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Check this out! A brief review of the film “Angela’s Ashes,” 1999, directed by Alan Parker, Paramount Pictures, starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle.

Guns, Guns, and More Guns in Little Edgewater: A Consistent Pattern of Shootings and Murders in a Quiet Chicago Neighborhood

Talking with Vladislav from Krasnodar: Wandering About Like Autumn Leaves

Check this out: The famous “Guy Fawkes Night” is both a protest and a tradition!

Check this out! Reaction to *article “Redeveloping Existing Housing Aggravates Homelessness,” by Jane Lawicki

Passports Can Help—In a Variety of Situations

Check this out! Do Homeless People Celebrate Hallowe’en?

Check this out! A recent article* talks about blaming the migrants: “The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing,” by Rahim Kurwa!

Check this out! How innocent people can be scapegoated for homelessness! People sometimes also blame cows for it!

Check this out! Temps are plummeting and homeless need help fast in Chicago and other cities!

Check this out! Wisconsin “Food Share” program will include changes making it harder to qualify for and remain on the system.

The Homeless Get Pranked: Foolish Games

Check this out! A new Chicago shelter for men is up and running in the Rogers Park Neighborhood!

Check this out! A short review of the film “Schindler’s List,” 1993, starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Directed by Steven Spielberg; written by Steven Zaillian. Dist. by Universal Pictures.

Review of Book: “A Story of Happiness,” by Anatolii Perkin, 2018, Moscow: Ridero Press (ИСТОРИЯ СЧАСТЬЯ, АНАТОЛИЙ ПЕРКИН)

Check This Out! The Diplomat Hotel in Chicago Finally Becomes a Homeless Shelter!

Review of the Film “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” 2008 Remake Version with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. Scott Derrickson, Director.

My Friendship with Sergei a Homeless Artist: A Surreal Moment Indeed

Will the Poor and Homeless and Immigrants Soon Face a More Hostile Environment? An Update on What is Happening in Britain.

Another Conversation with Paulette: More Important Ideas for Helping the Homeless from This Knowledgeable Street Helper.

Check this out! You can help the homeless in a couple easy ways!

Check this out! The homeless in Minneapolis get blamed for getting shot.

From Homelessness to Acclaimed Author

Check this out! Fox News host Brian Kilmeade advocated for killing of the homeless on national television!

A Story Is Stronger than a King: How Storytelling in Hospices Can Console the Dying.

Check this out! There are people out there who really speak languages other than English!

Social Workers and Others Assisting the Homeless Need to Help Them Get That MPOX Vaccination!

Check this out! The 2025 Chicago Homeless Report is available!

Check this out! DHS announces ‘Midway Blitz’ ICE operation in Chicago!

Down But Not Out!

Homelessness, Philosophy, and Dostoyevsky: Judging the Poor

Check this out! Short review of film “My Family”

Military Trips to Invade Chicago: Unsafe At Any Speed!

Check this out! Thirteen-year-old helps homeless with invention!

The Homeless in Chicago and President Trump’s Fake Agenda to Solve Crimes

Check this out! Connections for the Homeless in Evanston, Illinois, is doing great things!

Check this out! Mayor of Chicago steps up help for the homeless!

Another Rant: Yelling About Washington, DC, and Hoping Its Residents Will Be Okay

Check this out! Brief review of the film “Call Me by Your Name,” by Luca Guadagnino, 2017, starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, and Michael Stuhlberg. In English, French, and Italian.

Check this out! Some good ideas about solutions for homelessness!

Russian Philosophy, History, and Impact

Living from Cellar to Cellar: Homeless in Moscow

Interview with Migrant Couple

Check this out! The National Public Housing Museum!

Trump signs a racist executive order to push cities to curb homeless sleeping and drug use on streets--in effect blaming disorder on the unhoused in America!

Check this out! Chicago Cooling Centers + Other Locations Open!

Hurry Up and Do Good! СПЕШИТЕ ДЕЛАТЬ ДОБРО !

Check this out! Night Ministry in Chicago provides important emergency services to the homeless year-round!

Things Are Much Harder for Homeless Blacks in Britain

Check this out! You can help in this important effort to save subsidized housing funds!

Check this out! Thresholds in Chicago has acquired The Glenn Apartments, preserving an important SRO!

Beyond the Marquis de Sade: America’s Alligator Alcatraz

Boycotts Continue and More Companies Are Added to the List!

Check this out! There is still time to kill the new House version of the big hatred bill!

War Simply Leads to Mass Homelessness and More Displaced People

Check this out! Brief review of the film “Barking Water,” 2009, Starring Richard Ray Whitman and Casey Camp-Horinek, Lorber Films. In English and Myskoke (with English subtitles). Not Rated.

Check this out! Museum featuring art by US Veterans, located in Chicago!

Gossip and Homelessness

Check this out! The Mayor of Chicago is not listening!

Check this out! A toolkit from the National Low Income Housing Coalition!

Check this out! Chicago steps up!

Arbitrary Arrests Soar in Los Angeles

Check this out! The Illinois Department of Public Health makes it clear homelessness is bad for your health and can get you injured—or killed!

Check this out! Brief review of the film “The Wolves of Kromer” (1998)

Anything Can Happen! Even Miracles!

So Much for a Romantic View of War: What I Learned as a Child

Check this out! Help needed to shelter 40 kids in Chicago by this Friday, please!

Check this out! So far a dozen Republican US Senators who might vote “NO” on the big ugly bill

Check this out! How to recognize mental illness issues!

Check this out! Boston learns a lesson in how not to do it!

Deported Into Destitution!

Check this out! Important article about homeless in California…

Check this out! Chicago “Snap Curfew” approved by committee—now goes on for vote by the City Council!

Interview with Cristina, A Migrant in Chicago

Check this out! Updated boycott list, CBS added in May 2026!

Library Helps the Homeless in Moscow

Check this out! Shoot-out with 2 dead men and 1 injured in Little Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago!

Check this out! The *NASW Conference will take place in Chicago this year!

Check this out! Professor gives sleeping young man his down coat on the train...

Build Bridges—Not Walls! We Have Lost a Great Advocate for the Poor!

Strange Stories Surround the Moscow Metro!

Film Review of “Trade,” Stars Kevin Kline, Kate del Castillo, Cesar Ramos, Paulina Gaitan, Alicja Bachleda, 2007. Produced by Roland Emmerich & Rosilyn Heller. English, some Spanish, Polish, Russian.

Book Review of “Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger,” 2021, by Katie S. Martin. Washington, DC: Island Press. Paper, 253 pages.

The Disabled Are Again Under Fire in the UK

Homeless and Abandoned on the Moors: The Legacy of the Brontë Sisters

Memories of the Red Line Train the Night of March 19, 2019: Hello to Hitler’s Dogs!

Book Review of “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity,” by Debbie Macomber, 2009. New York: Howard Books, Div. of Simon & Schuster. Paper.

Stop the Sweeps; Save the Homeless!

Book Review of “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water,” by Michael Doris, 1987. New York: Warner Books.

Book Review of “The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity,” by Mark Robert Rank, 2023. New York: Oxford University Press. Cloth, 175 pages.

Book Review of “Civic Capitalism,” by Colin Hay and Anthony Payne, 2015. Malden, MA: Polity Press. Cloth, 147 pages.

Too Exposed: The Homeless Living in Cars!

Film Review of “Moonlight,” 2016, Starring Trevante Rhodes, Andre’ Holland, Janelle Monae, Ashton Sanders, and Jharrel Jerome, with Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali. Barry Jenkins, Dir., A24 Prod.

Boycotts Build Up Steam: Chicago and National

Not Just A Novelist! A Writer Comments on Women’s Rights and Roles and Duties

Film Review of “Resurrecting the Champ,” Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, 2007. Also stars Alan Alda and Teri Hatcher. Directed by Rod Lurie; Produced by Phoenix Pictures.

Don’t Let Them Freeze to Death: Prompt Action Can Save Lives!

The “Boykotts” Have Begun

The Past Is Never Dead: The Status of the Homeless in Russia Is Still Defined by the Living Legacy

Book Review of “Civic Capitalism,” by Colin Hay and Anthony Payne, 2015. Malden, MA: Polity Press. Cloth, 147 pages.

Book Review of “Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery,” by Katrina Dyonne Thompson, 2014. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Cloth, 244 pages.

Review of “Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother,” *edition adapted for young people, by Sonia Nazario, 2014. New York: Delacorte/Random House. Paperback.

Review of “Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay,” by Ritch Savin-Williams, 2016. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Paper.

Film Review: “Violet,” Starring Olivia Munn & Luke Bracey, with Justin Theroux, 2021. Written and produced by Justine Bateman, distributed by Relativity Media and by Rogue Pictures.

Nowhere to Go!

Boogers from South Africa in the Oval Office/Boere van Suid-Afrika in die Oval Office

Book Review: “Legacies of the War on Poverty,” edited by Martha J. Bailey & Sheldon Danziger, 2013. NYC: Russell Sage Foundation, 322 pages.

Review of “Black Mosaic: The Politics of Pan-Ethnic Diversity,” by Candis Watts Smith, 2014. New York: NYU Press, paper, 276 pages.

Don’t Leave the Room!

Review of “The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity,” by Josue David Cisneros, 2014. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Cloth, 229 pages.

Namrud Negashi: A True Defender of the Homeless

Interview with Cid (rhymes with “did”)

Book Review of "Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times," by Paul Born, 2014. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, paper, pages.

Higher Cancer Incidence Reported Among the Homeless: Data from Studies

Book Review of "Your Leadership Story: Use Your Story to Energize, Inspire, and Motivate," by Timothy Tobin, 2015. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Cloth, 155 pages.

Bulldozers Brutually Move In! Trump Set to Dismantle Homeless Tents en masse

Book Review of “The Other America: Poverty in the United States,” by Michael Harrington, 1963, paperback. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books.

Trump Treating the Homeless in Greenland? Helping Them?

Chicago Warming Centers Info--Temps to Dip Saturday Night!

Book Review of “That’s So Gay: Challenging Homophobic Bullying,” 2015, by Jonathan Charlesworth. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Cloth, 182 pp.

Cancer and Homelessness: Some Reflections

Book Review of “Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Services Professionals,” 4th ed., 2014, by Laura Gitlin and Kevin Lyons. New York: Springer Publishing. Paper, 348 pages.

Book Review of “A Brief History of the Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis,” by Martyn Whittock, 2011. Philadelphia: Running Press. Paper, 356 pages.

Homeless Persons in History? Even Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler?

Book Review of “Homeless Outreach and Housing First: Lessons Learned,” by Jay S. Levy, 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Loving Healing Press. Paper, 36 pages.