I’m just gonna leave this here.
like it truly amazes me that these countries engaging in this deliberate infringement on human rights can just WASTE money on developing anti-homeless shit like spikes, barred benches, or timed seating, but not spend any of that to FIX their homeless problem by either building shelters, coming up with programs to help, or increasing benefits. The idea that people are homeless by choice, or just ‘too lazy’ needs to fucking end. Most homeless are either disabled veterans, people with mental illness, LGBTQ youth/individuals whose families have abandoned them, or, my personal favorite, entire fucking families with children who have been displaced. Seriously, these people are not a burden, our worlds globalized capitalist structuring is.
This shit pisses me off
Sign a petition to remove the spikes (from London).
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/boris-johnson-remove-the-anti-homeless-spikes-from-london
Guys seriously sign the petition it needs 60.7k more signatures