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Phangurl Di 🖖Oct 28, 2025

Laws against #busking are wrong. It's #classist. #PovertyIsNotACrime. Singing for spare change should not be a crime.

Ms. Que Banh Jul 31, 2025

Please don't call the cops on homeless folks, who you may see/run into at some parks, if they're not bothering anyone at all & are trying to keep to themselves. I've met several different homeless folks all around this large urban park & never felt scared around them. I sometimes bring them free foods & first aid supplies.

We desperately need more social & transitional supportive housing in #VictoriaBC. All municipalities should be working on this - together. This is a shared social responsibility & it crosses every municipal border. Demonizing, dehumanizing & criminalizing homeless folks hasn't helped at all - it is also very unkind & lacking of humanity.

#HouseTheHomeless #YYJpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HousingCrisis #SocialHousing #TransitionalHousing #WarOnThePoor #PovertyIsNotACrime #ClassWar #PSA

ACT OUT TEES Apr 18, 2025

A decent provision… ~ Sameul Johnson
This design reminds us that a society’s greatness is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable.
#JusticeForAll #EndPoverty #Compassion #HumanRights #EqualityMatters #Fairness #SocialJustice #Fealon47 #POD #DignityForAll #NoOneLeftBehind #TrueCivilization #StandForJustice #UpliftOthers #EconomicEquality #PovertyIsNotACrime
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Kalvin Carefour Johnny Apr 13, 2025

It isn't fair for me to be charged a "penalty" by my college because I have fallen into worse poverty and cannot even afford a daily allowance for college or for petrol. I needed them to extend my semester, but they insisted on a penalty of RM400. I believe I must pay this when I re-enter college in July. However, I have decided not to pay it immediately, but rather to have a conversation with the staff first to discuss the matters behind the penalties that justify them being charged to me, and why I am being penalized due to my hardship (poverty) and need for a hiatus. #StudentDebt #PovertyIsNotACrime #EducationForAll #KrisisKewanganPelajar #MahasiswaMalaysia #KenaikanYuran #AcademicExploitation #FightTheFee #EducationApartheid #WaiveTheFee #StopStudentPenalties #SolidarityNotFines #CostOfLivingCrisis #YouthInDebt #BrokenEducationSystem #MalaysiaBoleh #ReformasiPendidikan #Malaysia #MSU #MSUCollege #Education #Vent #Hardships

Schnittstelle Nov 27, 2024

La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
https://verfassungsblog.de/gewerbsmaessigkeit-strafecht/
(via @jensscholz)
#Povertyisnotacrime #Klassenjustiz #GleichheitvordemGesetz

Die Gewerbsmäßigkeit als Arme-Leute-Strafrecht

Wer von der wachsenden Armut in Deutschland betroffen ist, dem droht im Falle eines Strafverfahrens eine Ungleichbehandlung. Das Regelbeispiel der Gewerbsmäßigkeit als besonders schwerer Fall einer Straftat führt dazu, dass ein zentrales Versprechen des Rechtsstaats gebrochen wird. Es gibt keine Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz, wenn Armut straferhöhend wirkt.

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Ms. Que Banh Sep 16, 2024

Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

Chris Holiday

Victoria"

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters-sept-16-facing-financial-disaster-lightstations-not-lifeboats-respect-for-the-unhoused-9525284

#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

Letters Sept. 16: Facing financial disaster; lightstations not lifeboats; respect for the unhoused

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Church of Jeff Sep 8, 2024

#Hunger #Homelessness #Unhoused #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #PovertyIsNotACrime

Toadlyturtle Sep 1, 2024

#mentalhealthawareness
#EndHomelessnessNow #MutualAid #mastodon #fediverse #boost #mentalhealth #activism #disability #UrgentHelp #urgentMutualAidRequest #PovertyKills #ableism #poverty #mentalhealthmatters #poorpeoplescampaign #povertyisnotacrime #helppeoplelive2024 #helpfolkslive2024 #helppeoplesurvive2024 #urgentfunds #CommunityCares #CollectiveCare #MutualAidRequest #ALT4me

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evilstaircasefightbirdwhatever (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Three months is a long time to catch up on bills. New ones have come in. Eri isn't safe at this place, but it's a better option than returning to a previous abyoosive situation...which is better for Eri than being on the street. They have no choice. Let's get this paid up while they figure a way out of this place. @[email protected]

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