Poverty

Hidden Homeless Camps In The Woods

February 22, 2014 Staff, www.dailymail.co.uk Educate! Homelessness, Housing, Poverty

Marcin said he first stumbled upon the homeless dwellings as he hiked through the woods bordering the city during hunting season. When he saw a 'mini-fortress' made of milk crates just yards from a major thoroughfare, Marcin began searching for other transients 'living off the grid'. Most were based near railroad tracks, Walmarts, gas stations, and liquor stores. 'I have always been interested in the unique places people live in, particularly where there exists an element of defiance or desperation, or both. In these situations, a house can often reflect the dilemma of its owner. In the case of the hobo camps, this reflection is quite pronounced for obvious reasons,' he told The Atlantic Cities.

Town Reverses Course On Blanket Ban

February 15, 2014 Alex Leichenger, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Homelessness, Poverty

The 2013 law made it illegal to sleep “out-of-doors…adjacent to or inside a tent or sleeping bag, or atop and/or covered by materials such as a bedroll, cardboard, newspapers, or inside some form of temporary shelter.” The initiative referred to homelessness as “camping,” a benign term that minimizes the plight of people lacking reliable access to food and shelter. Yet after a torrent of critical press coverage and a Change.org petition, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward reversed his previous support for the ordinance and urged the council to amend it “after reflecting and praying on this issue.” Hayward tweeted a picture of himself and his wife supporting a blanket drive for the homeless earlier in the day and posted a photo to Facebook announcing the Council’s vote. Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers, an original opponent of the ordinance, brought forward the proposal to amend it.

Long Suffering In Silence, Bosnians Erupt With Roar

February 15, 2014 Mate Kapovic, www.roarmag.org Resist! Bosnia, Finance and Economy, Poverty

Since the rebellion began, almost all the analysts have insisted that it had been inevitable and that they had been sure all along that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. Of course, this is not true. Although the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was indeed catastrophic, prior to all of this most analysts would have claimed that this kind of uprising was impossible because the people are passive, inert and divided by nationalism. But, as is often the case, there was an unpredictable spark and it all grew quickly from there. The uprising began in Tuzla in the North-East of the country; a city with a long left-wing and working class tradition. “A different city”, as is often claimed, because nationalism has never firmly established itself there, unlike the rest of the country.

Let Them Eat Symbols: Obama’s Plan For Long-Term Unemployed

February 5, 2014 Ajamu Baraka, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Inequality, Jobs, Poverty

Today the principle strategic challenge for U.S. radicalism is grounded in the question of whether or not the left can overcome its’ ideological and organizational fragmentation in order to develop a counter-narrative and a minimum program of opposition to neoliberalism. It is clear that without uncompromisingly radical organizations and a language of opposition that pierces the ideological fog that obscures the class bias of the state and state policies, working people and the poor will continue to be marginalized, ignored and eventually disappeared as they fall through the gaping holes in the social safety net. This is already happening to African Americans in places like Detroit, the South Side of Chicago and other parts of the country as a result of their new status as an economically “redundant” population.

The Real Illness Plaguing U.S. Healthcare: Inequality

February 4, 2014 Chris White, www.itsoureconomy.us Educate! Finance and the Economy, Health Care, Housing, Poverty

By encouraging officials to abscond with one of the few tradable assets possessed by those in the lowest (and even middle) tiers of our economy, the U.S. healthcare system reveals itself to be another cornerstone in the structure of American economic inequality. While the lower- and middle-classes have had a tough time securing stable investments in real estate, the wealthier have profited on this instability. Ironically, speculation in real estate and mortgage-backed securities and the concomitant bail-outs for irresponsible banking institutions dramatically reduced state revenues. Governments across the country have been forced to play an agonizing game of budgetary triage. Meanwhile, as more people have been forced into poverty by the massive wealth destruction of the Great Recession, the state has had to pay more into safety net programs while drawing less revenue from a poorer population.

DC’s Poorest Residents Fight Gentrification

February 1, 2014 Rania Khalek, www.truthout.org Resist! Housing, Poverty, Urban Design

Barry Farm, a public housing complex in southeast Washington, "is the line in the sand," says Schyla Pondexter-Moore, a community organizer. "If you take away Barry Farm, you're basically just giving away the whole Ward 8." Barry Farm is the latest battleground for grass-roots housing advocates in the nation's capital, where intense gentrification has altered the city's demographic landscape dramatically. Because Washington was America's first city to have a black majority, it came as a shock to many in 2011 when DC's black population dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than 50 years. In the past decade, the district lost nearly 40,000 black residents, many driven out by skyrocketing rents fueled by an influx of mostly white professionals flocking to increasingly gentrified neighborhoods.

Sawant Responds To The State Of The Union Address

January 29, 2014 Kshama Sawant, www.youtube.com Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Occupy, Pipelines, Poverty, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

Obama talked about the deepening inequality. But that is a testament of his own presidency. A presidency that has betrayed the hopes of tens of millions of people who voted for him out of a genuine desire for fundamental change away from corporate politics and war mongering. Poverty is at record-high numbers - 95% of the gains in productivity during the so-called recovery have gone to the top 1%. The president’s focus on income inequality was an admission of the failure of his policies. An admission forced by rallies, demonstrations, and strikes by fast food and low wage workers demanding a minimum wage of $15. It has been forced by the outrage over the widening gulf between the super-rich and those of us working to create this wealth in society. While the criminals on Wall Street are bailed out, courageous whistleblowers like Edward Snowden are hunted down and the unconstitutional acts he exposed are allowed to continue.

Black Agenda Report On SOTU: The Awful Festival Of Lies

January 29, 2014 Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Inequality, Poverty, Racism, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

“Believe it,” said the current Prevaricator-in-Chief, in the conclusion to his annual litany lies. President Obama’s specialty, honed to theatrical near-perfection over five disastrous years, is in crafting the sympathetic lie, designed to suspend disbelief among those targeted for oblivion, through displays of empathy for the victims. In contrast to the aggressive insults and bluster employed by Republican political actors, whose goal is to incite racist passions against the Other, the sympathetic Democratic liar disarms those who are about to be sacrificed by pretending to feel their pain.

Poor Have Always Been Portrayed As Lazy Degenerates

January 21, 2014 Matt Bruenig, www.demos.org Educate! Poverty

These old theories of poverty are almost exactly verbatim what you hear today some 150 years later. Old theories of white poverty are especially consonant with what you see today because they were almost always about what amounted to cultural degeneracy, as the racial degeneracy theories offered to explain black poverty were not as available (though some arguments certainly get at that idea). As those racist theories have been driven out of respectable discourse, only the culture-focused theories really remain. Of course, these are not theories made in good faith; rather, they are rhetorical flurries meant to excuse distributing our national income so unequally that it leaves tens of millions of people struggling to meet their basic needs.

Remembering The Officially Deleted Dr. King

January 20, 2014 Paul Street, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, MLK, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Trumpet of Conscience does not jibe well with the conventional domesticated and whitewashed image of King that is purveyed across the nation ever year during and around the national holiday the bears his name. That image portrays King as a moderate reformer who wanted little more than a few basic civil rights adjustments in a mostly benevolent American System – a loyal supplicant who was tearfully grateful to the nation’s leaders for finally making those adjustments. The official commemoration says nothing about the Dr. King who studied Marx sympathetically at a young age and who said in his last years that “if we are to achieve real equality, the United States will have to adopt a modified form of socialism”. It deletes the King who wrote that the “real issue to be faced” beyond superficial matter was “the radical reconstruction society of society itself.” In his first talk (“Impasse in Race Relations”), King reflected on how little the black freedom struggle had actually attained beyond some fractional changes in the South. He deplored “the arresting of the limited forward progress” blacks and their allies had attained “by [a] white resistance [that] revealed the latent racism that was [still] deeply rooted in U.S. society.”

People Die Of Starvation In Besieged Damascus Refugee Camp

January 16, 2014 Staff, www.AP.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Hunger, Palestine, Poverty, Syria

Dozens of children, elderly people and others displaced by the Syrian conflict have starved to death in a besieged camp in Damascus, according to reports. The sprawling Yarmouk camp, in the southern suburbs of the city, is home to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees and displaced Syrians who have been trapped under a year-long blockade. "There are no more people in Yarmouk, only skeletons with yellow skin," said Umm Hassan, a 27-year-old resident and mother of two toddlers. "Children are crying from hunger. The hospital has no medicine. People are just dying." Her three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son were rapidly losing weight from lack of food, she added. Since October, 46 people have died of starvation, illnesses exacerbated by hunger or because they could not obtain medical aid, residents said.

Poverty Is Making People Sick Because They Can’t Afford Food

January 16, 2014 Matthew O'Brien, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Hunger, Poverty

Income inequality is making us sick. Well, it's not making all of us sick. Only the poorest of us. That's what a new paper in Health Affairs found they looked at when people go to the hospital for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). The basic idea is that people struggling to make it paycheck-to-paycheck (or benefits-to-benefits) might run out of money at the end of the month—and have to cut back on food. If they have diabetes, this hunger could turn into an even more severe health problem: low blood sugar. So we should expect a surge of hypoglycemia cases at the end of each month for low-income people, but not for anybody else. That's what researchers found when they looked at the numbers for California between 2000 and 2008.

Income Inequality Focus At Occupy Albany Rally

January 15, 2014 Alysia Santo, www.timesunion.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Poverty

Members of the Occupy Albany movement gathered Tuesday to protest aid cuts, network with each other and draw attention to their core message: income inequality. About 40 attendees met at Westminster Presbyterian Church, a block from the Capitol, including local religious leaders and representatives from the city's welfare groups. A planned Occupy Albany march was canceled due to rain. While their numbers might be dwindling, the group's inner circle remains active. About a dozen still meet weekly, and their convictions appear as mighty as ever. "We're here to say the distribution of wealth is enormously skewed, and we can't go on like that," said Sister Honora Kinney, a board member of the Homeless Action Committee.

This Spring: Worldwide Wave Of Transformation

January 5, 2014 Antonymous, www.waveofaction.org Resist! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Poverty

On the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, April 4, 2014, the spirit of MLK will rise again. We will engage a worldwide wave of action, “from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city. From every mountain side…” We will “let freedom ring.” Anonymous, Occupy and the 99% Movement have set up the dominoes for an unprecedented worldwide wave of action. The tipping point is near. We are calling on all Anons, nonAnons, collectives, organizations and conscious individuals to take autonomous nonviolent direct action throughout the global spring. For a sustained three-month cycle, we will swarm corrupt targets and rally around solutions to the vast problems we are confronted by.

State of Conflict: North Carolina

January 5, 2014 Bill Moyers, www.billmoyers.com Resist! Education, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Health Care, Poverty

First it was Wisconsin. Now it’s North Carolina that is redefining the term “battleground state.” On one side: a right-wing government enacting laws that are changing the face of the state. On the other: citizen protesters who are fighting back against what they fear is a radical takeover. This crucible of conflict reflects how the battle for control of American politics is likely to be fought for the foreseeable future: not in Washington, DC, but state by state. This week on Moyers & Company, “State of Conflict: North Carolina.” At the heart of this conservative onslaught sits a businessman who is so wealthy and powerful that he is frequently described as the state’s own “Koch brother.” Art Pope, whose family fortune was made via a chain of discount stores, has poured tens of millions of dollars into a network of foundations and think tanks that advocate a wide range of conservative causes. Pope is also a major funder of conservative political candidates in the state. Pope’s most ardent opponent is the Reverend William Barber, head of the state chapter of the NAACP, who says the right-wing state government has produced “an avalanche of extremist policies that threaten health care, that threaten education [and] that threaten the poor.” Barber’s opposition to the legislature as well as the Pope alliance became a catalyst for the protest movement that became known around the country as “Moral Mondays.”

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