Connecticut
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Shelter Directors Chase The Money and Leave the Homeless Behind
Worsening Shelter Conditions Many community members in downtown New Britain are aware of the Friendship Center’s mistreatment of its residents and inadequate services. They allow rotten food to be served, case workers are frequently “too busy” to help, and residents get kicked out or…
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: Bed Bugs at Friendship Service Center! 241 Arch St
Issue #6 March 2025 Due to threats of retaliation against residents by the shelter, we have left out specific details In February we were messaged by numerous residents at 241 Arch Street about bed bugs and that staff weren’t doing anything to address their…
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: Transitional Housing – Lies and Mistreatment
Issue #5 Feb 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative “Now I don’t know where I’m gonna go … There’s just a…
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: “What they did to us destroyed our life. They almost broke us.”
Issue #4 Dec 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative Walter and his wife came to New Britain in July of 2024…
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: “They Either Want Me in a Mental Facility or Jail”
Issue #3 Dec 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative Repeatedly Brutalized and Stalked by the Pigs Marcin, a disabled homeless man…
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Oppression in the Streets: How New Britain’s shelters treat the Homeless
Issue #2 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative “Deal with it… do as you’re told…or get the fuck out” Many…
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Oppression in the Streets: How NBPD Treats the Homeless
Issue #1 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative One Homeless Man in New Britain Faced: $99 Tickets for “Sleeping on…
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GENTRIFICATION: The war against the homeless, poor, and long time residents
In June of 2023, recently re-elected mayor of New Britain, CT Erin Stewart said that the city is working to provide resources for homeless people and “have been more than accommodating for the past seven years but the needs of the community are shifting,…
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