homelessness

  • Back in October 2018 I wrote this article, so I am not surprised one bit that another homeless person has died on our streets. Unless the government and the council act there are going to be more, this isn’t something unforeseen which is happening. We knew this was coming, we know there has been hundreds…

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  • Why I won’t be out protesting Donald Trump’s State Visit

    We are told protesting against Donald Trump’s state visit should be the biggest protest this country has ever seen, but why? Is Donald Trump’s visit the most important issue facing the people of this country? The answer is of course no, Trump is not more important than the dismantling of the NHS, the homeless epidemic,…

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  • How can we be a civilised society while allowing homelessness to fester?

    Homelessness is all our problem, it is an issue that effects us all. Whether directly through being on the streets ourselves, or indirectly through the society which we call our own. You would think a problem of this magnitude would require a society wide effort to solve. Yet time and again we have been left…

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  • Should the homeless pay? Open letter to the Hope Centre.

    On the 24th of July the CEO of the Hope Centre wrote on his blog an article entitled: “Why Hope charges for items like food and clothes.” In this article the CEO seeks to justify charging for these items, as well as selling donations on eBay and furthermore attacks organisations that give away things for…

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  • Practical solidarity: Labour must adapt the way it campaigns so it helps those most in need

    One day campaigns and calls for Theresa May to sling it are great at galvanizing support, but if the next election isn’t within the next six months, we run the risk of running out of steam. Words have power that is clear, but words and actions working in unison will lay the foundation for the…

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  • Stand Together

    Stand Together

    On benefits struggling to pay bills We stand with you! Single mother working two jobs We stand with you! Grieving over the austerity kills We stand with you! Victim of the callous cuts We stand with you! Home made cell We stand with you! Freezing to death We stand with you! Empty cupboards We stand…

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  • A campaign recently launched in Northampton called “Kill with Kindness” (yes that is its real name), has the aim of encouraging people not to be kind to homeless people. It declares that homeless people are drunks and drug addicts and by giving them money you are therefore feeding their habits and killing them. It declares…

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