CITY OF LOS ANGELES and THE MAYOR want POOR to USE BANK ACCOUNTS

Instead of expensive check cashing companies...

Seems to me there is more to this than it seems. It sounds like they want people to save money. But maybe what they really want is to trace every dollar you spend... One thing about Money Orders is that they tend to be more private... WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

click on the title above to get to the DAILY NEWS article...

Los Angeles Family Housing News Breaking.... ARE HOMELESS RESIDENTS SLAVES ?

We've heard that Los Angeles Family Housing will be making it mandatory for residents to work twice a week around the place or be kicked out. While we are all for volunteering to show your appreciation when you want to, we're learning that many of the residents have the Veteran's or a Mental Health Facility paying for their beds.

We can only say this. When people are forced to work under threat of the streets, for no pay, that is slavery. Slavery went out in the mid 19th century.

Stipends anyone? This isn't prison is it?

If any residents are reading this, please, we need more information!

Breaking YAHOO NEWS - ATLANTA AIRPORT HOMELESS REFUSE TO BUDGE !

"Clusters of homeless have long settled in terminals from Philadelphia to Chicago, ideal round-the-clock shelters for men and women displaced by cities trying to clean up their downtowns."

BRONX HOMELESS SPOKEN WORD !

Check out this site! POETRY to SUPPORT THE HOMELESS ! Spoken Wordz is helping the homeless !

CHARITY NAVIGATOR

CHARITY NAVIGATOR IS A SITE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU DECIDE WHAT CHARITIES ARE WORTH GIVING MONEY TO!

Click on the title above to get there. Let us know what charities you think do a great job and use most of the money they get for helping people...

YELLOW SWALLOWTAIL

AMMA HOSTS FEED IN SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA

Amma is a Hindu and her devotees have created a Homeless Feed in Santa Monica California. Click on the title above to learn more about Amma, the Hugging Saint.

UPDATE Nov 2015 http://amma.org/meeting-amma/north-america

BLACK AND GREY BUTTERFLY

ARTFUL SOLUTIONS: PATHWAYS FROM HOMELESSNESS at the (Pasadena California) ARMORY

The Armory Center for the Arts is located at 145 North Raymond Avenue in Old Pasadena. Isn't it a bit ironic that so many National Armorys are used as cold weather shelters for the homeless?

Here is what the official brochure for December 2008 Through December 31, 2009 says.

"The culmination of a series of art workshops for men, women, and children coordinated in partnership with the Pasadena Police Department's HOMELESS OUTREACH/PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION (HOPE) Team, the Armory, and Union Station Homeless Services. Much of the art is for sale, with all proceeds going to the artists."



Click on the title above for more information.

HERE'S AN ADVICE ARTICLE FROM A FAMILY WITH 8 CHILDREN THAT WENT HOMELESS

Called, HOW TO SURVIVE BEING HOMELESS, by By harleyangelbrat, eHOW writer. Now as you are reading about the potted meats, beans, and peanut butter, think about all that cholestrol and think about how those kids are going to be a success in school sleeping in the outdoors or in a crime ridden shelter....

MONARCH BUTTERFLY

SHELTER LOVE ? IS HOMELESS LOVE POSSIBLE?

CAN HOMELESS PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE WHILE LIVING AT OR SLEEPING IN A SHELTER AT NIGHT? WHAT ABOUT WHILE LIVING IN CARS AND VANS, TENT CITIES, OR IN THE PARK OR ON THE CITY STREET?

SO LONG AS THERE ARE HUMAN BEINGS THERE WILL BE THE WILL TO LOVE. AND LIFE IS A BIT EASIER WITH A PARTNER TO SHARE IN OUR LIVES.

SOME OF US HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS THAT DON'T CHALLENGE COMMONERS. SOME OF US DO HAVE DRUG PROBLEMS OR MENTAL ILLNESS. THESE ISSUES CAN FEEL OVERWHELMING AT TIMES THOUGH SOMETIMES THERE IS HELP. SOME OF US HAD IT TOGETHER FOR MANY YEARS BUT JUST LOST OUR HOMES.

WE MAY HAVE TO GO WITHOUT RINGS. WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD FLOWERS OR TAKING EACH OTHER OUT ON DATES TO DINNER AND THE MOVIES. BUT LOVE DOES NOT REQUIRE A LARGE POCKETBOOK, ONLY A BIG HEART!

DIDO - THANK YOU!

Dido's video of an eviction set to such hopeful music... How many of us started out in homelessness due to eviction?

NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS

NEW LINK! LOT'S TO READ from the NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS !

HANNA TURNER's SOCKS FOR THE HOMELESS - www.hannasocks.org

People Magazine is reporting in it's February 9th, 2009 issue, that Hanna Turner, an 8 year old African-American young lady from Perrysburgh, Ohio, has started a campaign to put new socks on the homeless.

CLICK ON THE TITLE ABOVE TO GET TO HER CHARITY.

In an article written by Sharon Cotliar, we learned that on Thansgiving 2004, Hannah as a 4 year old wanted to give her own socks to a homeless person. Her mom Doris bought 100 pairs of socks to help her start her give away.

Says Hannah "Their faces," she says, "look happy," when a new pair of socks changes a person's day.

HURRAY HANNAH TURNER !!!

TONY HILLERMAN quote from his memoir

From TONY HILLERMAN's SELDOM DISAPPOINTED a Memoir
C 2001 by the author
HarperCollinsPublishers

page 66-67

"The Depression had made it socially acceptable to be out on the road without bus ticket money. With the unemployment rate about 30 percent, those fortune enough to be driving certainly had friends or relatives uprooted and homeless drifting around in the hope that they'd find work over the horizon. Then came the war, further uprooting, gasoline rationing, jam-packed public transportation, and millions of men trying to get home or back to camp. Failing to pick up someone with his thumb out was antisocial. Passing up one in uniform was akin to treason. For servicemen hitchhiking became so common that a protocol was developed. if others were seeking rides on your stretch of highway you moved down the line past them. They we4re expected to suggest to the driver who picked them up that you, too, would appreciate a ride. The point to the above being that hitchhiking was easy, orthodox, sometimes exciting....."

FINCA - an IDEA FOR THE UNITED STATES

If You'll click on the title above you'll get to the site for FINCA "Small Loans Big Changes" a non profit that is truly inspirational.

NOW CAN SOME AMERICAN START A SMALL LOANS PROGRAM FOR THE HOMELESS and OTHERS IN POVERTY HERE IN THE USA! Because I was "out of business" over a $200 computer repair at one time!

TWO PASTEL BUTTERFLIES

SOMETHING IN THE AIR - THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN

ANOTHER HOMELESS BLOG TO LOOK AT - CEO OF PATH - LA

Click on the link below to check out this blog, supposed to be owned by a CEO of a Los Angeles homeless program called PATH

OASIS - WONDERWALL

NATIONAL HOMELESS UNDERGROUND - BLOG

Click on the title above to get to this blog!

Here are some blurbs from it:

"In Greater Los Angeles, the number of homeless families receiving welfare benefits from the Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) increased 20 percent to almost 7,100 from June to August (2008), according to the paper."

"Similarly, the number of indigent adults, many of whom are homeless, receiving 221 dollars monthly general relief checks, has risen from about 61,500 at the beginning of the year to just over 70,000 in August, the paper said."

FIVE BUTTERFLIES

HOMELESS IN TEXAS - LIVING IN THE WOODS

HAVE A BETTER 2009!

The other day a woman who had spent some time downtown on skidrow before she became clean and sober told me that the first thing she wants to do when she's on her feet financially again is to go out and buy tennis shoes, jeans, and shirts, and cook up some soul food, and take it back downtown to give away!

What ever little you have, if you have enough to share, please do!