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Norfolk, Connecticut Guilty of Corruption, Abuses, Deceit and PIMPING of the homeless? - www.Houseless.org


"The Houseless" at Emerson Street & Mills Way, Norfolk, Conn.

The rising "Houseless" epidemic is alarming in the United States of America. Some play the system, while others find themselves in predicaments living rough and/or without shelter, but are "The Houseless" actually being dealt with in humanly fair and respected regards?

A TRUE story is unfolding right as you read this where a man who was forced "Houseless", abused repeatedly, taken advantage of, everything taken, and even faced death, meets more abuses from those in a small town in Connecticut. Not all mind you, but those who aren't being abusive and/or of wrongs aren't the ones who put on masks of good only to be removed exposing faux compassion. These same people put themselves forward to get a way to go "Humanitarian" pat on the back; are active in soliciting for your time/funds/property so they can be with faux righteousness unto "The Houseless". DO NOT be fooled though!

Norfolk, Conn. is the place of a most recent attack on "The Houseless". It's home to Infinity Hall, Yale summer school of Art & Music and Haystack Mountain, to name a few.

Humanitarian apparently doen't mean "humanitarian when it comes to Kirk Sinclair who self pronounces himself as "The Hiking Humanitarian"

Many questions will be raised on why Nels White who professes himself about as a righteous man who lives in a 3 level, 3 bath house at 23 Emerson Street in Norfolk, Connecticut makes false, misleading and/or erroneous calls to police to have "The Houseless" removed from view of his residence. Did Nels White witness Cindy Sinclair abuse "The Houseless" and even stated he would lie? More on this and him, so stay focused here.

No where to go, but being wrongfully forced out of sight? WHY?
Why have at least 5 Connecticut State Trooper patrol cars - since this horrible abuse began on or about 22 June 2013 and not all at once - been dispatched to "The Houseless" whom they have checked out forwards and backwards, yet can't find him guilty of a crime, being harassed and/or further abused?

Why is "The Houseless" being manipulated to move-on, get out of site and/or hide in the forest? Could a reason be as with many communities across the US be that they don't want the problem to be theirs and/or known right in ones face, yet want to PIMP "The Houseless" for profit/gain/control?

Why does Nels White request Connecticut State Troopers do harm unto "The Houseless"?
This is a man who is all too open about expressing how "Christian" he is and how right he is. Hey Nels White, maybe you need to study the real written words of Abba, Elohiym's Scripture, not the prostrated version you follow which is guiding you into the abyss.

And why aren't "The Houseless" given the same rights and/or respect that citizens in the United States of America demand and get? Isn't the only difference being that the have-less, haves, have more and have most can reach into their pocket or purse and pay? This is even more prevalent these days and especially in regards, yes especially, to ALL United States of America's Veterans?

In my estimation, there shouldn't be NOT 1 United States of America Veteran being forced to live rough unless he or she seeks to do so, but given that ALL too many U.S.A. citizens live for the me, me, me and the mine, mine, mine - not just those being called the top 1% - and/or PIMP others for their fundraisers, and/or a "feel good" feeling for ones self, men and women Veterans all across the United States of America are all but forgotten in real time for their service unto these United States of America and to those who demand life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This MUST Stop and stop now!



The aforementioned abuse is still developing, so please check back to know of more details, watch video of Cindy Sinclair charging "The Houseless" with even admitting to the local resident Connecticut State Trooper of putting hands on "The Houseless", yet "The Houseless" get harassed further.

Some of the players in the aforementioned
abuse are, yet not limited to:

Cindy Sinclair, wife to Kirk Sinclair, self proclaimed "Hiking Humanitarian" spewing hate unto "The Houseless"

Nels White expressing his excitement and satisfaction with taking part in abuses unto "The Houseless"

23 Emerson Street, Norfolk, Conn., NOT "Houseless" Nels & Phyllis White who although claiming to be "Christians" abuse "The Houseless"


More, yes much more to come with those who shun "The Houseless", yet control the local government and more!


UPDATE:
All further details, daily living rough and more will be at: http://norfolk-now.houseless.net/
upon its completion, so please follow this story to see if it ends with real compassion, arrest and/or death. To learn more about where this began read here: http://www.houseless.org/2013/04/documentary-maker-lee-halpin-meets.html


Lest we not forget!

15th St. and M St. in DC, "The Houseless" at http://Houseless.net

Sisters of the Road stores decades of art made by homeless (Pics) - www.Houseless.org



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By Sara Hottman, The Oregonian 
 
Brenda Morgan, development co-manager for Northwest Portland's Sisters of the Road, holds an ink drawing done by a homeless man who draws to help him through painful heroin comedowns. Sisters has a storage space in Northwest Portland full of artwork done by homeless people who have used their services for more than three decades.
Sara Hottman, The Oregonian
To get through painful comedowns following highs, the heroin addict draws -- bright colors and strong lines with a sure hand, creating beautiful surrealist images. 

He's about 50 and has lived on the street for a long time. His drawings are being stored with scores of others, some dating back decades, in a Sisters of the Road storage space in Northwest Portland.
"Imagine a person, hurting enough to be an addict, reaching inside to extract such beauty from himself," mused Brenda Morgan, development co-manager for Sisters of the Road, as she examined one of his pieces. 

He's still on the street, still struggling with addiction. But the art supplies Sisters and other organizations have long provided are an escape for him and others living on the street. Soon some of their art will be on display, during the organization's first Journeys Art Festival in May. 

"Art is healing for folks," says Jeannie Lawyer, who used Sisters' programs while she was homeless for many years. "It's nice to go inside, get warm, and forget." 

Now Lawyer has an apartment and co-manages the cafe at Sisters of the Road, which has offered a cafe and programs for Portland's homeless since 1979. 

In her spare time Lawyer is tracking down the stories behind the artwork in the storage closet; some dates back to Sisters' founding. The background stories will accompany the selection of the artwork to be displayed at the Journeys Art Festival fundraiser. Morgan hopes to find funding to someday make the pieces and their back stories a traveling exhibition. 

Lawyer knows many of the artists and their stories first-hand, from when she was homeless. 

Jeannie Lawyer was sitting beside the artist at the Sisters cafe counter in the early 2000s while he drew Sarge sleeping on the sidewalk -- technically not allowed. Sara Hottman, The Oregonian
She laughs at a realist ink drawing showing a man sleeping, hat pulled low over his face. 

"That's Sarge, and he wasn't supposed to be sleeping there," she laughs. She was sitting beside the artist at the Sisters cafe counter in the early 2000s while he drew Sarge sleeping on the sidewalk -- technically not allowed. 

Lawyer gets a somber look on her face with the next piece: Bright colors frame red figures, screaming in anguish in the bottom corner of the canvas, but dwarfed by the brightness that overwhelms the canvas around them. 

"I look at this like that could've been me," Lawyer says. "A few years ago this was me." 

Another piece, a figure made of tissue paper pasted to poster board, is captioned on the back: "Think of me as one of you. Do not take me for a fool." 

A series of large canvases painted by Moe Schwartz in 1993 and 1994, when he was homeless, are done in a classic 1930s American style, with bold colors and near-realism. Lawyer says they scavenged the canvases from garage sales; other paintings are underneath. 

One painting shows people lounging around a fire under the Hawthorne Bridge as a bus full of wine-drinking aristocrats crosses. Others depict some seedy realities of homelessness. 

"Some people do art not to make something beautiful, but because it's what inside," Morgan says. "People can relate to art in a way they can't relate to other things. It gives a voice to people used to being silenced." 


Canvases large and small, rolled and stacked, are stored in a Sisters of the Road storage closet. Some pieces date back to the outreach organization's founding; all are done by people who at the time were living on the street.

Jeannie Lawyer says Sisters of the Road would get large canvases like these at garage sales, and customers would paint over them.

A homeless artist made three of these large-scale paintings in 1993 and 1994. This shows people sitting around a fire under the Hawthorne Bridge while a bus full of aristocrats drinking wine crosses above. The others depict the harsher side of homelessness.

Jeannie Lawyer, co-manager of the cafe at Sisters of the Road, examines a piece painted in the 1990s and now stored with scores of other pieces painted by homeless people using the organization's services. Lawyer, who used to be homeless, says at one point, she was like the screaming people depicted in the painting.


Sisters of the Road artists whose work is being stored in a Northwest Portland storage closet display varying levels of talent: Some are very skilled and practicing technique; some are just passing the time; some are both.


Canvases large and small, rolled and stacked, are stored in a Sisters of the Road storage closet. Some pieces date back to the outreach organization's founding; all are done by people who at the time were living on the street.
 
-- Sara Hottman


Lest we not forget!

15th St. and M St. in DC, "The Houseless" at http://Houseless.net
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