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Supporting the vulnerable or welcoming the ‘dangerous’? Dexter grapples with housing development question

The proposed Hilltop View Apartments in Dexter has drawn varying opinions from the community.

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A senator's annual stipend for office furniture is $40,000. That's more than what half of Americans make in a year.

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No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does

Activists say a five-year rent freeze is merely a good start. Who’s up for expropriating some private property?

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TOOF & their-Workforce First initiative

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Cool-Jesus

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“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our…

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How much money is squandered on the empire dreams of imperialistically gotten worldly riches for the few and fewer? Why is it nearly all social work type positions are underpaid?  By what force is this economic system keeping us in currency cuffs? clip  |https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717104335/5-years-after-flints-crisis-began-is-the-water-safe

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‘This amazing project gives temporary homes to veterans who are looking to get back on track. Sometimes, all it takes is a period of time for people to get back on their feet, this project attempts to do just that. These TINY HOMES (FIND LINK) are designed with the veteran in mind.’ Veterans Community Project   VCA Instagram 

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Michael Reynolds literally ( by passionate , unwavering dedication ) re-purposed trash into the treasure of a home / community-design & in a way so idealistic yet pragmatic. 

MR is a glyph for one who utilizes their creative talents & acquired accuman in a passionate, unwaveringly dedicated way on the struggley path towards changing the world to work towards the self empowerment of all ..to sacrifice , for to serve the materialization of an ideal made real, by mind , by body, by spirit, to give sound to MR’s vision ‘ to hear the earth sing like a jewell’ 

In short, building an Earthship / Community  

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MLK was assassinated about 3 weeks before his poor people campaign was set to kick off .     (*CLICK THRU*)

“By the millions, people in America find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”-MLK

"When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries.  A riot is the language of the unheard.”-MLK

“ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”-MLK “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.  When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”-MLK

“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.” Martin Luther King Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘ Teachers - a meaningful thing you can do right now is ensure that your students know how truly unpopular Dr. King’s actions were at the time. Show them the poll numbers.  The hate mail.  Help them understand that radical change is not popular or polite but is no less necessary. ‘ 

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Moms 4 Housing: Meet the Oakland Mothers Facing Eviction After Two Months Occupying Vacant House

In Oakland, California, a group of mothers fighting homelessness is waging a battle against real estate speculators and demanding permanent solutions to the Bay Area housing crisis by occupying a vacant house with their children. The struggle began in November, when working mothers in West Oakland moved into 2928 Magnolia Street, a vacant house owned by real estate investment firm Wedgewood Properties. The firm tried to evict them, claiming they were illegally squatting on private property, but the mothers went to court and filed a “right to possession” claim, saying housing is a human right. Their name is Moms 4 Housing. The battle for the house came to a head last week when an Alameda County judge ruled in favor of Wedgewood Properties and ordered the mothers to vacate the house. But Moms 4 Housing has stayed to fight eviction. Monday night, hundreds of protesters gathered at the house after receiving a tip that the Sheriff’s Office was coming to evict the families — a show of support that led the sheriff to abandon the eviction attempt. We speak with Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland office for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and Dominique Walker, a member of Moms 4 Housing who has been living at the house with her family. Our interview was interrupted by news of another possible eviction attempt.

+ from this further article  (Click thru) “...Back in Oakland on Tuesday, as Democracy Now! was wrapping up at 6 a.m. Pacific time, Carroll Fife concluded: “We need to take speculation out of real estate, and we need to decommodify housing … we look forward to the fight.” Then they received a text message that the raid was underway, and rushed off to join the other mothers and their supporters on Magnolia Street. Police used a battering ram to break down the door of the house, terrifying the mothers inside before hauling them out.

Later that day, halfway across the country, six white candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination gathered in Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, for the final televised debate before the Iowa caucuses. Outside, Rev. William Barber was leading a “Moral March on the Debate.” 

Barber and his Poor People’s Campaign are demanding that the candidates participate in a nationally televised debate on poverty, including the crisis of homelessness. The movement continues Martin Luther King’s final campaign, the Poor People’s Movement ,which he was launching when he was assassinated. More than 50 years later, from Chicago to Oakland to Des Moines, the fight continues…”

This is case where; “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Edward Abbey 

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This profit over people crisis has been with us all for too long. Affordable housing now!