Wall Street Has Already Voted for Rising Inequality
Wall Street plundered your livelihoods, homes and retirement funds — and now they want you to bail them out, again, with your vote.
Month: November 2010
Quality of Life Laws and Broken Windows Theory
by Paul Boden
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat images do the words “quality of life” bring to mind? A peaceful beach? A beautiful park?
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.
Poetry, November 2010
Who Would Believe
by Claire J. Baker
Who would believe that all
week at a slick Senior Center
in a
Exploiting Prejudice for Profit
A city’s welcoming attitude toward strangers, travelers and the poor might have its costs. But so does constantly cycling vulnerable people through the courts and jails. I’d rather give a dollar to a stranger than play any role in yet another unconstitutional law.
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.
The Quality of Whose Life? America’s Modern Anti-Poor Movement Brings Back Segregation Era
America is building more and more jail cells but fewer and fewer affordable housing units. We now have millions of people without housing, some living on the street, some in cars, some in jails.
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.