Author: Sage
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St. Paul Homeless Camp Fire
Fire breaks out at downtown St. Paul homeless encampment – StarTribune.com Friday’s fire comes as city officials are preparing to close eight homeless encampments in the city, including the one at Kellogg Park, and relocate residents to shelters starting next week. They cite a risk of fires and exposure to the cold for the impending…
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Another Akron Murder
Man shot to death Saturday in home invasion I don’t know what to do other than report this shit. The despair in Akron and Ohio in general is brutal and severe and tragic. It all comes back to jobs. And that is a crushing failure of both Democrats and Republicans because they want the money…
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Seattle Police Arrest Homeless People
Seattle police clear homeless camp, make arrests | TribLIVE.com SEATTLE — Police cleared a homeless camp in Seattle early Friday morning after a judge declined to block authorities from removing the people and tents. Police arrested 24 people and accused them of various offenses including failure to disperse, trespass and resisting arrest, the Seattle Police…
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Ohio deaths from drug overdose may set new record in 2020
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.
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Peter Maurin
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.…
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Nothing Changes
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…
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Watch “Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town” on YouTube
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…
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From CNN: With evictions ban expiring soon, new housing crisis could threaten minorities most
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
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9.9 million
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.
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NEWSFLASH: Homeless People Are Not Animals
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…
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A federal judge will not stop the city from clearing out a homeless encampment in Seattle.
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…
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The System Is Killing Us. UNITE!
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,…
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They Want To Erase You
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…
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I Will Not Bullshit You
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…
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Burn it down
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.
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Akron’s Racist Housing Project
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…
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Personal Note on where to focus
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…
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COMPLACENCY
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…
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The Alarm Sounded
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…
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WHAT IF
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…