This text is about Jornal Boca de Rua, a periodical made by homeless people of Porto Alegre. Its aim is to establish a relation between the subversive position of these people and the logic of contemporary capitalism in three different ways - urban space, media and consumption -, working on the details, implications, ambiguities and commenting on the partial results. Spatial resistance is seen as a way the homeless inhabit the city, either as an inhabitant or as a salesperson, which means reinventing valueless empty spaces of the city. Media resistance is characterized by the construction of an alternative diffusive medium from that of mass-media, giving the opportunity for this group to publish their works and placing them in spaces never imagined before. Consumption resistance, finally, becomes possible when the homeless render services instead of begging, offering other ways for them to be included in the web of contemporary society.
homeless; Jornal Boca de Rua; contemporary city; resistance; media