Highlighting the work that was done to gather data on the impact of sweeps on our unhoused population.

We will further exacerbate an endless game of whack a mole where people become homeless and we expand contracts and industry for sweeps.

Everyone loses here.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

Really grateful to Western City Magazine for this interview about There Is No Place for Us.

"The painful truth is that it's less of a contradiction than just the system functioning the way it's been designed."

'Those who remain in Gaza will be considered terrorists and terror supporters'
-Israeli Minister for Defence, Israel Kantz -

Catholic Arena just posted.
#LetGazaLive

It's @kathleenbelew.bsky.social 's book come frighteningly to life.

This wins YouTube today. Most clever thing I've seen in a very long time. Want to say more but it would spoil the ending! youtu.be/Q6Bg26MWJMY?...

The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.

Being a volunteer nurse in Gaza means being brave beyond belief and unpaid. Can you help Hammam today?

If only we had a robust system of local businesses and free public institutions, where readers could browse and speak with professionals, perhaps called "booksellers" and "librarians"! If only publishers supported them with the same fervor they have for... individual artists doing their own promo?

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.”

A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything".

Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something.

They just don't care about YOU.

Toronto, December 9
Marking the anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention, health workers held press conferences in over 20 countries, calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, demanding a two-way arms embargo, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access, and an end to international complicity.

Jimothy is innocent!

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.

Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

"It’s becoming clear how little help there is for the homeless." Patrick Fealey shows this in beautiful, agonizing prose. It's what I've been telling sheltered friends & family for years & why clearing encampments are cruel. Can't recommend this piece highly enough. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

"If you are, as I am, a nomad,
draw a border around me:
make me your country."

--Abdulla Pashew
Tr fr Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse