Vulnerable Populations/Critical Populations: The criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and dissent

<p><span class="fsl">Part of the Flying Squirrel Community Space's Stop Mass Incarceration programming...<br><br>Name: Vulnerable Populations/Critical Populations: The criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and dissent<br>Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014<br>Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm</span><br><span class="fsl">Location: Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.</span></p><p><span class="fsl">facebook event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/" title="https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/</a><br><br>Description: Sister Grace Miller of House of Mercy will give a presentation on the criminalization of homelessness and poverty. She will present on her lived experience and the barriers to survival that people she works with face everyday.<br><br>Anti-war activist and professor Harry Murray will go into depth about the use of orders of protection against anti-war and anti-drone protesters demonstrating in front of air bases utilizing their Constitutional rights. In a bizarre twist, courts have allowed base commanders who don't want demonstrators in front of their bases to use orders of protection that came out of the anti-domestic violence movement to be used against demonstrators who have never interacted with let alone met these base commanders.<br><br>For more information on this special programming, check out: <a href="http://thesquirrel.org/node/1240" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">thesquirrel.org/node/1240</a></span></p>

<p>Part of the Flying Squirrel Community Space's Stop Mass Incarceration programming...<br /><br />Name: Vulnerable Populations/Critical Populations: The criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and dissent<br />Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014<br />Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm<br />Location: Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.</p> <p>facebook event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/" title="https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1537528943128718/</a><br /><br />Description: Sister Grace Miller of House of Mercy will give a presentation on the criminalization of homelessness and poverty. She will present on her lived experience and the barriers to survival that people she works with face everyday.<br /><br />Anti-war activist and professor Harry Murray will go into depth about the use of orders of protection against anti-war and anti-drone protesters demonstrating in front of air bases utilizing their Constitutional rights. In a bizarre twist, courts have allowed base commanders who don't want demonstrators in front of their bases to use orders of protection that came out of the anti-domestic violence movement to be used against demonstrators who have never interacted with let alone met these base commanders.<br /><br />For more information on this special programming, check out: <a href="http://thesquirrel.org/node/1240" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">thesquirrel.org/node/1240</a></p>