Get on the spectrum of voluntary poverty
We in America have been so indoctrinated into the cult of Capitalism that an alternative economic philosophy seems like pure and total madness. I am not a Communist. Not that I have anything against t
[The Washington Post] The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry
The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry By Hamza Shaban and Heather Long https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/stock-market-record
An Update To Demass Learning
Back in 2012 I created something called “Demass Learning“. I then got pulled really hard into the homeless humanitarian disaster in America. But I’ve recently come back to exploring Demass Learning a
More Murders In Akron Than Ever Before
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 ho
The Church Has Always Abandoned The Poor
“If religion has so neglected the needs of the poor and of the great mass of workers and permitted them to live in the most horrible destitution while comforting them with the solace of a promise of a
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 Ho
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-19/391001
132 Homeless Kids in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Ardmore, Oklahoma population is 24,795. The racial makeup of the city is 73.02% White, 11.27% African American, 8.78% Native American. About 13.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below th
Boston shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives
Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Departm
Denver Opens Its First Safe Open Space
Given the state and structure of the United States of America, Safe Open Spaces, aka sanctioned tent villages, are inevitable and absolutely critically needed NOW. Denver’s first legal homeless encamp
Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction
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 e
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, compas
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
What Sleeping Outside on Christmas Eve Did to Me
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
Human Rights of Homeless People MUST Be Fought For
Homeless Encampments – The Shift #RIGHT2HOUSING The Shift has developed several resources to help ensure the rights of encampment residents are upheld. Download them and use them in your community!
LA Homeless Camp Sweeps Continue Despite CDC Guidelines
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 resident
The visual stain of homelessness
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
Still No Room At The Inn
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 tr
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
The Akron Law The Homeless Won
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