Thanksgiving 2016

A few days after I filmed this video, I received a letter from the property mangement's lawyer.


https://youtu.be/X8eHI8DDqeE


6 months later, after futilely fighting the 2nd retaliatory eviction case in a row brought against me in Massachusetts for objecting to hidden, illegal cameras in an apartment where I paid my rent on time and bothered nobody, I began my 5th year of homelessness since 2011.

It is not entirely true that your silence will not protect you.  I am about to finish my 1st year in the apartment that I have now.  This is also the 1st apartment, of 3 so far in Massachusetts, where I have been criminally victimized by voyeurism since moving in but have not confronted anyone who works here about it, and it is the 1st apartment of those 3 for which I have not received an eviction notice.

I have put up with the abuse, and so I have had a place to live during a pandemic for which social distancing in homeless shelters is totally impossible.

These are all the options available to me as an impoverished, American citizen in 2020.  To be filmed without my consent in my own apartment or to be filmed without my consent in homeless shelters and gym locker rooms.  Either way, the conglomerate thinks it's hysterically funny.

It can take a while to realize who your friends never were, particularly when they're so very shiny and believe so strongly in their own goodness.

I think it was in 2018 that the Pine Street Inn women's shelter got rid of all the softer "lobby chairs" and replaced them so that everyone only has hard chairs to sit on, except for some of the staff.  Even the elderly and disabled homeless women only have hard chairs to sit on.  If asked, the shelter might say that replacing the softer chairs with more tables and hard chairs has made it easier during breakfast and dinner (the shelter is usually closed from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday through Friday).  However, it has always seemed to me that the shelter could figure out how to bring guests to the shelter cafeteria for meals; certainly that cafeteria is large enough to have catered events for potential donors.  I was once there after one of those events and was given permission with a few other homeless guests to have some of the leftovers that were on the serving tables.