VOCAL-TX @VOCALTexas
Organizing to end AIDS, mass incarceration, the drug war, and homelessness in Texas. For inquiries, email [email protected]. vocal-tx.org Texas Joined May 2023-
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Our statement on the recent uptick in overdose deaths in Austin, Texas. Document including links to sources here: buff.ly/3Ur5qFB
Thank you, @VOCALTexas, for having me at your Rapid Rehousing town hall last night! I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the ways the City is working to improve our rapid rehousing programs & how we can work together with orgs like @VOCALTexas to create sustainable solutions.
HAPPENING NOW: VOCAL-TX Town Hall! "Housing is a human right yet more than 6,500 people are homeless every night in Austin! We know when rent goes up, so does homelessness, and the rent is too damn high in Austin!" Watch live on IG @VOCALTexas #fixRRH #housingforall
Our Town Hall on Rapid Rehousing is about to begin! Join us at Central Presbyterian or watch the livestream on IG @VOCALTexas! #fixRRH #housingforall
HAPPENING TODAY! Town Hall on Rapid Rehousing from 5:30PM-7:30PM at the Central Presbyterian Church (200 E. 8th Street). Help us fight to improve rapid rehousing and end homelessness! RSVP: v-tx.org/425
Our Town Hall on Rapid Rehousing is happening on Thursday at 5:30PM at the Central Presbyterian Church (200 E. 8th Street). We're bringing together unhoused Austinites, service providers, and elected officials to learn about how we can improve RRH! RSVP: v-tx.org/425
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I want to especially shout out our Community Health Paramedics who all dropped what they were doing to work this issue, one of them went on 31 out of 46 of these calls either first on scene or handing out narcan kits and case managing after other first responders got there
Grateful for the immense training including appropriate narcan dosing, advanced airway management, and ancillary symptom management that saved these lives. More would have died if not for the quick thinking and action of our first responders yesterday.
We are closely monitoring this situation. @ATCEMS has been responding with a heroic effort, treating at least 30 patients and further distributing Narcan kits in the area. Please see the following directions from EMS, and call 911 immediately for suspected overdoses.
Please follow and support our partners at @VOCALTexas in our growing movement to #EndHomelessness across the U.S.
Last night’s town hall on Rapid Rehousing was powerful! We heard directly from the experts—people with lived experience using the program. We were joined by service providers and city leaders. We all agreed—we must fix rapid rehousing! We must win housing for the poor!
Thank you, @VOCALTexas, for having me at your Rapid Rehousing town hall last night! I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the ways the City is working to improve our rapid rehousing programs & how we can work together with orgs like @VOCALTexas to create sustainable solutions.
#JohnsonvGrantsPass could radically change the way we approach homelessness, leading to jail time or fines for sleeping outside We're at SCOTUS with @homeless_law and HUNDREDS of people because we know #housingfirst is the most humane and effective way to address homelessness
We’re streaming live from the #HousingNotHandcuffs Rally! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Our delegation from NY is in D.C. to call for justice in the Johnson v Grants Pass Supreme Court case starting tomorrow in our work to #EndHomelessness alongside @VOCALTexas & @VOCALKentucky, ran into @CornelWest! To say the least, our member-leaders were very exited!
We are out in D.C. with our partners at @homeless_law, @popdemoc, & @UniteThePoor to call for an #EndHomelessness and for the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Grant’s Pass’ attempt to criminalize sleeping outside. Follow #HousingNotHandCuffs to learn more.
LIVE: Bishop Barber Speaks at the ''Rally for Housing Not Handcuffs'' at the U.S. Supreme Court x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
In a Supreme Court case, the SPLC is supporting the rights of people experiencing homelessness and arguing that by criminalizing homelessness, politicians aren't addressing the systematic issues at hand. #HousingNotHandcuffs Read more: bit.ly/3UsRMTK
We are at the Supreme Court because you cannot brutalize and criminalize the homeless without @VOCALKentucky @VOCALTexas @VOCALNewYork raising hell!
Follow & support @VOCALTexas in the fight to #Endhomelessness kut.org/austin/2024-04…
🚨Rally for #HousingNotHandcuffs on Monday 4/22🚨 Leaders from @VOCALKentucky, @VOCALTexas, and @VOCALNewYork will travel to D.C. to rally for housing as a fundamental human necessity & the fight against homelessness. Join us for justice in the #JohnsonVGrantsPass case!
On Friday, several people who live in rapid rehousing said the help is great until it's not. Several of them said they are going to have to move, or worse might end up back on the street, because they can't afford the rent. Read more 👇🏽... via @KUT. kut.org/austin/2024-04…
I’m damn near crying looking at this beautiful image of @VOCALTexas members rocking their shirts. Please follow them and support their work to #EndHomelessness in Texas. @VOCALNewYork and @VOCALKentucky are all working together to transform this country. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Happening now! We’re launching our campaign to Stop the Clock: Fix Austin’s Rapid Rehousing and Invest in Housing for the Poor! Sign on to our campaign here: vocal-tx.org/campaign/stop-…
People who live in rapid rehousing are rallying outside city hall this morning calling for better investments in the program. “Make the program last long enough for us to get into permanent housing.”
Check out this @KXAN_News piece about Rapid Rehousing and ARPA funds, featuring our leader Alfredo Reyes. City of Austin faces tough cuts when ARPA dollars run out, including homelessness services kxan.com/news/city-of-a…
Rent is too damn high, and evictions are rising. VOCAL-NY crew in Albany with @housing4allNY today to say we need change NOW! #HAVP #GoodCause
5 months ago, PEN America asked me to be an honourary co-chair of this year's World Voices Festival. I was honoured. Then I watched what PEN did - and failed to do - about Gaza. Here is a letter from a group of us about why we cannot participate. lithub.com/naomi-klein-is…
Huge thanks to our partners across the country like @MassBudget, @ColorOfChange, @CatalystMiami, and @VOCALTexas who are working to spread the news about #DirectFile!
Drug decriminalization worked to reduce the harms of criminalization. Oregon leaders didn’t. Their decades of underfunding of housing, addiction services & health care are to blame for the suffering seen in Oregon’s streets. My piece in @thedailybeast: thedailybeast.com/oregons-making…
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