This is Richard Grass. He's an important person in the humanitarian fight for homeless rights in Akron Ohio. He is seen here wearing his tent because the city came and stole every single other item of his. He finally cut a hole in his tent, and put his head through it and told them that […]

If you are an Akronite, this article should be required reading to understand your history: https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/a-road-to-nowhere-how-the-construction-of-akrons-innerbelt-displaced-thousands/Content?oid=27096491 This is what African-American racISM looks like. It's policies that undermine black people. And now we are doing it again by giving people 15 years of tax free living if they build a new house in Akron. This incredible […]

Let's talk about this: The man accused of killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent, blamed “sexual addiction,” a disputed term used in parts of evangelical culture. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/us/evangelical-sex-addiction-atlanta-suspect.html We also spent a lot of time talking about corruption in Akron politics and how to organize to make real change for our city.

Some people cringe at my outbursts. They tell me that my anger and attacks on politicians is childish and hurtful to my overall cause. I am nothing if not intentional in my actions. Some may think that I'm just some madman yelling into the wind further isolating myself and spiralling out of control. I do […]

This was at the December 3, 2018 Akron City Council Meeting as the city destroys our tent village while not housing 14 of our 50+ Residents They Promised To House. The original full council video is here: https://youtu.be/JV2-4vDxMp0

As of March 11, 2021, the average annual pay for a Mayor in Akron is $171,265 an year.City council members make $34,694. The council president makes $44,616These are 2015 Numbers:Chief of staff: James Hardy: Annual salary: $106,454.Deputy chief of staff: Annie McFadden: Salary: $95,000.Law director: Eve Belfance: Salary: $127,837.Deputy mayor for public safety: Charles Brown: […]

Thank you Tara L. Samples for shining a light on this middle ages bullshit that is the Ohio Death Penalty. (Ward 5 Councilwoman Tara Samples introduced a resolution to support a group of bipartisan state lawmakers who again are trying to legislate an end to capital punishment in Ohio.) Shammas Malik AGAIN! You stand on […]

Other than a box cutter I carry on me to open boxes of food I give out to homeless people, I have no weapons. No stun gun, no pepper spray, and certainly no guns. I don't want the government to be able to hide behind the convenient excuse that I was a "dangerous, violent man […]

I want you to start thinking about running for Akron City Council or Akron Mayor in 2023. It's SO hard to beat the oppressive Summit County Dems machine. YOU NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT IT NOW.If you run as a Democrat (which you should. Akron only votes for Democrats) then your election is going to […]

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 […]

A standard approach of bringing down a dictator like Dan Horrigan is to attack his pillars of power. You go after the people that help him maintain power. Thomarios is a long-term benefactor of scraping money off of Akron. Not only do they get really juicy contracts, they also got the Cannabis grow house in […]

Remember this when the city comes to shut off your water and your children ask why they can't get a drink of water and then the city comes to evict you become you have no water. Mike Freeman, Brad McKitrick and Sharon L. Connor  did this to you. They voted to shut off your water […]

What I might hate about Corporate Democrats most of all is how they aren't actually for business. They are just for their corporate friends' businesses. Dan Horrigan is killing businesses on Main Street in Akron. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2020/12/29/downtown-construction-restart-akrons-main-street/4074505001/

If you aren't aware of this, you should be. I was just reading this Letters to editor: Property taxes rising amid pandemic, thanks to Summit County office The property value of my home went WAY up. I can afford to pay these new significantly higher property taxes. BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T? […]

I woke up to this headline: Man, 19, killed in West Akron shooting, adding to record year for killings And then the article is mostly spent trying to unwind how Akron defines a murder compared to a homicide. That's the plan in Akron Ohio. If you don't like the statistics just confuse people. (We have […]

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 […]

I want to make sure this does not get lost either by the city law department OR the city as a whole. On September 6, 2016 these homeless Akronites won a settlement and consent decree against the city of Akron. Those homeless people were: WILLIAM BUKER, NICOLE GOULD, CARL LYNCH, PATRICK MOE, MELVIN THOMPSON, and […]

'Pallets' pop up around Lane County to shelter homeless people The county purchased 120 shelters for $888,300, which was covered by money from the federal CARES Act. The county allocated $1.25 million in coronavirus Relief Funds toward winter sheltering. While the structures are sturdy, secure and warm, service providers emphasize that they are meant to serve […]

"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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

One of the things I hate about our mayor, more than anything, is how visionless he is. His biggest goal is the get the population to 250,000 people. We're in the 190s now and I'll take a bet that our population decreases in the 2020 census. Letting people build houses tax free for 15 years […]

Have you seen Dave Chappelle on David Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction"? Dave Chappelle is one of the most socially aware people in America. I recommend watching anything of his you can get your hands on. He could be the greatest comedian to ever live. At one point Letterman asks if he wanted […]

I watched a really powerful interview on Fox News with the president of Black Lives Matter in New York, Hawk Newsome: This interview was incredibly interesting to me because he is our modern day MLK or Malcolm X. He is responding to the police and government tactics of 2020. Many things are similar to the […]

I've been thinking about getting a gun. I've been thinking about the Ruger AR-556 MPR As I was fantasizing about my new purchase, my obsession turned to murdering a particular drug dealer in my neighborhood. I thought about how, when, where... I was getting so into the idea that I had to just stop thinking […]

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