Dare to Struggle Planning Public Forum on “How We Can Stop The Attacks On The Homeless”

The organization Dare to Struggle CT, has announced that it is planning a public forum on “How We Can Stop The Attacks On The Homeless”.

“There will be presentations, speeches, discussions, and presentation of evidence including survey results. Plans and solutions will be presented,” the organization says, about the event on Saturday, June 21st at 1:00pm at the New Britain Public Library’s Community Room.

“Featured speakers will include members of Dare to Struggle, leaders and members of the Homeless Liberation Initiative, Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance (CTHRA), Unhoused Activists Community Team (U-ACT), a former shelter worker, and other selected speakers from the community,” Dare to Struggle CT says, adding, “Light food and refreshments will be served.”

The organization says that,

When homeless shelters close their doors for the day – or, in many cases, close their doors for sake of capacity – homeless people are left with nowhere to go and few options for survival. If they seek temporary refuge for a small break in a nearby business, they’ll be shooed away like animals. If they’re caught anywhere outside for too long, like sitting at the CTFastrak Bus Stations or sleeping on a public bench in New Britain, they’ll get a $99 loitering ticket. Given the failure of our political system and nonprofit organizations to meaningfully address the underlying conditions causing this homelessness crisis, the only way forward is to build a strategic mass movement to stop these attacks from happening. We’ll present what our organizations have been doing over the last year and a half and what we’ve learned. We’ll then have other groups engaged in fights similar to ours present on specific aspects of homelessness, such as mental health struggles and addiction, and explain the shortcomings of policy change and the shelter system in supporting people experiencing them.We’ll finally leave off by sharing what we see as the way out of this nightmare and how people can get involved this summer.

Dare to Struggle says that it,

is a multinational organization open to anyone who wants to resist and stop injustice no matter who holds political office. We don’t lobby politicians. We don’t use insular activist lingo. We don’t chase social media fame. We don’t seek careers or corporate sponsorship through activism. We’re committed to standing with the people subjected to the horrors of the American nightmare. We go to the neighborhoods facing police brutality, ICE raids, poverty, and evictions, talk to people about the problems they face, and organize people in collective struggle. We know that radical change only happens when people step outside of routine protest or expecting politicians to do it for us and take bold, collective action.