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Archive for January, 2010

This is a message from Verbena Greetings all, This is probably my least favorite task, but here we are again asking for money contributions… We need to pay rent and bills (we don’t use heat, so our bills aren’t too high, except for phone bills- which rise incredibly from jail calls). Also, due to continuous [...]

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click here for VIDEO from Fresno Posted by John Crockford on January 28, 2010 Police Evict Homeless People in Fresno… read this Indybay article by Mike Rhodes, with photos

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Support Tent Cities! Support Safe Sleeping spaces for ALL!! The below account is from a mainstream T.V. station, Jan 28, 2010 Homeless Resisting Move from Downtown Encampment More than a dozen homeless people in downtown Fresno are being forced to move from their makeshift camp. The homeless people are living in tents and sleeping on [...]

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MARCH TO FULFILL THE DREAM April 4, 2010 to June 20, 2010!!! As the nation observed the birthday of Martin Luther King, leaders of organizations of poor and homeless families, including Katrina survivors, clergy, USSF organizers and Detroit hosts…gathered in New Orleans to plan a national March and Caravan from New Orleans to the United [...]

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An Open Letter to a Mayor Reluctant to Decriminalize Homelessness http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/an_open_letter_to_a_mayor_reluctant_to_decriminalize_homelessness BY NOAH JENNINGS PUBLISHED JANUARY 26, 2010 Last week, criminalization of the homeless in Boulder, Colorado got the attention of End Homelessness readers as grassroots activists fought to put an end to a camping ordinance that unfairly targets the homeless. Thanks to Change.org readers [...]

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“Ordinary people doing extraordinary things…” Recently, a group of PEOPLE PROJECT folks joined people from all over the West Coast (and some beyond) in San Fran for a gathering, march and rally organized by WRAP [Western Regional Advocacy Project]. Building, connecting, chanting, demanding, learning, surviving…   Link to this inspiring video from the January 20th [...]

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Download and/or read WRAP’s “Without Housing” report Without_Housing_20061114

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Here is a video from the Jan 19th gathering at the Sub-mission space in San Francisco. POWERFUL words and music, the night before the rally and protest for housing, for the de-criminalization of homelessness and poverty, for human rights, for the people to build movement together. There’s a great poem in here…

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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100116125444504 Saturday, January 16 2010 @ 12:54 PM CST Contributed by: Anonymous Urgent call to action! Police raze Huntington Station Tent City destroying the property, food and shelter of over a hundred homeless. Many face possibility of freezing to death! Long Island Food Not Bombs needs your help to prevent that from happening! Please spread [...]

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Tent City Lawsuit? By Cheryl Reza Posted: Jan 12, 2010, Updated: Jan 13, 2010 COLORADO SPRINGS – The battle over what to do about “tent city” is heating up. City officials say they may have to re-consider a “no camping” ordinance. Lawsuits are popping up across the United States related to ordinances that prevent homeless [...]

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