(Change.org End Homelessness blog) A knife wielding homeless man was shot and killed by Police in Philadelphia on Friday.

The 20 year veteran Police didn’t elect to use a Taser, they didn’t use a night stick, they didn’t retreat to a safe distance. They did what they were trained to do = use deadly force / shoot to kill with a gun. (more…)

As I write this there are no less than 6 helicopters circling overhead in downtown Oakland. On the first day of the 10th year since Amadou Diallo was brutally gunned down by police in New York City, Oscar Grant was fatally shot in the back by a BART police officer, and the event was caught on video.

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No, I’m not talking about Obama.  I’m talking about , an activist with Cop Watch L.A. and his hopes for the coming decades.

My vision of liberated communes would be of people living their lives and realizing their full human potential; where we live in harmony with the planet and all beings; where a federation of communes shares resources, food, ideas, and other things with each other; where people are rebuilding and healing from years of oppressive social relationships and their effects on us and the Earth; where technology is used to benefit not destroy people and the environment.

Read his full interview here