by Pat Hartman | Nov 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
This might be the quotation of the year: The City of New Orleans cleared out the camp to reduce homelessness in the city. Is that what they think they’re doing? Amazing. Reduce homelessness by clearing out camps. Who knew the answer could be so simple?...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
The book we see over on the right-hand side of the page here, Looking Up at the Bottom Line, is really several books in one. It’s kind of an activist-how-to manual, as well as a history of the struggle for social justice as carried out (non-violently and always...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are three kinds of writing about the lives of people experiencing homelessness, and, naturally, the most authentic kind is a story told in the first person. When a street person tells the stories of other street people, that should count too, in the...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
The illustration on this page is a graphic that was shared around on Facebook without attribution. In the comments, folks quibbled over the figures. Then someone opined that the illustration is not meant to be a literal, scientific document, but more of a cartoon....
by Pat Hartman | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
The increasing violence against people experiencing homelessness is a subject that previous posts have barely even begun to touch. The long list of incidents in “HPCR: Protect the Homeless From What?” was only the tip of the iceberg. Of course, the...
