The following is a post from the Northampton, MA-based group Poverty is Not a Crime. Host: Poverty Is Not a Crime Type: Causes - Protest Network: Global Time and Place Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 4:15pm - 6:00pm Location: exact congregation location TBD The Anti-Panhandling Ordinance Is Just the Beginning! Stop the Business Improvement District! End Rascist and Classist Gentrification! Community Resources, Now! True Economic Development: For People, Not Profit! Ordinance 285-53 would...Read Full Story
This Monday, Bill Miller, Executive Director of Springfield, MA's Friends of the Homeless, sought out the press for an all-too-familiar story-- area emergency shelters are closing and the Worthington St. Shelter, already overcapacity, is worried. Miller says that the 107 bed men's shelter has been overcapacity 15 of the last 20 days, and I know the women's 26-bed shelter is always full. On June 1st, the 30 bed, 6 nights a week shelter run by the Springfield rescue Mission will also close...Read Full Story
Congratulations! You wouldn't know it by reading the Northampton Gazette article, but skilled and persistent organizing by the new group Poverty is Not a Crime has forced the Northampton, MA City Council to table indefinitely a proposed ordinance which would have restricted panhandling to such a degree as to make it virtually forbidden, and which would have instituted impossible-to-pay fines that could have led to warrants and incarceration. Thanks also to Bill Newman of the ACLU, who also...Read Full Story
I started a post this afternoon which I decided not to publish after I read through it because it seemed all whiny and self-pitying. Truth is, there's a good chance I'll be laid off in the next couple of months, but I guess I'll survive..... unlikely I'll wind up in the Friends of the Homeless Womens' Shelter or starving to death in an unheated apartment... but it sucks to be 61 years old and looking for work. Later I went to an Economic Justice Committee meeting at Arise. Liz reported on her...Read Full Story
Hampden County is on a tornado watch....all I want is a soaking rainstorm and a break from the heat. OK, that's passed, and now we have a rainbow-- a little like the temporary rainbow for some homeless families today.
Seems like as soon as I wrote that I haven't had much direct contact with homeless people recently, I made a liar out of myself.
Last week we at Arise for Social Justice heard from three different single homeless people about health conditions at Worthington St. shelter...Read Full Story
This overflow accommodation is in addition to 700 leased properties and 200 bed and breakfast places available in the city as temporary housing. The council said that between 20 and 40 people were being housed outside the city at any one time. The ...
AUBURN — High school senior Sam Chamberlain, 18, is making his life experience work for him, and others. After living in three homeless shelters for the past two years, Chamberlain has become a homeless youth advocate. Working with the Maine ...
This morning at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, the first ever Burn Pit symposium is taking place. It will run all day at the Health Sciences Center, Level 3, Lecture Hall 5. Imagine, just for a second, what the symposium would be like if, instead of columns about parades, across the country last week, the same people writing those columns instead wrote of the symposium. And grasp
Housing, Regeneration and Heritage Minister Huw Lewis last night [Thursday 9 February] met with some of the world’s leading homelessness experts as he continues to shape his policies for dealing with the issue in Wales. Joining him at the homelessness ...
The Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) is pleased to report the 2012 homeless count shows an 11.4 per cent decrease in the number of people experiencing homelessness since 2008. If the historical trend since 1992 had continued, Calgary would have as many as ...
The three students were participants of the eighth annual "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," an event organized by the Muncie Mission. The fundraiser started at 8 a.m. with registration and the walk starting at 9 a.m. after a brief ceremony. Ray Raines ...
It seems every time I go out on the streets, I see someone who appears homeless, and it always tears me up.
It is my contention that in a country as wealthy as America, there shouldn’t be anyone wandering the streets homeless and without some sort...
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Baltimore Sun - The Maryland Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure yesterday that would extend the state's hate-crimes law to cover acts against the homeless. The bill, sponsored by Republican