Voices of the Unhoused: Poor People's Army Sets Up Encampment Near RNC to Protest GOP Policies
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
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In Milwaukee, Democracy Now! speaks with members of an unhoused encampment that's been set up just minutes from the site of the Republican National Convention to protest policies that have exacerbated poverty and a housing crisis nationwide. The encampment is organized by the Poor People's Army, which is also set to host a protest rally and march on the first day of the convention. Cheri Honkala, the national spokesperson for the Poor People's Army, also joins us in Milwaukee. "People are not surviving poverty in this country," Honkala says of the motivation behind the march, in which hundreds of protesters, many of whom are themselves struggling with homelessness, are expected to join.
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And poor kids are also being abused by people of different classes
If the internet is anything to go by, your average westerner seems to be more concerned about people liking anime girls than about what you speak of. It is really unfortunate, as the list of weaIthy people who've been involved in such things is very long, and they remain in their positions in society.
Namely NIMBYS from the upper middle Classes . Welcome to the Land of Class Consciousness .
Thank you to all involved in Poor Peoples Army!
Peace to this wicked world.
Agreed
dont blame the world. the world is fine. the corporations are to blame ❤
@@cheolacarnitas2682For the most part, I'd say it's all capitaIists, including poIiticians, not just corporates. But unfortunately, humans are rather guIIibIe. They'll choose to support them because they believe whatever they say. And others who don't believe such people support them purely for monetry gain.
This doesn't in in peace bro
I can't believe this is the first time I've ever heard of this group. The lady that has been going for 30 years broke my heart.
Poverty exists not because we don’t have enough to feed the poor but because we don’t have enough to satisfy the rich.
Homelessness in America was up 12% in 2023 while Airbnb vacation rental listings were up 18%. They are connected! Duh!
What have rich Democrats like the Obamas ever done for the poor black folks who live in Chicago?
The rich 1 percent own 98 percent of the wealth
@@patrickday4206 Rich Dems should share the enormous wealth with the poor folks who live in this country.
@@Seekthetruth3000 maybe we should want fair and honest laws that don't favor the rich and powerful but you make it about politics because it is the easiest way to distract the stupid masses by dividing them up
@HandleThis-o8f Get a different job...etc.
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Hear! Hear!
Poverty is hell
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It's also a choice.
@ChrisHarding-lk3jj Spoken like a true American. So far from the truth. You need to broaden your perspective.
@@ChrisHarding-lk3jjthe only choice for the majority*
And no, "then leave" isnt an answer
@@TD1237 My parents were poor and I grew up poor and at a young age I was determined to have wealth and have the ability to buy the things I wanted in life. I started and built one successful business after another with no help from anyone and as time went on I realized just how easy it is to generate wealth.
We gotta stop miltary industrial complex
So glad for the Poor People's Army, speaking this truth and making it visible. The abandonment of poor and working poor people, and the thousands of people who are unhoused in our country is shameful and the Democrats are equally neglectful.
Nah its the dems forcing people to be homeless
This is so true. People so easily slip through the cracks. It takes luck to really prosper, not just hard work.
Poor People's Army!❤️❤️❤️💪💪💪
FINALLY. A story that MATTERS
@@cutback443 Without any of the poor people in Milwaukee in the story 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 When they are literally 10 blocks away from downtown
Greetings from Berlin/Germany 🎉thank God, we have a functionating social welfare system here in Germany and I would advice America to install one, too !!
For example I get 1230 EUR every month from the social welfare as a disabled person, so I can pay my rent, food, nearly everything.
Poverty and homelessness anyway are high in Germany but the state helps you to get a hotel room for example and pays for it.
I am very glad and thankful to be born in Germany, love my country, and wish the great America to be up to date with social Infrastructure.
To have a SOCIAL CAPITALISM, as we have.
Greetings from Berlin 😊
It reminds me when Reagan was governor of California, closed down the mental health hospitals, dumped them out on the streets, saved a lot of money, and kept them shut with the mental health-challenged people on the streets homeless and with no meds.
Reminds me of Carter destroying the economy and making a lot of hard working people homeless due to the fake oil shortage. Jimmy made his big oil buddies even richer
I too believe that we should be spending more money on the poor and less money on war. We should also be investing more money in our children's education. US children's test results are not as high as could be expected. 😢 I think that If we spent more money on public education then we would have fewer homeless people.
Well, I got bad news for you, the republicans want to get rid of the department of education.
Homelessness in America is almost entirely the result low wages and expensive housing . Since the minimum wage was created, and up until the early 1980s it was regularly increased, so that someone earning minimum wage could always afford a 1br apartment almost anywhere in the US, except the most expensive areas, like Beverly Hills type areas.
Today, in 98% of zip codes, no housing is affordable on minimum wage.
Most homeless people have jobs, but they just can't afford housing. At the same time, there are 33 empty homes per homeless person in America. In some states, TX and FL, there's 70 empty homes per homeless person, and in Miss. there's over 250; empty homes per homeless person.
Peace ✌️
The Mental Health issue is not really a Presidential created issue. The States defunded the mental institute in Oregon, for one. Why did they do that? The Governors seem to be the main cause for this issue . . . not the President. There needs to be a thorough audit of every States government, to include the Cities!!!
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Amen
THIS is Real Ppl Work! You Really Can't know Until you've Been there, & How Impossible it is to get out. Especially if anyone in the fam/you have health issues. THANK YOU FOR BRAVELY SPEAKING OUT AGAINST OVERALL POVERTY & THEFT OF THE POOR BY THE RICH💙👍🏼
Infinite Blessings to the poor people's army. As someone who has been homeless too many times, may your work continue until victory. Your strength is amazing and inspiring. Thank you.
And you were homeless due to your personal choices.
excellent interview . Thanks Democracy Now for highlighting these peoples plight .
Luckily, my spouse and I were able to pay off our mortgage early. We took the money we were spending to accelerate our mortgage repayment and invested it right away while we were both still working. We were able to retire early after accumulating what would have been our home payment for over 7 years and maxing out our 401K/403B plans. Thankfully, both of our parents taught in us the importance of living within our means.
Investing without proper guidance can lead to mistakes and losses. I know this since I've been there myself. Seeking guidance from a professional is preferable if you're new to investing or don't have much time.
Investors can have different investing results even with the best strategy and suitable assets. Understanding how experience plays a critical part in successful investing is key. Since I was aware of this, I consulted a market analyst for advice, which helped me build my account to about a million dollars. Having strategically cashed out just prior to the market correction, I'm now taking advantage of buying opportunities once more.
How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances
Leah Foster Alderman is the licensed expert I use. Just look up the name online.
She seems to be literate and well educated. Thank you for sharing, I found her webpage when I searched for her online.
I'm not American, but I don't understand why so many people are living in tents. Americans pay more tax than the working class in my country, but our tax money is used to house people who are homeless. Only a few choose not to accept the government's help.
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Powerful men are bad men".(people)
- first Baron Acton
The last sentence of this powerful quote is typically left out because of it's absolute truth.
The more power a person gains, the more they are free to indulge themselves in their own whims, their own prejudices...justifications in their own minds are sufficient justifications for anything. They lose sight of the rights of others, secure in their own conclusions.
Powerful people can't help but become bad people, unknowingly.
They simply cannot see the harm that they do, obsessed with their own desires.
-weezi-🙏💖🙏💜🌄
WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE CREATED...EQUAL??? NOT SO IN THIS SUPPOSEDLY RICH NATION! THIS IS A WAR!!!
Support, Poor People's Army, Please.
poverty is not crime. poverty is part of the life in earth, we do not look for disease, earthquake,, volcano, flood, hurricanes or tsunamis to happen, the same way the poverty can happen even we took our precaution to avoid it. this is why a part of the money of tax is a RIGHT for poor is not a CHARITY...
It is not possible to participate in democracy without getting a PhD in politics and human drama.
Respectfully disagree.
Amy, when are you going to interview Jill Stein? What’s your problem with her, you’ve interviewed others, why not Jill?
Insane levels of auto-mod deletions going on here even with financial supporters making totally innocuous comments that violate no rules.
izzytube is also far right retropublican, so no criticism of them is allowed. Three of my congratulatory comments about the encampment and participants have been removed.
@@ArleeStarr There doesn't even seem to be any rhyme nor reason for what is going on with immediate deletions. At least it isn't shadow-banning... that is SO obnoxious and cowardly.
@@nsbd90now It could be far right tRumpers reporting comments as misinformation. One of my replies was shadaow banned. I don't know. Another comment that was here from the beginning, and I replied to three times (mine were removed) is now gone. This is, after all, izzytube. The tube is google and google is in business with izzy.
2 more of my replies to you have been removed. Truth was in both. It's the same as always; no truthful comments allowed.
@@ArleeStarr The auto-mod deletion of comments has always been bad, but has been extreme the past couple of days.
They are wasting their time with trump and biden. They should be putting all their effort into electing somebody thet will actually help them.
So who’s stepping up to do that?
@@cindyabraham5503There are a number of promising people imo. Not an American, but from what I've seen, Cornel West, Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders are good people.
@@TD1237 We wanted Bernie Sanders when Hillary ran but they wouldn’t allow that. Bernie would have been great but I’m not sure he’s forceful enough. I don’t know enough about Jill Stein to really form an opinion but Cornell West seems to be a little too out there for most Americans. Besides Joe Biden did a fine job in his first four years it’s just that he is fighting against a very strong cult figure in Trump. Trump is horrible but he’s got the charisma to get the people to follow him and that’s a pretty strong hard thing to fight against but I think he’s done pretty well considering what he’s up against. He’s brought this country back from Covid which was quite a struggle considering what Trump left us. Most economist will agree that Biden has done an outstanding job with what he’s had to work with and it’s just that the propaganda from the right it’s just so hard to fight against that it really nobody really realizes it other than us Democrats. I don’t care about Biden‘s age we all age but it’s his heart and his will and his tenacity to do something for this country and he really that he really cares about rather than tearing it down like Donald Trump wants to do it when we’re having no part of that the Democrats that is.
@@TD1237 Cornell west has skipped out on Child support Jill stein needs to beg for a ceasefire in Palestine and bernie has NEVER worked a day in his life
Its a wild world. We require the poor to have money to live then actively make it harder to live with artifical barriers. Not even nature is that cruel. We some how saw natural selection and was like hold my beer.
Thank you! My hopes as I strive to open people's eyes has been lifted!
I'm praying for y'all
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Both parties are war mongering
Thank you DN for all you do to cover the stories that truly matter!
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The foundation of human life, therefore, is loving kindness and compassionate understanding.
As we age we are taught otherwise by damaged people. 💔
Their misdirection is rarely intentional. They are simply sick due to their own early learning experiences/trauma.
Once this is understood, we can seek help to dismantle the wrong thinking that we were taught and insert, through daily practice, right thinking, and thereby right actions.
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You may, of course, learn from someone else, but please do...learn that is.
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Omar, do you love living in the USA? I used to love it.
IS ALBOUT GREED IN THE WORLD, VERY SAD THAT LEADS TO PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, PERIOD!!!! 😮
aye. This person gets it
And a certain country that you so blindly support has enough money to build new settlements!
Ha, ha, ha. I just looked at your page. That roll of paper is what I had joked about to the zio-trolls when they post the disgusting flag over and over. Well done. That is on par with another commentator who had a blue swastika on that flag as his profile picture.. He is gone . izzytube probably banned him for truthfulness.
Nice roll on your page 👍🍉
I mean the tp hahahaha. edit: This was a test to check if the overzealous izzybots would remove it.
@@ArleeStarr oh I'm so happy you like it!😀 Did you know you can get it online? 🤣Personally I wouldn't disgrace even my back with it!
@@ArleeStarr the blue swa...ka. Yes! That was a real beauty!😂
She has seven kids... She should have thought about how she would support the BEFORE just keep having them!!! That is something she COULD CONTROL. Not our problem. I had two children so they could live a good life because we didn't want to scrape by. She has SEVEN and wants everyone to pay for them.
I posted a "note" to Biden, telling him he wasn't addressing the People whom are HOMELESS. Needless, to say he won't listen to me anymore ! People DO TURN AWAY FROM THE TRUTH OF THE BLIGHT OF THE VOICELESS!!! ALL POLITICIANS DON'T ASK DON'T TELL. TRUTH MUST COME OUT AND FIND SOLUTIONS TO THE SITUATIONS FOR ALL PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE RICH!!!
What does Biden have to do with it?
I can’t go on like this anymore 😭😭😭😭
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ENGLAND MADE THE CHOICE 300 YEARS AGO, DOMESTIC WELEFARE O R EMPIRE. THEY CHOSE EMPIRE.
TODAY THE US IS MAKING THE SAME CHOICE, DOMESTIC WELLFARE OR EMPIRE? SO FAR, EMPIRE IS WINING!
DN needs to interview third party candidates/ they used to? What happened?
Cable news suppresses them, making it impossible for them to win
Sad how the Republicans "care" so much about the unborn but not one bit about the countless orphaned and missing children.
Got money for war but can't feed the poor... 2Pac Shakur
Is their a way to donate for their cause?
That's not fair that sign said welcome to Trump's America this is Biden's America
I wish them all the luck - I've been a bum my whole life and just now herd of them - granted I'm a hermit type bum and learned a long time ago stay away from cities and towns - for me their is a lot of rocky mountains just got to make the best of it - my ancestors did
How did you get food?
@@nutmegriot209 dont get me wrong I had underthetable jobs mostly dishwasher jobs or store stocking so the trick is work with food you'll never starve and i dumsterdived there are towns in mountains too and you be scruffy to its expected living in the mountains its just not permanent work loke with anything you have to own it if you want to make any $$ - CAPITALISM folks - we can do so much better- peace
@@anthonyvasquez486 thats smart.. and makes sense! plus most landlords price out people with hard working jobs like that. It’s relatable.
@@nutmegriot209 America needs to change at the core - give up capitalism and evolve into a world global economy something like world order BUT something we humans can all agree on and leave religion out of it - if we can do that well gosh lets look to the stars
Yall really could leave downtown and go through our ghettos for real. It's only ten blocks any direction from downtown but they got yall fenced off and protected and no offense, the ghetto probably don't want to go over there for drama with the police but Wow. I understand the message but what about the poor people who live in Milwaukee and don't watch youtube because they poor?
Just start not paying rent or mortgage
I say, you go into military you are full of it. Stop it. Don't go and fight to protect rich people wealth. When You come back, you end up with nothing and stop believe the what you can do for country BS.
You folks are way off! Everything you sre complaining about is what the Democrats is have done, not republicans. Get your heads out of the sand!
Homeless are the abandoned. Many from the recession, health care providers for their parents resulting in total loss (me). I have been on an 18 year Rollercoaster of homelessness. I understand why people give up after 3-5 years of hopes and plans. It all crashes and reality sets in.
their not poor they need to get jobs and stop sponging off of ppl
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Sleepy joe has 100 million for campaign. But the rnc is where they camped. Pathetic
No he doesn't 90 million is being with held by Democrat donors.
If you watch the video you understand that they camp out at both conventions to make their voices heard. Both parties are not listening, but should.
@@bazs2855 You cannot get truth to take hold in the minds of tRump trolls.
@@bazs2855 ok fair enough. However,my point is also that this fake news biased outlet is only reporting 1 side.
And there are priests that are $,$$$,$$$
Excellant
Run Joe run 😅
Nobody starving in this crowd
Shame on support to Trump when he left older people without water where he built his club instead of fixing it they intimidate by calling the police on them
You are seriously misinformed. Do some research.
How much are you getting paid.
Buy me a house.
But he didn't speak today
Why are they blaming him he hasn't been in office for 4yrs.
No offense, I love this yt channel, but yall couldn't find the poor people that live in Milwaukee? 😂 I'm just saying, I ain't never seen none of these people in my life 😂😂😂 Omg and we got poor people all over the city but who is those people in our city telling they grievances? Mind you the inner city is super Black. The National Guards went and arrested almost 300 people who been cutting up all year but only because the RNC came magically they could find the hitters that been loose. Omg 😭😭😭
SEVEN children? Wow
I want to buy a shirt.....
Comment for the algo!
It's Monday, shouldn't these people be at work?
Democracy of Stalin ? America is not a democracy is a republic if you don’t lije leave
I look out at the RNC and I see a lot of 40 plus White Faces , but almost no Black , Brown , Indigenous or Young Faces , this is not America , it also says a lot about the Party of the Well-to-do.
Amy why are they still saying Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem? All he did was hang a plaque on a already existing US office there!
The poor have been made homeless and working poor have moved into the slums where the poor once lived. And the middle class has been cut in half since Reagan. I became homeless twice with 2 small children under Reagan while living in AZ. Once I moved to Missouri I've never been homeless, cost of living varies from state to state.
Trump just lost picking J.D. Vance for his VP. LOL
TRUMP 2024!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Paying homeless people to protest for you is very much a liberal thing
Trump and Trumpistas say get a thrid job.
Why do you not ask rich Democrats like the Obamas for some money?
Trumpanzees.
Biden says thank you for buoying his fake employment numbers.
🩷💛🧡
Protesting the party that wants to end wars? 😂
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Homeless Nakba
"Homeless, homeless, out-of-range,
where the hobos and the dispossessed pray,
where seldom is heard an encouraging word,
and the skies are chem-cloudy all day...
"Happily-housed, Happily-housed in their homes,
where empty trailers and cabins are displayed,
where often is heard a disparaging word,
and the coffers go ca-ching ca-ching all day..."
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the above was written during one of my longer stints of homelessness,
camping in the woods and hills close to GP ("Grass Pants" to locals).
Only in recent mo's did i title it, in response to what i called the Campus Nakba,
which was in response to and in solidarity with the Palestinian Nakba...
Rise Humanity rise.
Rise up from all of the lies.
Rise up to clarity, let go of old ideology.
Humanity is one big family!
What injures you injures me.
It is time that we become free,
and trust our own guide from within and begin;
to heal Humanity as a whole,
joining each other soul to soul.
Namaste.
There wasn't this many homeless people when Trump was President.
Yes there was..
LOL.....your ignorance is astonishing....
Got any facts to back up your misinfornation?
Is it just me- or do there seem to be lots that have never heard black and white (red and blue) thinking is psychotic??? ...(not to mention the magical thinking) we all just read!
@@ArleeStarr there's Bidenvilles aka homeless camps popping up all over the place.
LMFAO ITS NOT THE RNC CAUSING WARS HAHAHAHAHAHA
It is the USA.
@@Masanumi ?!??!?!?Is the civil war in the room with us ?
Aren't they in the wrong city this has snowballed in the last 3 1/2 years go to your democrats that are responsible!!! WTH is wrong with these people????
God is in control
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These are the real Americans, you are irrelevant
Hey lady why do you have 7 children?
She's not homeless. She takes care of her seven children, and they kind enough and ethical enough as a family to come every year and support the 'Poor People's Army'. She's an activist who cares. There's no reason to attack her for having seven children.
Why is your mother your father's daughter?
Have you heard of people choosing to have kids? Have you heard of abstinence only education? Have you heard of lack of access to contraceptives? Have you no sense?
@@jerrylyns7331 those aren’t reasonable arguments. I asked a legit question. She certainly is articulate enough. So, you can’t say she’s uneducated. Are they all her biological children? Are some foster kids? If so, is she providing a safe, loving environment for those kids?
Even with all the financial/racist inequalities in our society, we are responsible for our choices. Stop with the victim mentality. I’m old enough to remember how The Black Panther Party set up education and health centers in Oakland on their own. Incidentally, their early education program became the model for Head Start. It’s easy to complain why aren’t there more programs, etc. Fact is, while there could be, currently they’re not there. So why not bring all those people encamped, and volunteer their labor at Habitat for Humanity,and build/rehab housing.
@@critterkarma cope too long didn’t read and also I know you have nothing worth saying, you probably have more opportunity than her but wanna put her down for no reason. Scram, rat
Part of tax money for POOR is a RIGHT is not a CHARITY.
Not it is not! Since when you are entitled to someone else money because you are poor?
@adammsa5303
RIDICULOUS!
@@user-ci7fz5kp8e
Exactly!
@@user-ci7fz5kp8e I see, it is ok to use your money to fund war. but No to poor.
I had a friend by the name of Shannon D., who was a Madana and Roseanne Barr fan who could have been their sisters, that got on a RUclips channel and talked about this very thing. Funny thing is, I heard she wasn't around anymore, unfortunate as that is. However, there she is, right on screen. Strange. I have a knack for faces BTW.
Crimes against humanity . . . where is that law covered in the Constitution? Are these people now saying they are going to allow international law be the law of the land?!? Not only no . . . hell no!!!
We were all poor. We did something about it.
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