Category: Activism
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Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless People
STAND STRONG @TacHousing! We all must stand with our homeless brothers and sisters in this brutal and cruel and torturous homeless system in America. Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless People
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Lost to COVID-19: Akron native Rev. Tom Weller died of COVID-19
Doug Livingston of the Akron Beacon Journal did a very nice piece on Tom Weller here: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2020/12/28/lost-covid-19-akron-native-rev-tom-weller-died-covid-19/3910018001/ My ears always perk up when I read a story of a person committed to “the least of these.” The stories fill me with both happiness and sadness. I’m happy to be reminded that there are so many…
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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. “I. Must. Do. What’s. Best. For. The. Organization.” I see this so clearly in churches and nonprofits. The organization is more…
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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. Capitalism is a game played by capitalists. And I’m sorry to say, if you don’t own property that creates income for…
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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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Akron evictions delayed by mail service, COVID-19 orders, moratorium
“And tenants who’ve lost jobs and wages to the pandemic can continue to file for eviction protection until Jan. 31 under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order that would have expired Dec. 31.” I know this is difficult for landlords. I’m one myself. But there is REAL desperate need out here. We cannot…
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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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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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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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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…
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How To Properly Steal Food
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…