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in his own words

Nameless and homeless: Affordable housing -- if not now, when?

Remember their names:
Eugene Upper
Erwin Anderson
Mirsalah Aldin-Kompani
and hundreds more who died
on Toronto streets since '97

- From Nameless-Homeless, an unpublished rant in progress

Here's the grim context. Today, it's widely acknowledged that the "deinstitutionalization" of psychiatric survivors has been a total failure and fraud; it was from the very start. Why? Because of government incompetence and negligence, poor urban planning, and public indifference to "discharged" psychiatric survivors and other poor, marginalized and stigmatized people in our communities.

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Poverty Olympics is no Games

A large group of supporters came out to watch the Poverty Olympics on Sunday, Feb 7. The event's aim is to ensure that increased poverty is not British Columbia's Olympic legacy.

Related rabble.ca story:

Relentlessly Progressive Economics
July 1, 2009 |
Instead of blaming financiers for the economic mess, many commentators and many members of the public-at-large are turning instead on another scapegoat: unions and their members.
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