Author: Sage
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Thank You Cards From The Homeless People You Are Helping
Misty has been organizing thank-you cards for supporters. Here’s a picture of her working on making some bead bracelets: She loves crafts, games and decorating. She is always involved with decorating for parties we have. She is always cleaning and organizing. She lives in a basement near Middlebury Chapel. She is really involved in the…
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Spend Less Time Patting Yourself On The Back
Here’s an email I woke up to this morning: As someone that serves in this community, i would like to invite you to please spend less time patting yourself on the back and more time helping people make things work. Praying for a softening of your heart honey 🙂 I think it’s a good time…
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Why Can’t People Be Warm Every Night?
For my wife: Akron’s emergency shelter system is failing its most vulnerable residents, with inconsistent communication and limited low-barrier options—only one exists, and it’s illegal. In response, I’ve opened a mobile community center, providing warmth and dignity to those in need. Despite the minimal cost and overwhelming success of this grassroots effort, local bureaucracies remain…
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Slave Trade in Libya: A Mirror to Our Own Guilt
This is Naima Jamal from Ethiopia who is now being sold as a slave in Libya, this also applies to those behind her. Slave trade is happening in Libya in 2025. She was held by her abductors in Kufra, Libya, with a demand of $6000 ramson. Here is her photo in Ethiopia before she was…
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I Just Sold 15 Broad Street
December 19, 2024 For my wife… I just sold 15 Broad Street in Akron after owning it for 14 years. While it started as the home for my marketing company SageRock, its most meaningful chapter was hosting The Homeless Charity and Second Chance Village – a homeless-run day center and tent city that the city…
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Dear White Moderate: Your ‘Order’ Is Killing Us
MLK’s Warning to Today’s Liberal Elite I am going to begin my articles from now on with a new section called: “For my wife…” She gets the fire hydrant of me all the time and reading an overly wordy essay is not what she calls a good time. Consider it a tl;dr. For my wife…I…
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Is this Guardian Article Suggesting The Homeless Turn To Violence?
I just got a comic from the Guardian from First Dog on the Moon: “10,000 people are becoming homeless every month – you’d think the government would do something about it” This cell caught my attention: The comic has a powerful line: “As the kids all say these days – the purpose of a system…
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Why I Think It’s Important We Support The Brian Thompson Assassin
First, let me say that I don’t come to a state of radical love and acceptance naturally. I am not some aberration of humanity. I am not a natural-born saint. My blood thirst is as alive and well as the rest of humanity. I love vengeance and cold, hard, righteous justice as much as the…
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Akron Beacon Journal editorial board says we should try my idea
Akron Beacon Journal November 30, 2024, “Unsheltered homelessness in the county is up 300%. It’s time to take action | Editorial” I like to make a backup of some of these articles because they almost always disappear from the Beacon Website. Unsheltered homelessness in the county is up 300%. It’s time to take action |…
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I Met With The Mayor Yesterday. Here’s How It Went
I walked out of that meeting exhausted. In my mind, it was a significant point of importance in this decade-long journey. My advocacy for this particular segment of homeless people has pushed me into realms of feeling, thinking, and “praying” in ways that no other work has ever challenged me to do before. This homeless…
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Finding Light in the Shadows: My Journey Through a Protest Camp
In a world that often feels dark, the smallest kindnesses reveal the light we carry within. As a person who experiences the suffering, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of life VERY deeply, it is absolutely critical for my mental well-being to acknowledge the WHOLE truth. I spent 2 nights living in this tent during my one-person protest…
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People First
I can’t lie. I’m excited about a Trump presidency. He will probably do some fun, interesting things. I’m hoping for more self-driving Teslas driving around, smashing into plate glass windows. I’m hoping for Amazon drones falling on old ladies walking to church. The deregulation that he’ll do for business should be entertaining and creative. But…
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The Well of Sadness
Finding Light in the Depths of Loss and Displacement (This was written the day after the November 5, 2024 presidential election where Donald Trump won his second term as president. Many Democrats had been told that he is a fascist and he is going to steal Democracy and go after “the enemy within” which are…
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The Last Tent Standing: A Protest, a Privilege, and a Nation’s Divide
Reflections on class, privilege, and the hidden biases that shape our society. It’s 6:50am on Friday, November 1, 2024. It’s 45 degrees. I’m the last tent standing. I’m the last anything standing, really. They brought trucks and bobcats and cleaned everything that wasn’t bolted down on 4 separate properties. That was surprising. All I ever…
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PRESS RELEASE: Winter Safe Sleeping Space Protest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sage Lewis Phone: 330-416-7519 Email: [email protected] Advocate Begins Indefinite Camp-Out Protest Against Homeless Displacement in Akron AKRON, OH 10/30/2024 — Starting tonight, Sage Lewis, founder of Houseless Movement Charity, will begin an indefinite camp-out protest next to 85 Kent Place, Akron, in direct response to the City of Akron’s notice to…
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Supporter’s Guide: Help Amplify the Fight for Winter Shelter in Akron
Ways to Help On-Site Documentation Tips Important Details to Document Sharing on Social Media Ready-to-Use Posts (modify as needed) Twitter/X Templates: URGENT: Akron advocates are fighting for winter homeless shelter at 85 Kent Place. City plans to remove survival gear as temperatures drop. Witness needed. #AkronHousing #HumanRights Last winter, an Akron resident lost toes to…
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I Officially Ended My Gun Dealer License Today
I want to say that I’ve worked with a couple ATF agents over the years and they have always been super cool. Every once in a while you will need to do an audit of your books and inventory. They are random and anxiety producing. But that’s just because you are dealing with the government…
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When the World Turns Away: Choosing to Stand in a Society that Won’t
A personal reflection on rage, humanity, and the cost of caring I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to overcome my rage. The world is just so wrong sometimes. Did I tell you that my friend Hurricane got hit by a school bus? It destroyed his cart, his front bicycle wheel and his guitar.…
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Why I’m Voting For Kamala Harris
I don’t know why I’m writing this. But then again, I am in a place in my life where I really can’t tell you why I do much of anything. It just feels like the thing to do. (It’s not right or wrong. I can’t make that complicated conclusion. I just feel like doing it.)…
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The Art of Staying Alive in a World That Makes No Sense
A personal journey through despair, anger, and meaning in the face of life’s absurdities I think about killing myself all the time. Albert Camus writes: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” I…