{"id":6580,"date":"2015-03-10T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2015-03-10T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T04:49:45","slug":"americas-war-on-compassion-and-cellphone-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/americas-war-on-compassion-and-cellphone-charging\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s war on compassion \u2013 and cellphone charging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"Street Roots Newspaper, Portland\" width=\"640\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland-1024x747.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland-225x164.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-Roots-Newspaper-Portland.jpg 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Add this story to the growing evidence that a war is being waged in America to <a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/its-illegal-to-feed-the-homeless-in-33-us-cities\/\">make compassion a crime<\/a> and to deny the most basic services to our #neighborswithnoaddress \u2013 the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudexchange.info\/resources\/documents\/2014-AHAR-Part1.pdf\"> vast US homeless population of over half a million people<\/a>. Which by the way &#8216;<a href=\"Nearly Half Of American Households Are 1 Emergency Away From Financial Disaster, Report Finds\">but for the Grace of God<\/a>&#8216; could be you or me. Emily Green of Street Roots News reports on the plight of &#8220;Jackie&#8221;, whom police arrested for theft for charging her cellphone in an outside receptacle located in a planter box in Old Town, Portland. This story was reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/streetroots.org\">Street Roots, a Portland newspaper that serves the poor<\/a> and homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The net cost of Jackie&#8217;s alleged electricity theft was probably about 1\/50th of a cent but this did not deter the justice system from requiring several court appearances, putting her in jail for a night and attempting to bully Jackie into pleading guilty, which would have annihilated the homeless woman&#8217;s chance at qualifying for a public housing subsidy. Jackie has MS and hopes to get housing now that she has begun receiving disability checks.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/gleverestpaintings.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/old-town-and-chinatown-traveljog.html\">Gary L. Everest<\/a> Tells about Street Roots newspaper:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Street Roots&#8221; is a local newspaper with it&#8217;s home in Old Town.  It&#8217;s dedicated to issues facing the homeless and sold on the streets around Portland by ambitious homeless men and women.  It&#8217;s a great way for them to earn some money and I must say, the vendors are always respectful and never aggressive.  At least one individual, who sold the paper outside of &#8220;Trader Joe&#8217;s&#8221; on NW Glisan was known for helping customers with grocery carts.  When he passed away a year or two ago, there was quite an outpouring of feeling for this kind soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this story to the growing evidence that a war is being waged in America to make compassion a crime and to deny the most basic services to our #neighborswithnoaddress \u2013 the vast US homeless population of over half a million people. Which by the way &#8216;but for the Grace of God&#8216; could be you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/americas-war-on-compassion-and-cellphone-charging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America&#8217;s war on compassion \u2013 and cellphone charging?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[979,563,565],"tags":[804,1244,1630,1777,1026],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-justice","category-rich-v-poor","tag-help-2","tag-homeless","tag-news","tag-solutions","tag-war-on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}