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IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Because I want to talk about this some more without derailing the succ zone.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/loca...4b532a1471.html

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LOCAL SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE

Some downtown Las Vegas residents support city officials addressing the homeless issue.

“I’m glad that local officials are trying to address the issue,” John Paddy said.

Paddy moved in to a one story home a few blocks from container park in 2018. He calls the alley in his backyard “the homeless highway.”

“There’s such a large number of homeless that use this as a corridor to move through the downtown area,” Paddy said.

About a mile away at ‘Get a Cut’ barbershop on fourth and Bonneville, co-owner Traci Jones said some of the homeless population with mental health issues deter business.

“We’ll see them sleeping outside our doorway and if you ask them to move, you’ll end up with a big pile of defecation outside your business,” Jones said. She supports the proposal.

“I’m hoping that if they think there’s a possibility of a fine, they would not do it.”





https://nlchp.org/criminalization/

Talk about homeless criminalization, aid programs for homeless people, share your experiences of homelessness.

And if you are currently homeless feel free to come here and ask for help. I can't guarantee anything, but maybe someone in here will be in a position to help out. At the very least, here's a resource to help you find a nearby shelter.

https://nationalhomeless.org/references/directory/

IWW Online Branch has issued a correction as of 07:21 on Nov 7, 2019

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Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

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Historically, how did people usually handle an outbreak of homelessness?

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Jul 25, 2006

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Animal-Mother posted:

Historically, how did people usually handle an outbreak of homelessness?

a solid 1 in 5 were homeless for a lot of medieval times. mostly died of disease before age of 40 and outcast as lepers n poo poo. some wandered looking for food or work, sometimes stealing, some lived in pauper homes or charity funded by the church and monasteries although varied a lot with times and how particularly Christ-like they thought they were being. there wasn’t a car culture and razed world of monoculture corn farms and all wildlife being nearly extinct with strict institutional job requirements n poo poo and big militant police to hunt them down as easy (although often abused by city watchmen n stuff) so it was more viable to livid somewhat nomadically with occasional day work here and there.

but mostly died

IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-architecture-keeps-poverty-undeen-and-makes-us-more-hostile

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A homeless man, Pawel Koseda, was found dead last year; bled out, impaled on the six-inch spikes of the metal fence that surrounds St Mary Abbots in Kensington, the Camerons’ chosen place of worship. He had high levels of alcohol in his blood and was wearing hospital pyjamas under his clothes. Koseda used to be a university lecturer in Poland. Ed Boord, who found the body, said that several people walked by and didn’t even notice. “It upset me that someone like that spends their life not being noticed,” he said, “and even in their last moments people still walk past.”

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