United States

April 13, 2009
http://www.economichumanrights.org/ - The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish...
Article , Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Organizing, General resources, United States
December 30, 2008
Marykate Connor, founder of Caduceus Outreach Services in San Francisco, talks about her innovative work helping homeless people with mental health problems. She discusses the criminal justice system...
Article , Homelessness, Mental Health, News, United States
December 30, 2008
An hour-long interview format, Madness Radio focuses on personal experiences of 'madness' and extreme states of consciousness from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments. They...
Online Resource , Disability, Media, Mental Health, General resources, International, United States
December 12, 2008
Food banks across the US and Canada are deeply affected by tough economic times both by a decline in donations and an increase in demand. The US government has started shifting the federal government...
Article , Foodbanks and Food, News, United States
December 2, 2008
http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/ http://takebacktheland.org/ Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public...
Article , Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
December 2, 2008
http://www.clvu.org/ - City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community...
Article , Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Multilingual, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, General resources, United States
December 2, 2008
A Miami activist organization, Take Back the Land, has started moving in homeless individuals and families into empty foreclosed homes. Take Back the Land asserts: "that it is immoral to maintain...
Article , Homelessness, Housing, News, United States
September 20, 2008
After more then twenty-five years the New York City municipal government has finally decided to settle a lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society to draw attention to homeless families. The lawsuit...
Article , Family, Homelessness, Housing, News, United States
July 22, 2008
The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned an earlier decision which found the Safe Third Country Agreement violated international and Canadian law. Under the Safe Third Country Agreement persons...
Article , Immigrants and Refugees, News, All of Canada, United States
July 13, 2008
Picture the Homeless, a New York based activist organization, are fighting a campaign to demand that the transit authority make a bus that travels to a homeless shelter on Ward's Island, free for...
Article , Homelessness, News, United States
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