by Paul Boden, organizing director, Western Regional Advocacy Project [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) has been documenting the increases

Universal Health Care Life is simple — everybody needs food, shelter and, at some point, medicine. by Buford Buntin [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f

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Lack of shelter threatens increases in hypothermia and death on the streets by the National Law Center on Homelessness &

“I was a client at a homeless shelter. I have been hungry. I have been afraid. I have worked hard

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.

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 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.