Housing/Gentrification
HOMEFULNESS - a poor people-led solution to Homelessness
A Poor & Indigenous People-led Solution to Houselessness
A sweat equity, permanent co-housing, education, arts, micro-business and social change project for landless/houseless and formerly houseless families and individuals.
PROJECT PLAN
I. 4-10 Family Housing Units, Multi-generational school/Media Center, Community Garden/Farm and Sliding Scale Cafe
Amerikkklan Dream BLues...The Violence of I Got Mines..
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Out in the Cold By a Place Called Home
With the deadly COVID 19 disease running out of control in the United States and no viable cure in sight, millions of Americans are faced with an uncertain future as poverty steadily rises at an exodus rate. Due to pay cuts or income loss a
The Privilege of Breathing in Poverty
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PoLice Terrorized For Being Houseless- My Mama's Story
Sudden knocking in the middle of the night on the battered door of the taped together 1970 Ford Station Wagon. Lights shining through the window, so much harsher than usual against the darkness that blanketed the area where the car was parked. A scared daughter and her weary mother, tired after many of these nights, most of them ending with one of them in jail, after being nearly beaten.
Eric Garner
Image: Eric Garner
Screams of Terror- Gun Violence and My Story
Image: Secoriea Turner
In my Neighborhood Gun Violence is Normal
I'm Ziair and in my neighborhood West Oakland, hearing gun fire is normal. My brother got shot in the same hood where I live, so I really know how it is to have a family member shot. In West Oakland little kids as young as 11 have and play with guns. Kids that I hoop with carry weapons.
