Holy crap my homeless activist friends are the bravest people I know. Mayor de Blasio is notoriously hard to access & my friend Mike just pulled off an elegant public confrontation. Last summer Mike helped organize his shelter to stop everyone being moved. They keep on fighting!
Mike (@lovingpawsmike) and his fellow activists from his shelter found out the mayor would be at an event hosted by the NYC Office for People with Disabilities. They staked him out and called out the irony that he is forcing disabled people into dangerous congregated shelters.
The beauty of this action is how Mike plays it, starting with a friendly approach (that’s Mike all the way), “Hey Mr. de Blasio, can I shake your hand?” and then sticking up for the homeless New Yorkers who can’t be there, or might not feel safe, to yell at the mayor themselves.
I wanna say, Mike and the other activists from his shelter have been out every day supporting the people being transferred. I’m not sure if the others want to be named as they’re all at the mercy of DHS but if they do I can talk about them another time. They’re incredible.
I’ll also tell the story of how Mike & his neighbors banded together & stopped DHS from moving them all out of their shelter. It’s an incredible story— they had no outside support, they just teamed up and started speaking out and they stopped it. Now DHS doesn’t fuck with them.
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