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submitted 3 months ago by cricbuzz@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

Want to learn more about what has worked elsewhere in helping to organize for this community. There are so many non-profits/NGO's devoted to assisting our unhoused neighbors but so many of them seem largely uneffective/toothless (for many reasons).

Looking to see if there are any good reads out there about lifting up this community. thanks!

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[-] roux@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is called Grace Can Lead Us Home by Kevin Nye. It's grounded in Left Christian theology though. It basically focuses on housing-first initiatives and how they actually work. I'd like to find more secular texts to add to my list so I'm gonna come back to this later and see if others have suggested anything.

Tangential but I saw this posted in the anarchy comm yesterday: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-teapot-mobile-kitchen-the-anarchist-teapot-mobile-kitchen-s-guide-to-feeding-the-mass#toc32

Could be relevant too.

[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

hey thanks a lot

[-] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Do some searching on the organizations DULF (Drug Users Liberation Front) and VANDU both on the downtown East side in Vancouver BC. They've been involved in things like mass resisting camp sweeps and fighting legal battles to get addicts access to safe injection sites and safer supply, and many other things. VANDU was a key player in organizing the unhoused community to protest and resist displacement of the whole neighborhood ahead of the winter Olympics. It was a huge thing.

There's a podcast called Crackdown you may find interesting as well. Garth who hosts has been in VANDU a long time and does incredibly good work.

[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

incredible. thanks comrade

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't have much in terms of literature, but this post reminded me of the time the IWW helped organize a "panhandlers union" in Ottawa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Panhandlers%27_Union

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