BREAKING:Seattle Activist are occupying City Hall and demanding their Mayor to stop sweeping homeless people off their street
#StopTheSweepspic.twitter.com/V4FHJ3clRX
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900+ families in Seattle are homeless. 7% of children in Seattle Public schools don't have an address. Thats who the city wants to sweep.
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WHEEEL/Women In Black reported on 10/25 Robert “Skittles” Joel Brown, 33, took own life after being swept off the street MULTIPLE times.
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Sep 2016 Walter “Stroud” Burton, 19, was run over by a car that crashed his tent. He was swept the day before/forced to be in his new spot.
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Last month Darrell Williams 49, found dead under a highway. He spent 3 months in jail w/no charges after being swept Poverty is not a crime
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35% of Seattle’s homeless sweeps come with NO WARNING. The city has spent MILLIONS on conducting these inhumane sweeps.
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