BOB DYLAN - LIKE A ROLLING STONE

DO YOU WASH IN A GAS STATION BATHROOM?

Life on the street often makes it difficult for us to wash, keep clean, look clean, even if we want to smell sweet and look groomed.

taken down due to age and also repeats April 2016 BURBANK TEMPORARY AID FOR THE POOR and THE HOMELESS

BURBANK TEMPORARY AID (YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE HOMELESS TO BE SERVED)
1304 West Burbank Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91506
UPDATED JAN 2015  NEW LINK http://www.burbanktemporaryaidcenter.org/


PLEASE ASK IF IN 2015 THEY ARE STILL PROVIDING THE FOLLOWING FROM THE LIST IN 2011.

BTAC provides clients a variety of programs and services including:

Groceries from BTAC’s Food Pantry.
Daily sack lunches for the homeless.
Monthly Senior Food Distribution program.
Assistance with utility bills.
Transportation assistance.
ID/License replacement program.
Limited medical assistance.
Limited emergency shelter, via a voucher program with cooperating businesses in the area.
Shower facilities for the homeless.
Laundry facilities for the homeless and other clients.

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BODY BAGS AND CREMATION RICE BALLS AND NOODLES TO STAVE OFF HUNGER : TSUNAMI

We're posting a link here to the Yahoo News which is covering the situation in Japan. This link has some horrible pictures and horrible news; 2000 bodies washed ashore, Japan short on body bags and coffins, 430,000 at emergency shelters (including those who had to leave due to possible radioactive contamination), 24,000 "Stranded."

TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED JAPAN : THOUSANDS MORE IN THE WORLD BECOME HOMELESS

It's easy to say "it was an act of god," and pity these people who have lost everything and are tired, scared, hungry, thirsty, injured, dying.

Yet let us remember that on an INDIVIDUAL BASIS, many of us have also been devastated. And there is little pity for us.

And while the UNITED STATES rallies for Haiti, and for New Zealand, and for Japan, offering disaster relief around the world. We still have our NEW ORLEANS.

AND WE STILL HAVE AT LEAST ONE MILLION AMERICANS HOMELESS. MILLIONS MORE HANGING ON BARELY.

WE WANT TO WISH A HOMELESS MAN WHO SLEEPS IN AN LOS ANGELES COUNTY PARK AND WHO IS TAKING CLASSES AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE BEST!

A friend has decided to go ahead and enroll at the Community College while still sleeping in a sleeping bag in a LA County Park. Our friend has been homeless after a Fortune 500 career and a car accident for about three years. He has yet to succumb to the drugs or alcohol that most of the others in the park are using. He is not eligible for any program because he is not mentally ill or addicted. We hope and pray he will succeed, and have a positive response to FINANCIAL AID concerns and be able to establish a new career!

GOOD LUCK BUDDY! UPDATE : Our friend has aced his midterms!

WASHINGTON D.C. HOMELESS IN THE SNOW

SMALL YELLOW BUTTERFLIES

KRISTEN PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION

Yes, Portland Rescue Mission is a Christian religious place. Religion is for some. For others it is not. Some of us think religion should be no part of shelters. Others say this is the way. Many homeless do have drug or alcohol problems, but others do not. Overall our health is poor. Good health (and that means no abusing drugs or alcohol) is important to being able to make and keep a plan of action.

Remember that our postings don't necessarily mean we endorse a poster of a video or the opinions expressed in one.

DO YOU SELL YOUR EBT (FOOD STAMPS) FOR CASH?

UPDATE JAN 2015 -  WE WILL BE POSTING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT VERY SOON...  HOW IT'S DONE (YOU ALREADY KNOW WHY!)

(THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION TO BUY FOOD STAMPS!)

Are you one of the many Homeless who manage to get enough to eat without using all your EBT (food stamp) allotment and can use more cash?

Do you sell your food stamps?

How much do you sell $50 worth for?

Who buys from you?

UPDATE : This is one of are most popular posts, though so far no one has answered any questions or left any comments (EXCEPT COMMENT SPAM WITH PEOPLE ASKING WHERE TO SELL THEIR STAMPS OR OFFERING US THEIR STAMPS FOR PURCHASE). You can do so without having a gmail or other social networking account using the anonymous option on COMMENTS below the post. Also, we read the paperwork you do every three months with the EBT/SNAP people and it's not considered legal to sell the stamps. We can't tell you to do anything illegal. We just know that a lot of homeless are saying they do exchange EBT/SNAP for cash. Sometimes this money is used for drugs or beer, sometimes for vitamins, sanitary supplies, over the counter medicines, and other small but necessary items.

WITH RESPECT TO RAMONA RIPSTON OF THE ACLU SUPER HOMELESS ACTIVIST WE'LL MISS YOU

Longtime ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston Announces Retirement
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston, for decades one of the region’s most respected and outspoken voices on civil rights and civil liberties issues ranging from education and police reform to privacy, freedom of speech, and the rights of immigrants and homeless people, announced today that she will step down from the post she has held for 38 years.

Ramona is in her 80's.

"She was the first woman to assume a leadership role in the organization during a time of enormous change in the country. Some of her many accomplishments include ending segregationist policies at the Los Angeles Unified School District, spurring meaningful reform at the notoriously hard-headed LAPD, fighting successfully for voting rights for Latinos, and providing leadership in battles for equal rights for the disabled, immigrants, gays and lesbians, and the homeless."

A THOUGHTFUL COMMENT LEFT RECENTLY ON AN OLDER POST

Having been homeless I can see both your side and Martha's. I've read her book Steering by Starlight and am familiar with that passage as well. What Martha, a privileged, silver spoon in her mouth, broke but never impoverished mother doesn't understand is the utter misery of homelessness. It's a common stance of those who have never been there. Pity her. She's ignorant. Contrary to what she believes, people can't truly "imagine" what it is to be in someone else's shoes because each of us is different. I lived in a van and can't say I know what it is like to life for months on the street. I can come closer than Martha, but it's not the same as those who have actually done it. Not having experienced life in a gutter doesn't mean I don't know what it is like to be homeless. I know my experience. She knows hers, your know yours. That said, I do believe she is right on one thing - if we want something badly enough we will find a way - legal or illegal, to get it. Her challenge is, I See more... think, to ask ourselves what it is we want and want so badly that we'll focus all our resources to get it. The homeless are already in such pain and so deprived that the climb out is longer and harder and it doesn't seem or feel fair. We want a hand up, but are not likely to get it. There is anger that someone who is rich, sitting pretty and full of glib advice seems to be sitting in judgment on us. What does or could she know? She knows shit. But she is right. As much as we hate it, as unfair as it is, ultimately WE are the only ones (unjust and unfair as it is) who will pull ourselves out of our situation.

By Becky Blanton on MARTHA BECK MAKES HOMELESS SCREAM ! on 2/26/11

SEEN RECENTLY - TWO OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHILDREN DONATING MONEY TO LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING

The rumors are strong that recently two (of deceased pop star) Michael Jackson's children made a personal visit to the big non profit LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING to donate money to the shelter.

This is an opportunity for residents past and present to comment on their lives at the shelter, which operates a family side and a single side. You can leave a comment without signing your name. Please be truthful.

BUTTERFLIES REAL OR IMAGINED?