Wikipedia article on Dehumanization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization Description of Dehumanization: http://www.deathreference.com/Da-Em/Dehumanization.html The psychologist who created the Stanford Prison Experiment talks about how we can do evil things to each other: http://lucifereffect.com/dehumanization.htm Video of Police cutting up tents of homeless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrPdZmPB36U&feature=related Homeless Evicted from Tent City in Sacramento: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3583155434947566213&ei=-Di2SN7IKaSyqAOJn4C-DA&q=homeless&vt=lf Hate crimes against the homeless—press conference: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-234498057173364594&ei=SkW2SPOTAo3CqAO_gdHKDA&q=homeless

How do we end the cycle of dehumanization for the homeless? How can we get our communities to see that the homeless should have the right to sleep, eat and receive benefits, just like everyone else? The answer to so many community issues, is, once again found within ourselves. Below...

What is Rehumanization? It is to be involved in bringing a marginalized group into the sphere of “normal” in society. In every society we have groups that we consider “different but acceptable”. This is the process that for the African Americans the Civil Rights movement did much to progress. Other...

Being homeless means being part of an alternative society. There are many aspects of homelessness in our society, including: Homeless families. There are families on the street, sometimes with just a mom, sometimes just a dad, sometimes with both parents. Usually these are families who have fallen on hard times,...

Myths and Facts about Homelessness: A statistical analysis Although a large percent of the U.S. population are homeless every year (about 1 percent of the general population), the pocket of people who become homeless are almost all in the lower or working classes. Thus the majority of the people in...

Just the Facts: Statistics About Homelessness and Related Subjects The number of people in the U.S. who were in poverty in 2005: 38,231,521 The percentage of those people who were children: 36% The estimated number of people in the U.S. who are homeless for any period of time in a...

The morning didn’t start out well for Mary. Just the night before, she had broken up with her boyfriend, a homeless man named Greg. She had gotten up early to pick up her possessions from his tent, hoping that he would be asleep. He woke up, of course. So they...

Ron Ferber was attacked. That is how he felt, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. He was a homeless man who dealt with mental health issues and mostly kept to himself. He dumpster dived for a living, recycling cans and bottles and eating what decent food...

Almost every person who is homeless goes through a process of dehumanization. Here are some of the ways homeless people are dehumanized in many cities in the U.S. Segregated The homeless become homeless because they are separated from their family and friends, not allowed space in their social network to...

“Loss of human characteristics; brutalization by either mental or physical means; stripping one of self-esteem.” —(Online Medical Dictionary) Dehumanization is: Taking away the rights of some that most have This is to offer rights to most citizens, but to deny those same rights to other citizens. This is to create...