Sage Lewis – The Shadow

Author: Sage

  • Ohio deaths from drug overdose may set new record in 2020

    Ohio deaths from drug overdose may set new record in 2020

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    https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/17/ohio-deaths-drug-overdose-may-set-new-record-2020/3916549001/ Addiction is not a weakness. Addiction is not a moral failing. Addiction is an actual transformation of the brain. We need safe injection sites. All drugs must be decriminalized. Pot must be legalized. Everyone needs to be able to grow their own marijuana. This is how you win the war on drugs.

  • Peter Maurin

    Peter Maurin

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    I believe that so many of our troubles can be traced back to the fact that our history, the people’s history, is stolen from us by the government. They write the history books. You need to know that there was, and still is, something called the Catholic Workers Movement. It was started by 2 people.…

  • Nothing Changes

    Nothing Changes

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    This quote from “Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century” by John Loughery, Blythe Randolph resonated with me in this morning’s readings: “Yet, to Dorothy’s dismay, no matter how outspoken her journalism, nothing seemed to change. The articles that the paper printed in 1949, such as David Mason’s “Jesus Christ or Jim Crow?,” could…

  • Watch “Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town” on YouTube

    Watch “Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town” on YouTube

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    Most plastic is not recyclable. So it’s sent to a dump or burned. Plastic Legislation to get involved with: Depending on where you live, there’s a lot you can do. NCSL Overview: https://www.ncsl.org/research/environ… Earth Day Plastic Action: https://www.earthday.org/act-on-plast… Cleveland Preemptive Ban: https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/0… Nat Geo breakdown: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/en… CIF: https://www.clf.org/blog/the-truth-ab… WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/plastic-… NRDC: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/single-u…

  • From CNN: With evictions ban expiring soon, new housing crisis could threaten minorities most

    From CNN: With evictions ban expiring soon, new housing crisis could threaten minorities most

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    With evictions ban expiring soon, new housing crisis could threaten minorities most “Communities of color are the hardest hit by the eviction crisis, representing 80 percent of the vulnerable,” according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/us/minorities-evictions-coronavirus/index.html

  • 9.9 million

    9.9 million

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    According to the US Census Household Pulse Survey, by the end of October, 9.9 million Americans were not up-to-date on their rent or mortgage payments and had little to no confidence that their household could pay next month’s rent or mortgage on time.

  • NEWSFLASH: Homeless People Are Not Animals

    NEWSFLASH: Homeless People Are Not Animals

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    Here’s an article on the fact that only 2 people went into an emergency shelter: Only two homeless people sought safety in emergency winter storm shelter – but for providers, it’s a teaching moment – pennlive.com I am never disappointed in seeing how completely ignorant homeless service providers are to who homeless people are, what…

  • A federal judge will not stop the city from clearing out a homeless encampment in Seattle.

    A federal judge will not stop the city from clearing out a homeless encampment in Seattle.

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    The story is always the same. Government officials say people “shouldn’t” live in tents. Then they say there is shelter available. But what they DON’T says is that the shelters won’t let you bring your pet or your significant other or most of your belongings. Just because a bed is open doesn’t me that it…

  • The System Is Killing Us. UNITE!

    The System Is Killing Us. UNITE!

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    Cops killing people for fun. Governments letting men, women and children die alone on our streets and the ever increasing murders we are committing on ourselves. IT ALL COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE. A system so diseased, so broken, so failing of the people it swore to protect is crumbling at the hands of selfish,…

  • They Want To Erase You

    They Want To Erase You

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    The powerful control history. Kings and queens and presidents and great wars are played out in every classroom in the world year after year, generation after generation. But the history of the people is a faint murmur. Their fight. Their bravery. Their wars against the governments and businesses and churches and nonprofits that have a…

  • I Will Not Bullshit You

    I Will Not Bullshit You

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    I have made a personal packed to not bullshit people. People get lied to by their leaders ALL the time because their leaders don’t think they can handle the truth. That is some of the most cynical bullshit. They are saying people are too stupid to handle my 4-D Chess. So, this is my thinking…

  • Burn it down

    Burn it down

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    I can’t think of a single organization in this god-forsaken, hypocritical “most-Christian-nation-in-the-world” country that I’d shed a single tear for if it was burned to the ground and had to build back up from scratch.

  • Akron’s Racist Housing Project

    Akron’s Racist Housing Project

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    This development project tells the ENTIRE story of what City of Akron, Ohio – Mayor’s Office wants to see happen in Akron. He wants rich white people to move into Akron without having to pay taxes on their luxury properties for 15 years. Gives no fucks how schools are supposed to educate these kids for…

  • Personal Note on where to focus

    Personal Note on where to focus

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    One of the reasons I love chaos and intense situations is because everything becomes so clear to me. The next step is as clear as day. So you just do that step and then the next step presents itself. I never feel more alive and useful than when I’m in chaos. Getting to help Spring…

  • COMPLACENCY

    COMPLACENCY

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    I can’t decide who frustrates me more: White people who say they care about black people and then elect Joe Biden (who’s sole contribution to BLM so far is to tell you to shut up about “Defunding” the police.) Or the entire rest of society who doesn’t get the humanitarian nightmare of people of every…

  • The Alarm Sounded

    The Alarm Sounded

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    When the alarm sounded and a pregnant 20 year old woman needed help… Did the Continuum Care help? Did Access Shelter for women help? Did the battered Women’s shelter help? Did the Haven of Rest Help? Did the government help? Did one single FUCKING church help? No. I literally BEGGED for help and every organization…

  • WHAT IF

    WHAT IF

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    The Battered Women’s Shelter in Akron has an ENTIRE floor in their spiffy new building that has never been opened to shelter people. They own an entire apartment building that sits empty. They tore down a house designated as a shelter (no easy feat to get “shelter” status.) I wish I could say they are…

  • How To Properly Steal Food

    How To Properly Steal Food

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    Have you been reading these stories on how food stealing is on the rise? Here are a few: Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out in the pandemic | The Seattle Times Shoplifting Spikes In U.S. Amid Increasing Desperation As Pandemic Drags On The devastating reason food shoplifting is on…

  • My Decision On Running For Governor

    My Decision On Running For Governor

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    I had asked people here if I should run for governor. I hope I thank you enough for the abundant support you show me in so many ways. From donating to various fundraisers to your endless encouragement. Facebook can be a place of great disease of thought and also an incredible fountain of human connection,…

  • Akron Movement

    Akron Movement

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    I quicky put some ideas together for something I’m calling the Akron Movement. I am SO into the idea of getting people to engage with politics and realize that they have the power to make the world what they want it to be. Additionally, there is a deep level of hopelessness in rust belt cities…