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Sabby Sabs
Streamed on July 1, 2024
An in-depth examination of the rapidly exploding problem of homelessness in the US, a disturbing sign of its social, economic, and political disintegration, and the fact that the state, more than ever in the hands of the super rich, from the Supreme Court to municipal and state governments, is making homelessness a crime, and triggering divisions in the working class, instead of seeking perfectly viable solutions to this iconic problem of capitalist societies. Homelessness has clear causes, notes Sabby, ridiculously low incomes for many workers, for example, and the solution is in building more shelters and adequate housing for the working class, as well as health support systems, not unleashing more police harassment and jail on such people. Many of the homeless are now elderly people, says Sabby, as well as minors. If Finland and other more enlightened nations have found solutions to this problem, and even Mississippi has implemented the free and affordable housing approach, why can't the rest of the United States? Now that the "Trump court", packed with right-wingers and reactionaries, has certified that cities have the right to treat homelessness as a crime, the problem has reached a new level of callousness in terms of existing policies.
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Sabby SabsStreamed on July 1, 2024
An in-depth examination of the rapidly exploding problem of homelessness in the US, a disturbing sign of its social, economic, and political disintegration, and the fact that the state, more than ever in the hands of the super rich, from the Supreme Court to municipal and state governments, is making homelessness a crime, and triggering divisions in the working class, instead of seeking perfectly viable solutions to this iconic problem of capitalist societies. Homelessness has clear causes, notes Sabby, ridiculously low incomes for many workers, for example, and the solution is in building more shelters and adequate housing for the working class, as well as health support systems, not unleashing more police harassment and jail on such people. Many of the homeless are now elderly people, says Sabby, as well as minors. If Finland and other more enlightened nations have found solutions to this problem, and even Mississippi has implemented the free and affordable housing approach, why can't the rest of the United States? Now that the "Trump court", packed with right-wingers and reactionaries, has certified that cities have the right to treat homelessness as a crime, the problem has reached a new level of callousness in terms of existing policies.
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- The way US officials keep falsely asserting that Israel has accepted a peace deal and Hamas is the only party rejecting it reminds me of that time they kept insisting that the real president of Venezuela was some random guy—Juan Guaido—they chose for the position.
- They’re just trying to impose a narrative which has no factual basis whatsoever by rote repetition and sheer media power.—Caitlin Johnstone.
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