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Universal Health Care
Life is simple — everybody needs food, shelter and, at some point, medicine.
by Buford Buntin
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A Reverence for Life in the Midst of Death
by Molly Woodward
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very winter, when freezing temperatures and wet weather make surviving on the streets even harder, communities
Tax Increases for Workers with the Lowest Incomes
by Joan Clair
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] great deal has been written about the tax bill signed into law by President Obama on
U.S. Mayors Warn of Deadly Rise in Homelessness
Lack of shelter threatens increases in hypothermia and death on the streets
by the National Law Center on Homelessness &
Organizing to Save the California Dream
“I was a client at a homeless shelter. I have been hungry. I have been afraid. I have worked hard
Creative Acts of Housing Liberation in San Francisco
Creative Housing Liberation would like to invite “all kinds of folks, including families,” to be involved in future housing occupations. Families are the largest new homeless group, a number that is skyrocketing since the housing foreclosure scandals and the economic crisis began.
Ugly Laws, Bum Blockades and Sundown Towns
The Quality of Life ordinances enacted in cities across the nation to outlaw and banish homeless people from certain areas are our contemporary version of the vagrancy laws that have been with us for centuries. In the South, they were used to force freed slaves back to the plantation. In the North, they were used to instill a Protestant work ethic in indigent whites.
World Homeless Day: Housing Activists Take Over Vacant Hotel in San Francisco
he Leslie Hotel is just one vacant building in a city that has hundreds of abandoned buildings on the streets where thousands of abandoned human beings languish without housing or shelter. While the Leslie Hotel has 60 vacant units that could provide housing to homeless people, the 2009 Census Bureau statistics show that San Francisco has an estimated 36,000 vacant housing units. With 6,000 to 15,000 homeless people on the streets of San Francisco, that seems unfair.
Rubicon’s Innovative Aid to Homeless Mentally Disabled
Rubicon is the name of a river which Julius Caesar crossed, and changed his life in the process. It is hoped that the clients of Rubicon can be helped to pass over obstacles in their paths and transform the course of their lives.
California’s Perfect Storm of Student Protest
A social movement is now growing across the country to defend public education. California’s perfect storm was at its leading edge, and contributed a new repertoire of strategy and tactics for building it.
Indigenous Triqui Women, Fired Electrical Workers, Live On Mexico City Streets in Protest
Indigenous Triqui women and their children protested against a wave of killing in their home town, the autonomous community of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca. The Triqui protestors are living in tents in the zocalo, the main plaza in the center of Mexico City, calling on the government to act to protect people in Oaxaca. Other Mexico City activists join them.
Fighting for the Right to Affordable Housing
“There is a human rights crisis in the U.S. that can no longer be ignored... millions of Americans are unable to secure one of their most basic rights — the right to adequate housing.” — UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing