Defund homeless industrial complex (tags)
U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cities no longer need to offer shelter to homeless means taxpayers no longer need to pay for it.
Venice local, Mike Hall, was murdered June 25, 2021 (tags)
A houseless man was murdered on Venice Beach. There needs to be truth about what’s happening there.
Regional roundup SE USA Sept. 2015 local national sources (tags)
1 35 sleeping space shelter remains closed near i-75 Georgia Florida border in Morven.2 shelters closed in west Atlanta in 2014 1 for women with children 1 for substance abuse....not one shelter has complaints, fines or infractions
LA Code 41.18 (d); Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness (tags)
The L.A. Municipal Code 41.18 (d) remains an easy way for police to criminalize homeless individuals and make their lives more difficult than they already are, resulting in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court to rule in their "Jones vs. City of L.A." case that this code violates the U.S. Constitution's 8th Amendment (No cruel and unusual punishment). Certain officers issue citations to people arbitrarily without providing ANY time for individuals to comply.
Activists: Official Suppression of Peer Advocacy Worsens TB, Flu (tags)
Tuberculosis and influenza spreading in Southern California houseless blamed on official disruption of peer education in cough hygiene.Advocating for information that will allow shelter operators to contact persons who may have been exposed to infections.
More War Against Venice Street People (tags)
The City of Los Angeles rolled out new Venice Boardwalk Ordinance (LAMC 42.15) and initiated concentrated effort to remove homeless people from Venice.
At the Eagle Rock peace vigil, disgust with imperialism and our callous society seems to be increasing.
Desert Shelter Types
Youth for Human Rights Group Sponsors Entire Refugee Camp (tags)
For World Refugee Day, June 20, Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay is sponsoring an entire refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo with bed nets.
Why is PETA suing animal rights organizations? (tags)
If dressing up like clan members, exploiting women in protests, investing in the animal industry, or euthanizing 80-97% of 'rescued' animals doesn't change your mind about PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, perhaps their recent lawsuit will get your attention.
LA Mayor's Deputy Visited by Animal Liberation Front (tags)
Family of LA Mayor's Deputy Visited by Animal Liberation Front Jimmy Blackman Urged by Underground Group to Implement No Kill Policies
Tents-in-Parks Ruling was Necessary (tags)
Maybe justice can trickle down from Victoria and we can reset economic life to benefit people and not speculators and financiers!
Women's Transitional Living Center Emergency Fundraiser (tags)
Women who have been victims of domestic violence or human trafficking could be the latest victim's of the state's budget stalemate. The budget deadlock threatens a women's shelter that's giving them refuge.
Budget Crisis Could Close Womens Shelter (tags)
Unless a state budget is passed, the shelter may close as early as September 15th.
LAAS is NOT 95% No-Kill (tags)
The GM of LA Animal Services, Ed Boks, is claiming that LAAS is 95.75% no-kill, in spite of the fact that Boks admits that killing at LAAS is up 37% in 2008.
Los Angeles Animal Services Protest Wrap Up
Ed Boks is a Menace to the Taxpayers and the Animals of Los Angeles! (tags)
Ed Boks is an incompetent liar. I cannot believe he has not been fired. If he were running a public corporation, he would be out by now.
Please take a moment to sign the petition to FIRE Ed Boks! (tags)
Ed Boks is the General Manager of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS). Ed Boks pretends to care about converting LAAS into a no-kill system of sheltering, but all that he has done is cost the TAXPAYERS of Los Angeles their hard-earned MONEY, with his questionable programs and undocumented spending.
LA Mayor's Chief Of Staff Visited by Animal Liberation Front (tags)
LA Mayor's Chief Of Staff Visited by Animal Liberation Front; Robin Kramer Urged by Underground Group to Implement No Kill Policies at 6 Los Angeles Animal Shelters
Fresno, CA- Veteran Needs Food and Shelter (tags)
Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party have been sharply critical of the Democrats and Republicans, due to their failure to make ending homelessness a national priority. As a result of this failure, the nation’s homeless population may experience sharp increases within the next two years due to the recession and inflation. Federal assistance is now imperative.
No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this.
Urge a Complete and Feasible Animal Protection Act in Bulgaria (tags)
Bulgaria: In the Animal Protection Bills discussed in the Parliament the main animal welfare problem - the exstreme instability of cat and dog populations - remains unsolved.
LA Mayor has cruel lack of vets (tags)
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't keep campaign promise to animals (tags)
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised to make LA a NoKill City. He hired Ed Boks as the new General Manager. In his first year Boks has failed to reduce the euthanasia rate. Fewer animals made it out alive, fewer were adopted. What went wrong? And what is the Mayor going to do about it?
Government issued photo ID cards given out by the homeless shelter (tags)
These are the government issued photo IDs they give out when you go to the homeless shelter
Woman arrested for neglecting hamsters (tags)
Cops remove another dangerous criminal from the streets! Don’t these cops have any real criminals to chase down?
On the encounter among the abandonments, truthful history.
Former Homeless Woman Publishes Her Story (tags)
Memoirs of one woman's experience in a homeless shelter.
KATRINA HOTEL EVICTIONS - TURN UP THE HEAT (tags)
Just as we feared, most of those evicted on the 13th did not have alternative housing. Some were arrested for trespassing as they sought shelter in abandoned buildings, and many dispersed throughout the country, refugees once again. This cannot be allowed to happen again. March 1st will be the final battle for thousands of NOLA families facing homelessness.
WAR OR PEACE WITH THE URWRNC
America's dirty secret 6 Million companion animals / pets murdered every year (tags)
Tell everyone about Americas inhumane secret. Spay and neuter is needed to humanely prevent healthy pets being euthanized in America every year. There are not enough homes for the 6 million homeless pets America murders every year. Tell everyone you know what is going on in shelters near you. The dogs you can see in these pictures are scheduled for euthanization in just one animal control shelter in less than a week.
L.A.'s Pet Project: By the Numbers (tags)
Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Mr. Guerdon Stuckey routinely states that there has been a decrease in animal shelter deaths within the past year; however, the facts seem to point to an increase.
ShelterFinder volunteers needed (tags)
Call for help with shelter data in LA area
Corruption in "Good Ol" North Carolina? (tags)
Is there a “Good Ol Boy” Network in North Carolina?
The second in a series of articles concerning targetting of the homeless.
Santa Monica Starts Massive New Push for Anti-Homeless Laws (tags)
With election of "Bobby Shriver" --brother of Maria Shriver, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife --Homeless People in Santa Monica are Facing What May be the Single Biggest Push in the Nation to Pass a Massive Wave of New Anti-Homeless Laws.
Ledge Sit and Hunger Strike in DC Government Building Needs Support (tags)
Help Support DC fight for shelter. A homeless activist is currently doing a hunger strike while sitting on a 5-story ledge in the Wilson Building (city hall and mayor's offices), until there is shelter in SW DC. Join the fight
Writing L.A.'s Wrongs with a "No Kill" Shelter Proposal (tags)
Los Angeles kills 30,000 – 50,000 of our dogs and cats at our city shelters each year for an annual cost of $14 million dollars. Not only does this turn our city's animal "shelters" into death houses, at great expense, it is entirely unnecessary.
L.A. Too Confidential: Hahn and Stuckey in a Sticky Situation (tags)
Animal advocates continue to protest Los Angeles Mayor Hahn's appointment of Guerdon H. Stuckey as the General Manager of Animal Services and the city's lack of commitment to the no-kill animal shelter goal.
Voices of the Lost and Forgotten-Part One: (tags)
Homeless families ask an important question: "How can America let this happen to us? Why can’t we get any help?"
Desperate animals in California: please, please help spread the word (tags)
PLEASE CROSS POST WIDE, THESE BABIES HAD TO GO BACK AFTER THE MOBILE ADOPTIONS THE CHANCE OF THEM GETTING OUT NOW ARE VERY LITTLE...
From the Shelters: The Choices of Women (tags)
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Do you know a poverty pimp? (tags)
The winter holidays sometimes seem more like a time of greed for many charity and social programs than a time to redouble efforts to aid the poor. The poverty pimps put their hand out and look like every good and helpful program out there. So how can you tell whom to support? And if you work or volunteer in a program how do you know if it or some the people in it deserve your support?
From the Shelters: The Choices of Women (tags)
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Santa Ana Catholic Worker trying to be SHUT DOWN! (tags)
Happy Thanksgiving! We should see what we can do to support them and not let the Catholic Worker get shut down! -Sabrina-
Liberty: Solutions--Solving the tenacious problem of homelessness (tags)
Libertarians have SOLVED homelessness! Just eliminate all zoning laws, land-use regulations, growth-control measures, and building codes that increse housing costs -- but don't be surprised when your matchstick house collapses in an earthquake or becomes poisoned by the chemical factory next-door -- "Live and let live"
Solving the tenacious problem of homelessness (tags)
The Libertarian Party thinks it has the answer the homeless are in dire need of: elimination of all zoning laws, land-use regulations, growth-control measures, building codes, and rent control laws.
The Great IMF Famine of 2003 (tags)
The death toll of the secret war being waged silently against the poor of the world will reach close to 40 million while the world is kept distracted by the Iraq war and the poorest nations on earth maintain their interest payments on their paltry loans in the midst of one of the most devastating famines of modern times.
Holiday Homelessness Hype (tags)
Gotham’s mendacious homelessness industry is back in force. Mayor Bloomberg needs to set the advocates straight. 3 December 2002
Freedom House Homeless Youth Shelter (tags)
While we fight the move towards war and social service cutbacks, one small positive development is our opening this week of Casa libre/Freedom House, a shelter for homeless unaccompanied immigrant minors and inner-city youth.
Washington, DC: Olive Branch House Evicted (tags)
Four federal marshalls and a few MPD officers came at a little before 9:00 this morning, August 7. They came to the door with shotguns drawn. The marshals presented eviction papers, asked for residents' identification and photographed the residents, including some rudely awakened and still in their pajamas.
'America's Most Wanted' Actors Guilty of Unlawful Sex (tags)
No jail time for TV perverts: The men were sentenced to five years of probation and a year of counseling, fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service.