#OccupyDigest - Op-Ed - We are ALL Homeless...

By Mitakuye Oyasin - DJRaspy.com

I would like to share a story with you all...

I was at work last night, and there's been this old guy hanging around there. He's got to be at least 60, maybe even in his 70's. Because of his situation in life, it's kind of hard to tell his actual age. His circumstances have probably aged him quite a bit. You TOO could be a winner in the "Lose it all" Sweepstakes. Be kind, if you ever want anyone to be kind to you.

I saw him sitting there on the bench in the room with the pool tables, with several plastic shopping bags sitting next to him. Whenever he would get up and move, his bags would always go with him. And well they should, for though I am far too polite to have ever peeked into them, I am almost certain that I know what was in them. Those bags likely contained everything that the aged gentleman owned...

You see, the Gentleman of which I speak is homeless, one of the many, many people in this country that are, every year, forced by economic circumstances into that lamentable lot in life. As the few rich that are left get richer, and the billions of poor get poorer, and the middle class is completely wiped out by Laws and Codes, international and national, that are designed to help only a small segment of the population to prosper, while the rest are largely abandoned by the State...there are so many, so very many like the Gentleman of which I speak. So many that perhaps, at times, they almost seem invisible...

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On Carey Fuller: Champion of the Unchampioned

- By D.J. Raspe - DJRaspy.com

Via Twitter

"careyfuller Indy 
“Camping out” bit.ly/pfpXEH > Please help if you can!"

Now, a little bit about Carey Fuller: Carey Fuller is a Blogger and an Internet Personality on the rise. What is her area of expertise, you might ask? The Plight of the Homeless.

You might ask, how is it that Carey Fuller is an expert on Homelessness, when she's got the ability to get on social networks like Twitter and write blog posts on a website? Well, you see, she was given that ability by the caring auspices of the good people at http://invisiblepeople.tv/who wanted to give the homeless of North America a voice, when for so long, they had none. 

You see, Carey Fuller is, herself, one of an alarmingly growing number of homeless people in this great country, and she is also, sadly, a representative of another disturbingly widespread demographic: Homeless Families. Carey Fuller lives in her car, with her two daughters. When I saw her story on InvisiblePeople's Youtube Channel, I wept like a broken-hearted child, to see my countrymen, or in this case, countrywomen living in vehicles because they had no place that they could call home.

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