We MUST fight along side our homeless brothers and sisters for their fundamental right to live in their own country. Thank you Santa Cruz for standing strong. Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction – Santa Cruz Sentinel The more than 75 activists and homeless individuals gathered along the park’s Dakota Avenue entrance facing off […]

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 […]

My wife loves when my actions take the moral high ground. That's why she supported our homeless tent village. And that why she supported me spending Christmas Eve night sleeping outside in solidarity with homeless pregnant women. That's exactly what Mary was, after all. Many of my current rants are vindictive and sometimes down right […]

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Attorneys decry 'cleanups' of homeless encampments during pandemic in LA - Lookout Local Santa Cruz “There is simply no public health justification for continuing the displacement of unhoused residents at this time,” write Catherine Sweetser of Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes LLP, along with Pui-Yee Yu and Shayla Myers of the Legal Aid Foundation […]

  St. Paul clears out homeless camp in Kellogg Mall Park; 7 more to be vacated | Duluth News Tribune “We only care (about housing the homeless) when we see it visually,” said St. Paul resident Joe James, disgustedly. “We only care because we see people out here and we want to remove the visual […]

I am planning a peaceful protest on Christmas Eve night. I will be building a makeshift shelter in rememberance that thousands of years ago a man and woman, who was very late in her pregnancy, were traveling (apparently to pay taxes). As the story goes, there was no room at the inn. So they slept […]

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 […]

'This is heart-wrenching': Salem homeless camps washed away by flooding | kgw.com “This is the first time I’ve been homeless like this and it’s really been an emotional drain for me. It’s heartbreaking to see how there’s no rescue. The only stuff that we have is priceless to us and we’re losing all of that […]

This is going to be a brutal winter for homeless people all over the world. Mass evictions plus less shelter space due to social distancing = More Dead Homeless People. Portland sees dramatic rise in deaths of homeless people - Portland Press Herald More than 60 homeless people died in Portland in 2020, a dramatic […]

https://nationalhomeless.org/20-years-of-hate/ California saw the most crimes against people experiencing homelessness in 2018 and 2019. Often considered ground zero for homelessness, Los Angeles, in particular, saw almost 10% of overall incidents recorded, from acid attacks and video-taped stabbings to police officers murdering a homeless man after a noise complaint. I can't even think of something to […]

Let's be honest... We are capitalists. We are swimming in a giant lake of capitalism. We have never swum in any other lake. This lake provides for us. And we all love to talk about how absolutely incredible this lake is (even though ALL of us know this lake has some real problems). So it […]

Lansing officials tell people to leave homeless camp by Monday "Clearing encampments can cause people to disperse throughout the community and break connections with service providers," the guidance says. "This increases the potential for infectious disease spread." Why do they not adhere to CDC guidelines? It's simple. THEY HATE HOMELESS PEOPLE. IT'S ALL ABOUT HOMELESS HATE.

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

THIS is something we need to discuss in greater detail. There is a profound understanding our houseless neighbors have of the power of the Irrational, of a total annihilation, of the darkest depression... That rebirths them, bloody and in anguish, into a relationship with God that most of us could never possibly grasp. Where all […]

I knew who threw this rig on the ground. I was angry at him. But I thought he broke the needle off so I was mixed emotionally about it. But I was wrong. I pulled the orange cap off and the needle was still fully intact. I broke off the needle on the ground, put […]

I'm growing to hate larger and larger swaths of people. People that are irate for having to wear a mask even though there is a good chance it would protect our elderly and sick from dying. People that will blindly stand with police even though we can all clearly see that police are getting away […]

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 […]