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What Happens When Cities Make Homelessness a Crime: Hiding The Homeless - YouTube
This short [12:54] Vice doc from the end of 2015 is a look at the criminalization of homelessness, and the second half is an expose of Robert Marbut's grift of selling his anti-homeless consulting services to municipalities and business improvement districts.Mon 12 Aug 2019 03:08:41 PM MDT - permalink --
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFeY2pS0ks
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A Scene from "Operation Clean Sweep" in Boston: Crushed Wheelchairs
Witnesses say police are collecting and destroying belongings on "Methadone Mile."Fri 09 Aug 2019 06:34:46 PM MDT - permalink --
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https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/08/07/operation-clean-sweep-wheelchairs/
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The Criminalization of Homelessness (ep. 26) | American Civil Liberties Union
An episode of the ACLU's podcast about the criminalization of homelessness.Sat 30 Mar 2019 01:27:27 PM MDT - permalink --
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https://www.aclu.org/podcast/criminalization-homelessness-ep-26
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Episode 88: Homelessness with Benjamin Dunning & Terese Howard
Folks from Denver Homeless Out Loud talk about the criminalization of homelessness on the Brew Theology podcast.Fri 29 Mar 2019 07:26:14 PM MDT - permalink --
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https://brewtheology.podbean.com/e/episode-88-homelessness-with-benjamin-dunning-terese-howard/
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No Place Left to Go: Business Districts Keep Homeless Populations on the Move
On how BIDs push for the criminalization of homelessness using Denver's urban camping ban and Downtown Denver Partnership as its primary example.Tue 19 Feb 2019 11:44:30 AM MST - permalink -
For a book-length treatment of this and similar issues, I recommend Randall Amster's _Lost In Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness_ (2008) which examines the role BIDs play in criminalizing homelessness using the struggles over the sit-lie ordinances in Tempe, AZ, as a case study.-
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https://nextcity.org/features/view/no-place-left-to-go-business-districts-keep-homeless-populations-on-move?platform=hootsuite
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Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people
"It is those same government-funded charities that push the narrative that “kindness kills” as they tout for your donations. Do not believe them. Apathy and austerity kill. Your kindness saves lives."Thu 27 Dec 2018 12:26:16 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/10/why-you-should-give-money-directly-and-unconditionally-homeless-people?fbclid=IwAR2NC2nDVtmvVswydtN9OeZWuoG6JnqVXty-DduN-g-5AQowafH6XriCJtk
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City of Oakland evicts homeless women's Housing and Dignity Village
A local news account of the eviction of the young Housing and Dignity Village in Oakland. (https://thevillageinoakland.org)Fri 07 Dec 2018 08:46:22 AM MST - permalink -
More details reported in this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1070822320300683265-
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http://www.ktvu.com/news/women-and-children-evicted-from-oakland-homeless-encampment
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Is Union Station, "Denver's Living Room," Really Open to All? by Chris Walker
An investigation into the practices of private security at Denver's Union Station and 16th Street Mall after four guards beat a homeless man in the bathroom and then tried to cover it up.Tue 10 Jul 2018 03:12:09 PM MDT - permalink -
An audio version read by the journalist is available: https://soundcloud.com/user-11498782/on-guard-
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http://www.westword.com/news/allied-universal-guards-charged-with-assaulting-man-at-denvers-union-station-10511932
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'It's ours now' - Homeless people take over Bristol city centre park and padlock gates shut - Bristol Live
“I took one of the homeless guys I know aside in the town centre when I saw him and asked what was going on in St James’s Park and he said ‘We’ve taken it over, it’s ours now, we’ve got it for the people’,” he added.Sun 24 Jun 2018 07:22:20 PM MDT - permalink --
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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/its-ours-now-homeless-people-1698180
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Jailed for charging a phone: Under Boulder law, theft of electricity can land citizens in court - Boulder Daily Camera
Boulder police keep citing homeless people for charging their phones, but District Attorney Michael Dougherty refuses to prosecute the cases.Fri 22 Jun 2018 11:00:52 AM MDT - permalink --
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http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31960903/boulder-theft-public-utility
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Burger King sends a black homeless man to jail after he tries to buy breakfast with a $10 bill its worker thought was fake - The Washington Post
"Emory Ellis, who lived on the streets in Boston, ventured into a Burger King in November 2015 to buy breakfast.Sat 19 May 2018 12:59:04 PM MDT - permalink -
"He left the restaurant under arrest, wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail."-
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/05/17/a-burger-king-worker-thought-a-black-mans-10-bill-was-fake-he-was-arrested-now-hes-suing/
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In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America - The New York Times
- 20% of renter households in Richmond were threatened with eviction in 2016Fri 13 Apr 2018 07:06:29 PM MDT - permalink -
- Of those actually evicted, the median amount owed was $686
- Judgments issued in majority white neighborhoods were far less common
- Mr. Desmond’s eviction calculations are probably conservative: They include only households that touched the legal process, not those in which people moved with an informal warning-
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/07/upshot/millions-of-eviction-records-a-sweeping-new-look-at-housing-in-america.html
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Sleeping Isn’t a Crime: How we’ve criminalized a basic human need in order to target the poor, vulnerable, and homeless by Steve Teare
A short illustrated essay on the criminalization of homelessness.Mon 09 Apr 2018 09:46:54 AM MDT - permalink --
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https://thenib.com/sleeping-isn-t-a-crime
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Denver Park Rangers Take Sleeping Bag, Tent from Houseless Man in 25 Degree Weather - UNICORN RIOT
"The park rangers took Jackson’s sleeping bag, blankets, and his tent, yet left all of his other property on the ground. Jackson and his comrades believe the park rangers only took the survival gear to force them into shelters or force them to move farther out of sight and out of mind."Tue 09 Jan 2018 01:11:24 AM MST - permalink --
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https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/denver-park-rangers-take-sleeping-bag-tent-houseless-man-25-degree-weather/
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The Tiny House Movement Illustrates the Struggle for Space | Westword
I just discovered this 2015 Westword article about the criminalization of homelessness by artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy which includes a link to one of my weblog entries.Fri 23 Jun 2017 07:11:27 PM MDT - permalink -
"the criminalization of public sleeping, as brought to Denver by Albus Brooks with the anti-camping ordinance, is spreading throughout municipalities like a cruel poison."-
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http://www.westword.com/arts/the-mayday-experiment-the-struggle-for-space-6938681
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Keith McHenry getting arrested in San Francisco [photograph]
Keith McHenry was the first volunteer arrested for sharing free food on August 15, 1988. Eight more volunteers were arrested that same day for sharing lunch at the Haight and Stanyan near the entrance to Golden Gate Park. The San Francisco Police made nearly 1,000 arrests of people volunteering to share vegan meals with Food Not Bombs from 1988 to 1997.Mon 12 Jun 2017 12:54:12 PM MDT - permalink --
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http://www.foodnotbombs.net/keitharrest.html
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Downtown Denver - Wikipedia
I was happy to discover that the "Urban Camping Ban" is a significant portion of the Wikipedia article on downtown Denver.Tue 09 May 2017 05:43:44 PM MDT - permalink -
(I read this revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown_Denver&oldid=743430248)-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Denver