Forwarded from P.U.R.R. Philly Uprising Response
Instead of clearing homeless encampments, city leaders should create plans for permanent housing | Opinion
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/philadelphia-homeless-encampment-benjamin-franklin-parkway-evicted-20200901.html
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/philadelphia-homeless-encampment-benjamin-franklin-parkway-evicted-20200901.html
https://www.inquirer.com
Instead of clearing homeless encampments, city leaders should create plans for permanent housing | Opinion
As homeless encampments near eviction date, the city must facilitate stable housing options.
New radical ANTIFA socialist opinion:
People should not have to spend decades of their lives attempting to prove that they deserve to live.
People have a right to a decent life. People have a right to have their basic needs met.
You can't create a supposedly meritocratic society and then have everyone's starting position radically different, so much so that a poor person has close to no chance of actually making it, while everyone at the top has easily access to anything they'll ever want.
This means recognizing that society, in some form, ought to meet these needs, and this includes housing, healthcare, education and so on.
People should not have to spend decades of their lives attempting to prove that they deserve to live.
People have a right to a decent life. People have a right to have their basic needs met.
You can't create a supposedly meritocratic society and then have everyone's starting position radically different, so much so that a poor person has close to no chance of actually making it, while everyone at the top has easily access to anything they'll ever want.
This means recognizing that society, in some form, ought to meet these needs, and this includes housing, healthcare, education and so on.
Forwarded from P.U.R.R. Philly Uprising Response
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Harriet's Bookshop in Olde Kensington was threatened earlier via email with slurs, arson, stalking, and r***. We will not post the graphic image here to avoid inducing trauma. We condemn this. We are multiracial movement and we opose hatred.
Harriet's Bookshop in Olde Kensington was threatened earlier via email with slurs, arson, stalking, and r***. We will not post the graphic image here to avoid inducing trauma. We condemn this. We are multiracial movement and we opose hatred.
"Protesters shouted them away from a park and continued to follow them until the police scooped them up in a car and sped away."
https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1300910722344456194
https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1300910722344456194
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
I'm in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where things were pretty calm until two members of the Proud Boys arrived. Protesters shouted them away from a park and continued to follow them until the police scooped them up in a car and sped away. https://t.co/7nwHiT9XGJ
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Black Powder Press
In Seattle tonight, a crowd of 20-30 protesters briefly materialized, attacked the east precinct in Capitol Hill, threw a number of molotovs over the new wall at the building, then disappeared into the night. This appears to be an example of protesters leveraging…
#Rochester This happened 2 months before George Floyd's very similar murder but it just became public today!
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5691797002?__twitter_impression=true
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5691797002?__twitter_impression=true
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A Black man pinned to the ground by NY police died two months before George Floyd
Daniel Prude died in March, two months before George Floyd's very similar death in Minneapolis, yet it didn't become public until now.
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CN extreme graphic, murder, police violence
"Prude’s last words among them was him praying for God to save him from death"
This was a fucking execution.
https://twitter.com/anoncatanoncat/status/1301274756675563520?s=19
"Prude’s last words among them was him praying for God to save him from death"
This was a fucking execution.
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Anoncat ☭☂️🏴 ➐
BREAKING VIDEO: New body cam footage released shows officers murdering an unarmed #DanielPrude on the streets of Rochester. As he was struggling with a mental episode, Prude’s last words among them was him praying for God to save him from death. #Rochester…