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If you are in the position to do so. Go buy a tent and give it to a homeless without one.
Do not give tents directly to people in Fremont, near San Francisco. Give them to the charitable organizations, or you may face fines and arrest. The Fremont City Council has decided that homeless people aren't people, don't deserve help, and it is a crime to try to help them with any camping supplies.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fremont-homeless-ban-controversy-20163355.php
I dropped my tent. No idea what happened to it. Maybe it was stolen. I won't be pressing charges.
Be sure to hang onto your bags of new socks and underwear, if you accidentally dropped those someone might get ahold of them and feel human comfort and hygiene and we wouldn't want THAT getting out into the population.
Or do it anyway while knowing the risks, and publicize any consequences you face as much as possible. Civil disobedience is highly effective.
Tents are super cheap these days. Chances are if they wanted a tent they could scrounge up enough cash in a day for one. Probably should just give them the cash.
The police keep taking their tents and ripping them up.
Not an American here, why do they do that? Do they not get some kind of backlash from people or smth?
People consider the homeless a public nuisance and ask for the police to remove them.
Basically, there are lot of areas that are technically owned by someone but not really maintained. Little patches of land near gas stations, etc. Or public places like parks or under underpasses. Slowly, you get tent cities that pop up and will be tolerated for a few months, until people start calling the police.
The police are supposed to warn people beforehand to clear out - we all know how much American cops respect procedure and humans rights of course. But after that warning is given, they’ll come through and trash everything. Identification documents, medications, personal photos - they don’t give a shit if they’re tossing out someone’s insulin. The ID being tossed can be especially devastating - if you lose all of you ID documents - how do you prove who you are to get new ones? This is a problem social workers/advocates deal with all the fucking time.
They do but THIN BLUE LINE and BLUE LIVES MATTER. Middle class people are fed a constant stream of fear, homeless people going crazy because drugs and murdering your family is a common trope. So they support the pigs when they engage in their asshole behavior.
Not an American either, but cops do the same in France.
Most of the homeless people who live in tents are immigrants. The government is full of authoritarian racists, and the cops are violent racist bastards who have order to move these people out of the sight of the good citizens. There are videos of cops tearing down tents with cutters and spraying repellent on belongings and mattresses.
Why is there so little reaction? Because most people think it's a good idea to protect the real estate market where they live. And even when people mobilize (yellow jackets, retirements, Palestine..), they get nothing but police violence.
I'm Canadian, and backlash from who? The homeless people they're brutalising?
The homeless have created their own problem through their flaw in moral character. They will be saved if they return to the fold and accept our god into their lives. Otherwise the punishment from the police will force them off the path to eternal damnation. We do it for their own good.
I know its sarcasm. But I didn't understand one bit of what you just said, mate.
That's how those in power look at it. Being homeless is a personal flaw that only the homeless are responsible for. Also helping other people in need is wrong. Says the corporations and enough people in power to make everything suck.
Probably for the better. It's a genuine sentiment in the united states. Homelessness isn't caused by circumstance. It's caused by sin. You deserve to be punished or will be cleased of your sin.
The other predominent philosophy is more capitalistic. Ignore the person entiry. I got mine, you get yours.
That's fucked up.
If you're in a cold area, most tents are just 3 seasons, so not suitable for winter. Ice fishing tents and the like are better options when it's really cold out.
Better than nothing, though.