Tiny, Author at 48 hills

Housing

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

January 13, 2020

UPDATE: The Sheriff's Office forcibly evicted the Moms this morning. https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/1217138736560930817 Dominique Walker issued the following statement: “We’ve heard from people all over the world who are...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

Housing

Swept to death

November 27, 2019

“We know Caltrans has two trucks, one for the stuff they think they can sell, one for the stuff they throw away,” said Rosa...

News + Politics

For unhoused people, every day is an emergency

October 31, 2019

“We can’t take all that shit with us in this one hefty bag…” “But mama, this is my favorite pair of jeans.” “I don’t give a...

News + Politics

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

September 24, 2019

Dear Marc Benioff: A few months ago you announced the launch of a $30 million study of homelessness: Benioff Homelessness and Housing initiative . As you launch...

News + Politics

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

July 30, 2019

“I am being evicted from the home I was evicted to. I don’t know where to go now. I want to come back to...

News + Politics

People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land

June 24, 2019

"I’m not sure where they are taking us, but I am praying it is safe.” Marta sat in the back of the Greyhound bus near...

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

News + Politics

Homeless, at the airport

April 22, 2019

“Get up, you have to move along…did you hear me? It’s time to move along…” The hard wood of the baton slammed against the...

News + Politics

Homeless people — in cages

March 23, 2019

Here lies the unhoused soldier Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside -- to hide on a bus bench, away from your...

Tiny

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Swept to death

For unhoused people, every day is an emergency

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Homeless, at the airport

Homeless people — in cages

News

Politics

Arts

Culture