Listen up everbody in San Francisco... With Back Bone and Compassion, THIS CITY'S WORKERS ALONE, could go a long way towards curing the ills of Bad and Harmful City Hall Policies on Housing, Homeless and Medical Services... Check these numbers out. If about 1,000 City Workers and others making over $100,000 per year -- were to be GENEROUS ENOUGH to donate 2 or 3 Percent of their annual income (less than what some pay for lattes, dining out, boose and other luxuries) we would NOT have a HEALTH CRISIS about to explode on our City.....
If 800 City Workers GAVE a mere 2.5% of their $100k Plus Annual Salary, we'd have $2 Million Dollars To Spend On People In Need TODAY !!
BIG QUESTION: Will San Francisco's $100K Middle/Upper Class City Workers (and residents!) Going To Help Those Who Have Nothing, Or Not ?
Are WE ALL going to STEP UP to cure OUR OWN PROBLEMS or are we going to let OTHERS TELL US and make us BORROW MONEY to fix problems that WE COULD FIX OUTSELVES, LOCALLY, IF WE HAD THE WILLPOWER AND THE HEART... Think About It San Francisco... David. sfhomeless@yahoo.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Showing posts with label homeless in san francisco. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
San Francisco COULD solve its own homeless and housing problems.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
You Should Try This!! Non-Profit Donors Invited To Experience Homelessness For Themselves !
This is a GREAT IDEA !
HOMELESS FIELD TRIPS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A HOME IN ORDER TO 'GET IT'. Remember. It took like more than a year for our people here in San Francisco, to convince our own City Agency workers (Human Services Agency & Department of Public Health) to GO INSIDE OUR HOMELESS SHELTERS and try their hand at navigating a chaotic, disconnected and time consuming homeless and housing systems we have here, which are similiar to programs in other U.S. Cities. Here is an example of a very sensible and wise 'trend' in which donors to non-profits are invited to become homeless, in order to experience what is really going on and raise money at the same time. Two weeks in a homeless life in any city in our country would teach the foundations, funders, sponsors, donors and philanthropists much more about the conditions we face every homeless day, than any brochure, promo or non-profit solicitor ever could. CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS ORGANIZATION'S EFFORTS TO BREAK DOWN MYTHS AND FANTASIES ABOUT OUR LIVES AND OUR DAILY NEED FOR SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITIES, UNITED AND WORKING TOGETHER TO LIVE, NOT TO PROFIT FROM OUR PEOPLE'S MISERY AND MISFORTUNES.
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Monday, January 19, 2009, 2:44pm MST St. Martin's seeks people to experience homelessnessNew Mexico Business WeeklySt. Martin's Hospitality Center is using an interesting method to raise funds in these tough economic times, and to put donors in touch with its mission.
The center is seeking 12 people who want to experience what homelessness is like for themselves by offering a "Street Retreat."
It's a practice that has been widespread among some nonprofits since the early 1990s, said Tracy Alexis, development director of St. Martin's, which is one of the largest providers of services for the homeless in New Mexico. It was founded by volunteers from local Episcopal churches.
The "Street Retreat" experience lasts for three days and two nights, Jan. 28-30. Participants eat in soup kitchens and sleep outdoors, although the group will stay together for safety, Alexis said. The idea is not to take up shelter beds that are already scarce in the city, she added.
St. Martin's asks each participant to gather 12 sponsors.
Each sponsor pledges to support the participant for the three days with a $100 per-day-commitment.
For more information on the Street Retreat, call Alexis at (505) 242-4399 x236.
We like this idea . . . All Politicians and City Leaders Must Go Homeless For A Week Before They Can Speak With Any Authority About Issues and Problems That They Now DO NOT UNDERSTAND. In fact, no politician should be allowed to make any decisions that affect People whom he has not met and does not know and has not been 'in touch' with their real lives which are affected, for better or worse by every decision made on their behalf through our representatives. In these past 8 years, many people have suffered and died while many men and women grew in power, profits, property and cash while all of us have suffered by their shockingly aweful levels of greed and corruption; kidnapping, torture and bloodshed for oil and other corporate profits. ALL OF THEIR LIVES GREW RICH AND FAT WHILE WE SUFFERED AND DIED IN MANY CITIES AND IN MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE EARTH. We must do what we can to share real life experiences and struggles with people who can and who will not harm us, but will turn their heads around, open their minds and hearts and help us all to prosper and be safe no matter where we go and no matter who we are. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS AND NOW IS OUR TIME TO RULE OUR OWN NATION BECAUSE WE ARE CHILDREN NO LONGER. WE ARE NOW ADULT ENOUGH AND WISE ENOUGH TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR COLLECTIVE DESITINY. TODAY, WE SALUTE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, WITH GREAT HOPE. BTW, There is an End Of Bush Party at the end of Bush Street (at Presidio) later this afternoon, to celebrate the lifting of a great burden from our shoulders, as ex-president George W. Bush, leaves our nations' capital. The End Of Bush (in the White House, anyway... ). Now, it is Our Duty to restore honor to our Nation and to make our justice whole by prosecuting those people and organizations who have violated Our Treaties and Laws for personal profit and gain. We owe something called JUSTICE to every innocent man, woman and child who has died or suffered by a criminal or negligent act during these past 8 years, including ALL OF THE INNOCENT who have been beaten, kidnapped and tortured by corrupted and cruel officials and contractors who broke the law and brought Our Nation and Our People Great Disgrace In This World. POWER COMES BACK NOW TO OUR PEOPLE. . WE MUST PROSECUTE THEM ALL FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND TREASON AGAINST OUR PEOPLE. WE MUST HOLD THE BANKSTERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE $300 BILLION WE WERE JUST CONNED OUT OF AND STOP THEM FROM TAKING ANY MORE. THEY ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE. THEY ARE SCORPIONS WHO MUST BE TRUE TO THEIR NATURE, AS THAT TURTLE AND THE SCORPION CROSSING THE CREEK STORY GOES... ALL OF THEIR PROFITS CAME ON THE BACKS OF LIES, DECEPTIONS, DEREGULATION AND FAVORITISM AND LACK OF ENFORCEMENT BY THEIR FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES. WE MUST FORM A NEW MONETARY SYSTEM FOR OUR PEOPLE, WITHOUT THE BANKING AND FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. THEY HAVE BECOME OBSOLETE IN THEIR GREED AND MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN MESSES. THE AUTO AND OIL INDUSTRIES LIED, DECIEVED AND SUPPRESSED ALL INVENTIONS AND PROGRAMS RELATED TO CONSERVATION, FUEL EFFICIENCY AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL SOURCES FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS NOW. WE NEED NEW ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP US GREEN OUR NATION, BUT THESE OLD BOY CORPORATIONS CANNOT BE TRUSTED, SO WE MUST CREATE NEW ORGANIZATIONS WITHOUT THEM. NEW PRESIDENT. NEW BLOOD IN OUR LEGISLATIVE HOUSES AND NEW PEOPLE DOING GOOD THINGS. LEAVE THE BAD FRUITS OF THE BAD TREES BEHIND TO ROT IN THEIR OWN CESS POOLS OF GREED AND TYRANNY. HAPPY INAGURATION DAY 2009 !! GOOD BYE GEORGE... HELLLLLLOOOOOO O-BAMA !!! DON'T LET THE BARN DOOR HIT YA IN THE ASS, GEORGEY, AS YOU SKIDADDLE AWAY BEFORE YOU ARE BROUGHT TO THE HAGUE TO STAND TRIAL FOR WAR CRIMES. SFHomeless Yahoo! Group Moderators |
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
HEALTH ALERT! BAD FOOD @ TODAY'S SF HOMELESS CONNECT - EXPIRE DATES
WARNING:
The following food products given to our homeless and poor people today at the San Francisco Homeless Connect Event, at the Bill Graham Auditorium across from City Hall, had expired use by dates, as follows:
PRETZELS - USE BY DATE OCTOBER 2008 - Anderson Waflle Pretzel Bag
MOTT'S POMEGRANITE APPLE SAUCE - USE BY DATE: AUGUST 2008 - Single packs in boxes, red apple sauce.
BLUE WATER - ENNA -USE BY DATE ALSO EXPIRED ( ON LABEL AROUND CAP SEAL )
**** DO NOT EAT OR CONSUME ANY OF THESE PRODUCTS ******
**** ALWAYS CHECK FOOD FOR DATES TO PREVENT HARM ****
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Some Stories on Homeless; San Francisco from NowPublic.com
Here is the link and excerpt:
SOURCE: http://www.nowpublic.com/search?type=story&fulltext=1&keys=homeless%20california
Thank you for your help in spreading the word about The News is NowPublic.com. We appreciate your help.Your search for "homeless california" returned these results
10 of 57 news stories
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California County Qualifies to Receive $3.8 Million Housing Grant
The county of Ventura and its cities have qualified to receive 3.8 million grants to help homeowners and communities in the area who were affected by the housing market crisis."The grant, scheduled to be finalized in 2009, comes from the $4 billion emergency funds that were...highlighted by cassy82 1 day ago 1 view 0 comments 0 recommendations
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Are Attacks Against The Homeless An Act of Hate?
There is an article that has been posted on TIME.com that addresses the issue of violence committed against the homeless. On October 9 55-year-old John Robert McGraham was murdered in Los Angeles, California. It was... created by Can Tran 4 wks ago updated 1 wk ago 874 views 25 comments 31 recommendations
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How San Francisco Really Treats Its Homeless - Police & DPW Assault Them
These photos and video clips look like something out of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Bright lights, physical kicking and water canons used against people who are suffering and in need of a safe place to... opinion by SFHomeless 3 wks ago updated 2 wks ago
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Five More Homeless Murdered in California Sunday - Several Mental Patients
HOMELESS psychiatric patients are being murdered in California. Sunday, November 2, five homeless people were found shot to death in Long Beach, at least three of whom were mental patients. Last... 32 created by duo 2 wks ago updated 2 wks ago 438 views 15 comments 19 recommendations
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California AG Arrests 3 Foreclosure Scam Artists
One of the reasons for the millions of homeowners homeless due to foreclosure is predatory lending practices. These were perpetrated by both mortgage lenders and servicers who did not care about the homeowners at all but were only concerned about their commission. To make...
Gov. Schwarzenegger's Mental Health Crisis
DISTRICT JUDGE THELTON HENDERSON is determined to see that California's physically and mentally ill prisoners have improved facilities at an estimated cost to the state of $8 billion. The funds will be...
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New Law Reduces Los Angeles Foreclosures by 50%
If you are wondering whether or not mortgage lenders have been helping homeowners stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure, you might get your answer from the most recent foreclosure data for Los Angeles. Foreclosure rate dropped for the month of October after a state law...
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Nintendo DS - A Teaching Tool
"Redux::A Year Ago Today - Nintendo DS As A Teaching Tool… Redux! About this time last year, we touched base on how Japan has embraced its personal technology - Nintendo DS - to help in the education of its kids. Little did we... 
Horses: New Foreclosure Victims
In California, the foreclosure crisis has not only resulted to families becoming homeless. In its wake, it also left behind a lot of abandoned animals such as horses."The state was definitely hit hard by the mortgage...
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Elderly Homeless Man Attacked By Thugs -Polk Street/Frank Norris Alley-San Fr...
A Local San Franciscan Homeless Elder Was Attacked By Two Thugs On Polk & Frank Norris Alley ( between Bush and Pine Streets ).This kind, elderly San Franciscan was attacked about a month ago, in an alley next to the Funky Door Yoga and H20 Cafe, in the 1300 Block of Polk...
Friday, November 7, 2008
Examples of Violence Against The Poor On The Main Streets Around the Country...
Stand up against violence and abuse of all of Our People.
If YOU see violence, speak up, make a call, save a life.
Can Obama lead our nation to be kinder and gentler ?
WEB SOURCE: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/hatecrimes/introduction.html
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WEB SOURCE: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/hatecrimes/introduction.html
INTRODUCTION
In October of 2004, three Milwaukee teens murdered a homeless man at his forest campsite.
The teens hit 49-year-old Rex Baum, with rocks, a flashlight, and a pipe, before smearing feces on his face and covering his body with leaves and plastic.
According to the criminal report, one of the boys "hit the victim one last time to see if he would make a sound like in Grand Theft Auto," and then cut him several times with a knife to make sure he was dead.
In August, Curtis Gordon Adams, 33, beat and stabbed a disabled homeless man to death, and then licked the blood from his fingers on a Denver sidewalk.
In June, two New York City teens, kicked, punched, and finally bludgeoned 51-year-old William Pearson to death in a churchyard.
Pearson crawled to the church steps before finally dying of a fractured skull. "His head was a bloody mess," one police officer noted.
Sadly, these gruesome accounts are few of many, which demonstrate the hate / violence faced by people experiencing homelessness each year.
The following report documents 105 hate crimes and violent acts that occurred in 2004, collected from newspapers and reports across the country.
The narratives bring to light the discrimination and senseless violence faced daily by so many of our country's homeless citizens.
A sampling of the headlines in the case narrative section of this annual report says it all:
· Couple Beats Homeless Man, Leaves Him to Die in the Snow (Maple Valley, WA, January)
· Two Teens Beat a Homeless Man in His Sleep (Key West, FL, March)
· Teen Hits, Kicks, and Stomps Homeless Man to Death (Bend, OR, April)
· Man Set on Fire, Found Two Days Later (Lompoc, CA, May)
· Two Teens Viciously Beat Homeless Man to Death Outside Church (New York, NY June)
· Homeless Man Beaten to Death by Teens Claiming "Boredom" (Oakland, CA, July)
· Wheelchair-bound Homeless Man Stabbed to Death (Denver, CO, August)
· Teens Kill Homeless Man Over $5 Dispute (Gettysburg, PA, September)
· Teens Beat Homeless Man, Then Torch His Belongings (Albany, NY, October)
· Homeless Woman Suffocated (Keizer, OR, October)
PURPOSE STATEMENT
The main objective of this report is to educate lawmakers, advocates, and the general public about the problem of hate crimes and violence against homeless people in order to instigate change and ensure protection of civil rights for everyone, regardless of their economic circumstances or housing status.
As part of its mission, the National Coalition for the Homeless is committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to end homelessness.
A major component of these changes must include the societal guarantee of safety and protection and a commitment by lawmakers to combat the hate crimes and violent acts against people who experience homelessness.
THE REPORTS
Over the past six years (1999-2004), advocates and homeless shelter workers from around the country have seen an alarming increase in reports of homeless men, women and even children being killed, beaten, and harassed.
In response to these concerns, The National Coalition For the Homeless has produced six reports documenting these acts.
1999: No More Homeless Deaths! Hate Crimes: A Report Documenting Violence Against Men and Women Homeless in the U.S.
2000: A Report of Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Who Are Homeless in
2001: Hate. A Compilation of Violent Crimes Committed Against Homeless People in the U.S. in 2001
2002: Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A Report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness in 1999-2002
2003: Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A Report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness in 2003
The most recent report, Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A Report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness in 2004, continues to maintain the same goals and objectives as these previous reports:
1. To compile the incidents of hate crimes and violence that NCH has received and reviewed in order to document this alarming trend against people who are homeless.
2. To make lawmakers and the public aware of this serious issue.
3. To recommend proactive measures to be taken.
HATE CRIMES
The term "hate crime" generally conjures up images of cross burnings and lynchings, swastikas on Jewish synagogues, and horrific murders of gays and lesbians.
In 1968, the U.S. Congress defined a hate crime, under federal law, as a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of their race, color or national origin (Title 18 U.S.C Section 245).
The law mandated that the government must prove both that the crime occurred because of a victim's membership in a designated group and because the victim was engaged in certain specified federally-protected activities — such as serving on a jury, voting, or attending public school. [1]
Hate crimes are commonly called bias-motivated crimes, referring to the prejudice or partiality of the perpetrator against the victim's real or perceived grouping or circumstance.
Most hate crimes are committed not by organized hate groups, but by individual citizens who harbor a strong resentment against a certain group of people.
Some are "mission offenders," who believe they are on a mission "to cleanse the world of a particular evil". [2]
Others are "scapegoat offenders," who project their resentment toward the growing economic power of a particular racial or ethnic group through violent actions.
Still others are "thrill seekers" — those who take advantage of a vulnerable and disadvantaged group in order to satisfy their own pleasures. [3]
Thrill seekers, primarily in their teens, are the most common perpetrators of violence against homeless people.
In documenting hate crimes and violence against homeless people, and the data and documentation used for this report, NCH relies on news reports and information relayed to us by homeless shelters around the country.
Although NCH acts as the nationwide repository of hate crimes/violence against homeless people, there is no systematic method of collecting and documenting such reports.
Many of these violent acts go unpublicized and/or unreported, thereby making it difficult to assess the true magnitude of the problem.
Often, homeless people do not report crimes committed against them because of mental health issues, substance abuse, fear of retaliation, past incidents, or frustration with the police.
Some cases this year were also omitted because the victims were found beaten to death, but no suspects could be identified. In addition, the report does not take into account the large number of sexual assaults, especially against homeless women.
LEGISLATION
Subsequently, federal bias crime laws enacted have provided additional coverage.
The Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990 (HCSA) mandates the Justice Department to collect data from law enforcement agencies about "crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based upon race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." [4]
The Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act, enacted as a section of the Violent Crime
This measure only applies to, inter alia, attacks and vandalism that occur in national parks and on federal property. [5]
The most recent piece of legislation, Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 was introduced in the U.S. House (H.R.2662), and (S.1145) in the U.S. Senate in the 109th Congress. This legislation "authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that:
(1) constitutes a crime of violence under Federal law or a felony under State or Indian tribal law; and
(2) is motivated by prejudice based on the race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of the victim or is a violation of the hate crimes laws of the State or tribe."
There is currently no federal criminal prohibition against violent crimes directed at individuals because of their housing status.
The National Coalition for the Homeless aims to include housing status in the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 (H.R. 2662 and S. 1445) and in future pieces of legislation. H.R. 2662 and S. 1445 have broad bipartisan support, but through the inclusion of housing status, hate crimes and violent acts toward people experiencing homelessness will be more appropriately handled and prosecuted.
Additionally, if victims know that a system is in place to prosecute such crimes, they are more likely to come forward to report these crimes.
People who are forced to live and sleep on the streets for lack of an appropriate alternative are in an extremely vulnerable situation, and it is unacceptable that hate crime prevention laws do not protect them.
Also noteworthy is the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 (H.R. 259), which has been introduced into the 109th Congress by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas and has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
This bill is an abridged and slightly altered version of H.R. 2662 and S.1145.
[1] Source: Anti-Defamation League, http://www.adl.org/legislative_action/hatecrimes_briefing.html
[2] Source: "Responding to Hate Crime" U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc
[3] Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, www.ojp.usdoj.gov
[4] Source: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, http://www.civilrights.org/
[5] Source: Anti-Defamation League, http://adl.org/legislative_action/hatecrimes_briefing.html
Source: www.Thomas.loc.gov
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