The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to mgilbert@lowellsun.com.
LOWELL In January, the city conducted its annual, federally mandated point-in-time count of the number of people experiencing homelessness, and found there are 189 sheltered and 97 unsheltered individuals in Lowell.
The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to mgilbert@lowellsun.com.
With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost their base.
BERKELEY With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as the heart of organizing efforts and community aid. Instead, community members showed up on Friday to the nearby Amoeba Music at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street, which one activist on the scene, Aiden Hill–a Food Not Bombs volunteer and former vice-chair of Berkeley’s Homeless Commission–found to be a good metaphor for the People’s Park protest movement, since amoebas move freely and alter their shape. Hill, who helped […]