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Year One
April marks 1 year since the City began hearing and passing their "Homeless Hate Laws," and 1 year of resisting them.While the legal challenges to the City's sharing ban trudges on, not much has been...
View ArticleMay Day! 6 Months of Resistance
May 1st, 2015 marks 6 months since the enforcement of the sharing ban began in downtown Fort Lauderdale - 6 months since countless homeless aid groups were threatened with shutdown over the city's...
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May Day Recap
Friday's 6 month anniversary of resistance to Ft Lauderdale's sharing ban merged seemlessly with the call for "May Day for Freddie Gray" in solidarity with the Baltimore Uprising. About 100 activists...
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Tree Closing is Yet Another City Hate Law
As of today, "The Tree," the informal meeting place for homeless people to get in touch with County homeless services, is off the limits. The City wants to open the land on NW 2nd in between Andrews...
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Rick Scott Slashes $2m in Homeless Assistance
Ripples of outrage have been spreading all week since the approval of the latest Florida state budget. Mixed into the piles of public services gutted from next years budget were millions allocated to...
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Florida Cities Attack Those That Help The Homeless
On Wednesday, a Tampa non-profit shelter service, "Homeless Helping Homeless Inc," was raided by Tampa police officers. The search warrant was ostensibly related to a tow company that police claim is...
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Will The US Gov't End Homeless Hate Laws?
Recently, the Federal Department of Justice announced that criminalizing homelessness is unconstitutional. While the news lacked any real teeth, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
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The Banniversary
At the end of October, Food Not Bombs will be leading a "week of action" similiar in style to what took place last year when the sharing ban finally became law.The Banniversary will celebrate 1 year of...
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Support All Saints' Soup Kitchen
For years, All Saints Catholic Mission has been resisting efforts to have its food sharing criminalized by the City of Oakland Park. Last year, the City finally voted to have All Saints shut down,...
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Homeless Fenced Off for 2016
What follows is a survey of some of the commonly used spaces by homeless people downtown. For a long time, the area in the vicinity of Fort Lauderdale City Hall and Broward Central Terminal were...
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All Saints Soup Kitchen Disrupts Oakland Park City Commission
All Saints' Soup Kitchen has been facing an escalating trend of harassment and enforcement actions against it in the year or so since the City of Oakland Park's attempts to shut it down began doing...
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New Report on Anti-Homeless Laws in Colorado
Studies on homelessness tend to focus on taking censuses and gathering statistics on things like drug addiction. However, one interesting type of analysis is the study of anti-homeless laws.In 2014,...
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No End in Sight for Prosecution of Rebel Food Sharers
In November 2014, a handful of activists and homeless advocates were infamously arrested or ticketed for sharing food with the homeless.While outrage over this issue has waned over time, at least 4 of...
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Whacky 2018 Election News
Although the 2015 Fort Lauderdale general election resulted in a landslide for incumbent City Commissioners, 2018 sees most seats, including the Mayor's, open for the first time in years. Amazingly,...
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FLPD Announces Stranahan Homeless Property Seizures
After a 2 year lull, the City of Fort Lauderdale appears to be finally be enforcing the "storage ban" it introduced in 2014 along with a slew of other anti-homeless laws. Homeless people who stay on...
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Storage Ban Resistance Recap
Response since we first broke this story Monday night has been swift. Within a couple hours, homeless advocates and supporters began bringing tubs & suitcases to Stranahan Park. By early afternoon,...
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A New Sheriff in Downtown? And Other Mysteries
Many strange things are occurring in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and at this time we don't have many answers.First off, the biggest change is that Broward Sheriff's Office seems to have taken over...
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Confusion, Fear, and Displacement
Here's an update from what's going on downtown from earlier in the week. Although BSO is indeed patrolling Broward Central Terminal, they have not taken over at the library (so far).So far, it does not...
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Homeless Board Members Suggests Major Changes to Confront Bad Policy
While police enforcement of anti-homeless criminal ordinances in Fort Lauderdale is well-known, few concern themselves with the entities who are actually in charge of homeless policy for the area. For...
View ArticleBreaking - Fort Lauderdale Misspent Half of HUD Funds for Sole Housing Project
Tucked into this week's Fort Lauderdale City Commission Agenda is CM5, "Motion to Approve Payment to Broward County in Response to Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General Audit...
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