I don’t even know what to do with myself, reading this. It’s so fucking nightmarish. Why do we allow this hell to continue? That man should have been in a warm, safe bed. And he could have been if we didn’t hate our own people so much.
Stoping this hell requires people to get off the Internet and possibly put themselves in harms way, or risk their livelihoods. Until people want a better life for their fellow man more than they want comfort for themselves, nothing will change.
Personally, I just don’t see that happening in America.
Historically, the city sends social workers and outreach teams to encampments over a period of months before issuing a final order to evacuate. Those teams work to place people in shelters and, ultimately, permanently housing.
The city had been working with people at the encampment since April and had placed many into shelters, said Cathryn Vassell, CEO of the city’s homelessness organization Partners for Home. Atlanta announced an investment of $60m in new public funding – the largest amount in city history – to address homelessness last year.
I agree, but, I don’t think you read the whole article? They were helping them move to shelters, and had relocated many. The social workers were familiar with the man who was killed, and we can probably assume they didn’t know he was there when the bulldozers came through.
I don’t even know what to do with myself, reading this. It’s so fucking nightmarish. Why do we allow this hell to continue? That man should have been in a warm, safe bed. And he could have been if we didn’t hate our own people so much.
Stoping this hell requires people to get off the Internet and possibly put themselves in harms way, or risk their livelihoods. Until people want a better life for their fellow man more than they want comfort for themselves, nothing will change.
Personally, I just don’t see that happening in America.
They had been trying to get them to shelter
I agree, but, I don’t think you read the whole article? They were helping them move to shelters, and had relocated many. The social workers were familiar with the man who was killed, and we can probably assume they didn’t know he was there when the bulldozers came through.