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This building was designed and built for a now defunct local bank. One side of the building has indentations that, seen together, resemble a line chart moving steeply upward...the other side, steeply downward. Do you suppose this is an example of architectural humor?
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
From Adbusters #74, Nov-Dec 2007
The Empire of Debt
Money for nothing. Own a home for no money down. Do not pay for your appliances until 2012. This is the new American Dream, and for the last few years, millions have been giddily living it. Dead is the old version, the one historian James Truslow Adams introduced to the world as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”
Such Puritan ideals – to work hard, to save for a better life – didn’t die from the natural causes of age and obsolescence. We killed them, willfully and purposefully, to create a new gilded age. As a society, we told ourselves we could all get rich, put our feet up on the decks of our new vacation homes, and let our money work for us. Earning is for the unenlightened. Equity is the new golden calf. Sadly, this is a hollow dream. Yes, luxury homes have been hitting new gargantuan heights. Ferrari sales have never been better. But much of the ever-expanding wealth is an illusory façade masking a teetering tower of debt – the greatest the world has seen. It will collapse, in a disaster of our own making.
Distress is already rumbling through Wall Street. Subprime mortgages leapt into the public consciousness this summer, becoming the catchphrase for the season. Hedge fund masterminds who command salaries in the tens of millions for their supposed financial prescience, but have little oversight or governance, bet their investors’ multi-multi-billions on the ability that subprime borrowers – who by very definition have lower incomes and/or rotten credit histories – would miraculously find means to pay back loans far exceeding what they earn. They didn’t, and surging loan defaults are sending shockwaves through the markets. Yet despite the turmoil this collapse is wreaking, it’s just the first ripple to hit the shore. America’s debt crisis runs deep.
How did it come to this? How did America, collectively and as individuals, become a nation addicted to debt, pushed to and over the edge of bankruptcy? The savings rate hangs below zero. Personal bankruptcies are reaching record heights. America’s total debt averages more than $160,000 for every man, woman, and child. On a broader scale, China holds nearly $1 trillion in US debt. Japan and other countries are also owed big.
The story begins with labor. The decades following World War II were boom years. Economic growth was strong and powerful industrial unions made the middle-class dream attainable for working-class citizens. Workers bought homes and cars in such volume they gave rise to the modern suburb. But prosperity for wage earners reached its zenith in the early 1970s. By then, corporate America had begun shredding the implicit social contract it had with its workers for fear of increased foreign competition. Companies cut costs by finding cheap labor overseas, creating a drag on wages.
In 1972, wages reached their peak. According to the US department of Labor Statistics, workers earned $331 a week, in inflation-adjusted 1982 dollars. Since then, it’s been a downward slide. Today, real wages are nearly one-fifth lower – this, despite real GDP per capita doubling over the same period.
Even as wages fell, consumerism was encouraged to continue soaring to unprecedented heights. Buying stuff became a patriotic duty that distinguished citizens from their communist Cold War enemies. In the eighties, consumers’ growing fearlessness towards debt and their hunger for goods were met with Ronald Reagan’s deregulation the lending industry. Credit not only became more easily attainable, it became heavily marketed. Credit card debt, at $880 billion, is now triple what it was in 1988, after adjusting for inflation. Barbecues and TV screens are now the size of small cars. So much the better to fill the average new home, which in 2005 was more than 50 percent larger than the average home in 1973.
This is all great news for the corporate sector, which both earns money from loans to consumers, and profits from their spending. Better still, lower wages means lower costs and higher profits. These factors helped the stock market begin a record boom in the early ‘80s that has continued almost unabated until today.
These conditions created vast riches for one class of individuals in particular: those who control what is known as economic rent, which can be the income “earned” from the ownership of an asset. Some forms of economic rent include dividends from stocks, or capital gains from the sale of stocks or property. The alchemy of this rent is that it requires no effort to produce money.
Governments, for their part, encourage the investors, or rentier class. Economic rent, in the form of capital gains, is taxed at a lower rate than earned income in almost every industrialized country. In the US in particular, capital gains are being taxed at ever-decreasing rates. A person whose job pays $100,000 can owe 35 percent of that in taxes compared to the 15 percent tax rate for someone whose stock portfolio brings home the same amount.
Given a choice between working for diminishing returns and joining the leisurely riches of the rentier, people pursue the latter. If the rentier class is fabulously rich, why can’t everyone become a member? People of all professions sought to have their money work for them, pouring money into investments. This spurred the explosion of the finance industry, people who manage money for others. The now-$10 trillion mutual fund industry is 700 times the size it was in the 1970s. Hedge funds, the money managers for the super-rich, numbered 500 companies in 1990, managing $38 billion in assets. Now there are more than 6,000 hedge firms handling more than $1 trillion dollars in assets.
In recent years, the further enticement of low interest rates has spawned a boom for two kinds of rentiers at the crux of the current debt crisis: home buyers and private equity firms. But it should also be noted that low interest rates are themselves the product of outsourced labor.
America gets goods from China. China gets dollars from the US. In order to keep the value of their currency low so that exports stay cheap, China doesn’t spend those dollars in China, but buys us assets like bonds. China now holds some $900 billion in such US IOUs. This massive borrowing of money from China (and to a lesser extent, from Japan) sent us interest rates to record lows.
Now the hamster wheel really gets spinning. Cheap borrowing costs encouraged millions of Americans to borrow more, buying homes and sending housing prices to record highs. Soaring house prices encouraged banks to loan freely, which sent even more buyers into the market – many who believed the hype that the real estate investment offered a never-ending escalator to riches and borrowed heavily to finance their dreams of getting ahead. People began borrowing against the skyrocketing value of their homes, to buy furniture, appliances, and TVs. These home equity loans added $200 billion to the US economy in 2004 alone.
It was all so utopian. The boom would feed on itself. Nobody would ever have to work again or produce anything of value. All that needed to be done was to keep buying and selling each other’s houses with money borrowed from the Chinese.
On Wall Street, private equity firms played a similar game: buying companies with borrowed billions, sacking employees to cut costs, and then selling the companies to someone else who did the same. These leveraged buyouts inflated share values, minting billionaires all around. The virtues that produce profit – innovation, entrepreneurialism and good management – stopped mattering so long as there were bountiful capital gains.
But the party is coming to a halt. An endless housing boom requires an endless supply of ever-greater suckers to pay more for the same homes. The rich, as Voltaire said, require an abundant supply of poor. Mortgage lenders have mined even deeper into the ranks of the poor to find takers for their loans. Among the practices included teaser loans that promised low interest rates that jumped up after the first few years. Sub-prime borrowers were told the future pain would never come, as they could keep re-financing against the ever-growing value of their homes. Lenders repackaged the shaky loans as bonds to sell to cash-hungry investors like hedge funds.
Of course, the supply of suckers inevitably ran out. Housing prices leveled off, beginning what promises to be a long, downward slide. Just as the housing boom fed upon itself, so too, will its collapse. The first wave of sub-prime borrowers have defaulted. A flood of foreclosures sent housing prices falling further. Lenders somehow got blindsided by news that poor people with bad credit couldn’t pay them back. Frightened, they staunched the flow of easy credit, further depleting the supply of homebuyers and squeezing debt-fueled private equity. Hedge funds that merrily bought sub-prime loans collapsed.
More borrowers will soon be unable to make payments on their homes and credit cards as the supply of rent dries up. Consumer spending, and thus corporate profits, will fall. The shrinking economy will further depress workers’ wages. For most people, the dream of easy money will never come true, because only the truly rich can live it. Everyone else will have to keep working for less, shackled to a mountain of debt.
_Dee Hon is a Vancouver-based writer has contributed to The Tyee and Vancouver magazine.
Adbusters Magazine
There shall come a time when people will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears they will, in accordance with their own desires, accumulate teachers for themselves, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and stray after fictions.
(2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error. (2 Timothy 3: 12-13)
It is important that you know this: that in the last days, scoffers will come with mockery, men living in accordance with their own lusts. (2 Peter 3: 3)
The spirit expressly says that in the last times some will depart the faith, giving assent to seducing spirits and to doctrines of demons through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, whose consciences are seared, who forbid [devalue] marriage and command abstinence from foods which God created to be partaken of with thanksgiving. (1 Timothy 4: 1-4)
For they have not loved the truth that they might be saved. Therefore, God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: that all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity. (2 Thes 2: 7-12)
Now these of Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints, to execute judgement on all, and to prove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done the ungodly, and all the hard things that the ungodly have spoken against God. These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons for gain’s sake. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words that have been spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who told you, that in the last times there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodliness. These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the spirit. (Jude 14-19)
In the last days there shall come terrible times. For men shall be lovers of self, fond of money, pretentious, arrogant, railers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers; profligates, untamed, hostile to good, traitors, headstrong, befogged with conceit; lovers of pleasure instead of lovers of God, holding a semblance of religion after having denied its power. (2 Timothy 5: 1-3)
Sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words (Enoch 104: 10)
The weaker the world grows through age, so much the more shall the evils increase upon the dwellers of the Earth. Truth shall withdraw further and falsehood be near at hand. (4 Ezra 4: 16-17)
EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
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"If Corporations Were People, They'd Be In Jail." Far and away my favorite sign of the Occupy movement.
The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people. Although less affected than more industrialised economies, and fortunate in having an established scheme for unemployed workers, circumstances were dire in Queensland. But it was the landscape of Queensland that provided the means for people to survive. Relief work was formulated as a response to economics, but it was also a response to the Queensland environment.
Queensland was already experiencing a slowed economy, partly caused by the refusal of London financiers to lend to the state's radical Labor governments of the 1920s and by crippling droughts late in the decade. The state’s landscape of undeveloped land and natural resources represented both opportunities and constraints for dealing with increasing unemployment. The Queensland Government established relief works to assist the unemployed maintain their 'manly independence' undertaking development work throughout the state. While Depression conditions established a population of itinerant 'swaggies', women were expected to maintain their dependence on husbands or families.
Queensland's economy was somewhat shielded from the crisis that began in 1929 by its underdeveloped manufacturing sector and reliance on primary products. As export sales of wheat, wool and minerals plummeted, however, rural producers and associated businesses laid off workers or closed. At just over half the national figure, Queensland's unemployment rate was 11.6% by June 1930. By 1931 over 30% of the Queensland workforce was unemployed.
Since the passing of the Unemployed Workers Insurance Act in 1922 Queensland was the only Australian State with a scheme to support unemployed workers. The scheme funded by contributions from workers, employers and the State, was not, however, designed for the prolonged, widespread unemployment experienced during the Depression. By 1930 the number of applicants for unemployment sustenance had risen from 37,539 in 1926 to 55,903. The amount of sustenance paid had almost doubled from £206,860 to £450,465 in the same period. Individual unemployment was of longer duration and the average amount for sustenance, limited to 15 weeks per year, rose from £5 5s to just over £8.
In July 1930 Queensland's new Country Progressive National Party government passed the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Act to fund relief works as overseas credit was unavailable and financiers insisted that repayment commitments be honoured. The Moore government accepted the premise of the national Premiers Plan to balance budgets and adopt deflationary measures. By 1932 unemployment had risen to 32,344.
At first the intention was to provide full time work at the relief rate of £3 per week for married men or £2 10s for single men. By December 1930 the fund was obviously insufficient to provide all unemployed men with work at that rate. Intermittent relief work was introduced in March 1931 allocating work and pay according to men’s family circumstances. Entitlements ranged from 1 day's work for 11 shillings for single men to 4 days and 43-44 shillings for a couple with 7 or 8 children.
Relief work in Brisbane
Relief work was principally provided by local councils in cities and towns where 84% of relief workers were located. By far the largest expenditure from the Relief Fund for any one Constructing Authority was by Brisbane City Council. Fifty-five per cent of the state's relief workers were located in Brisbane although it had only 33% of the state's population.
By June 1932 the Council employed over 6000 men constructing and reconditioning 488 miles of streets. Council relief workers reclaimed acres of foreshore and constructed seawalls at Wynnum, Manly and Sandgate. Breakfast Creek was widened and concrete channelling and open cut drains constructed. Sports grounds and playing fields were made in parks all over the city. In Kianawah Park (Tingalpa) 45 acres were cleared and 12 playing fields installed. Trees were planted and drives made in Anzac Park, Toowong. Other parks were cleared, levelled, fenced and drained.
State-wide relief work
State government departments also provided relief work. The Public Works Department supervised the improvement of school grounds and the Main Roads Department cleared, formed and laid miles of sand, clay, loam and gravel as well as metalling and bitumen. Roads and bridges were constructed and repaired all over the state. The Railways Department constructed new branch lines, and relaid, regraded or reconditioned hundreds of miles of track using relief workers.
By 1932 the Forestry Service employed up to 250 men conducting reforestation from the Brisbane and Mary Valleys to the North Coast and Mackay; from Fraser Island to Inglewood and Dalby. They planted 926,000 trees, constructed and maintained over 150 miles of firebreaks and cleared scrub to plant and harvest 500 acres of maize in the Brisbane Valley. Relief work was provided for prospecting in places from Brisbane and Gympie to Charters Towers, Mount Morgan and Cloncurry. The Public Estates Improvement Branch employed relief workers to open up 500 new farms in the Upper Burnett and Callide Land Settlement areas. The Commonwealth Defence Department provided work on aircraft landing grounds, while Commonwealth Unemployment Relief and State Revival Loans funded rural (cotton, tobacco, small farms and pioneer roads) and mining development works.
Construction projects
The Forgan Smith Labor government, elected in June 1932 refused to follow the Premiers Plan and three major construction projects; the Story Bridge, Stanley River Dam and The University of Queensland campus at St Lucia, provided relief work for hundreds of men. The Depression decade also saw the construction of numerous tourist roads in scenic areas like Mount Nebo, Mount Tamborine and Mount Spec, for example, transforming and opening up those landscapes.
Outdoor Relief (rations, coupons or cash) was provided for men with doctors' certificates attesting to their inability to work and to women in necessitous circumstances. Early regulations stipulated that rations could only be obtained once in any town and the unemployed were forced to travel seeking work or handouts at towns along the way. Distances between towns and the meagreness of the rations (which scarcely lasted a few days) instigated the hazardous practice of 'jumping the rattler' (illegally riding on goods trains).
Unemployment camps
Women and children were left to rely on charity and the Queensland Social Service League which provided relief work, principally sewing, for women for 7 shillings 6 pence a day. As families were evicted from their homes, unemployed camps were established in parks and showgrounds in towns and cities. Evictees also sheltered with relatives, particularly in rural areas where properties were more self-sufficient. Queensland’s landscape supported many families, made life difficult for ‘travellers’ but was inarguably altered by the Depression.
Source: Carmel Black, Queensland Historical Atlas.
Top photo: Leo Russell
Middle photo: Steph Goralnick
Bottom photo: Leo Russell
From Adbusters #74, Nov-Dec 2007
The Empire of Debt
Money for nothing. Own a home for no money down. Do not pay for your appliances until 2012. This is the new American Dream, and for the last few years, millions have been giddily living it. Dead is the old version, the one historian James Truslow Adams introduced to the world as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”
Such Puritan ideals – to work hard, to save for a better life – didn’t die from the natural causes of age and obsolescence. We killed them, willfully and purposefully, to create a new gilded age. As a society, we told ourselves we could all get rich, put our feet up on the decks of our new vacation homes, and let our money work for us. Earning is for the unenlightened. Equity is the new golden calf. Sadly, this is a hollow dream. Yes, luxury homes have been hitting new gargantuan heights. Ferrari sales have never been better. But much of the ever-expanding wealth is an illusory façade masking a teetering tower of debt – the greatest the world has seen. It will collapse, in a disaster of our own making.
Distress is already rumbling through Wall Street. Subprime mortgages leapt into the public consciousness this summer, becoming the catchphrase for the season. Hedge fund masterminds who command salaries in the tens of millions for their supposed financial prescience, but have little oversight or governance, bet their investors’ multi-multi-billions on the ability that subprime borrowers – who by very definition have lower incomes and/or rotten credit histories – would miraculously find means to pay back loans far exceeding what they earn. They didn’t, and surging loan defaults are sending shockwaves through the markets. Yet despite the turmoil this collapse is wreaking, it’s just the first ripple to hit the shore. America’s debt crisis runs deep.
How did it come to this? How did America, collectively and as individuals, become a nation addicted to debt, pushed to and over the edge of bankruptcy? The savings rate hangs below zero. Personal bankruptcies are reaching record heights. America’s total debt averages more than $160,000 for every man, woman, and child. On a broader scale, China holds nearly $1 trillion in US debt. Japan and other countries are also owed big.
The story begins with labor. The decades following World War II were boom years. Economic growth was strong and powerful industrial unions made the middle-class dream attainable for working-class citizens. Workers bought homes and cars in such volume they gave rise to the modern suburb. But prosperity for wage earners reached its zenith in the early 1970s. By then, corporate America had begun shredding the implicit social contract it had with its workers for fear of increased foreign competition. Companies cut costs by finding cheap labor overseas, creating a drag on wages.
In 1972, wages reached their peak. According to the US department of Labor Statistics, workers earned $331 a week, in inflation-adjusted 1982 dollars. Since then, it’s been a downward slide. Today, real wages are nearly one-fifth lower – this, despite real GDP per capita doubling over the same period.
Even as wages fell, consumerism was encouraged to continue soaring to unprecedented heights. Buying stuff became a patriotic duty that distinguished citizens from their communist Cold War enemies. In the eighties, consumers’ growing fearlessness towards debt and their hunger for goods were met with Ronald Reagan’s deregulation the lending industry. Credit not only became more easily attainable, it became heavily marketed. Credit card debt, at $880 billion, is now triple what it was in 1988, after adjusting for inflation. Barbecues and TV screens are now the size of small cars. So much the better to fill the average new home, which in 2005 was more than 50 percent larger than the average home in 1973.
This is all great news for the corporate sector, which both earns money from loans to consumers, and profits from their spending. Better still, lower wages means lower costs and higher profits. These factors helped the stock market begin a record boom in the early ‘80s that has continued almost unabated until today.
These conditions created vast riches for one class of individuals in particular: those who control what is known as economic rent, which can be the income “earned” from the ownership of an asset. Some forms of economic rent include dividends from stocks, or capital gains from the sale of stocks or property. The alchemy of this rent is that it requires no effort to produce money.
Governments, for their part, encourage the investors, or rentier class. Economic rent, in the form of capital gains, is taxed at a lower rate than earned income in almost every industrialized country. In the US in particular, capital gains are being taxed at ever-decreasing rates. A person whose job pays $100,000 can owe 35 percent of that in taxes compared to the 15 percent tax rate for someone whose stock portfolio brings home the same amount.
Given a choice between working for diminishing returns and joining the leisurely riches of the rentier, people pursue the latter. If the rentier class is fabulously rich, why can’t everyone become a member? People of all professions sought to have their money work for them, pouring money into investments. This spurred the explosion of the finance industry, people who manage money for others. The now-$10 trillion mutual fund industry is 700 times the size it was in the 1970s. Hedge funds, the money managers for the super-rich, numbered 500 companies in 1990, managing $38 billion in assets. Now there are more than 6,000 hedge firms handling more than $1 trillion dollars in assets.
In recent years, the further enticement of low interest rates has spawned a boom for two kinds of rentiers at the crux of the current debt crisis: home buyers and private equity firms. But it should also be noted that low interest rates are themselves the product of outsourced labor.
America gets goods from China. China gets dollars from the US. In order to keep the value of their currency low so that exports stay cheap, China doesn’t spend those dollars in China, but buys us assets like bonds. China now holds some $900 billion in such US IOUs. This massive borrowing of money from China (and to a lesser extent, from Japan) sent us interest rates to record lows.
Now the hamster wheel really gets spinning. Cheap borrowing costs encouraged millions of Americans to borrow more, buying homes and sending housing prices to record highs. Soaring house prices encouraged banks to loan freely, which sent even more buyers into the market – many who believed the hype that the real estate investment offered a never-ending escalator to riches and borrowed heavily to finance their dreams of getting ahead. People began borrowing against the skyrocketing value of their homes, to buy furniture, appliances, and TVs. These home equity loans added $200 billion to the US economy in 2004 alone.
It was all so utopian. The boom would feed on itself. Nobody would ever have to work again or produce anything of value. All that needed to be done was to keep buying and selling each other’s houses with money borrowed from the Chinese.
On Wall Street, private equity firms played a similar game: buying companies with borrowed billions, sacking employees to cut costs, and then selling the companies to someone else who did the same. These leveraged buyouts inflated share values, minting billionaires all around. The virtues that produce profit – innovation, entrepreneurialism and good management – stopped mattering so long as there were bountiful capital gains.
But the party is coming to a halt. An endless housing boom requires an endless supply of ever-greater suckers to pay more for the same homes. The rich, as Voltaire said, require an abundant supply of poor. Mortgage lenders have mined even deeper into the ranks of the poor to find takers for their loans. Among the practices included teaser loans that promised low interest rates that jumped up after the first few years. Sub-prime borrowers were told the future pain would never come, as they could keep re-financing against the ever-growing value of their homes. Lenders repackaged the shaky loans as bonds to sell to cash-hungry investors like hedge funds.
Of course, the supply of suckers inevitably ran out. Housing prices leveled off, beginning what promises to be a long, downward slide. Just as the housing boom fed upon itself, so too, will its collapse. The first wave of sub-prime borrowers have defaulted. A flood of foreclosures sent housing prices falling further. Lenders somehow got blindsided by news that poor people with bad credit couldn’t pay them back. Frightened, they staunched the flow of easy credit, further depleting the supply of homebuyers and squeezing debt-fueled private equity. Hedge funds that merrily bought sub-prime loans collapsed.
More borrowers will soon be unable to make payments on their homes and credit cards as the supply of rent dries up. Consumer spending, and thus corporate profits, will fall. The shrinking economy will further depress workers’ wages. For most people, the dream of easy money will never come true, because only the truly rich can live it. Everyone else will have to keep working for less, shackled to a mountain of debt.
_Dee Hon is a Vancouver-based writer has contributed to The Tyee and Vancouver magazine.
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Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
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COVID-19 Guidance Note
Protection for those living in Homelessness
Leilani Farha
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and Global Director, The Shift1
02 April 2020
Housing has become the frontline defense against the coronavirus. Home has rarely been more of a life or death situation.
Governments worldwide have invoked “stay home”, “self-isolate”, “physical distancing” and “wash your hands” policies to flatten the pandemic curve and decrease infection rates of Coronavirus. These policies are predicated on the assumption that everyone has a home with adequate sanitation services. For the 800 million or so people living in homelessness globally, this is not the case. Moreover, this medically high-risk population faces disproportionate health challenges and high rates of respiratory illness, increasing their susceptibility to disease, including the novel virus.
In the face of this pandemic, a lack of access to adequate housing is a potential death sentence for people living in homelessness and puts the broader population at continued risk. COVID19 has exposed the myth of individualism, revealing the ways in which our collective wellbeing depends not only on our own ability to “stay home”, but the ability of others to do the same.
Homelessness, including during a crisis, and irrespective of nationality or legal status, is a prima facie violation of human rights. The core protections provided by the right to housing, as well as the right to health and the right to food, are so fundamental to human dignity and the preservation of life that they can never be suspended, even in a state of emergency.
In this context, States must address the housing needs of homeless people on an urgent and priority basis to ensure their equal protection against the virus and the protection of the broader population. This will require cooperation between national and subnational governments, so that the necessary resources and capacities are available to ensure all efforts carried out to fight the pandemic are effective. States must take the following urgent measures, in keeping with their human rights obligations:
8. Ensure that homeless people are not criminalized, fined or punished in the enforcement of curfew or containment measures, and terminate law enforcement practices that increase the marginalization of people experiencing homelessness, including the apprehension of personal property or street ‘sweeps’.
(HUGE FAIL: arrests have been happening)
3. Ensure emergency accommodations allows for physical distancing, self-isolation, quarantine and any other health recommendations issued by the World Health Organization to stop the spread of COVID-19. Residents must have access to privacy, water/sanitation, food, social and psychological supports, health services and testing for COVID19. Particular attention should be given to ensure the provision of adequate housing for families living in homelessness, women and children, persons with physical or psycho-social disabilities and persons at particular risk (over 65 years or with preexisting health conditions). Separation of children from guardians or other family members supporting them, must always be avoided including when self-isolation of a family member in a separate room is required for disease control.
(FAIL: There is too little space; too little hygiene; and violence to women, and separated families have been documented)
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It seems odd to close parks and campgrounds, demand social distancing, when these human's are corralled into closed quarters near impossible to keep hygienic.
Security Guards are on site 24/7; though they remain sequestered in a small windowless room in the lone brick building that houses the restrooms which service this large but compact community. Perhaps they have cameras and monitor, record and document the chain-link fence confined impoverished coronavirus guinea pigs?
Word around the camp is that arrests are still being made; police coming in and picking off cornered homeless person's with warrants.
WOMEN & CHILDREN LAST !!!
Canada has forgotten about and/or chosen to do as little as possible for the poor, homeless, disabled, and elderly.
...offers of housing the homeless in hotels may not be materializing; and the tent city solutions appear to be more like soft-incarceration; and a bait and switch, where offers of housing turn into arrests and prison.
...so much going on in the city right now, I'm overwhelmed with Cop Watch activity in support of the homeless community. I am in desperate need of two new external memory drives, as the amount of video and photo evidence files I am amassing is overwhelming my computer system.
On the street, the police are quietly escalating the War on the Homeless; and the stress levels of the homeless are at a boiling point in some of the over 30 homeless communities spread throughout the city
In these photos, police are stealing a bicycle from the homeless because they dare stood up to the bullshit from the cops and some housed asshole.
Police do this to the homeless ALL THE TIME. They just take nice things from the homeless claiming it looks suspicious that someone poor has something nice. The homeless RARELY see their property again. I've got two recent incidents like this documented on video. How many happen that I can't catch?
...so the housed asshole showed up to the homeless camp at Crystal Pool asking about his "stolen" electric scooter (it was illegal but that didn't bother the police).
His bike was not there.
A short while later another dude arrives with the "stolen" scooter and tries to sell it to the homeless, who instead, seize it and contact the owner, who arrives with police and accuses the homeless, who recovered his illegal scooter, with theft.
He didn't count on the homeless telling him and the cops to take a hike, and the cops didn't count on my camera being there. I haven't checked the video yet, but you should hear how rudely these cops talked to all the homeless, and how they treated the homeless as subservient. Video soon come, but I have another big day tomorrow; hoping it's a false alarm; hoping another homeless community is not uprooted again, always for no good reason.
"the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." "the disease is not meant to be cured, it is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
_______________________
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
_____________________________
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
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Sign in the window of a combination bar and knick-knack shop in DeLand, Florida. The governor's refusal to create a mask mandate results in these kind of signs.
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
___________________________
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
...so much going on in the city right now, I'm overwhelmed with Cop Watch activity in support of the homeless community. I am in desperate need of two new external memory drives, as the amount of video and photo evidence files I am amassing is overwhelming my computer system.
On the street, the police are quietly escalating the War on the Homeless; and the stress levels of the homeless are at a boiling point in some of the over 30 homeless communities spread throughout the city
In these photos, police are stealing a bicycle from the homeless because they dare stood up to the bullshit from the cops and some housed asshole.
Police do this to the homeless ALL THE TIME. They just take nice things from the homeless claiming it looks suspicious that someone poor has something nice. The homeless RARELY see their property again. I've got two recent incidents like this documented on video. How many happen that I can't catch?
...so the housed asshole showed up to the homeless camp at Crystal Pool asking about his "stolen" electric scooter (it was illegal but that didn't bother the police).
His bike was not there.
A short while later another dude arrives with the "stolen" scooter and tries to sell it to the homeless, who instead, seize it and contact the owner, who arrives with police and accuses the homeless, who recovered his illegal scooter, with theft.
He didn't count on the homeless telling him and the cops to take a hike, and the cops didn't count on my camera being there. I haven't checked the video yet, but you should hear how rudely these cops talked to all the homeless, and how they treated the homeless as subservient. Video soon come, but I have another big day tomorrow; hoping it's a false alarm; hoping another homeless community is not uprooted again, always for no good reason.
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
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Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
NDP MP Laurel Collins
Black Lives Matter is an international human rights movement, originating from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after white police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on the street. George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin and the three cops who stood by either guarding Chauvin or assisting him while he killed the innocent man.
The George Floyd protests manifested into an ongoing series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing. The protests began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020. The unrest began as local protests in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota before quickly spreading across the United States and internationally in support of Black Lives Matter. While the majority of protests have been peaceful, demonstrations in some cities descended into riots and widespread looting, with more being marked by street skirmishes and significant police brutality, notably against peaceful protesters and reporters.
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The rally was held on the unceded, surrendered, and occupied territories of the Lekwungen, WSÁNEĆ and Coast Salish people; these people remain here as the original and rightful stewards of this land.
The authorities have cut off food services to the homeless, including the large homeless Rock Bay community.
The fear is the city is coming in to evict these homeless to nowhere, and take all of their possessions.
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
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Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
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Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
________________________
The homeless and street communities are losing many essential services, and those which remain are scaled back, causing even more suffering.
"Daily Brown Bag Meal Service"
"Meals will be distributed outside in front of the Our Place building"
"Our Place will strive to maintain limited access to bathrooms"
_________________
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
___________________________
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Homeless Transgender 🌈 Person Traumatized by @bcndp, Demolition Workers in Hazmat suits, and police during Decampment of Pandora Tent City.
#LGBTQ #transrights #transgender
Video: youtu.be/YLFvL6rsduw
The government recent miraculous (clearly it easily could have been done before) (didn't need #covid_19 to happen) housing of the homeless is presented as a success story, but they are not telling you about the deaths.
The "housing" provided is NOT protected by the Residential Tenancy Act; and is nothing more than Soft Incarceration; without the supports these people need and deserve.
They have been given beads, bobbles, and blankets; in exchange for their possessions, liberties, and for some already, their lives. #RIP
_____________________________
"Our Place will strive to maintain limited access to bathrooms"
Cities are selfishly rushing to house the homeless; fearful of becoming collateral damage to outbreaks among vulnerable populations.
Victoria, BC has made promises of hotel rooms, but so far appears to be putting most effort into creating one or two large tent cities in contained and more controllable locations. (soft incarceration)
I've hear rumor of the local ball park being a possible site, but have not had a chance to check it out, but they are in full swing in setting up a large tent city in Topaz Park.
The Topaz Tent City is resplendent with washroom facilities, garbage disposal, running water, donated tents, and even a Safe Injection Site.
The right thing was done, only because the selfish privileged feared they may become collateral damage if the coronavirus spread among the poor and homeless populations that surround their rich people enclaves.
______________________
The Ugly NIMBY
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
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Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
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This is a preview of an upcoming movie. The Late Great Pilgrim's Progress, Christiana's Journey.
Watch FULL movie here ..... www.nancys-world.com/christiana-s-journey-2
This is a family project that is being worked on at a slow but steady rate. The finished movie should be posted at www.nancys-world.com/the-pilgrims-progress . Anyone interested in taking part in this project as a stand in or as a character actor please PM me.
The Pilgrim's Progress is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678. This story was based on a series of dreams Bunyan had when he was jailed for preaching the gospel. This book has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. Christian, the central character in the story, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Along the way he faces many dangers and obstacles. This story closely resembles many of the life experiences Christians have pre and post conversion on the road of life, the pitfalls and dangers faced in the lives of many Christian believers who are on the same journey.
This movie is loosely based on Part II of The Pilgrim’s Progress where Christian’s wife ( Christiana )follow in the footsteps of her husband the plot of this movie incorporates some of the events from part 1 and presents present modern day scenarios into this classic story.
www.nancys-world.com/bible-share
full preview see here,,, www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NuX6bH-gQ0
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Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 8 of Occupy Wall Street and the public still can't walk past the barricades on Wall Street. Photos from September 24, 2011.
The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos at OWS of the first NYC snow fall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
November 20 Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado
Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here
Day 2, the occupation continues on Sunday. Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York. September 18, 2011.
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames
The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project
Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti
Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20
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Troubled Assets is a photo series that documents the abundance of repurposed bank buildings in Detroit, Michigan. The dominance of these buildings, and the bold architecture they employed, was a testament to Detroit's wealth. Today, many of these historic structures still stand -- no longer as banks, but rather as churches, hair salons, nightclubs, pawn shops, and day cares; others are abandoned, for sale, for lease, or status unknown.
This map compiles the locations of these bank buildings.
Sam's Prescription Drugs
Warren at 31st
Detroit, Michigan