Homelessness

Homelessness – a Huge Failure of Capitalism

August 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Poverty, The War at Home

by Jim McMahon, published on Workers World, August 13, 2025 Seattle — Homelessness is being produced every day by the U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza. As Palestinians’ homes are reduced to rubble, the crimes of capitalism become more obvious to all. Wars and economic interventions of U.S. imperialism have caused the havoc of homelessness and migration across the[…]

Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing

September 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Civil Resistance, Economic Collapse, Human Rights, Poverty, The War at Home

TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]

Biden’s Real Challenge is Not Russia or China, but Poverty in America

February 24, 2022 UNAC Editor Russia, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Budget

by Ramzy Baroud, published on CounterCurrents, February 22, 2022 Mainstream US media continues to celebrate the supposed strength of the US economy. Almost daily, headlines speak of hopeful numbers, sustainable growth, positive trends and constant gains. The reality on the ground, however, tells of something entirely different, which raises the questions: Are Americans being lied to? And for what purpose?[…]

Oakland Moms 4 Housing Win, Reclaiming King’s Radical Legacy

February 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Poverty

By Judy Greenspan posted on Workers World, January 30, 2020 January 20 was not only the day to honor the radical legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was also a day to acknowledge a victory for a group of Oakland mothers (#MomsHouse), who had been brutally evicted Jan. 14 from a house they “repossessed” in November.[…]

Solidarity With Moms for Housing

January 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Poverty, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2020 Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized from unscrupulous speculators.[…]