Our Neighbors On The Streets: A Social Justice Perspective

Looking for Quality Material "Our Neighbors On The Streets" is a blog concerned about Homelessness and social justice issues for those on the streets or living in shelters or others with "non-permanent" situations. I tend to post: (1) news items from all across the country that seems interesting to anyone who follows homeless issues; (2) links to relevant web sites on homeless issues (social services, national organizations, major social justice groups, etc.) (3) writings about issues in Santa barbara County and in California that concern the poor and homeless; (4) Social Justic, Scholarly or political material related to poverty or homelessness; (5) My own writings on social justice issues; If you come across something that you think would be a good addition to this blog, please feel free to send it my way. I am always looking for quality material and it takes a lot of time. My email is: waynemellinger@gmail.com Thank you all for your ongoin...

Christian Students See How the Other Half Lives Second Annual City Walk Glimpses the Seamier Side of Santa Barbara This article is from the Santa Barbara Independent--the link is provided below Friday, April 20, 2012 by   ANGELINA WARD Article Tools  Print friendly  E-mail story  Tip Us Off  iPod friendly  Comments  Share Article The Santa Barbara City Walk, sponsored by UCSB ’s Christian group Intervarsity, allowed students to see a side of Santa Barbara often overlooked by college-goers. Participants met on campus Saturday morning to tour downtown together and spend the day walking around and listening to short lectures about the Santa Barbara that doesn’t make it into travel guides. The walk was designed so that leaders from area organizations could educate the students and community members on issues like homelessness, gang activity, alcoholism, and environmental degradation. Haley Compean, a thir...

Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading Enable Social Reading i Tavis Smiley and Cornel West GET UPDATES FROM TAVIS SMILEY   Like 60 GET UPDATES FROM CORNEL WEST   Like 7 Ten Lies About Poverty That America Can No Longer Afford (EXCERPT) Posted: 04/20/2012 12:03 pm React Inspiring Funny Typical Important Outrageous Amazing Innovative Beautiful Follow Poverty  ,  Breakdown: Americans On The Edge  ,  Lies About Poverty  ,  Poverty Manifesto  , The Rich And The Rest Of Us  ,  Impact News SHARE THIS STORY 33 7 10 Submit this story Excerpt taken from " The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto " (April 2012) courtesy of SmileyBooks. There are nearly 150 million persistently poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the G...