Two migrants drowned this month in canals along the encampments.
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Or in encampments where some have been murdered or raped.
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Tent encampments are common just blocks away from Twitter headquarters.
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The resistance in the encampments has been creative and beautiful.
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Many of them live in the encampments that dot the city.
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One of Oakland's largest encampments is tucked behind a Home Depot.
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Authorities mobilized on Thursday to forcibly remove protesters from their encampments.
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The authorities have begun clearing out encampments on the city's streets.
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"Literally every day they are breaking up homeless encampments," Bluthenthal said.
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Clearing out tent encampments because they are a public health issue.
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About 4,000 Kurdish soldiers now occupied 100 positions and small encampments.
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The regional group collaborated with food banks, encampments and police volunteers.
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But while the sand may be disappearing, the encampments are booming.
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Vacant lots, industrial blocks and underpasses nearby fill with semipermanent encampments.
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The military has penetrated Boko Haram's large encampments and forest enclaves.
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Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is cracking down on migrant encampments around France.
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For their part, ravens probably liked the free pickings around human encampments.
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If you have human homeless encampments, the waste is measured in tons.
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Oakland's Mayor, Libby Schaaf has even said she doesn't endorse the encampments.
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A number of their encampments feature mock guillotines dedicated to the president.
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Homeless encampments on city streets have grown more and more pronounced recently.
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In others, residents of neighboring settlements pointed the mapping teams to encampments.
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Some stayed put at shelters and tent encampments, debating what to do.
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"Visiting different encampments I was hugged, people kissed my hand," he said.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked the Mall with makeshift encampments and drumming circles.
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And Quezada noted that San Francisco is actively moving people out of encampments.
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Berrios voluntarily moved into La Chimba, one of the original encampments in Antofagasta.
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GUILFOYLE: Homeless encampments and all the above with their hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
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Tensions can run high in such encampments, resulting in violence and, occasionally, riots.
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The city plans to clear the other two encampments in the coming months.
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Plans for additional tent encampments appear to be in the works, as well.
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Every Friday through May 15, I will continue to go to the encampments.
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Along every border they crowded, in wretched encampments of pup tents and debris.
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Clutter and food in homeless encampments offer rats hiding places and additional grub.
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Of course, American allegations that Taliban encampments exist in Pakistan are not new.
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Our librarians visit homeless encampments where they bring Wi-Fi hotspots and other resources.
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There are encampments of permanently homeless people for blocks and blocks and it's normal.
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San Francisco, on the other hand, has nearly eliminated such encampments in recent years.
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Seattle works with nonprofit Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) to oversee the homeless encampments.
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You can find this notion mirrored in the more libertarian encampments of Silicon Valley.
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Israeli forces targeted encampments that appeared to have been vacated in anticipation of attack.
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Right now, Watts said, clearing out homeless encampments could add risks for homeless individuals.
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There are encampments in Tijuana with more than 683,000 families waiting to be processed.
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Tent encampments across California are testing residents' tolerance and compassion as street conditions deteriorate.
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Tent encampments have sprouted seemingly everywhere — under freeway overpasses, in parks, on street corners.
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Economic assessments of helping the homeless tend not to include other costs, like deployment of first responders to encampments, periodic showpiece cleanups of those encampments, street cleaning services, losses in tourism and business dollars, and all the other things cities pay attention to.
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Since then, reports of "illegal encampments" have soared from ten to nearly 100 per day.
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To combat homelessness and growing encampments, American mayors are increasingly putting their police to use.
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Stockton, California, firefighters have complained they constantly put out blazes at homeless encampments this year.
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At the protest encampments that dot Gaza's border with Israel, the numbers of demonstrators dwindled.
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Asylum seekers ended up in school gymnasiums, shuttered big-box stores and crowded tent encampments.
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Tented government encampments dot the exurbs where people wait for bags of food to arrive.
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Destroy or seize any encampments and belongings that might contribute to the spread of disease.
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But UNHCR has nothing to do with these makeshift encampments along the US-Mexico border.
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A: Homelessness is the top priority and dealing with tent encampments, mental illness and addiction.
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But UNHCR has nothing to do with these makeshift encampments along the US-Mexico border.
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Trump administration officials visited sprawling homeless encampments in Los Angeles just days ago, AP reports.
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The settlement could make it more difficult to seize and destroy encampments on Skid Row.
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They installed hand-wash stations near homeless encampments, distributed portapotties, and washed streets with bleach solution.
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The sex market and drug trade thrived in the area, and homeless encampments dotted its streets.
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Military-focused "encampments," meanwhile, are home to barracks and other facilities for cultivating a fighting force.
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But when encampments are sanctioned and infused with ample services, cash, and infrastructure, they can work.
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Historically, they lived in caravans in encampments on the side of the road or in fields.
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Today, she lives in one of the encampments with her husband, her daughter and a granddaughter.
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Instead of a raid, about 1,500 people joined celebratory encampments near the military base on Friday.
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With no room for more refugees, the camp has overflowed into rough encampments beyond its fences.
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Houses transformed into drug dens, factories into spaces to shoot up, rail yards into homeless encampments.
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Over that time, Bredenberg said, he's been party to 12 evictions of homeless encampments in Berkeley.
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Such encampments are just one way that immigration officials have responded to the influx of migrants.
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And … the other conflicting advice is CDC has also said that encampments should not be cleared.
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Mr. Gorelik said he saw a connection between the 90 homeless encampments in Oakland and crime.
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Increasingly, encampments are nestling against wild lands, raising concerns amid increasingly intense and volatile wildfire seasons.
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Homeless encampments are rife with crime and disease; no one seems to have a satisfactory answer.
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He was among thousands at the tented encampments that have sprung up at the Gaza-Israel frontier.
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As migrants face major human rights violations in federal encampments, he is silent, unlike many other physicians.
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And he announced that immigrants who are refused humanitarian protection would henceforth be shut into closed encampments.
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If you have seen the homeless encampments in California, that is the consequence of destructive progressive policies.
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When she arrived, encampments set up around the National Mall formed the main hub of the protest.
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Despite the benefits, encampments can have a rough time shaking the reputations of their unsanctioned, unregulated counterparts.
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And the city has taken steps to try to keep the tent encampments off some downtown streets.
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Liberal would soon become a hotspot for spiritualism, with encampments featuring mediums attracting thousands to Catalpa Park.
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Akron is one of several Midwestern cities to have had painful reckonings with homeless encampments this year.
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In early 2018, Leilani Farha, a special rapporteur on housing for the UN, visited Oakland's homeless encampments.
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The people we approach on the streets and in encampments tend to be the longer-term users.
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Hoover, fearing disorder, had the protesters in 22008 teargassed and their protest encampments destroyed by the Army.
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Pugh's administration had been clearing encampments for years, but this was the largest dismantled during her tenure.
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With nowhere else to go, the homeless often set up encampments on sidewalks and beneath highway overpasses.
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Along LA's skid row downtown, tents line entire blocks, and encampments in other neighborhoods have been growing.
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"San Francisco will continue to be a compassionate city," Farrell said when asked about pushback to clearing encampments.
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San Francisco residents erected giant boulders along a two-block alley to prevent homeless encampments in the area.
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And residents bring a host of safety and sanitation concerns connected to where the encampments would be placed.
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Some of them joined the encampments at Emerald Street and Frankford Avenue or pitched tents in abandoned lots.
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That's one reason why encampments have seen devastating outbreaks of hepatitis A, typhus, and shigella in the past.
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Eventually, some encampments are pushed onto the sidewalks, where a cat-and-mouse ritual ensues with sanitation workers.
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Some farmers are able to sleep in encampments for safety at night, returning periodically to check on crops.
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The thickly forested setting is gorgeous, once you look past the armed militia encampments pitched in the woods.
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Several cities are suspending evictions to avoid adding to the population of people sleeping in encampments and shelters.
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Tearing down encampments on public property where people are trying to survive does not help people overcome misery.
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While this displacement might not be as visible as the homeless encampments under the 101 overpass, it's still happening.
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It's aiming to start with "at least several thousand people" in the rallies, and continue with semi-permanent encampments.
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Image: GettyProposition Q, an upcoming ballot measure to rid San Francisco's streets of homeless encampments, has divided the city.
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If done correctly, the city-authorized encampments can enable the city to ultimately house people in more stable conditions.
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San Francisco has cleared out some encampments, only for them to sprout up in other parts of the city.
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They passed through UNHCR encampments, where many of their neighbors and friends applied for refugee status in other countries.
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He stood just feet from the network television encampments, though none had sent cameras or reporters to cover him.
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City and county officials were also concerned about how this would impact the myriad encampments scattered across the region.
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In city after city, homeless encampments have sprung up on sidewalks, in parks and under bridges, vexing local governments.
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The idea for border encampments was initiated by a Gazan social-media activist, Ahmed Abu Artema, a political independent.
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Though cooking fires in the open are illegal, orange flames can frequently be seen from the encampments after dark.
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He's had trouble forming relationships, was prone to alcoholic rages pre-medication, and finds himself obsessing over homeless encampments.
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Unsightly portable toilets were padlocked and removed, tent-laden encampments that lined downtown blocks near the stadium were evicted.
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The contrast with this wealth is sprawled on the sidewalks across the city in tent encampments and cardboard boxes.
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Encampments like Mr. Garza's have become firm fixtures of L.A.'s landscape as the homelessness crisis gets steadily worse.
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The Wet'suwet'en encampments had become a flashpoint in a larger struggle for Indigenous sovereignty—and against a warming planet.
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Honolulu has dealt with this problem, in part, by sweeping homeless encampments or blocking off public spaces at night.
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Some have set up encampments in Mexican border towns, where they're increasingly preyed upon by gangs and drug cartels.
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"No clandestine immigrants, no squeegee merchants and no Roma encampments [in Moscow]," tweeted Mr Salvini during a visit in 2014.
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And thus the birth of the humanities came about, in storytelling and the "nocturnal firelight of the earliest human encampments".
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The number of encampments in Antofagasta has risen from four to 50 in the last four years, according to Parra.
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The city wasn't sure exactly how many people were living there, but six encampments were cleared out across the city.
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These new encampments were all within a half-mile corridor, just a short walk from where El Campamento had been.
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"Unless individual housing units are available, do not clear encampments during community spread of COVID-19," reads the CDC website.
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Encampments like the one on the side of a highway in Guánica have no access to running water or bathrooms.
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The New York Times counted more than 100 homeless encampments in Oakland alone, including the one where Ms. Martinez sleeps.
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They also cut down trees in remote logging encampments in the Russian Far East that resemble Stalin-era prison camps.
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The Texas Department of Transportation posted notices last week at 17 locations announcing it would soon clear out the encampments.
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Outside, barricades and razor wire divide Kabul's streets into the private armed encampments where Afghan élites and foreign diplomats live.
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But the approved encampments also raise questions among people who say the problem needs a much larger, more permanent solution.
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The special treatment for Gassama comes as authorities prepare to evacuate some 2,400 migrants from makeshift encampments in the French capital.
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But they were famously used to disrupt homeless encampments and will soon enter schools as an alternative to trained resource officers.
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In that role she sees patients in clinics, on sidewalks and at encampments - and the effect a lack of housing has.
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His employees, who took jobs to build roads and fix bridges, are now being made to clean up homeless encampments statewide.
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Crews cleared homeless encampments in parts of the Sepulveda Basin as more rain is expected Sunday, according to CNN affiliate KTLA.
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"The question is, has the government done its due diligence to ensure that this particular encampments will be safe?" she said.
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In the 1860s, he toured the American West, where he painted tableaus of American Indian dancers, tent encampments and horseback riders.
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Akron is one of several Midwestern cities coping with homeless encampments, and city officials said the tent community violated zoning rules.
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The lawsuit asserts that Facebook groups where residents were complaining about homeless encampments led to the man being harassed by police.
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In Paris, makeshift encampments of migrants under bridges and in parks are regularly evacuated by the police, only to grow again.
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So far there have been no mass encampments on the Nebraska prairie, no tense standoffs with the police, no highway blockades.
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Seattle's homelessness crisis has also worsened, with tent encampments sprouting up by the side of freeways, under bridges and in parks.
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The Umbrella Movement was frayed by infighting over protest tactics and by legal injunctions that whittled away at demonstrators' street encampments.
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Although some homeless people like Rodriguez chose to stay in their downtown encampments, the city said their efforts were largely successful.
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Within weeks, Occupy Wall Street encampments sprung up across the nation and inspired protests in hundreds of cities around the world.
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In the recent weeks, Turkish authorities have documented an increase in threats posed by the Y.P.G. and Daesh encampments in Syria.
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Thousands of migrants are living in crowded shelters and encampments in Tijuana after traveling from Central America to escape poverty and violence.
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Beyond the well-being of the city's homeless population, the encampments have raised a broad array of public heath and safety concerns.
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Many local residents have expressed growing frustration with the rubbish, bodily waste and discarded needles that often come with homeless tent encampments.
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And complaints about encampments of homeless people have risen from 22008 in 22009 to 42,208 in 2017 — a surge of almost 7,200%.
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"backwoods encampments," direct actions against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and massive anti-Iraq War protests in the early 2000s.
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"This situation will be repeated indefinitely if measures are not taken by local authorities to prevent encampments from being rebuilt," he warned.
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Earlier this year they defeated jihadists who flew Islamic State's black flag over their encampments in Sunni parts of Lebanon's mountainous north.
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Together, Kim and Martinez drove around the city as Martinez pointed out the many homeless encampments, all littered with trash and debris.
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YouTube videos show makeshift homeless encampments on the island, and it is widely known as a haven for ambitious high school keggers.
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And not everyone — especially residents who live near encampments that have burned down or seen outbreaks of disease — can see the benefits.
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There was a 20 percent increase in tents, encampments and vehicles there, not counting the cities of Glendale, Long Beach and Pasadena.
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"It might be that if you drive on the freeway you're going to see encampments from time to time," Ms. Kazantzis said.
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To produce "Life on the Streets," the reporter Nate Schweber and Joshua Bright, a photographer, visited homeless encampments across New York City.
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There also are homeless at encampments in other parts of the city and some have been blamed for causing destructive brush fires.
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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and the group's Gaza leader, Yehya Al-Sinwar, joined separate protest encampments raising cheers from the assembled crowds.
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They imagined protests on the scale of those over the Keystone Pipeline, with similar encampments to those in South Dakota last year.
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In the past few years, homeless encampments across the West Coast have seen sometimes deadly outbreaks of hepatitis A, typhus, and shigellosis.
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Emzigar is only one—and by no means the largest—of hundreds of encampments that have proliferated throughout Niger's mountainous, desert north.
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Most of the protesters in the tent encampments remained well away from the border fence and did not participate in the violence.
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They documented egregious uses of force against peaceful protesters, violent late-night raids on quiet encampments, arbitrary rules enforcement and baseless arrests.
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London Breed, a leading candidate in next week's mayoral elections, has promised to sweep the streets of homeless encampments within a year.
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Because shelters in Mexico are scant and overrun, many of the migrants are living in vast tent encampments exposed to the elements.
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Cheryl Camany, the school district's homeless liaison, listed the types of dwellings where some farmworkers slept: "Tents, encampments, abandoned buildings," she said.
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Stunned residents, fearing the worst, have abandoned homes for cars and vans, for mattresses dragged onto sidewalks and sprawling tent-covered encampments.
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Homelessness is a crisis of resources, but it's treated like a crime—encampments are illegal, crackdowns are frequent, and housing shelters are overburdened.
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BuzzFeed News crisscrossed 13 miles in St. Thomas and saw military presence at four locations: two encampments and two distribution centers near downtown.
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Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a city councilor, said the expansion of encampments from downtown to freeway overpasses throughout the city had helped spur action.
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San Francisco's SPCA has deployed an autonomous, crime-fighting robot to keep homeless people from making tent encampments in front of their building.
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You would think that with all this sophistication, homelessness would dramatically decrease, yet communities are still struggling with growing encampments, RVs and tents.
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The calculation is that as people confront growing encampments lining sidewalks from downtown Los Angeles to Venice their attitudes toward homelessness are changing.
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But today we got to dive into some of the more open-world elements where you can sneak around encampments and plant traps.
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Deep in the rainforest, the Bayaka had split up into smaller groups of 20 as they sat out the war in makeshift encampments.
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Tent encampments spread out on sidewalks across the city, far beyond the dystopian scene on Skid Row where the population was once concentrated.
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In Maiduguri, Bono met with local government officials and toured encampments for people who had fled their villages as Boko Haram closed in.
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The city council had primarily described the new rule as a mechanism to break up homeless encampments, which pepper the streets of downtown.
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Unhoused people are subjected to harassment and displacement, and homeless encampments across the state are a source of major controversy and contention. 5.
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Informal encampments, planted in agricultural fields and on windy hillsides, lined the road from the border to the small town of Maarat Misrin.
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Informal encampments, planted in agricultural fields and on windy hillsides, lined the road from the border to the small town of Maarat Misrin.
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Today, elaborate encampments with tents, mattresses and camping stoves can be seen tucked into freeway underpasses and on corners all over the city.
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The military bases the United States maintained for eight years in Iraq and 22017 years to date in Afghanistan were hardly spartan encampments.
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Even though there's a shelter-in-place order, there are still encampments all around my neighborhood, all around everyone's neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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If there were a coronavirus outbreak in one of these encampments -- which are already short on medical supplies -- the results could be catastrophic.
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There's people out here in the encampments who have jobs—several people have jobs—and they leave their tents to go to work.
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For the next 10 months, he shuffled among an organic farm, a refugee camp at the county fairgrounds and encampments along rural highways.
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But some two dozen migrants interviewed in the Ciudad Juárez encampments said their decision had nothing to do with a smuggler's marketing appeal.
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In August, police in Boston raided homeless encampments, tossing people's belongings—including medical supplies and wheelchairs—into garbage trucks, where they were crushed.
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The administration has considered razing tent encampments and sheltering people on federal property, though the details of the forthcoming plan remain unclear. Gov.
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Lloyd still shows up, focused on finding and bringing hand sanitizer to the encampments, potentially exposing himself to people who contracted the virus.
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They cautioned that the policy will imperil the lives of immigrants, including many families with children, stuck in encampments and shelters in Mexico.
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I mean, when they show her, the California leader, the pictures of those homeless encampments under overpasses in California, she calls them California condos.
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It's particularly jarring seeing shots of the city's landmark areas, which are typically populated by international tourists, instead covered with trash and homeless encampments.
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Los Angeles has faced a growing homelessness crisis in recent years, with the number of people living on the streets and in encampments skyrocketing.
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Safety in numbers, a lack of available shelter space, and strict shelter rules drive homeless people to pitch tents in encampments across the nation.
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Mark Farrell, the city's mayor, said in April that there would be an "aggressive" push to clear tent encampments out of the Mission District.
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By day's end, the raiders had destroyed two dozen encampments and 15 mining derricks, and invaded mining camps far better equipped than their own.
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Still, some community leaders are critical of how Villaraigosa handled the homeless issue, especially the increasing number of encampments in neighborhoods such as Venice.
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Sometimes it is Honduran security forces firing tear gas and live rounds into their encampments situated deep within the jungle of palm oil plantations.
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Update | Our Student Council member Jane Michel also suggests questions for further research and debate: Should the government create designated encampments for homeless people?
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Raised in poverty, and the first African-American woman chosen to lead the city, Breed has vowed to remove homeless encampments within a year.
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On Tuesday, a delegation from the Trump administration visited Los Angeles' "Skid Row," one of the largest entrenched homeless encampments in the United States.
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City officials have identified at least 14 encampments of more than 25 people, and have placed portable toilets and handwashing stations in these areas.
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They take up space on some of the city's most crowded corridors and encourage loitering and homeless encampments near Pennsylvania Station and other places.
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They have found piles of trash by the Platte River and human waste on sidewalk encampments by Coors Field, where the Colorado Rockies play.
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In a pinch, it might be able to postpone census taking in difficult spots like homeless encampments until the worst of the pandemic passes.
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Like many other Bedouin encampments, residents of Khan al-Ahmar live in corrugated shacks or tents, often without electricity or running water, and raise livestock.
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This offers a vertical dimension with which you can traverse the world, encouraging you to try out different ways to explore and infiltrate enemy encampments.
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Spokespeople with the Morton County sheriff's department and highway patrol say it adds a 10 to 15 minute detour for the people in the encampments.
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"All of us have encampments on one corner or another, under one freeway pass or another," said Mr. Harris-Dawson, who co-sponsored the legislation.
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"I don't want to see encampments any more than a city does," said Eric Tars, legal director at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.
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The mayor of Burlington, Miro Weinberger, said that the city had a chronic homelessness problem despite initiatives to remove the encampments in a "humane" way.
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General Sisi launched a scorched-earth assault on two encampments, killing in a matter of hours at least 2628 supporters of the deposed President Morsi.
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A few blocks from Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's new home is one of the largest encampments of homeless people I've ever seen in an American city.
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Dawoud Shehab, a member of the organizing committee, said activities at the encampments would get under way only in the late afternoon when temperatures drop.
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But she does not have the luxury of staying away from people — she needs public transit to get around and sometimes sleeps in homeless encampments.
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Migrants fear being spotted by the heavily armed police forces, who regularly rouse encampments, crushing or slashing tents so they can no longer be used.
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But L'Enfant's image shows something described in documents that has disappeared: the elaborate neoclassical wooden entrance erected in front of the tent at some encampments.
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Mr. Macron turned his attention to migrants last week in a speech in Orléans, vowing then to end the phenomenon of migrant encampments in France.
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She recently visited California, where an increase in income inequality and a lack of affordable housing have combined to push many people into homeless encampments.
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Much of the highway is still dirt now, and the local government has placed security guards to ward off squatter encampments on the empty stretches.
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You can use "bait" to calm an animal enough for taming, but you can't use it as a lure to guide dangerous creatures into enemy encampments?
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Known as Proposition Q, the initiative would make it easier for authorities to clear the dozens of tent encampments that have sprung up on city pavements.
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People often vent about homeless issues and encampments on the website, but individuals experiencing homelessness can't even access the site, because it requires a verified address.
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Clearing encampments and removing the homeless from public spaces are far from permanent solutions, raise constitutional questions, and lack the compassionate approach the mayor has promised.
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Seattle, like other West Coast cities including Portland and Los Angeles, has been struggling with a ballooning homeless problem and growing illegal encampments across the city.
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The protest began on March 30, and has seen tent encampments spring up near the Israeli-imposed restricted zone along the 40km (25-mile) border fence.
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As Europe struggles to prevent migrants from reaching the Continent, tensions appeared to be growing at Greek encampments used to house the migrants who do arrive.
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But alongside those views are tent encampments on sidewalks and rag-covered homeless people in front of some of the most expensive real estate in America.
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The government said it had discovered forest encampments that proved Muslim "extremists" were responsible for the killings and a spate of other murders in northern Rakhine.
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The militants are believed to be holding three Filipinos and 18 foreigners, including two Canadians and a Norwegian, mostly in their jungle encampments on Jolo island.
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It came to an end following the 20113 Memorial Day riot, when the park was forcibly closed and the homeless encampments, known as Dinkinsville, were razed.
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On the Mexican side of the border, thousands of families are crammed into tent encampments, where unsanitary conditions and exposure to the elements have caused illness.
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Yet these types of characters and encampments are not new to the park and have historically made the park an ad hoc cultural center for decades.
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Now, the way I read that is they're saying, if there's no place for people to go, don't move encampments, that can actually move the virus.
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His haunting images, reduced to monochromatic shades, document the actual movement and encampments of human beings as they migrated from North Africa and the Middle East.
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Ms. Breed, whose brother is in prison and whose sister died of a drug overdose, says she would remove encampments from the streets within a year.
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Organizers of the protest, called the "Great March of Return", said they expected tens of thousands of Gazans at tented border encampments in the coming days.
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A student, standing in one of the encampments on campus set up by protesters in 2015, applauds following the announcement that Tim Wolfe was stepping down.
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Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday took action that aligns with one of Carson's recommendations, which was to give police more power to clear homeless encampments.
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But encampments of displaced people, even in the accessible and relatively safe Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with its huge markets, still lack enough food and water.
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Last week, the union representing employees of the California Department of Transportation filed a grievance over what it described as hazardous conditions cleaning up waste from encampments.
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San Diego's homeless encampments experienced a widespread outbreak of hepatitis A this year, with the disease eventually spreading to homeless communities in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.
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"On instruction of the president, pedagogical visits by FARC delegates to their encampments to explain the accords are suspended," de la Calle said in a televised statement.
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There were hundreds of open-air garbage dumps, spread out across Afghanistan and Iraq, right next to encampments where American soldiers lived and worked, ate and slept.
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They have sought to negotiate with the pro-Ukrainian activists, holding off from forcibly breaking up the encampments on rail lines in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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That same month, the Democratic-run Los Angeles government petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to ask for legal power to forcibly sweep homeless encampments off the streets.
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Joggers and cyclists must dodge litter, overgrown vegetation and improvised encampments of homeless people, despite decades of promises by city officials to clean up the river's banks.
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We are now planning to look at homeless encampments across California, and the way government is responding to them, in rural and suburban communities in the state.
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Here in Ciudad Juárez, they have been sleeping under plastic tarps in squalid encampments near the three main border bridges, enduring falling temperatures and bitterly cold rains.
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And most major encampments were swept away by winter cold and a coordinated crackdown by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, local police — and even some banks.
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As she self-quarantines at home, Lloyd visits the encampments two or three times a week, talking to people, bringing in portable toilets and delivering trash bags.
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The marker reflects the massive outpouring of support the NoDAPL protests received during the encampments, which began in October of 43 and continued until earlier this year.
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"The White House is taking steps toward decisive new action on homelessness, bucking policies favored by advocates in favor of an aggressive approach that centers the role of law enforcement," CityLab reported on Dec 17, 2019: Advocates say that they expect an executive order on homelessness to assign new resources to police departments to remove homeless encampments and even strip housing funds from cities that choose to tolerate these encampments.
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But the most shameful and vivid symbols of Jerry Brown's failure must surely be the staggering, Third World-style homeless encampments on the streets of California's big cities.
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Palestinian youths burned Israeli flags and planted Palestinian banners on dirt mounds beside tented encampments as others arrived on large trucks carrying piles of more tires to burn.
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But many resent the way geopolitical tensions and a hawkish government are spreading the curse of military encampments: previously, the southern Ryukyus had but one small radar base.
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Initially, he'd imagined the construction of the homeless encampments as a cost, but the ones in the film were all too easy to find in Oakland in 2017.
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Under its "Roma Plan", Rome has scheduled the clearance of three official camps, with the La Barbuta and Monachina encampments set to follow the closure of Camping River.
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More than 40 Palestinians have been killed during six weeks of protests and tens of thousands of Gazans are expected at tented border encampments in the coming days.
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Instead of just following a set path, I was able to go basically anywhere I wanted, and I often found myself distracted by running animals and enemy encampments.
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As San Francisco officials clamber to find a solution for the city's escalating homelessness crisis, locals have taken some extreme measures to block homeless encampments on their streets.
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His troops may be heavily armed, but especially at sunset, when they withdraw to their encampments for the night, it is clear to everyone that they are outnumbered.
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The non-profit does not run any buildings or health services in Victoria, but has assisted with similar pop-up encampments in Vancouver and Abbotsford in the past.
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The Nigerian military has struggled to gain the upper hand against fighters now armed with drones, machinery and weapons they have stolen from raiding military encampments and convoys.
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The Palestinian organizers of the protest bused men, women and children to tent encampments that popped up in recent days about 700 yards from the border with Israel.
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Mr. Salvini, Italy's interior minister, has proposed a census of Italy's Roma population to expel those without citizenship and has livestreamed the bulldozing of some of their encampments.
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They're beautiful wastelands writ small, delicately dotted with suggestions of trash; ruined structures and abandoned encampments; occasional tiny flags or palm trees; and enticing little pileups of paint.
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Because the truth is that breaking up the encampments is about political realities; it's not about the health of the homeless people or the health of the community.
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And depending on how the new emergency shelters are set up — or if they're too crowded — some people might actually be better off staying in their own encampments.
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Some migrants complained of a sleepless night on Tuesday in the town of Huixtla because of a rumor that a band of baby snatchers was prowling the encampments.
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In 2018, a report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development stated that there were 402 homeless encampments in part of the Midtown Manhattan area alone.
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"I can't accept the putting in place of facilities which will once again facilitate the creation of encampments and slums," she said in a statement late on Monday.
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In January, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) conducted a raid to break up the encampments the Wet'suwet'en had set up to block pipeline workers from the land.
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While they wait in Mexico, migrants have had to weather difficult and dangerous conditions in encampments along the border, living under tents or tarps and using makeshift bathrooms.
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The authorities began on Friday to clear out the latest encampments, as the city of Paris feuds with the French government over who is responsible for the migrants.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians began a six-week-long protest last Friday in tent encampments set up along the fenced border of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
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In St. Augustine, Florida, a city of 14,000 with 28 homeless encampments, Mayor Nancy Shaver said officials were encouraging people to head to shelters, but not all responded.
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In Sicily's capital city of Palermo — famous for its Baroque and Art Nouveau monuments, markets, gardens, sunny beaches, and theaters — thousands of asylum-seekers are currently living in encampments.
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In Colombia's civil war, the leftists were mostly guerrillas fighting from encampments in the forest, and, at their worst, engaged in cut-and-dried acts of terrorism against civilians.
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The Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness and other advocates urged Mr. Murray in a letter last month to stop the "sweeps" of such encampments without offering alternative shelter.
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And though no one died in fire, the extent of the destruction does appear to represent a new level of property damage caused by fires originating in homeless encampments.
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"The reason I supported encampments is for someone to have a safe place to sleep for a very short period of time," Murray told the Seattle Times in December.
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It's unclear how long Garneau served as his police department's homeless liaison, but he was involved in annual homeless counts at tent encampments across Lowell, the Lowell Sun reported.
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A Trump-loving real estate developer showed up to one of Oakland's largest homeless encampments Friday morning and promised people thousands of dollars if the entire camp cleared out.
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While Oakland doesn't currently sanction any tent cities, the city has provided portable toilets and trash pickup at well-established tent encampments, including the 22011th Avenue Rangers, since 22017.
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Robbins, who lived near the Oakland homeless camp that burned down, agrees the city should build some sanctioned encampments — like the RV parks — but only in specific, regulated locations.
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Although the boulders in Clinton Park have been taken away, public-works department officials have said they're still open to other ways to block homeless encampments — including larger boulders.
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The landmark decision was met with roaring celebration and cautious optimism from thousands of water protectors, many of whom were bracing for a long, harsh winter at makeshift encampments.
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At the same time, concrete walls were going up around US military installations and encampments; within weeks, soldiers could construct a large walled compound replete with hardened guard towers.
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Since 203, the camp has often relied on smaller overflow encampments, but in five visits over the past three years, I had never seen the spillover extend so far.
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By hour 10 or 15 of tackling enemy encampments, figuring out a platforming puzzles, finding hidden collectibles, or simply stringing together hundreds of attacks, I'm ready to move on.
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Armed guards, violence and robberies are common in the remote encampments, where desperate men dig in open pits or barely shored-up tunnels for gold, diamonds and other minerals.
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But all around us, in the elaborate encampments that families build on the sand, I see the small daily family stories and I know the parental parts by heart.
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San Francisco has also pioneered a new model of homeless shelter, known as a Navigation Center, that invites entire encampments — pets included — to come in from the cold together.
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As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange's images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California's present.
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This is only a shocking response if you didn't know that DPW—which, to reiterate, is a public agency—have themselves previously used boulders as buttress against homeless encampments.
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But warm weather or not, police have repeatedly descended upon tent encampments to perform "sweeps" across California that destroy tents and force homeless people to relocate to other neighborhoods.
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Syrian refugees panhandle by the roadsides near the Avenue de la Porte de la Villette, while encampments of homeless African men warm themselves over fires on a highway median.
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As cameras were too slow back then to stop action, landscapes became war reports: Here are encampments, here is a battlefield (the bodies lie below), here a general died.
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The message struck a chord with some frustrated homeowners, who said that the city spent millions on the homeless programs and yet encampments stood by their homes and parks.
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In the speech, the mayor defended some of the actions he had taken to tackle the growing problem, referring to criticism that his administration has forced people out of encampments.
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Their media relations manager told Business Insider that since implementing the robot, known as K9, one month ago, the homeless encampments have decreased and there are fewer car break-ins.
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CINCINNATI – City officials early Wednesday cleared out a downtown Cincinnati homeless camp, and workers began cleaning it up in the latest development in a long-running debate on such encampments.
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She traveled from Sacred Stone Camp, the first of three encampments near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where thousands of people are gathered to block the pipeline crossing under Lake Oahe.
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Although organizers say the main protest is intended to be peaceful, some protesters have advanced toward the border from the encampments to hurl stones and burning tires near the fence.
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Liz Hersh, the director of the Office of Homeless Services in the city, described the underpass encampments as one of the most complex and challenging aspects of Philadelphia's opioid crisis.
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But France has lost 44 soldiers since 2013, including 13 in a helicopter accident last year; Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have lost hundreds in multiple attacks on military encampments.
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And city council members in Los Angeles are advocating for more hand-washing stations at the city's numerous homeless encampments so people can better meet the CDC's recommendations for prevention.
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The potential Trump administration policy to remove homeless people from their encampments could be unpopular with the West Coast activists who argue police sweeps amount to a civil rights violation.
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In addition to the four front-runners, the ballot also includes Amy Farah Weiss, a homeless advocate, who wants to redeploy money spent on tent encampments for more permanent housing.
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UN agencies are working on improving capacity in migrant shelters, sending migrants back to their home countries, and informing migrants of their options, but haven't delivered aid to the encampments.
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Tent encampments — Oakland city officials count 103 of them — are now as much a part of the landscape as the bars and restaurants that cater to the city's rising affluence.
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UN agencies are working on improving capacity in migrant shelters, sending migrants back to their home countries and informing migrants of their options, but haven't delivered aid to the encampments.
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Cleaning up the encampments is a good first step to address the growing threat to public health and safety, but solving the problem will require a more robust policy solution.
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Officials there announced last week that they'd suspend sweeps of encampments and pass out more sanitation supplies to keep people safe, but the county is still short thousands of beds.
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Damp and cold conditions bring influenza and infections to the crowded tent encampments that have swelled in recent years as soaring property prices have sent more people onto the street.
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This was America during the financial crisis: The banks had been bailed out, but not homeowners, and the era of Tea Party rallies and Occupy Wall Street encampments was imminent.
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Though the city does routine cleanups in Skid Row and in other parts of the city, trash from abandoned encampments is a constant eyesore, littered across freeway exits and under bridges.
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Occupy Wall Street encampments in public spaces, which started in New York and spread to cities nation-wide and across the globe, were by-and-large demolished by local law enforcement.
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The funds paid for case management, permanent housing units, temporary shelters, and 96 new outreach workers for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) who make regular visits to homeless encampments.
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And while all of these groups face resistance from entrenched power—indeed, local police busted up the Occupy encampments the moment they grew weary of them—these movements have scored victories.
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The relocation from informal encampments to the official shelter, located at the Butte County Fairground 30 miles from Chico, began over the weekend with the assistance of the American Red Cross.
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But many places around the country, Oakland included, have started homeless encampments themselves — or at least allowed people to occupy a small slice of land to make living outside more humane.
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The Clinton Park residents' decision to set up the boulders follows the lead of San Francisco's city government, which placed boulders under a highway in 2017 to block homeless encampments there.
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Refusing to recognize Calderón's win, he led a protest in the capital, where his followers stopped traffic, erected tented encampments, and held rallies in the historic Zócalo and along Reforma Avenue.
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Helen Rosenthal, the city councilwoman who represents the area, said her office had received many complaints about bad behavior by vendors on the block and about the tables becoming unsightly encampments.
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As of Wednesday night, Mr. Bouckaert said, migrants appeared to be leaving Idomeni for other points within Greece as word of the blocked route through the Balkans rippled through the encampments.
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Since the policy was put in place at the beginning of last year, tens of thousands of people have waited for immigration hearings in unsanitary tent encampments exposed to the elements.
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Shanta Schachter, a community development consultant who was hired by Conrail during the cleanup as a liaison between the company and neighborhood organizations, watched the new encampments grow throughout the winter.
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Then there's the fact that encampments and shelters often pack homeless people in close quarters, and that homeless people don't often have a place to quarantine themselves once they get sick.
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Although officials plan to bring hand-washing stations, portable toilets, and weekly shower stations to these encampments, it's simply not enough to ensure the safety of homeless people during this outbreak.
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In his letter, Carson said an over-regulated housing market in California had reduced the stock of affordable housing and its policies undercut the ability of police to remove homeless encampments.
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Meanwhile, cities like Oakland have used the ruling as an opportunity to address homelessness through other means, like providing services to encampments so they're cleaner and don't upset neighborhoods as much.
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Republicans in state government who have long preached an anti-big-government mantra are in turn inserting themselves into local issues, including Mr. Abbott's recent focus on homeless encampments in Austin.
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I think they should focus on the fears that are legitimate, California is in trouble with the homeless situation, the sanitary situation, the disease problems that are culminating from these homeless encampments.
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Hamas plans to maintain the encampments near the border and to hold similar rallies every Friday until May 14th, the 70th anniversary of Israel's establishment, which the Palestinians call the Nakba (catastrophe).
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Three decades on, hundreds of its victims are still living in hovels in encampments across the sprawling city of 20 million and now the latest quake has made thousands more people homeless.
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In June, Palm Beach County Commissioner Hal Valeche told local station CBS-12 that the county was placing porta-potties at some larger homeless encampments, and recognized the root of the problem.
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But advocates and experts concede so-called "sanctioned" encampments — or those given legal permission to exist — are at least better than ignoring or trying to conceal the problem without offering any solutions.
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"The demand is for the immediate settlement of more than 120,000 families (living) in encampments throughout the country," the MST said in a statement, referring to informal rural squats dotted across Brazil.
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I guess they could be imagined as rebels or insurgents, but the game kept calling them barbarians, streaming well-equipped anti-tank soldiers out of primitive wooden encampments well into the 1980s.
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As a rule, Hamas and the organizing committee have strained to distance themselves from efforts to breach the fence, in order to avoid giving Israel a pretext to attack the tent encampments.
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Purple paint is slathered across the back of a gorgeous fox-fur coat, while two apparently lovely abstractions painted by Hammons are largely concealed by tattered plastic fabrics, reminiscent of homeless encampments.
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The Poroshenko government not only co-opted the cause of the Ukrainian nationalists on Wednesday but also cracked down on them, with the police routing them from their encampments and dispersing them.
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"This is a measure backed by the Lee administration and financed by tech investor Ron Conway and downtown interests for whom the central argument is that homeless encampments are dangerous," she wrote.
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The encampments are clustered around bridges linked to US ports of entry along the Rio Grande, where families and children have been waiting for a chance to apply for asylum for months.
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It was the fifth time FARC commanders had traveled to Colombia to meet fighters in their encampments in visits meant to pave the way for rebel disarmament and implementation of a peace agreement.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government has re-authorized visits by rebel peace negotiators from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to guerrilla encampments in the country, the government's negotiating team said on Thursday.
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She encouraged them to pick out a beefy sweater here, a zanily embroidered jeans jacket there, and put the items together in the way the denizens of early hippie encampments might have done.
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The intense media scrutiny of the tent encampments near San Francisco's highway overpasses similarly reveals complex, competing narratives about the relativity of stability and vulnerability and the differences between policy and lived experience.
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Although no coronavirus cases have been reported in any of the county's many homeless encampments, 45 people in the area were diagnosed with the coronavirus and one had died, as of Wednesday morning.
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As many as 30,000 arrived early in the day at tent encampments on Gaza's side of the fence to stage what was billed as the start of a peaceful, six-week sit-in.
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By then the shortcomings of the for-profit real estate market were evident in eviction riots, in sprawling homeless encampments and in cities overflowing with mile after mile of cheap, decrepit frame dwellings.
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Mr. Farrell is also considered a moderate and is perhaps best known for a taking a tougher approach toward the city's homeless problem, sponsoring a ballot measure that banned tent encampments from sidewalks.
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The wildcat encampments have thrust the European migrant issue in the face of Parisians and once again underscored the French government's inability to resolve a problem it hoped Italy and Germany would forestall.
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In assembling our apocalypse boxes, many of us also drove home past the encampments where many people in California are already living, constantly, without power, with a few gadgets hooked up to the sun.
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Refugees and migrants seeking a better, safer life have recently faced a cascade of border closings throughout Europe, and as a result, some refugee encampments in Greece have taken on an air of permanence.
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Encampments are still centered in downtown's Skid Row, but many more tents, shopping carts, and makeshift shelters are popping up on sidewalks, in parks, near overpasses, and under and over bridges throughout the city.
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According to local news reports, dozens opted to settle in those informal encampments rather than seek refuge at the six official Red Cross shelters over concerns of a Norovirus outbreak at some shelter locations.
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In addition to use of excessive force, which has been condemned by human rights organizations, the police had previously made false mass arrests of the protesters in an effort to break up the encampments.
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Even as American cities grapple with a chronic shortage of affordable housing, as well as budget constraints on social programs, many municipalities across the United States have also been clamping down on homeless encampments.
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This summer, more than two thousand African and Middle Eastern migrants were living in street encampments near the Porte de la Chapelle; eventually, the police rounded them up and dispersed them in temporary shelters.
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Hawaii has been struggling with a growing homeless population for years, but its state and county governments have yet to find an effective solution to the encampments that keep popping up around the islands.
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The investigation concluded that faulty intelligence was to blame in only one of the eight episodes, and said that aid groups, such as Doctors Without Borders, should not station medical facilities near Houthi encampments.
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While their stories vary, with lack of affordable housing and stagnant incomes comprising two of the most common threads, many homeless people seek the comfort and stability of community in these urban-tent encampments.
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The city had also agreed to create a website listing all upcoming sweeps, he said, so that people in the encampments would have accurate information, and also so community members could document the actions.
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But in some instances, that took weeks of prodding from the advocates who warned that cities were woefully unprepared for outbreaks among homeless encampments or in the nation's limited and tightly packed congregate shelters.
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The Washington Post reports that representatives from the Trump regime, including staff from HUD, were recently in California and are considering a plan to tear down homeless encampments and move people into temporary facilities.
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The living conditions for homeless people in San Francisco are some of the worst in the world, with discarded needles, human feces, and tent encampments just some regular sights when walking around the city.
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"They said, 'You're going to create another Calais,'" he said, referring to squalid encampments in northern France, since demolished, where thousands of migrants waited in mud, cold and misery, hoping to get to England.
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They turned down a desolate street bounded by thick, unruly trees and brush and saw the detritus of illegal dumping and homeless encampments scattered everywhere — red plastic cups, a water heater, a torn sofa.
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In the fall of 1971, Kiers' family and other followers were ordered to renounce what they had and move into the remote wilderness, where they would begin building encampments to prepare for the coming apocalypse.
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On the outskirts of Sanaa and in towns outside Taiz, clusters of shabby tent encampments housing thousands of families fleeing nearby violence have cropped up, where jobless parents idle and many children shrivel with hunger.
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They can sit in their little castles in the sky while the rest of us in California have to, you know, go near overpasses, which, you know, underneath our encampments buffeted by hills of feces.
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In homeless encampments—which can be found on city sidewalks; under bridges; in local, state, and national parks and on the side of the highway—residents will often use a bucket to do their business.
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Even Jordan, which has long hosted Palestinians as well as refugees from Syria, Sudan and Iraq, has lately closed its borders, leaving tens of thousands of Syrians to set up makeshift encampments in the desert.
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"People are congregating around these Links to the point where they're bringing furniture and building little encampments clustered around them," said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance, a business group in Manhattan.
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Much as Odyssey champions real-world science, its setting is a small set of imagined Caribbean islands, altered over the years by the historical forces of environmental protections, military encampments, pirates, and natives long vanished.
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"You only have one solution: You bulldoze the 50-block radius, and you institutionalize everybody and detoxify them, and then you let them out," Fox News host Jesse Watters said of homeless encampments in June.
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For that reason and more, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that cities leave people sleeping outdoors alone if they're already safe in their encampments and have adequate cleaning supplies.
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Today, "Press a weight" evokes the homeless encampments that have become fixtures in the Los Angeles cityscape, while his characters in this and other installations call up images of people on the margins of society.
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While thousands of protesters have demonstrated peacefully in tent encampments set up at five points along the border, some have hurled stones and firebombs and have defied Israeli warnings to stay away from the fence.
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Even as market reports blared the news of stock markets hitting high after high, we still felt under siege — medical bills mounted, or we saw fellow inhabitants of our cities driven to burgeoning homeless encampments.
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In the weeks since the Texas Department of Transportation began clearing homeless encampments that have become an unofficial and unwelcome symbol of life in Austin, the homelessness crisis has shown few signs of slowing down.
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My hike took me through one of the dusty dog encampments and by the town's old heliport, where, to help boost tourism, a Danish philanthropy is planning to erect a viewing platform overlooking the fjord.
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Tens of thousands of asylum-seekers have set up encampments in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border, where they've been forced to wait for weeks before they can formally enter the United States to plead asylum.
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The lawsuit filed by the Cotacahi government says ENAMI is already damaging the protected forest by carving new trails in areas inhabited by the endangered Andean bear, and by clearing forest area for temporary mining encampments.
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Across Southern California, the homeless live in tent encampments clustered on corners from Venice to the San Fernando Valley, and in communities sprouting under highway overpasses or in the dry bed of the Los Angeles River.
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LOS ANGELES — The homeless population in Los Angeles County jumped 26 percent last year, with a sharp increase in tents and homeless encampments offering daily evidence of the problem sweeping this region, county officials said Wednesday.
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These arid encampments are so huge that it's hard to fathom that only a small percentage of those refugees actually live in one; in many places, a majority live in the communities of their host countries.
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Talk of homelessness in the US tends to center on the most visible crises in a few major cities: open-air drug markets in San Francisco, crowded encampments in Los Angeles, and tent cities in Seattle.
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The Rohingya who have reached Bangladesh live in vast, sprawling refugee encampments, where I interviewed them in their tents and shacks; aid organizations provide desperately needed food, water, toilets and medical care, but cannot offer hope.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are holding a six-week-long protest in tent encampments along the fenced border of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, an enclave of 2 million ruled by the Islamist Hamas group.
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FEWER VOLUNTEERS While there is no indication the virus has reached homeless shelters or encampments, it has already started to curtail the number of volunteers at food banks and shelters in Texas, New York and elsewhere.
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Families brought their children to the encampments just a few hundred meters (yards) from the Israeli security barrier with the Hamas Islamist-run enclave, and football fields were marked in the sand and scout bands played.
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Though treaties can be criticized as symbolic, they also pave relationships between nations that can lead to partnership in court action, and tangible support for anti-pipeline encampments, including donations of food and supplies, and volunteers.
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Tented encampments have sprung up a few hundred meters from the 40-km (25-mile) fence, and hundreds of youths venture even closer to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers and roll burning tyres at the barrier.
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But that's just what the government can physically see; the numbers are widely believed to be underreported because those experiencing homelessness are difficult to accurately count, especially if they're sleeping in tents, cars, or large-scale encampments.
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About one third of people counted in 2100 were unsheltered — sleeping on the streets in abandoned buildings, encampments, or other places not considered suitable for human habitation — and that number is even higher for those under 27.
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He highlighted a collaboration with the county government to clean up Skid Row, one of the nation's largest homeless encampments, with a goal of reducing the population there by a quarter before the end of the year.
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And Mona Bennett, who runs Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition—the only needle exchange operation in Georgia— told me fires are used in homeless encampments to keep warm, with smoky fires in particular used to ward off mosquitoes.
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With the dot com boom over the past five years, the amount of homelessness in cities like Oakland is just outrageous—there are homeless encampments and tent cities all over the place, because people keep getting evicted.
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Further confrontations were expected after the Metropolitan Police announced their intention to limit the protests only to the area around Marble Arch, and began working to remove protesters from their encampments at Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge.
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Seattle does not want to become San Francisco, a fate that has come to refer exclusively to the city's worst traits: its $5,000-a-month rents, its homeless encampments and the ever-present dissonance between those two.
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He is one of hundreds of homeless migrants who sleep in frigid encampments under bridges, in parks and near bustling nightclubs in the French capital, according to observations made by The New York Times over three nights.
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With decades-old land disputes still unresolved, many have chosen to remain in unzoned, ramshackle villages and encampments lacking basic services, reluctant to move into the towns that quickly acquired a reputation for drug abuse and delinquency.
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Most major cities in the state have seen sharp increases over the past year in the number of people living outside, and encampments have multiplied not only in the populous coastal cities but in rural areas, too.
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Ms. Vázquez, however, said she learned only from the video that went viral that the supplies had not been used, against her orders that all available aid be distributed to local mayors and open-air evacuee encampments.
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In San Francisco, a city government hotline that typically got two or three daily complaints about homeless encampments — 898 total for the year 2013, for example — started getting more than 50 a day, 6,982 by mid-May.
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Which isn't to say that encampments are some utopian ideal—there's plenty of danger coming from every direction, from people who are also living outside, to housed people upset at homelessness, to cars and trucks speeding past.
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Israel says it is now getting aid to an area inhabited by about 200,000 Syrians, including around 400 displaced families living in tent encampments along the international boundary, and is helping equip new clinics in the area.
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The Times's Nikita Stewart reports: One night a year, hundreds of volunteers fan out onto New York's streets to count the number of people sleeping on sidewalks, living in encampments in parks or calling the subway home.
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A tense calm descended on Sunday on the border area, where hundreds of Palestinians, a fraction of the tens of thousands who initially turned out, remained in tent encampments along the fenced 65-km (40-mile) border.
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Throughout Refuge, we see oceans and water, boats, black bodies, borders, encampments and makeshift shelters, with emotional themes of cultural slippage, feelings of dislocation, the politics and fragility of identity, and the need for protection and vulnerability.
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"I think the biggest misconception is that it was a protest and that the Water Protectors were protesters," Josue Rivas, an indigenous photographer and journalist, told BuzzFeed News of the demonstrations and encampments at Standing Rock in 2016.
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The U.N. official's scathing outlook, which criticized U.S. politics, policies and attitudes, came after he recently toured the country from homeless encampments in California to small towns in the South and the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico.
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A spokesman for the agency, Adrian Edwards, said it was scrambling to build encampments in six locations in northern Iraq to handle such an influx, which could inflate the country's displaced-person population by more than a third.
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Soon, though, he was exploring marginal and transitional settings: the remains of homeless encampments, the sinister trash deposits in the Angeles National Forest, the stages of construction projects that sometimes feel as though they will never be completed.
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Sure, the US was then quietly starving hundreds of thousands of children with a crippling sanctions regime against autocrat Saddam Hussein's Iraq, occasionally lobbing cruise missiles at "terrorist" encampments here or there, and garrisoning much of the globe.
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Three decades on, hundreds of its victims are still living in hovel encampments across the sprawling city of 214 million, waiting for long-promised government-subsidized homes - and now the latest quake has made thousands more people homeless.
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Officials have granted more preventative measures — like sanitation supplies at encampments and a moratorium on evictions — to protect the homeless and prevent the disease from spreading to others, but advocates worry it might be too little, too late.
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San Francisco has taken steps to protect its homeless community, like searching for temporary housing in the city's unoccupied hotels to get people infected with the virus off the streets and setting up handwashing stations near homeless encampments.
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CityLab and other publications report that the administration is expected to fund local police efforts to remove public encampments and to put the homeless in federal shelters requiring strict adherence to rules of sobriety and non-disruptive behavior.
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The rapid spread of the Occupy movement in the fall of 2011, from Zuccotti Park in New York to encampments across the country, illustrates how social media can enable groups with a compelling message to scale up quickly.
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San Francisco has real problems, Salesforce's billionaire CEO expounded, pointing to the homeless encampments only a few blocks away from his company's new $1.1 billion home, but it was unfair to lay them at the feet of Big Tech.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels on Sunday agreed to a roadmap for children under 15 to leave guerilla encampments and re-integrate into civil society, as part of negotiations aimed at ending Latin America's longest war.
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Many of the people who fled the fire in Paradise initially set up temporary encampments elsewhere — like in a Walmart parking lot in Chico, a town about 17 miles west, for example, or in front of a nearby Lowe's.
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So while massive sets were built for the film — from the cobblestone streets of Stormwind to the orc encampments — the orc performances were all recorded via motion capture, only fully realized when the CG creations were brought to life.
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This week, the Tamaulipas state police were called in to break up encampments at steelworks factories, and a human resources manager at a Coca-Cola bottling plant ordered non-union employees to attack striking workers, including a pregnant woman.
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This may have been on acting Mayor Mark Ferrell's mind when he called for aggressive crackdowns on encampments; judging by the rhetoric of new Mayor London Breed after her election, there's no reason to expect that tactic to abate.
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She threw a blanket over her shoulders and curled up on the couch, tapping messages to fellow Yellow Vests she used to meet at the traffic circle and to others in neighboring towns, where the encampments were also dismantled.
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Since then, dozens of homeless men and women have built up encampments just a few yards away from her house, and at the local train station, and beneath the overpasses of the freeways that crisscross her neighborhood near Watts.
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In her original and supremely captivating book, she has cleverly recreated the fine details of some 20 meals, consumed over four and a half centuries in a variety of homes and ships and tented encampments far from the motherland.
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The entire country was mobilizing, and thousands of high school students, myself included, were sent to military training in Gahtelay — a desert town of makeshift encampments constructed after the main camp, Sawa, had become a target for Ethiopian airstrikes.
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In the northeast, aid workers reported busloads of displaced people had arrived at countryside encampments, saying they had been rounded up by government officials who paid them the equivalent of $6 to return home and vote for specific candidates.
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The forced closure of the encampments is the subject of a heated debate between the Paris mayor, who wants to ensure the uprooted will be sheltered, and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who was present Monday at Gassama's meeting with Macron.
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Gazans, including Palestinian refugees and their descendants seeking to regain ancestral homes in what is now Israel, have set up tent encampments a few hundred meters (yards) inside the 65-km (40-mile) fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.
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GOLAN HEIGHTS (Reuters) - Dozens of Syrians who approached Israel's frontier fence on the Golan Heights on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary, began walking back toward nearby refugee encampments after being warned off by the Israeli military.
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Homeless vehicles and encampments — like the one that started the Skirball Fire — increased by 763% between 2016 and 2017, with 14,2100 scattered across the city's streets, riverbeds, and vacant land, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
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It also wasn't the first blaze sparked in an area where homeless residents were trying to take shelter: In the Bay Area, fires have broken out at homeless encampments several times this year, including in May, July, September, November, and December.
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HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS INCREASINGLY AFFECTING CALIFORNIA TRAIN TRAFFIC The state&aposs homeless population of more than 130,000 people accounts for about 25 percent of the nationwide total, with clean up efforts associated with the communities topping $10 million in 2016-17.
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In response, the indigenous Water Protectors and their allies have set up encampments there to protest what they see as not only an environmental misstep but yet another violation of the rights of Native Americans by the United States government.
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The measure would give people living in homeless encampments around San Francisco 24 hours to vacate their tents; it does mandate that the city provide "transportation assistance back to loved ones, temporary shelter or permanent housing" before scrapping an encampment.
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A joint statement from several activist groups said protesters Sunday were trying to remove burned vehicles blocking Backwater Bridge in order to restore access to the nearby Standing Rock Sioux encampments so emergency services and local traffic can move freely.
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The Greek authorities have said they want to clear out the Idomeni camp soon and move people to nearby military-style encampments, which they say offer better shelter than the flimsy tents that now carpet the fields abutting the Macedonian border.
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The city has also set aside nearly $3 million for a "hot spots" crew in charge of cleaning the areas near homeless encampments, and another $1 million for updates to Pit Stop, a program providing mobile toilets and dog-waste stations.
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In the neighborhood of Santa Ana, Teresa Castro, 230, had just returned home after two months in one of the estimated 22015 encampments that the authorities say have cropped up in Asunción, in addition to five government shelters on military grounds.
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Encampments in the notoriously high-rent California city hug busy thoroughfares, where people seek shelter under overpasses and reside in not-yet-developed slivers of land—until the city or someone else inevitably evicts them, sending them anywhere but here.
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He thought the most recent surge might be related to the focus on closing homeless encampments under overpasses, a move that District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener—who represents the Castro neighborhood—endorsed recently in a letter to six city officials.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Young men filled sandbags to prepare for future protests at encampments along Gaza's Israeli border on Thursday, though tents were mostly empty as Palestinians joined Muslims around the world observing the daylight fast at the start of Ramadan.
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Archaeological remains from the Fertile Crescent in modern-day Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories point to the presence of Felis silvestris, the wildcat predecessor of Felis catus, but in the beginning they were most likely scavengers attracted to human encampments.
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Crucial to the report's assessment was the finding that the city's resistance to providing help and basic necessities in the encampments there qualified as "cruel and inhuman treatment," which was in line with violations of international standards of human rights.
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Although President Donald Trump advised that people should not gather in groups of larger than 10 people, that's a luxury for people living in homeless encampments, whether they're in the form of tent cities below freeways or groups occupying skid rows.
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Empathy fatigue emerges, for instance, when readers become inured to the stories of the many homeless encampments now dotting California, when they can no longer bring themselves to feel, read or vote after being bombarded by too much bad news.
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In fiction, drama, movies, painting and photography, gay men and lesbians, and others on the queer spectrum, have been building habitations in history, whether near or distant, sometimes in search of a more congenial domesticity and sometimes establishing more aggressive encampments.
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The city said it needed to enforce the ordinances to prevent the formation of encampments that can lead to unsanitary conditions and crimes such as drug dealing and gang activity, and to keep public spaces accessible for residents, visitors and wildlife.
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Trump is visiting the West Coast this week, amid reports that his administration is about to launch a crackdown on homelessness -- potentially involving dismantling encampments and moving the homeless en masse into a government facility, according to the Washington Post.
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But the virus can't keep him inside; instead, the encampments of homeless people that he can see from his window have called him — even though his wife, Jeri, has an autoimmune disorder that makes her more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
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Monday morning as police used water cannons, teargas and rubber bullets to break up protests at the Blackwater Bridge, just north of the Standing Rock encampments where protesters have been seeking to block the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Homeless Czar Sam Dodge, speaking specifically about the encampments under the overpasses along Cesar Chavez Street, told me that when he worked with DPW, they would come in periodically and ask the homeless residents to leave their sites for a few hours.
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US Customs and Border Protection has said its agents have been overwhelmed by the number of migrant families showing up at the southern border, forcing them to hold people in encampments like the one in McAllen because their facilities don't have enough space.
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Many pygmies live by hunting, fishing, gathering and garden-plot farming, so encampments were considered more likely to arise in deep rain forest, near rivers, far from cities and far from the intensive farming and animal husbandry practiced by other ethnic groups.
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But the encampments of the post-2008 period reflect a current shift in politics, one that demands an end to the skyrocketing inequality that came from privatization, the crushing of unions, tax cuts for the wealthy, and a rapidly swelling prison population.
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Unsanitary living conditions in Los Angeles homeless encampments have caused outbreaks of typhus and hepatitis A. While government cash and oversight can help mitigate those ills, some cities won't or can't provide services to more unruly camps and shut them down instead.
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We pair a passage from "The Glass Castle" in which Ms. Walls describes her parents' experiences with homelessness with a 23 New York Times photo feature, Life on the Streets, which presents interviews with people living in homeless encampments across New York City.
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Those centers are open up to 2019 days before the actual election, and Los Angeles — home to Skid Row, one of the largest encampments in the country — has made transportation to them free on Election Day to ensure people get there in time.
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The psilocybin initiative is one of a handful of questions on Tuesday's municipal ballot that also includes Hancock's bid for a third term as mayor, and a measure to rescind an ordinance that restricts homeless people from establishing encampments in public places.
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In the meantime, they're residing in migrant shelters and in tent encampments along the Rio Grande, without basic necessities like clean drinking water and warm clothes — and at risk for extortion, kidnapping, and rape at the hands of cartels and other criminal actors.
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Public encampments, now protected by the Constitution under the Ninth Circuit's decision, have spawned crime and violence, incubated disease, and created environmental hazards that threaten the lives and well-being both of those living on the streets and the public at large.
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In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez at least 1,000 Mexican asylum-seekers — many of whom are children — are living in makeshift encampments near official border crossings, said Shaw Drake, policy counsel at the Border Rights Center for the ACLU of Texas.
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The liberal stronghold is losing patience with the sprawling homeless encampments, the growing ranks of people with mental illnesses and substance abuse on the streets, and the deteriorating quality of life that comes with it — human waste, trash and open-air drug dealing.
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Trump administration officials spent several days in Los Angeles meeting with officials about how to tackle homelessness, with some suggesting that the president could move to "clear homeless encampments by moving people into government-run shelters on federal land," per the LA Times.
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Related: Seattle Is Helping Drug Addicts Instead of Locking Them Up — and So Far It's Working "The strategy of harm reduction, with relatively inexpensive sanctioned encampments and RV lots that give people safer places to be, is a big step forward," he said.
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Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Jordan has built hillocks of hard sand — berms – and encampments just on the other side of the berms have grown significantly in recent months, especially since airstrikes by Russia, the United States and others intensified inside Syria.
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Images from this series, shot at deserted encampments under Los Angeles freeways, are in the show: a chair improvised from broken slabs of drywall, a pollen-bejeweled jacket hung from a tree, a length of indented earth that could be a bed or a grave.
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But in what advocates for the homeless say is a significant shift in public attitudes, the spread of homeless encampments means that for many neighborhoods, the choice might be homeless people camped out on the corner or living in an actual building up the street.
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As California prepares for a statewide shelter-in-place order and Governor Gavin Newsom (D) predicts 56 percent of the population will be infected with coronavirus, state officials are working to relocate homeless individuals into shelters or encampments to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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"There's a terrible tension here: You want people inside, out of their tents and encampments, so they can get critical services and potentially better access to health care," Philip Mangano, president and CEO of the American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness, told the Washington Post.
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We were just talking about the ... it sounds stupid, but the trash is so indicative of sort of what has happened to San Francisco in terms of ... And as you were saying coming here, the encampments of the homeless have become out of control.
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"This decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent confrontation between protestors and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions," Col.
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All photos courtesy of YourParadise Legendarily, the first Europeans to stay on Fiji—a collection of 330 islands in the South Pacific with a population the size of Austin—hundreds of years ago were shipwrecked and stranded sailors and runaway prisoners from the Australian penal encampments.
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The organizers of the protests, named the Great Return March, originally said the idea had been for a peaceful, family-style six-week sit-in at tent encampments erected about 700 yards from the fence, with weekly marches building up to a peak on May 15.
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The Russian Defense Ministry had already complained that the US and its supporters were allowing ISIS fighters to escape from Raqqa; Russian airpower and cruise missiles have been very active in the past month going after ISIS convoys and encampments in the desert south of Raqqa.
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In their propaganda magazine Dabiq, ISIS wrote, "there is no gray zone in this crusade against the Islamic State…the world has split into two encampments, one for the people of faith, the other for the people of [disbelief], all in preparation for the final [great war]".
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Big City Last fall, a special investigator for the United Nations presented a report to the General Assembly on the global housing crisis, pointing out that a quarter of the world's urban population now live in "informal settlements" or encampments, increasingly in the most affluent countries.
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As the migrant children crisis continues, a new investigation is shedding light on the horrific conditions that children in the encampments are subjected to, including teenage girls on their period being forced to bleed through their underwear because they are not provided with adequate sanitary products.
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In Matamoros, a city of about 500,000 people across the border from Brownsville, Texas, about 1393,000 migrants have moved into tent encampments along the Rio Grande — so close to the US border that they can show up at the port for processing whenever their names are called.
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The wait in the makeshift encampments has been grueling, but many migrants say they chose it over staying in one of the city's migrant shelters because they feared that if they were not present, they would lose their place in line and miss their opportunity to cross.
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The administration has yet to release its promised homelessness plan for California, but activists fear Mr. Trump's pending executive order could crack down on homeless encampments, give more resources to police departments to clear shanty towns and threaten cities that fail to control their homeless populations.
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The potentially disastrous consequences of this crisis were thrown into relief early this month, when a cooking fire from one of LA's many newer homeless encampments quickly erupted into a 400-acre wildfire that burned down six homes and damaged 12 others before crews finally contained it last Friday.
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" Bottoms said nothing about the other controversy surrounding the festivities: A few days earlier, the Southern Center for Human Rights had denounced the city's sudden crackdown on homeless encampments, calling the mass arrests an immoral attempt to "sanitize the image of downtown at the expense of our homeless citizens.
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Encampments that have become home to thousands stretch along both banks of the river, begun by the people of the Standing Rock reservation, who are determined to protect their water source, the Missouri River, from the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will, if built, run directly beneath the water.
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Within the party, government ministries clash with regional and municipal officials on the question of Syrian refugees—in Paris, the Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has vowed to make her city a "capital of refugees," to the chagrin of Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, whose state police harass refugee encampments.
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"We should never accept that people live in camps — but at the same time we know that authorized encampments can be better for residents than being exposed on the streets," Sara Rankin, associate professor and director of the Homeless Rights Advocacy Project at the Seattle University School of Law.
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There are now more than six thousand migrants in encampments in Tijuana—many of them part of a caravan that has travelled from Honduras, and more than a thousand of whom are children—and conditions there are worsening by nearly every measure: sanitation, illness, grief, frustration, and anger.
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"We call upon our people not to go to the Return encampments on March 30 and to stay home in order to maintain the safety of our people in the face of this lethal pandemic," said Khaled al-Batsh, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
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But as new cases are reported daily worldwide, aid workers believe it could only be a matter of time before it hits these border cities, where thousands of migrants have been living in makeshift tent encampments that have little means to deal with a major public health crisis.
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In Matamoros, a city of about 500,000 people across the border from Brownsville, Texas, about 2,000 migrants have moved into makeshift tent encampments along the Rio Grande — so close to the US border that they can show up at the port for processing whenever their names are called.
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By the time he wrote "Brightness Falls," McInerney had been labelled a New York novelist, and, as if on cue, he delivers long, cinematic set pieces depicting everything from parties of the Upper East Side's rich and shallow to police raids on homeless encampments in the East Village.
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Encampments don't have to break up by gender; people can bring their partners, their belongings, and their dogs, and they have priority to be housed in one of the more than 9113 dedicated SRO hotel rooms that have been rehabbed by the city for permanent, affordable housing for the homeless.
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He has had to deal with the competing interests of residents who don't want to see public streets turn into permanent encampments while still being compassionate with those people living out of vehicles, many of whom have connections to the region and some of whom have children in Berkeley schools.
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Both appear to be betting that voters are so tired of what is euphemistically called the "street conditions" that they are willing to depart from the live-and-let-live San Francisco ethos and work more forcefully to put an end to the many tent encampments and public drug use.
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Far from the sterile confines of a doctor's office or hospital, Brett Feldman looks for homeless people where they're most likely to be found — in wooded encampments, under bridges, along riverbanks, at soup kitchens — and treats them for ailments ranging from diabetes to trench foot, mental illness to substance use disorders.
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The storm, the fiercest cyclone to affect the United States since Superstorm Sandy hit the Northeast four years ago, posed a particular challenge to emergency officials seeking to protect vulnerable residents - the disabled or those living outdoors in homeless encampments, on the streets or along the Atlantic's many low-lying beaches.
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Baked by perpetual sunlight into a blistering, steaming desert, you won't find colonists there either, except for mining encampments drilling for geological booty… and Brightside hunters, who stalk the scant watering holes in ravines where permanent shade allows water dumped from night-to-bright rainstorms to collect into nourishing pools.
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But that pressure comes at the same time that a groundswell of indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (the indigenous name for North America) are rising up against pipeline projects, using both legal challenges and encampments on traditional territory, as seen at Standing Rock, to assert their land rights and delay pipeline construction.
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Despite the risk of further flooding, some people have returned home here, tired of living in the squalor of encampments, where families share portable toilets provided by the government and a United States aid agency, use buckets to shower, cook on portable charcoal stoves, and survive on infrequent handouts of rice, pasta and beans.
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This will reduce the risk of harm to people in the encampments caused the harsh North Dakota winter conditions Since then there have been numerous other reports, and yesterday North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple ordered the expulsion of thousands of Native American and environmental activists camped on federal property near the oil pipeline project.
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Gavin NewsomGavin Christopher NewsomOfficials preparing public for long-term disruption Newsom says California schools likely to remain closed for rest of school year CNN's Bash praises Trump's tone: 'The kind of leader that people need' MORE (D) said Monday the state had blocked off nearly 400 rooms in two Oakland hotels to clear homeless encampments.
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For several years now, the city's residents have watched tent encampments spring up far beyond the downtown area known as Skid Row -- where LA's homeless population and services have historically been concentrated -- to their neighborhood sidewalks, freeway embankments, city and county parks, along business corridors and into some of the most affluent neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
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Tourists and transplants are often disconcerted the first time they find themselves at Turk and Leavenworth, or Hyde and O'Farrell; in the span of five minutes, you'll see junkies comparing abscesses, escorts with disheveled weaves teetering home from SROs on their sky-high heels, and interpersonal scuffles within sidewalk tent encampments that stretch all the way down the block.
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It's scary to wonder if you'll ever achieve the dreams you moved here in pursuit of, to pay thousands of dollars in rent, to compare yourself with others who seem to achieve more, to see the homeless encampments downtown, the plastic garbage washed up on the shore of Venice Beach, the fire smoke rising out of the canyons.
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Thousands of migrants have been living for months on the US-Mexico border in makeshift encampments, where they rely on volunteers for basic necessities and are targeted by criminal gangs while they wait for a chance to apply for asylum in the US. For these already vulnerable migrants, the implications of a potential coronavirus outbreak could be devastating.
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Some people might not have a way of getting to their respective entry point to then be transported to court in the US; some have been kidnapped or assaulted while waiting in Mexico; and others have chosen to return to their native country after experiencing difficult conditions in encampments, according to interviews with attorneys and immigrant advocates.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, along with international refugee and aid organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, have the operational expertise to establish sustainable encampments and to protect the inhabitants against external and internal abuses, but the devil will be in the most important detail: identifying a site and establishing a security perimeter to prevent rescue or escape attempts.
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Ultra-rich One Percenters in their luxury encampments at Burning Man have already been airlifted onto the psychedelic bandwagon, paying $223,222 a session to "trip guides" and snorting $220 a gram of "pure veterinarian medical grade ketamine baked in the sun," advertised on the menu of a high-end drug delivery service for tourists in the luxury coastal resort of Tulum in Mexico.
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Another strain of grievance among commenters on the GoFundMe page was that the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless, an organization more than 30 years old that operates in a county with a poverty rate of 27 percent and in a town, Mr. White said, where some people were living in tented encampments, somehow didn't deserve any of the money.
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There are several origin stories for the project, one is that I lived on a shopping cart corridor between transit and several encampments, and there was a guy who would mow my lawn but he didn't have a phone, or rather he couldn't always keep it paid, so he would push his mower on his route and see if I was home.
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" Bogue, who served on the board of the Bay Area homeless outreach organization the Tipping Point for the last several years, said he supported the proposition "because it would provide more resources to help get the homeless off the street and into shelters…The encampments are unsafe and inhumane, and frankly, I hope that this is not our solution to homelessness in the city.
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Obreht preserves many true details in her rendering of this short-lived experiment: the names and biographical details of the drovers and their military overseers, the route travelled by the caravan from Texas to California, the locations of their encampments, and the bizarre challenges presented by the animals along the way—their intense musk, for example, repels the other pack animals meant to labor alongside them.
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Using vivid and nuanced prose, Wiener recounts cringeworthy meetings with managers who question her capabilities, colleagues who worry more about their company's reputation than the growing homeless encampments on San Francisco's streets, and casual workplace sexism — like a male colleague keeping a list of women in the office ranked by their looks — that she's afraid to confront for fear of being designated a feminist killjoy.
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While some migrants forced to wait out their cases in Mexico have found apartments or live in shelters run by nonprofits and religious organizations, thousands of others live in makeshift encampments near the bridge, along with other migrants who haven't even been able to ask for asylum yet because of the Trump administration's "metering" policy, which limits how many people can cross into the U.S. each day.
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Outstanding, among the short-term sightings of the season, were Alex Katz's big, dark, deep landscapes at Gavin Brown's Enterprise; William Powhida's exquisitely incisive, connect-the-dots dissections of art and politics (including the Kanders affair) at Postmasters; and a David Hammons solo at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles which, blocks away from one of the country's largest urban homeless encampments, included its own tent city.
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For example, by 265, the Comanches possessed so many firearms that they were trading some of them to the European settlers of Taos, N.M. As the "gun frontier," as Silverman calls it, moved westward across America, it destroyed entire populations, partly through slaving and violence, but also through the European diseases that ravaged Indian populations, especially as native peoples sought protection by building fortifications and other concentrated encampments.
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If it weren't for the Trump administration's policies, the migrants who have been forced to wait in these encampments would already be in the US. Migrants arriving at the border were previously processed in much greater volumes and allowed to enter the US quickly, where they were released by immigration agents if they didn't pose a public safety risk or were found likely to flee, or else sent to immigration detention.
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Thousands of migrants have been living for months on the US-Mexico border in makeshift encampments, where they rely on volunteers for basic necessities and are targeted by criminal gangs while they wait for a chance to apply for asylum in the US. They have little means to deal with a public health crisis in such conditions, but volunteers have been preparing for the possibility that coronavirus spreads to the camps.
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Immigration enthusiasts on the right often overstate and oversentimentalize the "Catholic values" that Latin American migrants share with religious conservatives in the U.S., but there is no question, none, that much of Latin America has more in common culturally with the contemporary U.S. than the Iraqi hinterland has in common with contemporary England — or at least the parts of England that haven't become, as Schwarz puts it, "metaphorical foreign encampments" within a late-modern society.
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In Mexican cities all along the border, there are encampments full of migrants who've been forced to wait in Mexico by US authorities either as part of the practice known as metering, where officials limit how many migrants can be processed at ports of entry daily, or as a result of the policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which requires asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through US courts.
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After those present had eaten their fill of the couple dozen trays of meat, the dudes were going to take the rest in their van down to the tent encampments along Division Street to feed residents who most likely were exhausted not just from living under a freeway overpass but from talking to journalist after journalist, from San Francisco and beyond, about whether they were ousted from downtown and what they thought of Mayor Ed Lee.
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Another is the Musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, housed in a monumental Art Deco palais at the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, where I was able to catch an exhibition of Eugène Atget's early-20th-century photographs of the Roma encampments that were fixtures of Paris's perimeter up until World War I. If central Paris were a face, my route on Days 5 and 6 would look like a frilly ruff collar, swooping back and forth across the city's southern boundary.
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As you drive around the stark black-and-white map of a few of Kentucky's southern counties, a pair of text-only vignettes feature Conway visiting the shuttered offices of a local energy co-ops, which have been pushed out of business by the ubiquitous Consolidated Power Co. Now, their conference rooms walls have rotted away and filled with glowing fungus, or have been turned into encampments for those made homeless (whether by Consolidated or the then-recent subprime mortgage crisis, who could say).
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