A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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What forms of direct action are acceptable?
The January 6, 2021 siege on Capitol Hill is still very fresh in my mind. Three days later (it feels like 3 months later), as you might imagine, I and the rest of the…
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Ogden, Utah people turn out en masse at council meeting to protest homeless camp dispersal
Ogdenites turn out en masse at council meeting to protest homeless camp dispersal | Local News | standard.net Castillo and several of the speakers at Tuesday’s council meeting noted Centers for Disease Control and…
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Concord New Hampshire Report finds a ‘tidal wave’ of homelessness
There are a lot of great statistics in this article about homelessness in New Hampshire. Report finds a ‘tidal wave’ of homelessness In January, the point-in-time study found that homelessness had grown by 21%…
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Denver’s first sanctioned homeless encampments offer a glimmer of hope, stability
This is such an obvious need I can’t believe we have to fight so hard to make them happen. Denver’s first sanctioned homeless encampments offer a glimmer of hope, stability Benjamin said the safe…
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The Generator Experiment – Introduction
1/5/2021 If I see my friend Ashleigh Hughes as the potential Evangelical Dorothy Day, I see myself as the homeless anthropologist equivalent of Jane Goodall. The problem with my comparison to Jane Goodall, of…
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Thomarios Construction Is Dan Horrigan Pillar Of Power We Must Attack
A standard approach of bringing down a dictator like Dan Horrigan is to attack his pillars of power. You go after the people that help him maintain power. Thomarios is a long-term benefactor of…
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Sweeping Kansas City homeless camp killed Scott “Sixx” Eike
Man froze to death after sweep of Kansas City homeless camp | The Kansas City Star On New Year’s Day, Eike, 41, was found dead from exposure, said Nellie Ann McCool with Free Hot…
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Dismazed and Driven: My Look at Family Homelessness in America by Diane Nilan
Telling stories is how humans learn best. I’m so thankful Diane Nilan has created this memoir: Dismazed and Driven Memoir – Diane shares stories from her 15 years on America’s backroads as she chronicled family…
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Akron City Council Votes To Resume Shutting Off Your Water
Remember this when the city comes to shut off your water and your children ask why they can’t get a drink of water and then the city comes to evict you become you have…
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It Never Matters That People Are Freezing To Death On The Streets of The Richest Country In The World
I’ve been following this story since it began. Basically, an activist group occupied a hotel and put homeless people in it. Some with chronic illnesses. Some with Covid. And then what happened next is…
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Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City
When is enough enough? American homelessness is a needless and tragic and cruel humanitarian disaster. Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City A deceased person was found in a…
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Boston Doesn’t Have Enough Homeless Shelter Space
Massachusetts shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives BOSTON — As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to…