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chalkgirl.bsky.social
#STOPTHESWEEPS
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
deserteyelid.bsky.social
$4.3m is not enough. Take the Tozer, et al. v. City of Portland sweeps slush fund and make public the city’s records in settling.
#StopTheSweeps
jwjpdx.bsky.social “War Ravaged” Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 1d
Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo proposes reallocating $4.3 million from sweeps to support rent assistance, food access, & immigrant and refugee services.✔️

Testify in support of the Morillo 1 amendment here, to re-balance the budget toward proven solutions: www.portland.gov/council/docu...
portlandmercury.com Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 4d
Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
ryanshope.bsky.social
An excellent interview with Dr. Mac Chown who supports our street outreach and encampment support teams. Listen and learn.
it is the Barrie Encampment Update segment. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#streetoutreach
#HousingCrisis
#Barrie
#cdnpoli
##StopTheSweeps
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November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
pdxrenterpower.bsky.social
Sweeps make the lives of our unhoused neighbors worse. Funds should go to rental assistance that keeps people housed. Portland must act now, especially as the federal government fails to serve its citizens.

Let's end Mayor Wilson's war on the poor.

#stopthesweeps #waronthepoor #orpol #portland
City Council Mulling $4.3 Million Cut From Homeless Sweeps Budget
“We’re in a position right now, where people are going to end up being unhoused for the long-term, and we have to take action,” City Councilor Angelita Morillo said, explaining a proposal to divert fu...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
We must fight back against efforts to dehumanize and disappear our unhoused neighbors. Something you can do is to join a local mutual aid or #StoptheSweeps group, to fight police encampment sweeps and the criminalization of poverty.

+ Check out these tools/resources from Housing Not Handcuffs:
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
chalkgirl.bsky.social
hey @mayorkwilson.bsky.social — It looks like maybe your war on the poor/houseless is NOT what voters want right now.

We want bold compassion, not a neoliberal funhouse mirror version of Trump's "send the homeless to work camps" plan.

#StopTheSweeps #ReplaceWilson #WilsonHatesThePoor
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
deserteyelid.bsky.social
The mayor has no authority to ban camping or to enforce a ordinance that council doesn't pass. Though this was passed by the old council this council has the authority to rescind it. 1st step should be to #stopthesweeps
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
deserteyelid.bsky.social
So stop them. #stopthesweeps.
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social
Sweeps kill. #StopTheSweeps #OpSafeWinter
drugdatadecoded.ca Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · Aug 27
Or letting them die of overdose: 3/
www.naccho.org/uploads/down...
Encampment sweeps may account for as many as 24% of all deaths among unhoused people who use drugs.10 Studies of death records show that unhoused people who were regularly forced to relocate experienced 70-90% higher rates of overdose death compared to those who were not.
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
protyusagendher.bsky.social
Procedural leverage: The city’s encampment ban cannot be enforced unless shelter space is available. With only 20 beds and no year-round shelter, enforcement remains legally fragile. #stopthesweeps
October 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
withouthousing.bsky.social
BREAKING News! HAND Report on criminalization in Denver
Read HAND’s report, and the police data it's based on, exposing Denver Mayor Johnston's emphasis on enforcement throughout his term.
#HousekeysActionNetworkDenver #stopthesweeps

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October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
stopthesweeps.bsky.social
Minneapolis debates suing a lot owner over a homeless encampment but are more fines the answer or do we need compassion & lasting solutions?

The answer is simple compassion and lasting solutions
#stopthesweeps
Blue tent homeless encampment American flag all outside in Minneapolis
October 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
chrisnayler.bsky.social
Join myself and others Barrie advocates for an important discussion on the State of Emergency our City is currently under.

#StopTheSweeps
#HomesNotHandcuffs
#SolidarityNotCharity
ryanshope.bsky.social Ryan's Hope 🇨🇦 @ryanshope.bsky.social · Sep 18
Join us on Friday September 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm for a panel discussion on the State of Emergency the City of Barrie is currently under.

Each panelists brings their own unique experience to the conversation.

#HousingCrisis
#Homelessness
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie
September 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
stopthesweeps.bsky.social
STOP THE SWEEPS
What rights do unhoused people have Washington? See laws, resources
#STOPTHESWEEPS
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
safetynetujc.bsky.social
NYC has 5,000 vacant supportive housing units sitting empty while thousands are street homeless. We could use every single one of those to house people now.

Instead, @nycdhs.bsky.social spends millions doing sweeps attacking homeless people #StopTheSweeps #HouseTheHomeless

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To fill empty apartments for homeless people, NYC will first start tracking them
More than 5,000 units of supportive housing were vacant in June, officials said.
gothamist.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
The cost of this and other encampment evictions would be better invested in proactive solutions such as the building of supportive housing units.

Healing starts with housing, and housing solves homelessness!

#HousingSolvesHomelessness
#StopTheSweeps
#Cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
maapmass.bsky.social
TAKE ACTION!

Demand #Bospoli City Council reject increased criminalization of our unhoused neighbors and poor people who use drugs and reinstate and expand evidence-based #harmreduction and public health services! #stopthesweeps #keysnotcuffs
TAKE ACTION! The Boston City Council is hosting a hearing on Thursday September 4th at 6m on Councilor Flynn’s “Mass and Cass Emergency Resolution”. This proposal calls for “zero tolerance” of public substance use, a doubling down on criminalization, and deadly forced treatment of our community. Submit written testimony demanding the Council: 1) Reject the Resolution and End Criminalization. 2) Reinstate and expand evidence-based solutions that center people’s health, safety, and needs. 3) Center unhoused people and people who use drugs, who are the experts, in decision-making. Toolkit in bio. Testify ASAP and hang in for updates. Tinyurl.com/MassCassEmergencyResolution
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
deserteyelid.bsky.social
Now what does the health data say about homeless sweeps?
#stopthesweeps
September 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
indivisibleparkcty.bsky.social
Federal troops & bulldozers in DC: 800 Guard + federal agents, homeless camps cleared w/ no real housing plans. Crime is down—so why the takeover? This sets a dangerous precedent. #DignityNotDisplacement #StopTheSweeps #LocalControl
Trump's purge of Washington's homeless encampments escalates
Federal officials in Washington, D.C. swept through a large homeless encampment Thursday and dismantled it. It's part of the Trump administration's purge to crack down on crime across D.C.
www.npr.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
sistersoftheroad.bsky.social
#StopTheSweeps #LandBack #FreePalestine
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 13
"To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet."

Omar El Akkad, ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS
Photo of a page from Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS that reads: The obvious charge of hypocrisy looms over this work, always. Refrain from engaging with one organization because of its ties to a genocide but not the uncountable number of other organizations who do as well? Call for divestment from fossil fuel companies and yet still use electricity? Agitate for a better world in any way and yet continue to exist within it? The purpose of this kind of accusation is never moral concern. To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.
August 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
radical-care.bsky.social
You first buddy! #stopthesweeps
lizzielizliz.bsky.social Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · Aug 14
Gov. Gavin Newsom:

We cannot stand back and watch this democracy disappear, district by district.

Every state across America must stand up, including, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and Florida!

Not just California!

Every Blue State needs to stand up!!
August 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
harmreduction.org
#HarmReduction #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HarmReductionSavesLives #OverdosePrevention #PreventOverdose #Fentanyl #HousingNow #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNotHandcuffs #MOUD #StopTheSweeps #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #EndOverdose
July 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
harmreduction.org
Housing is a human right. No law, policy, order, or campaign will ever change that.

Take action against the criminalization of our unhoused communities. Read the statement and get involved with our friends at ‪@homeless-law.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/NHLCActionAlert

#HousingNow #StopTheSweeps
Black-and-white maze-like pattern frames top of graphic with black background. Bold, all caps white font reads, "HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT." The words, "HUMAN RIGHT" are underlined in yellow. Below this, smaller white font reads, "No law, policy, order, or campaign will ever change that." White and rainbow gradient NHRC logo in bottom right corner.
July 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
wrennaquatics.bsky.social
This is sarcastic, of course.
#stopthesweeps
July 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
lleohn.bsky.social
Stop The Sweeps of Unhoused and EVERYONE!
First, they came for the Unhoused now for many many years they’ve been sweeping. Now look where it’s at.
#stopthesweeps
starshine.bsky.social ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Jul 7
i think it's clear one reason this is happening is they're terrified
melbuer.bsky.social Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Jul 7
Border patrol now sweeping the park
July 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM