http:\/\/www.homelessnation.org<\/a> \u2013 is a place where currently homeless people, as well as those who were recently homeless, can use the net to communicate with one another and the world.
\nThe founders of the site say \u201cThe Homeless Nation website has been created to reverse stereotyping, to empower the street community to undertake their own representation, and to foster a national dialogue around the most serious social problem facing us today: homelessness.\u201d
\nAt the present time, the site has over 1,500 registered users. Hundreds of homeless people use it to collect their email, to post photographs and videos, and even to maintain their own blogs (including videoblogs). There is a French version in addition to the English one.
\nThe site’s users share experiences and knowledge, discussing things like how to cash a cheque when you don’t have identification or a fixed address. They invite each other to attend rallies, to get involved in fighting for their rights.
\nEven before the Homeless Nation website existed, many homeless people were using the Internet \u2013 often through public libraries.
\nHomeless Nation is an extraordinary project, and one should keep it in mind the next time someone denies that the Internet is a useful tool for reaching out to working class or poor people. If hundreds of homeless people are making video broadcasts and blogging online, trade unions should also be maximizing their use of the new technology \u2013 and involving their members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Often when left-wing people talk about the Internet, the subject of a \u201cdigital divide\u201d comes up. According to the common wisdom, the Internet is all well and good when we’re talking about well-paid, educated people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}