Tiny, Author at 48 hills

Housing

Homeless sweeps come back to the Tenderloin

June 22, 2020

“They came by and took our tents, said we had to go and not come back or we would be arrested -- you know a...

Housing

Stop calling the police on us

June 8, 2020

Stop Calling Stop Stalling Stop Talking while more Black Sons are fallen No I mean Stop enabling and Colonizing a system that kills more than it does anything else with...

Housing

Safe sleeping spaces — or cages?

May 20, 2020

C.A.R.E. For the homeless On some street In Saint Pete Looks like A cage For people.... -- excerpt of the poem People Cages by Dee Allen /Po Poet “It feels like we...

COVID

Will COVID kill capitalism?

April 20, 2020

“I have a Case of Toilet Paper, I’ll bring it over tomorrow,” said Reena, a now-unemployed accountant from Alameda. “I have a box of organic...

News + Politics

The virus of poverty

March 22, 2020

I was born into a deadly Virus No it wasn’t in the time of MERS, Ebola or Osiris - It was a disease that kills- that...

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...

Tiny

Homeless sweeps come back to the Tenderloin

Stop calling the police on us

Safe sleeping spaces — or cages?

Will COVID kill capitalism?

The virus of poverty

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

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