It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media whoppers.
> It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to > scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than > usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media > whoppers.
> On Nov 10, 11:37 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Homeless Holiday Hype
> > The New York Post > > December 7, 2002
> > By Heather Mac Donald
> > It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to > > scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than > > usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media > > whoppers.
The NYPD violated every official regulation here but two, when they pepper-sprayed me in October 2008.
Did you know the pepper spray NYPD uses contains antifreeze ~ ? If this was a "calculated" attempt to give me a reason to sue NYPD, it was also intential harm with resulting injuries to me; that is called premeditation to harm, with intent.
> The NYPD violated every official regulation here but two, when they > pepper-sprayed me in October 2008.
> Did you know the pepper spray NYPD uses contains antifreeze ~ ? If > this was a "calculated" attempt to give me a reason to sue NYPD, it > was also intential harm with resulting injuries to me; that is called > premeditation to harm, with intent.
NYPD deliberately hurt me in that incident; and because I reported these injuries to the FBI unit that works JOINTLY with NYPD, in 2006, and many times after, they KNEW I was already hurt when they did that to me.
On Nov 10, 11:37 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> Homeless Holiday Hype
> The New York Post > December 7, 2002
> By Heather Mac Donald
> It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to > scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than > usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media > whoppers.
> It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to > scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than > usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media > whoppers.
Let's check back with the city of Atlanta & the Task Force fo the Homeless, who last year had their water shut off amidst turmoil with city governement and community hostility ...
Lawsuit Moved To Federal Court October 30, 2009
The lawsuit posing the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless v. The City of Atlanta has been moved from The Superior Court of Fulton County to Federal Court. ... Please Bring and Send Water! November 3, 2009
Please call me, Jim Beaty (404 787-1086) to talk aboiut WATER. It is imperative that the Task Force for the Homeless have on site millions of gallons of WATER. We must have every kind of water from bottled water to water buffalos, the kind used at disaster sites. The Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. is under seige.
Ratchet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter, Director of the City’s Department of Water Mismanagement will turn off the water on December 1. Please call me for any leads to get donations of water. The next bill of $6,100 is due the last day of November. It would be so nice to have drinking water on Christmas. Thank you, (404) 787-1086.
On Nov 12, 10:38 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 11:37 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
"Given the firm’s anticipated profits and supersize bonuses, which have touched off public furor, it is no surprise that Goldman said recently it would increase its charitable giving. It has set aside $200 million to nearly double the size of its main foundation."
On Nov 10, 11:37 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> Homeless Holiday Hype
Yo twit, is there some reason you feel compelled to cross post this totally unrelated, unwanted topic to r.r? if someone is hot to trot on this topic let them go to you. Please, give us fuc*ing break!
Homeless Week begins on Sunday Monroe News, Michigan
by Michelle Swartz November 12. 2009
Homeless Awareness Week is a national event that will be held Sunday through Nov. 21 and encourages communities to recognize the serious issues of homelessness and hunger.
The Monroe County Network on Homelessness — a collaboration of human- service agencies — is sponsoring local events throughout the week. Laura Papenhagen, director of Fairview, is the chairman of Homeless Awareness Week in Monroe County.
"We have a 10-year plan to end homelessness. We’re making great strides in the community, but we still have a long way to go," she said.
Homelessness goes beyond people living on the street. Many individuals and families who cannot afford housing live with family or friends, in shelters or in a place not meant for human habitation.
> Homeless Week begins on Sunday > Monroe News, Michigan
> by Michelle Swartz > November 12. 2009
> Homeless Awareness Week is a national event that will be held Sunday > through Nov. 21 and encourages communities to recognize the serious > issues of homelessness and hunger.
> The Monroe County Network on Homelessness — a collaboration of human- > service agencies — is sponsoring local events throughout the week. > Laura Papenhagen, director of Fairview, is the chairman of Homeless > Awareness Week in Monroe County.
> "We have a 10-year plan to end homelessness. We’re making great > strides in the community, but we still have a long way to go," she > said.
> Homelessness goes beyond people living on the street. Many individuals > and families who cannot afford housing live with family or friends, in > shelters or in a place not meant for human habitation.
Program assists ailing homeless ~ Interim services available for post-hospitalization care
By Kristine Guerra Journal Correspondent Auburn Journal, CA 11/16/09
Auburn homeless residents who have been hospitalized and discharged won’t have to camp out while recuperating, thanks to a new program.
The Placer County Interim Care Program provides services to homeless patients after they are discharged from the hospital.
Managed by The Effort, Inc., Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital and Sutter Roseville Medical Center in partnership with the Gathering Inn and Placer County, the program provides a place for homeless patients to recuperate for six weeks and directs them to community organizations that help with issues such as domestic violence, anger management, substance abuse and court justice.
“We give them a safe, clean and dry place to recuperate so that they don’t need to worry about their illness,” said Suzi deFosset, executive director of the Gathering Inn, a Roseville-based homeless organization. “It’s difficult to take care of yourself when you’re camping out.”
... & from my hometown [the better-late-than-never social service] ~
Grant Helps Hospice Let Vets Die With Dignity
By Rebekah Allen Pensacola News Journal November 16, 2009
John Gilbert died on Oct. 28.
He had been a homeless fisherman.
It wasn't always that way. Gilbert enlisted in the Navy and fought in the Vietnam War.
He died unable to talk, but he did not die alone. He did not die homeless.
Gilbert passed away in a warm bed that October day at the Joyce Goldenberg Hospice Residence off University Parkway.
In the hours before he died, a Covenant Hospice caretaker presented him with a veteran's pin and read two paragraphs of appreciation for his service to his country.
"He came to us from a homeless shelter where he had been dropped off by one of the hospitals and was in great pain, sleeping on a pallet on the floor," said Julie Patton, a Covenant social worker. "We were able to relieve his pain and allow him 10 days of comfort and dignity."
Gilbert was one of seven terminally ill homeless veterans who have come into the care of Covenant since February through a grant funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
There are an estimated 250 homeless veterans in Escambia and Santa
D.C. Archdiocese Throws Temper Tantrum Over Gay Marriage
by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca Beyond Chron, San Francisco Nov. 17‚ 2009
Talk about spite. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. said that it will stop offering social service programs for the poor and homeless if the district passes a proposed gay marriage law.
The legislation, which is slated to be approved next month by the City Council, would not force the church to perform same-sex weddings. But it could mandate that they extend medical benefits to gay couples, as well as let members of the LGBT community adopt children and rent space in its churches and other properties.
The Church serves about 68,000 people through its Catholic Charities programs. Among them are many homeless who sleep in the Archdiocese’s shelters. Unless the church is given an exemption that allows it to discriminate against queers, “all of those services will be adversely impacted,” said Jane G. Belford, chancellor of the Archdiocese.
Free Showers for the Homeless [in Dublin, Ireland ~ !]
By Geraldine Gittens Herald, Dublin Tuesday November 17 2009
People sleeping rough on the streets will be able to use a new shower service provided by Dublin City Council.
The free service will mean that Dublin's homeless now have access to showers seven days a week, in three different homeless centres in the city.
Staff which run homeless services such as emergency accommodation in Beech House, 62 Amiens Street; Maple House, 595 North Circular Road; and Oak House, 55 Benburb Street, will be running the shower service -- at no extra cost to the council.
Volunteer organisations and outreach teams are now spreading the word to invite people to use the showers between 10am and 5pm.
Accessible
A spokesperson for Dublin City Council said: "We wanted to ensure that shower facilities were available and accessible to people seven days a week.
"There is no additional cost involved, as they are located in three existing Dublin City Council homeless services."
Discussion subject changed to "~ * Heather on Homeless Holiday Hype * ~ It's National Homeless Awareness Week ~ ! SO, ur a homeless single adult female in NYC" by Twittering One
The Neediest Cases ~ For Her, the Long and Winding Road Led to the Street
By STEVE KENNY
Suzanne Kaplan did not become homeless overnight. It happened gradually, beginning in 1993 with her mother’s death and becoming more or less a permanent condition four years later.
Ms. Kaplan, now 59, has found shelter where she could: friends’ couches, hospital emergency rooms, bus stop benches. Until recently she was steadfast in her refusal to seek government help.
“To me, that was for a real broken-down person,” she said. “I didn’t want that to be my mentality.”
It was a way of thinking nurtured where she grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, first in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn — she graduated from James Madison High School nearby — and later in Greenwich Village, where she lived with her mother for more than a decade. The West Village lives large in her memory.
“Whatever you needed, you got what you needed,” Ms. Kaplan said. “You needed an apartment? You got it. You needed a job? You got it.”
After her mother died, she said, “I was on my own.”
She continued to work, in temp jobs all over the city. But there was never enough money. “I had reached the point where I managed to pay the rent, but then had no food in my refrigerator,” she said.
Martha Pollack, the director of social services for the United Jewish Council of the East Side, said Ms. Kaplan’s “downward spiral” began after she was evicted from an apartment on Grand Street in Lower Manhattan in the mid-1990s. There was help available, she said, but Ms. Kaplan “tried to do it on her own.”
She found refuge in ever-smaller rooms, until 1997, when she was living in an S.R.O. at First Avenue and Second Street. Returning from a job one day, she saw city trucks in front: “I said, ‘Uh-oh.’ They evacuated the building and packed up all my things in boxes.”
It was condemned and demolished, she said. That was the last permanent home she had.
She lost touch with family. Acquaintances helped her with money but would not allow her to stay overnight. She sought refuge in hospital emergency rooms, only to be turned away because she was not sick.
“The worst I ever saw her was when we had a terrible snowstorm,” said Ms. Pollack, who has known Ms. Kaplan since 1996. “I took her by a car service to a drop-in center for homeless people. I told her, ‘You can’t survive like this,’ but she left and never went back.”
> The Neediest Cases ~ > For Her, the Long and Winding Road Led to the Street
> By STEVE KENNY
> Suzanne Kaplan did not become homeless overnight. It happened > gradually, beginning in 1993 with her mother’s death and becoming more > or less a permanent condition four years later.
> Ms. Kaplan, now 59, has found shelter where she could: friends’ > couches, hospital emergency rooms, bus stop benches. Until recently > she was steadfast in her refusal to seek government help.
> “To me, that was for a real broken-down person,” she said. “I didn’t > want that to be my mentality.”
> It was a way of thinking nurtured where she grew up in the 1950s and > ’60s, first in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn — she graduated from James > Madison High School nearby — and later in Greenwich Village, where she > lived with her mother for more than a decade. The West Village lives > large in her memory.
> “Whatever you needed, you got what you needed,” Ms. Kaplan said. “You > needed an apartment? You got it. You needed a job? You got it.”
> After her mother died, she said, “I was on my own.”
> She continued to work, in temp jobs all over the city. But there was > never enough money. “I had reached the point where I managed to pay > the rent, but then had no food in my refrigerator,” she said.
> Martha Pollack, the director of social services for the United Jewish > Council of the East Side, said Ms. Kaplan’s “downward spiral” began > after she was evicted from an apartment on Grand Street in Lower > Manhattan in the mid-1990s. There was help available, she said, but > Ms. Kaplan “tried to do it on her own.”
> She found refuge in ever-smaller rooms, until 1997, when she was > living in an S.R.O. at First Avenue and Second Street. Returning from > a job one day, she saw city trucks in front: “I said, ‘Uh-oh.’ They > evacuated the building and packed up all my things in boxes.”
> It was condemned and demolished, she said. That was the last permanent > home she had.
> She lost touch with family. Acquaintances helped her with money but > would not allow her to stay overnight. She sought refuge in hospital > emergency rooms, only to be turned away because she was not sick.
> “The worst I ever saw her was when we had a terrible snowstorm,” said > Ms. Pollack, who has known Ms. Kaplan since 1996. “I took her by a car > service to a drop-in center for homeless people. I told her, ‘You > can’t survive like this,’ but she left and never went back.”
Imagine what it would be like to be homeless and have no where to stay. Some people in Eau Claire Thursday night are finding that out.
The event, A Day With Nowhere to Stay, is an opportunity for people to experience what it's like to be homeless and what resources are available from the support agencies in the Eau Claire area.
Local homeless shelters opened their doors Thursday afternoon for tours and information. Participants were able to watch a documentary about homelessness in Eau Claire, enjoy a hot meal and end the day with a bonfire and sleepover in Wilson Park.
They were also encouraged to raise money sponsoring the number of hours they can brave the cold with all proceeds going to the warming center.
The event is sponsored by the Hunger Prevention Coalition, Continuum of Care and UW-Eau Claire.
> Imagine what it would be like to be homeless and have no where to > stay. Some people in Eau Claire Thursday night are finding that out.
> The event, A Day With Nowhere to Stay, is an opportunity for people to > experience what it's like to be homeless and what resources are > available from the support agencies in the Eau Claire area.
> Local homeless shelters opened their doors Thursday afternoon for > tours and information. Participants were able to watch a documentary > about homelessness in Eau Claire, enjoy a hot meal and end the day > with a bonfire and sleepover in Wilson Park.
> They were also encouraged to raise money sponsoring the number of > hours they can brave the cold with all proceeds going to the warming > center.
> The event is sponsored by the Hunger Prevention Coalition, Continuum > of Care and UW-Eau Claire.
Help Stop Rising Hunger in New York City ~ Organize a Food Drive For Homeless Adults
Urban Pathways is now partnering with organizations around Manhattan to host food drives. Participating groups will receive grocery bags, shopping lists, and fliers about the program for all of their constituents. Urban Pathways will also arrange for vans to pick up all of the collected goods at participating sites.
Please contact Karen Trella at ktre...@urbanpathways.org if you're interested in getting your school, office, club, or place of worship involved.
Our Food Drive Wish List Includes:
Dried Lentils, Black Eyed Peas, and Kidney, Black, Pinto and Red Beans (large bags) Peas, Escarole, Corn, Carrots, Beets and Lentils (64 oz cans; low sodium, low sugar) Cranberry Sauce, Peaches, Tomatoes and Pumpkin (large cans) Fruit Cocktail (individual servings) Pasta and Rice (large format boxes or bags) Energy Bars (individually wrapped, low sugar, high protein and/or high fiber) Fresh Fruit and vegetables (large boxes or bags)
> Imagine what it would be like to be homeless and have no where to > stay. Some people in Eau Claire Thursday night are finding that out.
> The event, A Day With Nowhere to Stay, is an opportunity for people to > experience what it's like to be homeless and what resources are > available from the support agencies in the Eau Claire area.
> Local homeless shelters opened their doors Thursday afternoon for > tours and information. Participants were able to watch a documentary > about homelessness in Eau Claire, enjoy a hot meal and end the day > with a bonfire and sleepover in Wilson Park.
> They were also encouraged to raise money sponsoring the number of > hours they can brave the cold with all proceeds going to the warming > center.
> The event is sponsored by the Hunger Prevention Coalition, Continuum > of Care and UW-Eau Claire.
Best they should experience standing out all night under a tree in the pouring rain, or huddled on a park bench trying to keep warm covering up with newspapers in the snow.
> On Nov 20, 10:33 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Nov 19, 2009 > > WEAU 13 News Staff
> > A Day With Nowhere to Stay
> > Imagine what it would be like to be homeless and have no where to > > stay. Some people in Eau Claire Thursday night are finding that out.
> > The event, A Day With Nowhere to Stay, is an opportunity for people to > > experience what it's like to be homeless and what resources are > > available from the support agencies in the Eau Claire area.
> > Local homeless shelters opened their doors Thursday afternoon for > > tours and information. Participants were able to watch a documentary > > about homelessness in Eau Claire, enjoy a hot meal and end the day > > with a bonfire and sleepover in Wilson Park.
> > They were also encouraged to raise money sponsoring the number of > > hours they can brave the cold with all proceeds going to the warming > > center.
> > The event is sponsored by the Hunger Prevention Coalition, Continuum > > of Care and UW-Eau Claire.
> Help Stop Rising Hunger in New York City ~ > Organize a Food Drive For Homeless Adults
> Urban Pathways is now partnering with organizations around Manhattan > to host food drives. Participating groups will receive grocery bags, > shopping lists, and fliers about the program for all of their > constituents. Urban Pathways will also arrange for vans to pick up > all of the collected goods at participating sites.
> Please contact Karen Trella at ktre...@urbanpathways.org if you're > interested in getting your school, office, club, or place of worship > involved.
> Our Food Drive Wish List Includes:
> Dried Lentils, Black Eyed Peas, and Kidney, Black, Pinto and Red Beans > (large bags)
Yuck!
> Peas, Escarole, Corn, Carrots, Beets and Lentils (64 oz cans; low > sodium, low sugar) > Cranberry Sauce, Peaches, Tomatoes and Pumpkin (large cans) > Fruit Cocktail (individual servings) > Pasta and Rice (large format boxes or bags) > Energy Bars (individually wrapped, low sugar, high protein and/or high > fiber) > Fresh Fruit and vegetables (large boxes or bags)
> On Nov 10, 11:41 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 10, 11:37 am, Twittering One <mournenwo...@aol.com> wrote:
> > > Homeless Holiday Hype
> > > The New York Post > > > December 7, 2002
> > > By Heather Mac Donald
> > > It's the holiday season — the time when New York's press likes to > > > scarf up the homelessness industry's lies even more eagerly than > > > usual. Thanksgiving week saw a cornucopia of made-for-the-media > > > whoppers.
> The NYPD violated every official regulation here but two, when they > pepper-sprayed me in October 2008.
> Did you know the pepper spray NYPD uses contains antifreeze ~ ? If > this was a "calculated" attempt to give me a reason to sue NYPD, it > was also intential harm with resulting injuries to me; that is called > premeditation to harm, with intent.
nah. nah. nah ~ That's where I am right NOW & I've never heard him,
EVER ~ ! __________________________ NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - A homeless man who began shouting at New Yorkers in 1985 said that Oprah Winfrey was the inspiration behind his decision to call it quits in early 2010.
"I've had a good run," said Tracy Klugian, who has barked non sequiturs at passersby on the corner of Third Avenue and 29th Street for the past 25 years. "If there's one thing Oprah's taught me, it's quit while you're on top."
Raising awareness for homeless is a chilly task for University of Alaska Fairbanks students
by Tim Mowry Daily News MIner Nov 21, 2009
FAIRBANKS — Standing in the middle of Constitution Park at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus Friday, shivering in the 16- degree below zero temperatures, Blake Eggemeyer was looking forward to going to computer science even more than usual.
“I am so looking forward to C.S. class,” said the 21-year-old junior computer science major. “It’s going to be warm.”
Of course, his classmates, at least those sitting close to him, probably weren’t going to be too happy.
“At this point, we all smell really bad because we haven’t taken a shower in a week,” Eggemeyer said, referring to the other three students — Ingrid Johnson, Stephanie Walden and Teri Anderson — who were shivering next to him.
Nobody said raising awareness for the homeless was easy, especially during a November cold snap in Fairbanks. To prove his point, Eggemeyer pulled a frozen block of cheese out from under his coat where he had been trying to thaw it.
Eggemeyer was one of seven students in the UAF Honors Program who spent the past week camping in Constitution Park.
“We were trying to think of a public service project to do during a meeting a couple weeks ago, and we realized National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week was in a week,” said Johnson, a 21-year- old senior.
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