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Salt of the Earth: your online resource for social justice
Added 5 April,2001
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Salt of the Earth links
Added 5 April,2001
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Santa Barbara Christian Rescue & Recovery Mission
Added 5 July,2001
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SEARCH Home Page
Houston, TX, alternative to homelessness, providing tools to rebuild lives with dignity. Includes health care, education, job training and housing services.
Added 28.November.2000
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Search Newsfinder - 7 days of AP
Added 21.June.2000
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SF 106: Outlawing Homelessness
Article by Kristen Brown:"In the past decade, cities have increasingly moved toward enacting and enforcing laws that specifically criminalize homelessness in response to their concern about the use of public space. Cities enact and enforce these criminal laws as “quick-fix” solutions to remove homeless people from sight, rather than addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. This criminalization trend has been documented in reports by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty since 1991....."
Added 3.October.2000
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SDI Web Site
Shackdwellers' International "The SDI network is not a supra-national NGO or development agency. It is a voluntary association of like-minded people’s organisations committed to a shared process of grassroots organisation, problem solving, and solution sharing. An SDI Secretariat helps to co-ordinate these activities, but the primary focus of the network’s activities is emphatically local."
Added 7.February.2001
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The SHARE/WHEEL Tent City Project
"Since our beginning, SHARE has spoken for the need for safe, clean places for people to sleep outdoors. Shelter space in Seattle has been consistently running behind the need, so we know that there will be people sleeping outside. People who camp together can give each other safety and support."
Revised 11.October.2001
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Shelter Net
Added 3.September.2000
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Shelters of EHC
"EHC is Silicon Valley's response to homelessness" Added 3.October.2000 |
The Simon Community of Ireland Home Page
"The Simon Community is a caring and campaigning movement that has been working with homeless people in Ireland since 1969. Today there are Simon Communities in Cork, Dublin, Dundalk and Galway and each is autonomous. Together they form a national federation called The Simon Community of Ireland." Added 27.November.2000 |
SMART Homepage
Santa Monicans Allied for Responsible Tourism.
"SMART is a coalition of progressive organizations, workers, business people, elected officials and clergy who have united to address the injustice of poverty-level jobs. We are committed to living wages and benefits that allow working families to sustain themselves in dignity and health.
We believe in the right of working people in the Santa Monica tourism industry to organize themselves freely into unions that support their rights to better wages, benefits and working conditions."
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Social Justice Web Zine
An e-Zine dedicated to social causes. Added 6.December.2000
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The South African Homeless People's Federation
"The South African Homeless People's Federation is a nation-wide poor people's movement of nearly 100 000 households from more than 1 200 savings collectives in over 1 000 homeless communities. Its membership is 85% female. The average household income of Federation members is under R700 per month. The Federation's primary goal is to develop its members' capacity to conceive, control, and implement their own poverty alleviation strategies via the development of their own communities. It is politically non-aligned."
7.February.2001
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South End Technology Center @ Tent City
Added 9.August.2000
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St. Francis House
Boston, Massachusetts shelter programs
Added 4.September.2000
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St.Petroc I.T.Training Scheme- SPITTS
A fantastically inspirational website and a great place to visit. Please check this out, along with its links section below this. Added 6.June.2000 |
SPITTS' Links
(UK) Added 6.June.2000
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StandUp For Kids
Added October 10,2002
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Standing Committee on Election Law
American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty Added 27.November.2000
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STREET Helpline
"Are you concerned about people living on the street? Do you know of people looking for shelter? We can help ... call us now!" (Toronto, Canada)
Added 16.November.2000
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Streetnews
"Our mission is to provide jobs and prevent homelessness. Our idea has led to the housing of former street people and spawned a myriad of imitators worldwide. Street News is the world's oldest active motivational homeless newspaper with 56 pages. Street News is the Soul, Spirit 'n Voice of the streets." - (NYC)
Added 19.April.2001
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Street News Home Page
- (NYC)
Added 19.April.2001
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Tecschange- Technology for Social Change
Added 4.September.2000
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Tecschange- International Projects
Added 4.September.2000
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Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
"The Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (TARC) is committed to serving the frequently forgotten, often homeless residents of the Tenderloin with respect, compassion and resources for a better life since 1990.
TARC works with individuals in one of San Francisco's most economically disadvantaged and drug-ravaged neighborhoods. More than 600 people with HIV depend on TARC's HIV Services Program for case management, up-to-date HIV treatment information, peer support with daily life tasks and access to on-site primary medical care, psychiatric care, and nursing services...." Added 9.November.2000
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Texas Homeless Network
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Theology Library Homelessness
Added 3.October.2000
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To fight poverty....what MUST I do?
Added 3.October.2000
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Under The Bridge
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Union Rescue Mission-Largest Homelessness Shelter in Los Angeles
Added 3.October.2000
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
Added 9.August.2000
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The Urban Institute: A Nonpartisan Economic and Social Policy Research Organization
Added 3.October.2000
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The Urban Institute: Press Release
"Millions Still Face Homelessness in a Booming Economy
-New Estimates Reveal a Large and Changing Homeless
Population Served by Growing Diverse Network"
Added 3.October.2000
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USA Today (Magazine):Helping People Off the Streets: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness
Author/s: Robert V. Hess
Issue: Jan, 2000
"Policies must be put in place to guarantee a living wage--the minimum income needed for an individual or family to meet basic needs: housing, food, health care, transportation, and clothing."
25.October.2000
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UW Homeless Project
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Added 27.November.2000
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Veterans Assistance Foundation
Added 5.July.2001
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Virginia Homeless Service Organizations
Added 6.November.2000
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We Are Homeless
Harmony's Yahoo Groups (formerly eGroups) discussion list (for those who are, or who have been, homeless). Added 26.July.2000
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WebReleaf.com
Plant-A-Tree Added 17.June.2000
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Welcome to the ACLU of Southern California
This American Civil Liberties Union link has a new Free Speech Resource Center on its site. Added 22.August.2000
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Welcome to the Adopt-A-Native Elder Program
"The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program exists to create a bridge of hope between Native Americans and other cultures. It allows us to reach out to one another, share our gifts, and mend the broken circle of our relationship with the Land and the Native Americans who hold it in sacred trust."
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Web Site Run and Maintained By Homeless People To Bring Awareness To The Homeless
Added 28.November.2000
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Weeping Willow's Home
"I am a member of the Monacan Indian Nation. Our tribe is from Bear Mountain in Amherst, VA."
Added 28.December.2000
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The Wild Rockies Slate
Added 17.June.2000 |
With Every Step We Create a Path All Our Own
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WorldTechCorps
"The World Computer Exchange: Bridge the Digital Divide...
For Our Kids, For Our Future" Added 15.October.2000
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WYOMING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
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Yahoo Clubs-Homelessness listings page
At least 23 different groups based on the topic of homelessness. Added 14.December.2000
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