Author: Sage
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The People Stand With Their Homeless Brothers and Sisters in Bellingham Washington
If you have learned nothing else in 2020 I hope you learned that you simply can’t ask the government nicely to bring justice to its people. There is no other alternative other than fighting for it.
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The African American Criminal
Ibram X. Kendi ‘s book “Stamped from the Beginning” is SO powerful. While oppression is everywhere in America, there is not a group that comes anywhere near the downward pressure African Americans have been subjected to ever since the early 1600s. Africans in America have always been seen as ignorant criminals. That’s how they were…
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2 Homeless People Died During Storm Overnight
This only happens for one reason: We judge homeless people for their suffering. And so we leave them to freeze to death on the streets of the most Christian, richest country in the world. 2 Homeless People Died During Storm Overnight, Sacramento Mayor Says – CBS Sacramento “Just confirmed that one unhoused person…
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The former “Super K-Mart” at Winchester and Riverdale has now become a small homeless camp
“It makes us look really bad as a city.” – this is the essence of the entire homeless epidemic. People are embarrassed they have poor people that have nowhere to live. Hickory Hill residents frustrated with homeless living outside vacant building
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I Love Fred Hampton
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I’m talking about the white masses, I’m talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too….We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity…capitalism…
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Pallet creating prefab tiny homes for the homeless
I feel like $5000 is still too expensive. But I like these. A lot. Pallet creating prefab tiny homes for the homeless – Business Insider “What we felt was really missing from the housing spectrum was a dignified shelter option that honored their individuality and allowed them to have autonomy in their rehabilitation process,” Amy…
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Duluth is building yurts for homeless people
This isn’t hard. Allowing people to freeze to death unsheltered in immoral, inhumane and cruel. Anyone who thinks withholding shelter from a person with no shelter is evil and cruel. Duluth advocates push ahead with yurts-for-homeless initiative | Duluth News Tribune “Indigenous people have lived this way for all of our existence. We know how…
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Save Austin Now looks to put the homeless camping ban on the May ballot
Save Austin Now looks to put the homeless camping ban on the May ballot | KXAN Austin “Homelessness is not being addressed right now. Telling a homeless person they can sleep in a tent in 30-degree weather, give them no mental health treatment, no drug and alcohol treatment, no food, no real shelter — that’s…
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Sacramento City Council Approves Rules Allowing Homeless Encampments On ‘Safe Ground’ Sites
This is the future! I guarantee it. There is no other way. Sacramento City Council Approves Rules Allowing Homeless Encampments On ‘Safe Ground’ Sites – capradio.org The Sacramento City Council voted 8 to 1 on Tuesday to approve the “safe ground” ordinance, a framework for allowing homeless encampments and tiny homes on properties that meet…
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San Rafael homeless campers evicted
This is an unlawful eviction. Only homeless people are given 5 days to evict. And isn’t there a moratorium on evictions anyway? San Rafael homeless campers evicted from site below freeway Caltrans officials served the campers an eviction notice on Friday, giving them until 8 a.m. on Tuesday to vacate the site, Barclay said.
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Hazelnut Grove homeless village to be cleared
The truth of homeless camps sweeps is that they are doing exactly what they have always done to people that don’t like… they are forcing them to move somewhere else. Doing this is in our DNA. We did it with Native Americans. We did it with Japanese in World War II and now we’re doing…
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Bacon’s Rebellion
Do you know about Bacon’s Rebellion? In 1675 he united poor white people and black slaves to fight against rich white people. This is my dream. To unite Proud Boys with Antifa. To unite QAnon with BLM. The powerful have always intentionally divided poor people. And we fall for it every time. United we stand.…
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Addiction In The Homeless Community
There is yet again another mean and hurtful conversation going on in the homeless community on facebook here: I’m being accused of being a piece of shit. It’s really nothing new. It comes up from time to time. The conversation is going on that there are drugs in a transitional house run by the Homeless…
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Police Are Sending Homeless People To Places They Are Clearing Because There Is Nowhere Else To Send Them
This is how fucked up homelessness has become. They close services and then send people to those services because there is no other place to send them. Police OFTEN sent homeless people to our tent village that the city eventually closed. Body cam footage captures Seattle officers directing homeless person to Cal Anderson Park…
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Fire At Homeless Camp During Inauguration Rehearsal
It’s like a cry for help (that was completely ignored). Capitol lockdown lifted: Inauguration rehearsal participants briefly evacuated after fire in homeless camp | NewsNation Now The U.S. Capitol complex temporarily locked down Monday during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after a fire in a homeless encampment about a mile away sent a…
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“Only” $200,000 Per Bed to house homeless people in this one test project.
L.A. project shows homeless housing can be done quickly, cheaply – Los Angeles Times From start to finish in under five months and at a cost of about $200,000 per bed, it has shaved years and hundreds of thousands of dollars off a traditional homeless housing project. ARE YOU FUCKING ME RIGHT NOW? There is…
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Small managed homeless encampments are part of the answer
Guest Commentary | Small managed homeless encampments are part of the answer – Santa Cruz Sentinel We believe that small, managed encampments that have sanitary facilities, some measure of self-governance, security and on-site access to services and case management, including mental health and addiction services, are the reasonable and humane solution. The encampments need to…
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Akron had more killings than ever in 2020
According to a Beacon Journal analysis of Akron police data, there were 843 gun-related crimes in the city in 2020, up from 473 in 2019. The neighborhoods hardest hit by the increases were East Akron (150), West Akron (137) and Kenmore (92). I get the opportunity to work with some drug dealers and addicted adults…
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A bodybuilding pastor: Homeless advocate Scott Wagers is unapologetic about his calling – San José Spotlight
A bodybuilding pastor: Homeless advocate Scott Wagers is unapologetic about his calling – San José Spotlight In 1997, in the middle of a cold El Niño winter, Wagers opened an informal homeless shelter at First Christian Church on South Fifth Street. About 100 people came in to sleep, according to Wagers, so he didn’t flinch…
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Needles Clog Bathroom In San Jose
Bullshit! Needles don’t clog toilets. using t-shirts for feminine products does. San Jose cuts water in park with large homeless population, blames needles – San José Spotlight But the water was turned off on Dec. 14 when drains in one of the bathrooms clogged and the facility flooded. Both of the restrooms were closed for…