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I and my family are facing a crisis I never saw coming. My father has turned his back on us, and I'm terrified of what's next. I still need to escape this situation. Please, if you can, share or donate. Every bit helps even just a dollar, if enough people see, it adds up. I hope you can forgive me the near spam posting... but this stuff usually only succeeds if you're persistant about it, and whilte I look for every possible way to do it on my own, I really have to reach out to the community. Thanks to you all we got 6 percent of the goal
In 2 days, that's wild... from the bottom of my heart this means so much. but I really hope we can get out of this awful position we were so suddenly put in. 10k and 20k are gonna be a big help if we hopefully reach that far, but I know 30k will make it so we can actually leave this awful situation safe and sound without massive sacrifices. we've got pets we care for deeply, they're family, and he doesn't even consider that... this man has never cared for us though he claims otherwise, and now threatens us with pulling the one supportive thing he agreed to supply from under us at a pivitol moment in all our lives. I'm sad, angery, depressed, and oh so very tired... I'm sorry for the ramble, but I have been unable to sleep the past few nights because of the anxiety this has caused within me. I want to thank you all again for sharing, for donating, even just the well wishes helps a lot. you have all been wonderful, and I can't thank you enough. This has eased at least some of the immediate fear, but we're still a long way off from safety.
Hello! I’m a student doing a project on the misconceptions vs reality of homelessness!
It’s a very personal passion to me for bringing to light the reality of homelessness. My family has constantly struggled with financial issues and I was unhoused for a good bit of my childhood. I want to show people the actual circumstances for how people end up in these situations, and that people don’t deserve homelessness.
We made two surveys, one for if you’ve been homeless or are currently homeless, and one for what your views on the homeless are. If you could fill it out that would be great. We have 2 weeks to get 100 responses 🥲
Survey for views on homeless
Survey for if you’ve been homeless in the past or are currently homeless
THANK YOU! :D
I had a feeling this guy was going to take the honors today.
Asshole of the Day, November 19, 2013: Tom Brower
by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)
Hawaii state Rep. Tom Brower has decided who deserves to have possessions and, more importantly, who doesn’t. And despite being a lawmaker, he decided the law wasn’t enough, so he has been going around town smashing the possessions of the homeless with a sledgehammer. Really.
Much like Batkid, Hawaii has found its own superhero. Except that instead of protecting the powerless from harm, he roams the streets with a sledgehammer and looks for homeless people in order to literally smash their possessions.
Remarkably, this vigilante isn’t just some random Hawaiian, but five-term State Rep. Tom Brower (D).
Noting that he’s “disgusted” with homeless people, Brower told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser about his own personal brand of “justice”: “If I see shopping carts that I can’t identify, I will destroy them so they can’t be pushed on the streets.” Brower has waged this campaign for two weeks, estimating that he’s smashed about 30 shopping carts in the process.
You see, he’s disgusted with homeless people, so that justifies his actions in his own mind. And he’s such an asshole that he thinks telling a newspaper is going to make him a hero. Let’s hope Hawaiian voters see him for the bully he really is.
After we posted the nomination of Rep. Brower, this reply came from Twitter which sums it all up:
@assholeofday Compassionate to homeless? No. Returned carts to stores that paid for them? No. Destroys property? Yes. Just a common criminal
— Heather (@SunLovingMama)
November 19, 2013
Just a common criminal. And we hope this asshole of the day is locked up.
Full story: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/19/2966371/hawaii-homeless-smash/
Ugh!
This is an elected representative smashing a homeless person’s possessions with a sledgehammer. Worst person ever?
Please help out if you can or reblog!!!!
Hey yall! I have a very urgent thing to ask. As the screenshot says I got kicked out of my parents house this morning at 8 am. I have somewhere to stay for now, but I have no money. You may dm me if you would like to donate or help out. I have PayPal, cash app and venmo. Anything helps. Please spread the word.
Teresa Margolles, Vaporization, 2002 — a room filled with disinfected water vapor from cleaning bodies in morgues in Mexico City — part of the exhibition Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, MOMA PS1, Queens
saw this poster in a bus station and hoo boy /neg
(no alt text because 1. its in polish and its content is talked about in this post anyways and 2. kind of in a rush so be my guest to rb this with alt text if there's a need)
so first things first, i understand calling an ambulance to a homeless person, i sort of understand a helpline for people in such crisis but WHO THOUGHT CALLING COPS IS A GOOD IDEA??? i am not an acab guy but come on!!!
second, "don't give a homeless person money, it will only validate them in their homelessness" WHAT THE FUCK??? that's just classism at its finest i dont even get it
i hate poland sometimes on par with amerimutts
Well, folks, I'm starting to realize that maybe Bartleby the Scrivener might not have been the best role model for me to emulate...
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“[Mayor] Adams ordered the clearing of hundreds of homeless camps and sent an additional 1,000 police officers to patrol subways and remove homeless people from train cars and platforms. He also simultaneously cut $615M from the city’s Department of Homeless Services.”