Homeless Protesters Camp Out At Gates Foundation - HumanoSphere

HumanoSphere has a story about the Share Gates Shelter

I like Dr Amy's comment best:

SHARE/WHEEL is the most visible and effective organization in Seattle doing work on homelessness.  The best feature of this organization is that it is self-governed and democratic, rather than "charitable."  It aims for solidarity in the face of harsh capitalist reality.  You can see why Gates wouldn't support that sort of thing. -- Amy Hagopian

• Homeless Protesters Camp Out At Gates Foundation - HumanoSphere
October 12, 2011 | 2:41 PM | By Tom Paulson
• There is a good night picture of the "Protesters"
• I count
• Two police officers
• eight campers
• one staff member
• one consultant
• zero protesters
• Some quotes from the story
• “Charity begins at home”
• That’s what homelessness advocate Jarvis Capucion said to me when I asked him why
• “Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Singing for Change‘ project gave us $10,000 a few months ago
•  “I want to know why Warren Buffett and Bill Gates can’t do the same.”
• “All their money comes from Microsoft, corporate profits and Wall Street,” Capucion said. “They get all the tax breaks and the bail-outs, while government services to the poor keep getting cut.”
• David Bley, director of Pacific Northwest initiatives for the Gates Foundation
• [a statement]
• “The Gates Foundation has been very charitable on some levels,” Capucion said. But most of that money goes to agencies and organizations that are launching their own projects or administering funds to others. Or doing studies on how to end homelessness, he added.
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