HOW THE PHILLY AUTONOMOUS ZONE WON

Dancing through a strange stalemate between the homeless and the police state

Cops were lurking at the barricades, so we started blasting house music. It was a sweltering hot afternoon in early September and everyone was exhausted from staying up all night. Nobody knew when the cops would violently eject us from Camp JTD, the autonomous zone and homeless encampment in Philadelphia that’s been running since June. The city had rele…