http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:16 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:16 – without housing, that person will remain homeless."


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WITHOUT HOUSING: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures


Executive Summary (Page 9)

Without Housing documents federal funding trends for affordabl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/587 Sun, 25 May 2008 15:01:56 Nakeisha Faal
Ms. Charu Jindal
Budi Kamath
Denisha Halim
Sharat Khan
Jiri Wainaina
Kasan Rahman
Isoke Abdalla
Arlindo Cavalcante
Shani Ndembe
Prasong Vasu
Kito Ahmed
Lian Thakur
Mr. Kasan Ngai
Salihah El-Gawad
Mr. Iravan Shan
Tarisai Matlala
Jasmin Mandal
Wafa Botha
Komali Seto
I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/586 Sun, 25 May 2008 13:07:47 ... poor black mothers will continue to lose their children to the state. And we will continue to label these women "bad mothers" to assuage our own guilt." - Gaylynn Burroughs



Too Poor to Parent?
By Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine. Posted May 23, 2008.


When a recurrent plumbing problem... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/585 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:04:10 Homeless Shelters:
A Feeble Response to Homelessness
Betty Reid Mandell

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In tracing the history of poor people's movements, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward conclude that the only power that poor people have is the power of disruption. Therefore, they argue, the role of or... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/584 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:12:13 Homeless Shelters:
A Feeble Response to Homelessness
Betty Reid Mandell


HOW WOULD YOU LIKE SOMEONE to say to you, "Come with me into the bathroom? I want to watch you pee into this paper cup to see if you have been taking drugs." That is what is happening in some shelters for homeless famili... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/583 Tue, 20 May 2008 13:31:52 Too many people still think that there is a 'safety net' for people going through hard times. If that's what you believe, you really should check out what is (and ISN'T) available in your own community....

This is a slight update of a thread my mom posted on October, 3, 2007 (http://journals.demo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/582 Mon, 19 May 2008 10:23:42 'The Bread You Possess Belongs to the Hungry'
by St. Basil

They say: Whom do I wrong by keeping my property? What, tell me, is your property? Where did you find it and brought it to your life? Just like someone in the theatre, who had a seat and then stopped those who entered, judging that what ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/580 Wed, 14 May 2008 11:20:40 ... to the same degree, there would be a national outcry and call for governmental action," - Michael Stoops, acting executive director of NCH.



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Violent Crimes Against Homeless People on the Rise
Advocates fault lack of affordable housi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/579 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:27:18 It really is what she would have wanted, for people to do act when witnessing injustice, not to turn their backs, but to ACT, to do whatever they can, whenever they can, in any way that they can, to change things for the better. That's what she taught us. And to her, poverty was the greatest injusti... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/593 Sun, 11 May 2008 18:25:23 ... to end poverty in America.

Please join John @ http://www.halfinten.org

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half in ten
from poverty to prosperity


A Campaign to Cut Poverty in the United States in Half in Ten Years

Half in Ten plans to reduce poverty in the Uni... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/578 Sat, 10 May 2008 22:22:18 My mom said this was a beautiful community, and I see it reflected here; you are all so very kind!

I hope you will all take to heart one of her last requests, something she told us: "I know that you're going to miss me when I'm gone. Shed your tears, then open the door and look outside; there's a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/594 Sat, 10 May 2008 16:58:26 ... to Cut Poverty in the United States in Half in Ten Years

Half in Ten plans to reduce poverty in the United States by 50 percent within 10 years. Under the leadership of Senator John Edwards, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Center for American Progress Ac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/577 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:16:40 It's Wednesday, October 3.

Your car broke down 3 months ago. You haven't had the money to fix it, so now you're riding the bus.

You go to work to find out that you no longer have a job.

Your behind on all your bills, including your rent.

You've arrived home to find a 3-day eviction notic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/576 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:38:48 [i]... their chances for survival increase significantly."[/i]


[div class="excerpt"][font color="black" size="6" face="Times New Roman"][b][i]Raising a Baby in Poverty[/i][/b][/font]
Jania Gaines Cox

[b][i]Jania is a happy baby. She does not notice how hard her mother works to take care of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/575 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:15:48 [div class="excerpt"][b]Wanted: Husband with Canadian health care[/b]
By CHERIE BLACK
P-I REPORTER

[ul][i]Me: Writer, artist, teacher ... mother of two almost-grown sons ... vegetarian (but you don't have to be). Loves animals (two large dogs and three cats), gardening, house projects. The beac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/574 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:26:27 [b]Daniel Beaty: http://www.danielbeaty.com/[/b]


... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/573 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:14:44 Protect the people of Darfur & Eastern Chad.

Please sign the petition to the UN General Assembly: http://www.globefordarfur.org/act_now/signup.php

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/572 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:55:29 http://www.globefordarfur.org/act_now/signup.php

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/571 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:29:20 [font color="blue" size="2" face="verdana"][b][link:johnedwards.com/news/speeches/nhip20070315|Transformational Change For America And The World][/b][/font] [font color="blue" size="2" face="verdana"][b] - [/b][/font][font color="blue" size="2" face="verdana"][b][link:johnedwards.com|JOHN EDWARDS fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/570 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:27:02 I wish they would all get together & hold a fundraiser or two for affordable housing programs throughout the country.


[div class="excerpt"][b]NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CORRELATION BETWEEN HISTORIC CUTS TO FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS AND CONTEMPORARY MASS HOMELESSNESS [/b]

[i]Communities call for the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/569 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:04:00 [div class="excerpt"][b]Tracking Political Prosecutions[/b]
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED September 22, 2007

In the last two weeks, two sources, one of them inside of the Justice Department, have told me that a scheme was hatched in the upper echelons of the Bush Administration shortly after it t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/568 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:56:06 [div class="excerpt"][b]Edwards Announces Bold Education Agenda To Restore The Promise Of America's Schools[/b]
[link:johnedwards.com|John Edwards 08]
Sep 21, 2007 11:31 AM


[b]Plan will radically overhaul No Child Left Behind, expand early education, support teachers and create a "School Suc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/567 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:28:15 [div class="excerpt"][b]Craven Fools[/b]
Robert L. Borosage
Posted September 21, 2007 | 10:29 AM (EST)

Craven fools. The 22 Democrats and supposed Republican moderates who paid homage to the right-wing slander machine by voting to disavow Moveon.org yesterday once more demonstrated why they're... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/566 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:18:10 [i]... the windows better, get out that spot, distance themselves from gays and civil rights."[/i]

- Mel Gilles, from [i]The Politics of Victimization[/i]


After what they've done yet [i]again[/i], I feel moved to repost this; if you've not read this before, please take the time to do so... t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/565 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:32:18 [div class="excerpt"][b]Democrats Throw Their Base Under the Bus; Cave to Wing-Nuts on MoveOn Resolution[/b]
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted September 20, 2007.

[ul][i]Another manufactured outrage by the right and another cowering Democratic performance in Congress. [/i][/ul]
On the eve of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire Blue/564 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:24:04