Homeless Encampment Evictions Highlight the Cruelty of Capitalism Amid COVID
Advocates for the homeless and frontline health care workers stage a socially distanced protest aimed at speeding up what they say is Toronto s slow approach to managing COVID-19 in shelters, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2020.
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In Canadaâs homeless encampments, two faces of state brutality are on display. One is the âorganized abandonmentâ that has relegated hundreds of thousands across Canada to homelessness (at twice the rate as in the United States). The other is the âorganized violenceâ that evicts homeless people from encampments erected in the shadow of the stateâs malign neglect.