Vulnerable Populations/Critical Populations: The criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and dissent
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Vulnerable Populations/Critical Populations: The criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and dissent
On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Sister Grace Miller of House of Mercy and Harry Murray, a professor at Nazareth College were invited to sit on a panel looking at criminalization of dissent, homelessness, and poverty. The panel was apart of the Flying Squirrel Community Space's stop mass incarceration programming for the month of October.
Sister Grace Miller gave a presentation on the criminalization of homelessness and poverty. She has been working at House of Mercy for over 30 years and presents on her lived experience and the barriers to survival that the people she works with face everyday.
Anti-war activist and professor Harry Murray talks about the criminalization of dissent--specifically with an anti-war focus. He goes 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.
Statement from the Flying Squirrel collective on stop mass incarceration programming:
