by Pat Hartman | Jun 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Remember State Representative Tom Brower of Hawaii, who got headlines by destroying a bunch of shopping carts? In a followup story, Brower expressed only one regret: that some people had interpreted his berserker sledge-hammer rampage as an “attack on the homeless.” ...
by Pat Hartman | May 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Difficult as it often is to believe, the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has not yet been annulled and is still in effect. It goes like this: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches...
by Pat Hartman | May 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
In May of 2015, there were two remarkably similar incidents, one in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the nonprofit Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope. On the premises was a storage pod filled with the belongings of 58 people experiencing homelessness. Also operating...
by Pat Hartman | May 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
This month of May 2017 began with a much-grieved death on its very first day. Michael Stoops was a legendary figure in the world of anti-homelessness activism and a person of extraordinary commitment. Megan Hustings, Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless...
by Pat Hartman | May 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
For Alternet.org, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson wrote: In communities all over the country, police are strongly incentivized — by federal grant conditions and local budgetary constraints alike — to make arrests and issue fines as frequently as possible. After such a...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, published another book 80 years ago called The Road to Wigan Pier, about the terrible conditions in England just after the Great Depression. What does it remind you of? In the industrial areas the mere difficulty of...
