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Raids, Harassment at Occupy Tent Cities Start Broader Conversation About Criminalizing Homelessness

Sarah Page, Truthout: ''How can the Occupy movement help those who are most vulnerable to the economic crisis and its attendant austerity measures, while advancing the fight against the 1%? According to [Housing is a Human Right co-founder Rachel] Falcone, 'Sometimes the conversation is very foreclosure focused, it is critical to connect it with the struggle against homelessness.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10782-raids-harassment-at-occupy-tent-cities-starts-broader-conversation-about-criminalizing-homelessness



Chicago s Quiet Home-Liberation Front

Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence: ''Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of vacant, bank-owned homes are ... so bad that Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced that he d spend $4 million just to tear some down. The only definition of these so-called assets that makes sense is their immediate capacity to serve as homes for families.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10980-chicagos-quiet-home-liberation-front

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Execution by Firing Squad

Police Shoot Homeless Man 46 Times

Video

Six officers shot a homeless man 46 times after he failed to follow their instructions in a parking lot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32221.htm



Number of Homes Facing Foreclosure Rose in July

The number of homes that received an initial notice of default, the first step in the foreclosure process, increased 6 percent in July compared to the same month last year, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.

http://is.gd/avLmKK


From Information Clearing House

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Emanuel races Chicago s economy to bottom

Our Future
by Dave Johnson

12/19/12

Does a city 'save money' by outsourcing good-paying jobs to a company that pays crap wages? The people who had good-paying jobs are out of work, replaced by people in low-wage jobs, and the rest of us feel the downward pressure on our wages and benefits as the race to the bottom accelerates. The city tax base is reduced as wages drop and people can?t shop at local businesses. And to make matters even worse the newly-hired crap-wage employees make so little they are likely on public assistance just to get by...

http://tinyurl.com/chpzmlg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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