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POPSHomelessness, why an American tragedy? homelessness, why is it an American tragedy? Is it because we cast a blind eye at it? Or our politicians refuse to take a good long look into it? Read more and see if you can solve this problem!
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POPSThey need your help! PTL!!! Though VCM is unable to help at this time. They need your help. This is an urgent cry for people to help those less fortunate! Pleas help in any way possible!!!
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POPSLocal SF non-profit (Arriba Juntos) puts client & visitor identities at risk of ID Theft !
From August 2009, to date, December 7th, 2009: We have proof that YOUR CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT RECORDS are often left out on the streets -unshredded & unprotected, repeatedly by low income non-profit programs. Today, we are highlighting the non-profit ARRIBA JUNTOS who has been leaving YOUR CONFIDENTIAL CASE FILES on the streets, EVERY WEEK for the past 15 WEEKS !! We told them, in person and showed them... then, they ignored our warning that is was their responsibility to safeguard Confidential Client Files with the most sensitive personal, medical, criminal, civil, domestic information and details on them. We have photos, videos and some of the actual files... Shame on them ! Here is the story so far... Monday, August 10, 2009 - Good Samaritan resident sent text message from his cell to an SFHomeless group site, saying he found 33 gallon bin stuffed with Confidential Client records on paperwork of Arriba Juntos AND other local non-profit's paperwork. SEE ARTICLE
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POPSSF Garden Communities Video-Octavia Garden Shows our community's resolve to create garden communities in which homeless and not so homeless residents can work together to build up community in safe spaces and share in the harvest for our mutual benefit. Partners include SF Project Homeless Connect, SF First, SF P.O.W.E.R. (peer outreach), the SF Shelter Monitoring Committee and neighbors from the Hayes Valley Neighborhood (and others all over the city, as this model moves forward). 3 Parts. Total of all parts is about 22 minutes. Higher quality video available from sfbaysurf@gmail.com
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POPSTale of half-frozen cat named Icee
Over the next few hours, Steinbeiser and shelter workers keep substituting warm towels for the ones that have cooled down, a never-ending relay from the laundry room to the office where they've set up the temporary kitty ICU. They inject subcutaneous fluids. A dehydrated cat can't maintain its body temperature, and this was clearly a dehydrated cat, maybe so dehydrated there's been organ damage. By afternoon, he is stirring a bit when people approach, opening his eyes, reaching out a paw. They substitute the warmed-towel approach with a cozy crate next to a heater. He looks somewhat more alert. But his heartbeat remains erratic. The tension that's been swirling about the shelter for the last 36 hours dissipates. The staff, a little emotional about the miracle that blew in with first big snowstorm of the season, names him Icee. Now the little black and white cat, about 3 or 4 years old, is prowling the cat room, healthy, plumped up, personable and waiting for a home. "He is," sa
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POPSConvert The UN Building Into NYC Homeless Shelter
wallowing in desperate poverty, with crime so rampant and violent that the police won’t even venture into them. And you have the nerve to come here and investigate us ? The United Nations has become nothing less than a shabby podium used by corrupt third-world demagogues to do what they could never do in any other way - attempt to destroy and bring into disrepute the United States. We’re being nibbled to death by ducks. And we’re letting it happen. Not only that, we’re paying for it. I’d like to see the Obama Administration tell the U.N. to pound sand (but they won’t). Take your investigation to somewhere that needs it, and that list is endless. North Korea, Darfur, Tibet, Cuba….I could go on almost ad infinitum about third world hell holes where people have no rights whatsoever, where food is something that may or may not come your way today - or tomorrow. Where “housing” consists of whatever you can scrape together to try to keep out the cold, where women . .
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POPSSF First's P.O.W.E.R. Group of Former SF Homeless Interviewed on KALW Radio 91.7 FM This fascinating group is made up of� dedicated, independent and capable local residents, formerly homeless, homeless, advocates, staff and contracted workers from SFDPH, Mental Health, SF First, SF Hot, SF MOST, CATS and has the support of local businesses who supply coffee and organic berries, vegetables and bread products for their weekly foot massages, coffee socials and P.O.W.E.R. Team Lunches at Dolores Park Church in the Mission District, where Ali from local Public Radio Station KALW 91.7 FM, attended and recorded part of this Radio Broadcast linked below. POWER stands for Peer Outreach Workers Exemplifying Recovery... you can see them at work at the main SF Public Library where they monitor health and safety to assist their peers who may need services or hear some advice from someone who has recently walked in their shoes, who's been there. This is empowerment in action which works because the team members were treated with love, kindness and healing for a year or
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POPSBarbara Ehrenreich on the criminalization of poverty There are a lot of Kafkaesque stories in this piece, like that of wheelchair-bound 62-year-old homeless veteran Al Szekely, who was imprisoned after a nighttime raid on a homeless shelter. His crime? He had an outstanding court summons for criminal trespassing -- he'd gotten a ticket for sleeping on a sidewalk. In other words, " hey arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless." The truancy discussion strikes me as the most vicious part, though.
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POPSWhat a dirtbag. NEVER SERVED ANY SERVICE ! Self serving liar. A real discredit for those of us that did serve. People like him need to be hog tied and shipped to a war zone, dropped right in enemy territory.
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POPSForeclosure Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard: Evicted Families Have to Fight to Live Together "The National Alliance to End Homelessness has predicted that at the current rate, the recession will result in 1.5 million additional homeless people within two years". Why is there always enough money to wage wars and give handouts to big business yet working people and their kids - through no fault of their own - are left to fend for themselves on the streets. It's absolutely shameful.
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