A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction
We MUST fight along side our homeless brothers and sisters for their fundamental right to live in their own country. Thank you Santa Cruz for standing strong. Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction…
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How effective are protests?
I just came across this quote: The problem I experience is that individual people are good but organizations become soulless. Almost the instant they are created they come alive as a unfeeling, compassionless robot.…
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Poverty Is Coming Back To America
I now firmly believe that the era from about 1950 – 1980 was an anomaly. There was money. And it was spread widely across America. But that’s not how capitalism is meant to work.…
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What Sleeping Outside on Christmas Eve Did to Me
My wife loves when my actions take the moral high ground. That’s why she supported our homeless tent village. And that why she supported me spending Christmas Eve night sleeping outside in solidarity with…
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Human Rights of Homeless People MUST Be Fought For
Homeless Encampments – The Shift #RIGHT2HOUSING The Shift has developed several resources to help ensure the rights of encampment residents are upheld. Download them and use them in your community!
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LA Homeless Camp Sweeps Continue Despite CDC Guidelines
Attorneys decry ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments during pandemic in LA – Lookout Local Santa Cruz “There is simply no public health justification for continuing the displacement of unhoused residents at this time,” write Catherine…
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The visual stain of homelessness
St. Paul clears out homeless camp in Kellogg Mall Park; 7 more to be vacated | Duluth News Tribune “We only care (about housing the homeless) when we see it visually,” said St.…
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Still No Room At The Inn
I am planning a peaceful protest on Christmas Eve night. I will be building a makeshift shelter in rememberance that thousands of years ago a man and woman, who was very late in her…
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NYTimes: How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline
This is a pretty shocking expose of the immediate power of police unions. How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline https://nyti.ms/3aAMONS
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The Akron Law The Homeless Won
I want to make sure this does not get lost either by the city law department OR the city as a whole. On September 6, 2016 these homeless Akronites won a settlement and consent…
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Why Can’t Akron Have These Pallet Tiny Homes?
‘Pallets’ pop up around Lane County to shelter homeless people The county purchased 120 shelters for $888,300, which was covered by money from the federal CARES Act. The county allocated $1.25 million in coronavirus…
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Salem Homeless Camps Washed Away By Flooding
‘This is heart-wrenching’: Salem homeless camps washed away by flooding | kgw.com “This is the first time I’ve been homeless like this and it’s really been an emotional drain for me. It’s heartbreaking to…