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I am super pumped to announce that I’ve had the honor to create the poster for Gluestick; Indianapolis’ zine and small publishers festival!! Follow @gluestickindy to stay updated about the fest! Long live zines and comix! ✒️ #zine #comics #art #literature #selfpublished #indianapolis #gluestick2017
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Construction of ‘tiny home village’ to begin this year on Indianapolis’ west side
Hey guys! This is in my home! It’s super exciting that we might be getting a tiny house village to help the homeless! ESPECIALLY since a nearby homeless camp is getting shut down!
But they gotta hit their funding goal in less than a month!
Next week I’ll probably be setting up donation commissions, but please take a look and if you can can throw a couple bucks their way or share this, please do!
Honest to god, it is warming my heart so much to see the notes shocked/delighted that Indianapolis is doing something like this!
In my experience, while the state itself is pretty red, Indy is developing more and more in the direction of public transportation, infrastructure, and even some social progress! I’m unironically really really hopefull!
Problem with a lot of stuff like this is… They’re heavily institutionalized. Police generally have free access to peoples’ homes, and a lot of rights are sacrificed. Government employees can come in and investigate peoples’ homes any time they want. It *seems* like a nice thing, of course, but the more you investigate these - ESPECIALLY in Red states - the more you realize that, well, no, they aren’t *just* homes for the homeless. They’re a form of social control.
This is not meant as an argument, but do you have any way to confirm this to be the case with specific locations? Do you have sites or resources we can use or just a general sense of 'dont get too excited about a seemingly good thing because this has happened before?’
Because honestly it seems like they can be a hell of a lot more openly cruel when they are homeless in the streets. Not saying that this isn’t the case, I’m not saying it’s right, and I am genuine in my desire to make sure we can research and keep parties accountable, but I am also tired of every hopeful thing be countered with despair porn.
The Rise of Tiny House Villages in the Fight Against Homelessness
Unfortunately they don’t actually resolve homelessness, they’re more akin to shelters than homes - in which case, yeah, there would be a complete lack of privacy (the “24 hr on site staff” part is a red flag)
The closing point of the article actually pretty much EXACTLY summarizes my feelings on this whole matter.
Hersh said she hopes that the city learns something from both programs about what services are most beneficial to people experiencing homelessness, knowing that the only true solution is permanent housing for everyone.
But, for some, tiny houses are an improvement over congregate shelters, she said, and that’s enough reason to feel upbeat about the planned facilities in Philadelphia.
“Sometimes you make the best choice you can possibly make with the information and resources you have because it’s better than the other choice, even though it may still be suboptimal and you don’t know where it’s going to lead,” Hersh said.
“I just believe you have to take risks, and you can’t sit around and criticize everything,” she added. “To me the moral imperative of ending homelessness overrides that.”
No, it’s notperfect. But it’s a step in the right direction. Just because something is not the MOST OPTIMIZED solution doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still strive to work for ‘getting better.’ I feel like a lot of people justify not caring about things like this because ‘there’s still problems with it.’ Yeah. Of course there are. But it’s betterthan what Indy HAS been doing. And that’s what’s important.
Construction of ‘tiny home village’ to begin this year on Indianapolis’ west side
Hey guys! This is in my home! It’s super exciting that we might be getting a tiny house village to help the homeless! ESPECIALLY since a nearby homeless camp is getting shut down!
But they gotta hit their funding goal in less than a month!
Next week I’ll probably be setting up donation commissions, but please take a look and if you can can throw a couple bucks their way or share this, please do!
Honest to god, it is warming my heart so much to see the notes shocked/delighted that Indianapolis is doing something like this!
In my experience, while the state itself is pretty red, Indy is developing more and more in the direction of public transportation, infrastructure, and even some social progress! I’m unironically really really hopefull!
Construction of ‘tiny home village’ to begin this year on Indianapolis’ west side
Hey guys! This is in my home! It’s super exciting that we might be getting a tiny house village to help the homeless! ESPECIALLY since a nearby homeless camp is getting shut down!
But they gotta hit their funding goal in less than a month!
Next week I’ll probably be setting up donation commissions, but please take a look and if you can can throw a couple bucks their way or share this, please do!
Book Review: Flash Evans Camera News Hawk
Book Review: Flash Evans Camera News Hawk
Book Review: Flash Evans Camera News Hawk by Frank Bell
Seventeen-year-old Jimmy “Flash” Evans is an ace photographer for the Brandale Ledger, his home town’s only daily newspaper. His new steady income has been a blessing to his family since his father died during the Depression. In fact, the Ledger’s management has been so impressed with his performance that they’ve offered him a full month’s…
Who’s tryina see Ghost with me in Indy on may 19th?!
Hey, y’all! A huge thank you to everyone who came out to Indiana Comic Con yesterday! I’ll be in the Artist Alley TABLE A7 all day today, too, from 10-7! I’ve got original art, art prints (with shiny foil!), BINARY STAR comics, stickers, bookmarks, coasters, and more! Come on over and say hi! ✨✨
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Imma DL nigga so shit who in Indianapolis trynna fuck hmu??♂️
Anthony 26 YO Bi White 8 Cut On Cellphone
Indianapolis USA
500 track,
Massive 2 floor
Convention center.
Abstract art Torch
And chipmunk squirrel
Crossbreeds
In parks spaced between
Towering buildings and
The longest city streets.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
~A.G. 11/16/19
An early bit of photographic fakery detailing the 1st National Aviation Meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1910. The airplanes were added from other negatives before the final print, resulting in a composite photograph of multiple planes. Huzzah!
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Mexican workers shut down plant; black man fired for posting video
In Indiana, Mexican and other Spanish-speaking workers walk off job site, shutting down plant in protest of mistreatment. Black man who uploaded video of it is fired
When Antoine Dangerfield showed up to work on Tuesday, the last thing he expected was that his co-workers would walk off the job and that he’d be fired for recording and uploading it to the Internet. But that’s exactly what happened.
In an interview with us earlier today, Antoine told us how it all went down.
Antoine, who is a welder by trade, worked at CRI (Contractor’s Resource Inc.) in Plainfield, Indiana, a company contracted by UPS and others to build conveyor systems. They’re based in Texas, but have plants throughout the United States. Most of his co-workers at this site were Mexican, while some were Guatemalan. Almost all Spanish speakers, which is why he tells us the company has their daily safety meetings in both English and Spanish.
The problems on this day started when the company’s interpreter did not show up and the safety meeting had to be done all in English, which became the pretext for the plant’s safety officer — a white guy named Bill — to write up the mostly Mexican workforce for minor violations.
After six workers were sent home early, their compañeros had had enough of his bullshit and decided they would all walk off in protest, effectively shutting down the plant. All of this happening before noon.
“They sent a couple of them home; they all packed their shit up and shut this motherfucker down,” Dangerfield says in his video, which has amassed more than 2.2 million views on Facebook as of Thursday. “This is what black people need to be on, man. I swear to god, I love this shit.”
Dangerfield told us he posted the video because he simply wanted to share it with his friends, but that it quickly went viral and has now taken on a much more serious meaning in his life. As of Thursday, Antoine had been fired, telling us that at least 3 of the men seen in the video will also be fired after completing their suspension. He plans on getting a lawyer to fight this injustice and hopes other workers are encouraged to stand up for their rights, he said.
Shiver Shiver by Walk the Moon
#Repost @spiritjuicestudios
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Mumford & Sons perform at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 24, 2016.
Photos © Taylor Ward.
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“INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 13.– Public opinion and the police caused a change in the detail of the doctors’ banquet given at the Rockwood tuberculosis sanitarium, the occasion being the initiation of the Greek letter fraternity of several well known physicians. Arrangements were made to serve the diners in plates made of human skulls and instead of knives and forks, to use surgical instruments.
This part of the program was carried out, but resentment at serving champagne with babies’ skulls for cups caused ordinary champagne glasses to be used. The place was also lighted with candles set in human skulls and human bones decorated the tables. Organs of the human body were reproduced in ice cream and gelatines. Skulls of guinea pigs that had been dissected were used for match safes.
Chief of Police Metzger prevented the decoration of an interurban outing car with emblems of death and hearses did not serve as carriages. Several physicians balked at the plan to drink wine out of babies’ skulls and it was abandoned.”
~The Spokane press. (Spokane, Wash.), 13 May 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
dir. Orson Welles
design/illustration: DRW.mov
Rashema Melson during her graduation.
The problem of inner-city schools is well known: inadequate facilities and supplies, absenteeism from students caring for struggling families, violence, drugs, and pregnancy the norm, and poor performance by students and teachers. Success in such an environment is difficult already, but only worsened when a student has a shaky home life, or no home at all.
When Indianapolis teen Syretha Shirley was six months old, her mother left her with her grandmother with an empty promise to ‘return soon.’ When Syretha was 11, her grandmother developed severe Alzheimers and Syretha was left to fend for herself. She has lived in 11 homes in 2 different states and gone to 8 schools. Her next is Indiana State University, where she plans on studying social work. “If I do not graduate and if I give up now, I will have to depend on other people. And that’s the one this I hate the most…because that’s something I’ve had to do my whole life,” she said. “That’s something I was forced to do, asking people, 'Can I stay with you? Can I please,’ please this and that. So going through this made me stronger and made me want to do this for myself.”
Rashema Melson lived in a D.C. shelter with 300 adults and 500 children but managed to graduate as valedictorian and get a full ride to Georgetown University, where she plans on studying forensic pathology. "Life is not fair, but despite that harsh reality, you must keep striving for success through the pain, tears and feeling of lost hope,“ she said in her commencement address at graduation. When asked if she had advice for other homeless youth, she said, "Because you live in a shelter that’s not who you are, that’s just where you reside at for the moment.”
“Never be afraid to go after your dreams, and regardless of the negative forecast that has been predicted upon us, beat the odds and let the sun shine,” Rashema said. "Each step we take is paved with possibilities. Now go unlock the door to your future.“
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