Subject: News & views from Homeless People's Network: Archived topics Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:37:39 -0500 From: Lara Johnson Reply-To: commactionlist@reddog.acf.dhhs.gov For Commaction sub's with an interest in homelessness etc. =============================================== HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NETWORK Home Page ARCHIVES read posts to HPN TO JOIN or email Tom In January, at least 29 homeless and ex-homeless people sent 322 posts to Homeless People's Network. I invite a-infos list members to pay us a visit via the URLs above. While only folks who've been homeless can post to HPN, anyone can read us. Posts are *uncensored*, so debate is sometimes lively. Posting patterns on HPN show that those of us who've been homeless, or are now, share many common concerns - including systematic violations of our *civil rights* in the USA and worldwide. *Topics* we discussed on Homeless People's Network in January include: "poverty pimps" & the equity question: who gets wealth & power? Big Issue hawker & Prince Charles meet re job scheme FWD Cell Phones and the homeless Cleveland's Mayor Settles Dumping Case with Homeless Computer access for the poor Court weighs legal services for poor (fwd) Don Saklad's Day At BPL (Boston Public Library) FWD food stamp cuts increase humger: evidence mounts FWD French homeless storm Fouquet's and luxury hotel in quest for help FWD Fw: Food Stamps and Homeless People Fw: More info on The Big Issue's Invasion of L.A. Fwd: Debunking "mental illness"/violence myth: Consensus Good, Bad, Indifferent (Was: More on advocacy and voluntarism:) Grants to Individuals or For Profit Organizations growing homeless presence on the web harrass food programs--ghettoize poor--silence dissent homeless camp at South Platte river (Denver) FWD homeless campground: NIMBY in Eugene, OR (Project Recover) FWD homeless civil rights FWD Homeless Fight Back in Santa Monica, CA FWD (Robert Norse) Homeless Left Out of Digital Revolution FWD Homeless man suffocated by cop, guards at mental hospital Homeless People/Homeless Activists Wanted for Live Radio Program Homeless Power Union New Site homeless radio news weekly in Austin, Texas (KOOP 91.7FM) FWD Homeless Right to Sleep campaign to nix anti-camping laws Homeless Romanies: Hungarian mayors end "resettlement" attempt FWD Homeless sweeps Homelessness and the web HPN empowerment (help detail our mission statement) Internet Kiosks for Homeless in Manchester, England ISDN (Was: Women Activists: Call for Submissions (fwd)) jobless occupy French Socialist party headquarters FWD Mad Housers build huts for GA homeless FWD Media To Americans: You Never Had It So Good FWD Medicare Missing Nephew Found More on advocacy and voluntarism: National Union of the Homeless ("Takeover" documentary) FWD new newsgroup - alt.society.homeless (fwd) Nonprofit helps the poor find their voice ny radio homeless call-in-athon OK Gov. Keating judgmental about homeless (letter to editor) FWD Oregon Sweeps Bill Law - opposition Out Voices Heard (MD homeless/ex-homeless group) FWD PA homeless poll: harassment and income lost to cutbacks FWD personal experience reflects the power of this group! Poor Women Speak Out In Ottawa FWD PROJECT HOME (Philadelphia) mission statement FWD RE: Still Is: More on advocacy and voluntarism: request for information (legal presentations to homeless people) Research evaluate efforts to help hard-to-serve homeless persons Ribbon Campaign Against Poverty Romania's homeless children: president urges citizens to help FWD Rooster Squat Toronto: call for support (OCAP) FWD Ruling on Chicago Homeless Sweeps Likely (Chi Coalition ft San Francisco Street Sheet's Take on The Big Issue scavenging outlawed in Milwaukee FWD Shelter Alternatives LINKS (straw bale homes to solar heated!) FWD some homeless educated, employed, study in Maryland finds FWD squatters killed as police attempt eviction in Bangladesh FWD squatters' microenterprise: Johannesburg, South Africa FWD street children's Radio Timoun in Port-au-Prince, Haiti FWD Structure and Tentative Agenda (fwd) The great Economy lie!!! The perils of volunteerism ... and of irony Thoughts on the Homeless (fwd) UK "The Land Is Ours" Mass Trespass and the first Diggers Day FWD UK Army recruits homeless: 'It challenges stereotypes' FWD University elitism US Federal Information Resource Website for nonprofits US prison population... 1 in 155 residents (Justice Dept.) VT/ Forced Drugg'n bill-Fwd: S. 103 PUBLIC HEARING Women Activists: Call for Submissions (fwd) Worcester FNB is going to court Worcester MA Food Not Bombs press statement 1/12/97 FWD World Wide Poverty Campaign I hope everyone who reads our HPN Archives finds information you can use. If you are homeless or ex-homeless, and wish to join and post to HPN, please write me, Tom, at . Thanks to all who support homeless people's rights to speak for ourselves in the poor people's movement and where policies are made that affect us. Seeking peaceful means to homeless people's aims.--Tom Boland, HPN listowner HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NETWORK Home Page ARCHIVES read posts to HPN TO JOIN or email Tom +======================================================+ |>> http://www.amandla.org <<>> ljohnson@amandla.org <<| +------------------------------------------------------+ | Masakhane - South African 'Nation Building' | | OSEPP-Org' for Sensible & Effective Prison Policy | |GMPPJ-Grassroots Movements Promoting Peace and Justice| +======================================================+