Hi everyone,
I'm a freelance journalist working on an article for VICE about people living in U.S. National Forests, both by choice or because of hardship. It's a follow-up of sorts to an article I wrote about the housing shortage in my hometown, Jackson Hole (can't link to it because I'm a...
I'm currently sitting in PVD with Boston being an hour away. I've repeatedly heard about how hostile Boston is towards homeless/ poor people(, and people in general).
This rises my issues with squatting in such a place. I question the legality behind to start with. I heard it's "illegal" to be...
I have Square on my phone to use when someone owes me money and they make the excuse: "I don't have any cash right now..." and I whip out my Square reader and say, "Not a problem!'. This guy has a new approach.
Plus, it sounds like he's doing some good stuff.
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A homeless man in...
Amazing they let her be!!! There is a vid at the link. She looks like an amazing woman - one to have met. She said she was arrested, bitten, gassed and tazered, If you follow the link to vid, then on to youtube - there are more vids of her.
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Concepcion...
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/homme-less?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=intsocial
Life goals
<edit> I put the article out into the main view for posterity. There is also an embedded vid clip at the link as well :) Tude
Thomas Wirthenson: Homme Less
Work /...
This is pretty badass. It's a shame they threw him in jail and destroyed all his hard work. The video at the link below has more info and video of the cave itself...
A homeless man's uplifting memoirs about his 27 years begging on the streets of Paris has become a bestseller in the lead up to Christmas. Jean-Marie Roughol's 176-page book, Je tape la manche: Une vie dans la rue (My Life As A Panhandler: A Life on the Streets), has sold nearly 50,000 copies...
https://news.vice.com/video/hiding-the-homeless-full-length
lone wolf has kindly posted the video that accompanies this story down below.
Hiding The Homeless
November 24, 2015 | 12:58 am
A growing number of American cities are ticketing or arresting homeless people for essentially being...
Hawaii Lawmaker Who Smashed Homeless People's Shopping Carts Beaten Up
The Huffington Post
Posted: 06/30/2015 6:33 pm EDT
http://newsline.world/pointofviewworld/hawaii-lawmaker-who-smashed-homeless-people-s-shopping-carts-beaten-up-by-group-of-homeless-report/7/
HONOLULU -- A Hawaii state...
http://news.yahoo.com/homeless-man-speaks-bear-death-anchorage-233804071.html
Homeless man in Anchorage uses homemade spear to kill bear
By MARK THIESSEN12 hours ago
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This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows a homemade spear that a homeless...
I'm currently on the west coast in Oregon Washington area, but really anywhere is good to know about, I just feel like there ought to be some kind of resource list for getting sleeping bags, boots, coats, packs etc for free or really extremely cheap thrift stores around the country
Anyone got an IG account.
Unfortunately I happen to have one.
If anyone wants to see what kinda lame shit i take pictures of post your IG name or Find me ont there at ramblinrusty(its lame I know)
It's a little bit of entertainment to flip through my stream and see what people are up to.
I'm avoiding my homework to tell you guys about an idea I've had bouncing around my head for a while. trigger warning: 2edgy ahoy.
So I took in a homeless kid.
He's 22. His dad died three months ago. He's in my town fresh out of rehab. I met him in Taco Bell slumped over a table waiting for...
How about some good news for a change? :cool:
We all need sleep, which is a fact of life but also a legally important point. Last week, the Department of Justice argued as much in a statement of interest it filed in a relatively obscure case in Boise, Idaho, that could impact how cities...
http://nypost.com/2015/08/10/engineer-develops-map-the-homeless-app/
New Yorkers can now try to help tackle the city’s homeless problem with a new app.
David Fox, a 25-year-old data engineer from Murray Hill, developed Map the Homeless after getting fed up with transients aggressively begging...
The little boy here ... tears me apart. I don't understand the term "punk" but I do understand the word help as well as FOOD NOT BOMBS.
I got this feed out of facebook - dirty kid couchsurfing coalition.
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Link: http://goo.gl/uUVtct
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to consider making it easier to break up homeless encampments, which have mushroomed across Southern California.
Two measures before the council would reduce to 24 hours from 72 hours the warning time homeless...