How America sleeps: Spotlight on New Orleans
Here are ten recent links to the world of sleep in New Orleans. [...]
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How America sleeps: Spotlight on Indianapolis
Here are ten recent links to the world of sleep in Indianapolis, where SHC's curator will be in attendance as a speaker on two subjects (black market CPAP and sleep disorders in MS) at the first annual AAST sleep technology conference. [...]
‘Sleep out’ to raise funds to help provide beds, education, and hope for homeless youth
Convenant House Sleep Outs can help with our burgeoning homelessness problem [...]
#ICYMI: November’s collection of Right to Sleep news
November highlighted the very real civil and human rights issues in SHC's Right to Sleep News supplement. Not only are the homeless losing sleep while living on the street, but other people are having sleep stolen from them, and many of them are gainfully employed. Veteran status, pollution impacts, undertreated disorders and disabilities, displaced disaster victims, and unsustainable employer demands mark chief reasons why some people are cheated of an opportunity to sleep nearly every night of their lives.
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Sleep News Special Report || A month’s worth of Homeless ‘Right To Sleep’ coverage
The homeless "right to sleep" is both a human and a civil right. Yet homelessness is a global problem of epidemic proportion, with so many innocent people criminalized for being poor. A place to sleep for those without a roof (which includes people who actually have jobs and are working, as well as entire families with nowhere to go) has become impossible to find for untold thousands. The odds of these people turning their lives around become slimmer the longer they "sleep rough," yet getting adequate sleep may be one of the most critical basic needs that could help them. [...]
You asked SHC… about sleeping rough
"Sleeping rough" is a British reference to being homeless. People sleeping on the streets may make privileged people uncomfortable, but the reality is that homeless living puts them at much higher risk for a variety of problems that a simple and safe space for sleeping can deter. [...]
The Right to Sleep: Our Pinterest board exposes lost sleep as a civil rights issue
This Pinterest collection focused on lost sleep caused by external forces could inspire some serious activism to help out many different populations, including veterans, the poor and the indigent, women, people of color, teenagers, even those who are wealthy and secure, when pollution (light, air, and noise) becomes intrusive. [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Sign this vet-sponsored petition demanding labor standards that prioritize sleep
Veterans have a huge stake in the Right to Sleep movement. Many of our military personnel members come home from service overseas with trauma and sleep disorders that the VA fails, or even refuses, to treat. Ultimately it impacts them on the job, just as sleep deprivation does for millions of civilian workers. [...]
“The right to sleep”: The biggest civil & human rights problem you’ve never heard of
Is the opportunity to get sleep at night a human right? A civil right? [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Local “lodging law” keeps homeless from sleeping… period
California is said to be the state with the largest homeless population... but what they're doing with homeless people via the wording of local lodging laws could very well be deemed a violation of their civil "right to sleep," if not their basic human rights. Is criminalizing homelessness the right solution? [...]