-influenced designs of the 1980s, and even an elegant Pierrot in his "Ashes to Ashes" music video.

When it came to fashion, there was nothing he wouldn't borrow to create his melange, from high-concept contemporary art to low street style. That rich rock 'n' roll voice remained immediately recognizable over the decades of his career, but the look was ever-changing, a reflection of what he expressed in his experiments with sounds on his albums and for characters on stage and screen.

"It was a persona, a series of personae, but done in a very authentic way," said fashion designer Keanan Duffty, who collaborated with Bowie in 2007 on a collection for Target. "He was almost a mirror for the culture."

His fashion evolution set the stage for those who followed him in pop culture, from Grace Jones and Madonna to Lady Gaga, but his dedication to pushing boundaries in his stage and personal style also influenced everyday fans. Since the 1970s, Bowie's music has been the soundtrack for the creatively minded outsider, and his different looks allowed those same people to embrace their own "other" aesthetics.

"My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player," Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton (whose resemblance to Bowie has been frequently commented on) told Marlow Stern for the Daily Beast in 2014.

"He just looked like me, and looked like someone (who came) from the same planet as I did, and that was a great comfort to me at the time when I was 13 and 14 looking like that, that someone not only looked like that, but felt proud enough to stick themselves on the front of an album with a zigzag across their face and a dewy collarbone."

My childhood in San Francisco in the 1990s was colored by my discoveries of the various Bowie eras. Like many in my generation, my first memories of Bowie are from his role as Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film "Labyrinth." How I wished that he'd spirit me away to the masquerade ball in his castle beyond the title maze, where he'd dress me in skintight spandex and swooping cloaks and line my eyes pearly white like his character.

There were tinglings of other yearnings in those early viewings too, and as I later delved deeper into his music, I understood that the bisexual Bowie wasn't just family by nature of his fashion experimentation, he was quite simply "family" (as the LGBT community calls members and allies). Duffty points out that Bowie's understanding of sub- and counterculture styles fueled his ability to freely borrow and adapt elements for his own looks. Bowie's many personae became subcultures unto themselves that fans re-created and borrowed from for Bowie Balls, held annually in New York and Los Angeles.

The first time I applied glitter across my eyelids as a teen, it was while listening to Bowie's "Velvet Goldmine." When I dyed my hair a shocking orange and flipped the collar up on my leather jacket, I was emulating the cover of his album "Low." When "Heathen" debuted in 2002, I began to notice the subtle distortions of his suiting that he wore in the liner-note photos that introduced me to the same types of fashion created by the Antwerp Six. Bowie was a gateway for me into high fashion by proving it could be a vehicle for not only great chic, but nonconformity.

There are some looks that will possibly always belong to Bowie. The silver striped jumpsuit with ballooned legs will always be Ziggy's, no matter how many designers reinterpret it, and his spiked longer-in-the-back-shorter-on-top-hairdo remains the only acceptable version of the mullet.

The 2013 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "David Bowie Is" displayed many of these looks, and his influence can especially be seen today in the fashion industry with the move toward nonbinary design (clothes that don't conform to traditional gender stereotypes) at labels like Hood by Air and Louis Vuitton, and returns to glam dandyism at Gucci and Saint Laurent.

For many, Bowie's most significant contribution to fashion will remain the permission he gave through his own style expression to push the boundaries toward greater avant-garde authenticity.

"I wouldn't have become a designer if I hadn't had David Bowie's music and performances as a guiding light as a kid," Duffty says. "I think that will be true of a lot of people. You can try and emulate him but he always moved on. No one will ever be Bowie."

Tony Bravo is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: tbravo@sfchronicle.com

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Bowie's fashion sense empowered individuality

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There he was, lounging in a dress, transgressing against gender norms on the cover of "The Man Who Sold the World," then as flame-haired alien Ziggy Stardust in his glittery spaceman jumpsuits, only to morph into Aladdin Sane with the signature lightning bolt painted across his face.

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working class/ precariats

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workers on a factory line

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Homeless

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living on the streets-homelessness for young people bbc documentary

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Squatters squat for a reason they don't just cut about with daddy's trust fund.

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Squatting collective the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (ANAL) continue to underline exactly how much high-end housing is lying empty while homeless people sleep on the rain-soaked concrete, having spent last night moving into another mansion.
The group wrote: "Facing a police enforced eviction at 4 Grovesnor Gardens, ANAL have decided to relocate AS CLOSE TO THE QUEENS BEDROOM as possible.... Overlooking Wellington barracks, introducing our new squat, 19 Buckingham Gate."
19 Buckingham Gate, which is just yards away from Buckingham Palace's gardens, is the third property in a row to have been taken on by the collective, which took over 108 Easton Square in January (where they fended off fascist attackers) and 4 Grosvenor Gardens in February.
The overall site, 18-19 Buckingham Gate, is currently being given a slightly gaudy-looking makeover by developer Simpson Haugh and Partners, with a view to turning it into 14 luxury apartments for the sort of people who can afford to pay (if it's anything like the neighbours' place) £2.5 million a pop for the chance to get a good view of the royal behind.
The developer lists the owner as "private," however if it's not "18-19 Buckingham Gate Investment Ltd" then coincidences abound.
If ANAL keep up their current rate of mansion occupations they could have collectively squatted in properties worth well over £100m by the end of the year. [Read More]

Belgravia squatters the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (ANAL) report that they fought off an attack on the 28th from heavies wearing fascist-linked masks, who seem to have been trying to get them out of the mansion belonging to Russian billionaire Andrey Goncharenko that they squatted on Wednesday.
At the time of writing they are asking for more support to head down to 102 Eaton Square to provide solidarity and support for the occupiers. In a series of notes from their Twitter account, they said:
[The] fascists [have been] fought/scared off. Police liaised and content. We would still appreciate numbers here to display that we will resist ... They smashed windows while children were in a peaceful occupation wearing fascist face-scarfs. [The] mansion [is] being secured from the inside after attack by fascists. Children [have been] moved upstairs. No reports of injuries.
ANAL are working to turn the Belgravia squat, in the heart of one of London's poshest areas, into a homeless shelter for the cold weather. 25 people have been housed so far and there are plans to hold movie nights and other events at the venue. Goncharenko's representatives, MCA Shipping Ltd, are seeking a possession order and a hearing is scheduled for January 31st. [Read More]

The squatter crew Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (A.N.A.L.) have occupied a number of high profile buildings in central London in recent weeks. These have included the former Institute of Directors (corporate fatcat club) HQ, Admiralty Arch (state power icon due to be turned into hotel), and now 24 St James' Square, a flash office building on one of London's most expensive squares, empty for ten years. They have been getting big picture splashes in corporate media rags like the Evening Standard and Daily Mail.

On Friday evening (10 April) the St James' Sq squat came under siege by a mini-army of security guards. The heavies used similar tactics to those seen recently on the Aylesbury Estate and other squat clashes recently: unable to retake the building, they forcibly block entrances and exits to lock down the occupation, keeping out supporters and supplies. [Read More]

So, far now the security thugs have stepped down after a 15hour siege. The security guards woke us up at 5am and they illegally entered our home. We swiftly acted and informed them about the law and legislation that they should have been following. After we ushered them out they maintained their presence and blocked the front and back doors, denying people access all day. By this time our friends and comrades were on their way to help and together we successfully made them stand down after an intense stand off. Today highlighted that unity is strength and when people stand together we can overcome intimidation and win important victories. We are still here, in this huge building, that before us, sat here dormant collecting dust in the middle of a supposed "housing crisis". Bollocks to that! The building now is an activist hub and a free home. Free from bailiffs, landlords and the ruling class. We one day hope that all of society will be arranged like this, free from all hierarchy and domination. [Read More]

Horror arrives at London Evening Standard by the pen of Matt Watts, supposedly a journalist, a posh and naive pawn, for whose neoliberal minds for whom it is difficult to understand the meaning of gentrification and class struggle.
<< A group of "five stars squatters" has taken over a historic office block just yards from Buckingham Palace. Activists who have entered the former HQ of the Institute of Directors at 123 Pall Mall today vowed to stay "as long as they can". The six-storey, multimillion-pound office block is 700 yards from Buckingham Palace. The squatters moved in last week and have renamed it as the Instutute of Dissidents. [Read More]

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Squatting collective the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (ANAL) continue to underline exactly how much high-end housing is lying empty while homeless people sleep on the rain-soaked concrete, having spent last night moving into another mansion. The group wrote: "Facing a police enforced eviction at 4 Grovesnor Gardens, ANAL have decided to relocate AS CLOSE TO THE QUEENS BEDROOM as possible....

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Hippies

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He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in.
- Billy Bragg

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Equity, Unison, NUM

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Miners at the picket line

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the left<3

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They are an motherdaughter channel which invites individuals on to talk about their style and life story, ultimately, they're left in a state of undress, both physically and emotionally.

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Created by mother-daughter duo, Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum, StyleLikeU is a radically honest storytelling platform powering a self-acceptance revolution. Through intimate docu-style video series, including The What’s Underneath Project, Getting Dressed: An Act of Self-Love, Dispelling Beauty…

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Music/gigs

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Families

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parties

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Camden, covent garden, clapham

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Punks

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Skins

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Mods

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- the quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked.
- separate existence.

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- the state of being united or joined as a whole.

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- a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
- the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common.