Displacement

  • Sat 6/21 @1pm – Public Forum on how we can stop the attacks on the homeless

    Sat 6/21 @1pm – Public Forum on how we can stop the attacks on the homeless

    Dare to Struggle and Homeless Liberation Initiative are hosting a forum on how we can stop the daily attacks homeless people face around Connecticut. We’ll hear from those within and around the fight for the rights of the homeless, talk through what has been tried so far, and project the path forward. There will be […]

  • High Desert LowDown April 2025: Rise Up We’re Worth It!

    High Desert LowDown April 2025: Rise Up We’re Worth It!

    An Interview with a Resident from Loma Parda Anyone who lives in Taos knows the housing situation can be brutal: casitas for thousands of dollars a month, sheds with minimal amenities for almost as much, low income housing with poor conditions and authoritarian management practices, Air b&bs popping up and million dollar second homes being […]

  • TAOS NM: Memorial Day Weekend Protest

    TAOS NM: Memorial Day Weekend Protest

    Rents and property values continue to soar in Taos forcing people out onto the streets. There is an astonishing lack of services for people once they are homeless. Meanwhile, tourists and second home owners flock to Taos treating it like their playground. We refuse to sit idly by and watch our neighbors freeze to death […]

  • Disrespect, Disposability, Deceit: Forum on NYCHA Neglect in NYC – May 31 @2pm

    Disrespect, Disposability, Deceit: Forum on NYCHA Neglect in NYC – May 31 @2pm

    LGBT Center – Manhattan – 208 W 13th St NYCHA and private partners are hellbent on pushing out residents. We need our own strategies to stop them. Privatized NYCHA developments are ramping up evictions, and residents across the city face inhumane conditions. It isn’t a question of if things can change…things MUST change. Come to […]

  • CT General Interest Meeting 4/1 6pm

    CT General Interest Meeting 4/1 6pm

    Join us at our mass meeting on Tuesday, 4/1 at 6:00pm! We’ll be in the New Haven Library Main Branch, in the Philip Marrett room on the first floor. We’ll be discussing our campaign against police brutality and sharing updates about how we’re fighting back against attacks on the homeless in CT. Come find out […]

  • OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: Bed Bugs at Friendship Service Center!  241 Arch St

    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 complaints. Finally after numerous complaints and a group of people allegedly […]

  • OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: Transitional Housing – Lies and Mistreatment

    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 lot here that’s not helping me.” She was lied to and […]

  • WORD ON THE STREET #3: “They’re killing people, and they are fully aware of it.”

    WORD ON THE STREET #3: “They’re killing people, and they are fully aware of it.”

    Spoken by the people on Skid Row. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle. Distributed by Skid Row Stands Up. Issue #3. February 2025. By Anonymous. This tent belonged to a man who died after sweepers took away his heart medication, according to Anonymous, a formerly homeless street cleaner. So I was unhoused from March […]

  • The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025

    The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025

    Letter from the Editor: Privatization Is on the Doorstep at Riis Houses With an Illegitimate “Resident Vote,” NYCHA Moves on Privatization at Riis By: RANDY, DARE TO STRUGGLE When we talk to NYCHA residents about the government’s attempts to get rid of public housing, we hear a common reply: “They’ve been trying to do that […]

  • The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025

    The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025

    Issue #1, Jan 2025 Letter from the Editor If you live in public housing, you’re all too familiar with inhumane conditions and ineffective repairs. NYCHA regularly ignores tickets and whenever they do “repairs,” the work is so poorly done that the problem soon returns. This neglect is deliberate—NYCHA lets repairs go unaddressed so they can […]