Working in the field, everything you say is true. I’ve known amazing mental health professionals who embodied their values and ethics in how they approached people and some who went into the field to work out their own issues and I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. True social work is based in values and ethics that is client centered, not provider centered. These self righteous militant activists are a nightmare
I prefer Bybee Lakes Hope Center which you are very familiar with. My Father's House is another one as well as Agape Village. All are drug free and some even require you being drug free for a week even to get in. As far as these nonprofits go I think all of them should be defunded. They have gotten way too comfortable receiving taxpayers dollars for doing nothing but encouraging people to stay on the street with tents, tarps and harm reduction kits. They are disgusting.
I really liked the way you dealt with the reality of the guy actually becoming a journalist. You could have just not mentioned it. But you raised it and admitted that he probably won’t. That tells me that you respect these people enough to be real with them and tell them the truth.
Many of us know that “non-profit” and NGO work exists to employ foot soldiers in the Marxist revolution that leftists hope to bring about. It doesn’t start that way for most of them, they simply see it as the only acceptable option for employment post undergrad or grad degree. They feel the need to demonstrate compassion in a profession. Within a year or less they are all in for the cause. Here’s hoping that they don’t win….
Just imagine the HOOPLA if Catholic homeless orgs demanded everyone be baptised to walk in the door, for example. Or if Islamic outreach orgs made their clients recite the Shahadah 3 times to receive services. There'd be countless breathless op eds at these nasty religious people exploiting vulnerable people to serve their 'evagnelisation' KPIs or something. (For the record, that's not a thing in Catholic NGO land).
I don't see why radicalised progressives get a free pass to push their worldview on vulnerable people when religious organisations are usually careful to lead with care and bring their worldview later upon request of those being served.
I wonder what a look at Street Books's IRS Form 990 might tell us. (Not a lot, since nonprofits don't have to tell anyone, including the government, where they get their money, how effectively they spend it, and why most of them act more like unregulated banks with $-millions in "assets." You will see what top officers in the NGO make--usually they fulfill the old adage that they come to do good and wind up doing well.)
The idea that handing out books--what's the reading list?--will do something about homelessness is beyond surreal. And the expression on the face of the Blanchet House creature tells its own story.
Richard, I commented on exactly that...at some length (and apologies for that length) just now. Handing out books appears, from their 2025 990, to account for about 5% of their expenses; staff compensation, benefits, etc., appears to account for about 83%. Actually the 990 reports what was spent on "books and library materials." We don't know how that translates into actually handing them out. You can chase the links I supplied and correct me if I misread anything; I'm half blind with pollen allergies today. :^>
Thank you for sharing. Regarding data, aka reality, the most important thing for all Americans to do with a little of their free time, regardless of what else they do, is continue educating any unaware people about the unprosecuted 9/11/01 and anthrax/vaccine crimes on people, and how and why electronic voting machines have never been valid, as HBO pointed out in Hacking Democracy (2006) (1:21:58) https://old.bitchute.com/video/jsHTV8JdIlAt/
Additionally, from the after action review people are either intelligent, respectful, and responsible enough to understand that fake man-made religion labels, books, and buildings were made by mankind, that Americans have a Republic not a Democracy scam, that there is no left or right, or they're not. We're also reminding and educating any unaware people that our U.S. Constitution is a Deistic document, as well as how and why electronic voting machines have never been valid if they didn't understand that either. We already teach how and why our American Republic was formed.
Richard, I joined the military before the 9/11/01 scam on live TV in part in an effort to be around positive people. The kind that don't say "nigger this" and "nigger that" and "faggot this" and "faggot that" then turn around and praise some Jesus character. Over the years, lobbying our representatives on important issues like we're asked to do, hasn't improved anything. Who would have ever thought that growing up living our lives as Americans that TV and radio "shows" and "news" and "films" have often been in reality "gaslighting" from the British Fake Man-made Religion Divide and Conquer Usury Monarchy? I didn't know what "gaslighting" even was until after 2020.
Leftist Toxic Compassion, they represent the exact opposite of everything good in this world. They project, as a matter of course. Which means, they blame everyone else, for doing exactly what they do on everything they are involved in. It's not that they are just wrong, but, practice EVIL. Take a look at what BPD is, Borderline Personality Disorders. Sociopathic, Psychopathic behavior falls Into the 5 categories. They lack true empathy, but, try to emulate what they think it is, which is why they fail.
“Acting like a cult” - you nailed it Kevin. I also think you were spot on when calling out the merger of compassion and power. Money feeds these NGO groups and through that they feel power (and want more of it). Thanks for your work.
I really liked your identification of underlying structures, such as "The Homeless Industrial Complex" and the one featured here, "The Compassion Cartel". It reminds me of when someone said to me, "Maybe there is no cure for cancer, because cancer makes more money than healthy people." I'm not that cynical. I really appreciate your advocacy for the homeless more than anything, and I hope you will continue to film what is really happening, not what people want to think is happening.
First of all, thanks for caring for others. I wish people understood, however, that communism always starts with people claiming to care and offering free stuff, but it’s really about control and making everyone a slave except for a select few. It’s the worst kind of slavery because they feel they own you body and soul. You are not even allowed to have an individual thought, opinion, dream or goal. Anyone who sticks out gets whacked, and the people doing the whacking will get whacked too. I wish people would learn from history! Socialism has killed billions and made life a living hell for billions more. They present it as a utopian dream, but it’s really a nightmare. All of this unrest and division is the process of a communist takeover. May it not come to fruition.
Thank you for this follow up on that event, which has been on my mind ever since you shared it before, Kevin.
This meshes with the agenda of turning "the homeless" into an unending source of funding for marginal/artsy lives where results don't matter but vehemence of opinion and posturing does. It was inevitable that would exploit the homeless and feel violent rage toward anyone questioning the self-reinforcing system these Lifestyle Altruists have built in Portland and other cities.
Let's start with how much Street Books actually spends on books versus, say, staff compensation.
It appears that the founder and former paid ED, Laura Moulton, stepped down last year. And now, instead of one ED making $58,240 a year there are two "co directors," Monica Beemer and Joshua Pollock, making $58,579 and $48,958 respectively in 2025, with "other salaries" of $96,822.
Form 990 for 2025 reports the total spent on "books and library supplies" as $20,766.
Total expenses are reported as $331,965 with total revenues reported as $406,935.
Salaries, other compensation, and employee benefits are reported as $256,745. 63% of total expenses, compared to books/library supplies at 5%.
Co-ED Joshua Pollock is "a poet and translator, among other things."
Which is to say, people working for free for the organizations' paid staffers.
This is just one example of the Artsy Marginal Living complex/industry that exploits the problems, and people, it claims to want to solve/help. In the past when I've pointed out similar mechanisms in Pugetopolis (volunteer organizations that exist to provide income to a select few), people have roared that it's just one organization! It's a pittance of money compared to MILLIONAIRES! They are doing their best to do something GOOD! Etc.
OK, now multiply this by...how many hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of complicit people, with interlocking/overlapping interests and circles. How much money and influence changing hands at the local level. How many vehement attacks on anyone operating outside of or questioning their influence/model.
Perhaps the most pathetic defense of the model I ever heard was, "it's nothing that the really big Professional Altruists aren't doing at a much larger scale."
OK fair enough. Let's examine, analyze, and where necessary deflate that as well.
But let's not pretend that you aren't all predators of the least of these my brethren, OK?
I concluded in the '00s that these NGO staffers are more like intersection beggars themselves. So long as they can talk volunteers into working for them for free, and donors into funding their projects in return for whatever the emotional or moral incentives are, so long as they can transubstantiate donations of time or money into expiation or indulgences for sins real or imagined...there is nothing illegal about it.
Unless, of course, there is, but that's a separate topic.
Working in the field, everything you say is true. I’ve known amazing mental health professionals who embodied their values and ethics in how they approached people and some who went into the field to work out their own issues and I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. True social work is based in values and ethics that is client centered, not provider centered. These self righteous militant activists are a nightmare
I have always been amazed at the amount of mindless hate that has been directed at you by keyboard cowards for telling the truth. You're a good man.
I prefer Bybee Lakes Hope Center which you are very familiar with. My Father's House is another one as well as Agape Village. All are drug free and some even require you being drug free for a week even to get in. As far as these nonprofits go I think all of them should be defunded. They have gotten way too comfortable receiving taxpayers dollars for doing nothing but encouraging people to stay on the street with tents, tarps and harm reduction kits. They are disgusting.
I really liked the way you dealt with the reality of the guy actually becoming a journalist. You could have just not mentioned it. But you raised it and admitted that he probably won’t. That tells me that you respect these people enough to be real with them and tell them the truth.
Many of us know that “non-profit” and NGO work exists to employ foot soldiers in the Marxist revolution that leftists hope to bring about. It doesn’t start that way for most of them, they simply see it as the only acceptable option for employment post undergrad or grad degree. They feel the need to demonstrate compassion in a profession. Within a year or less they are all in for the cause. Here’s hoping that they don’t win….
Thank you for your work. This is insightful.
Just imagine the HOOPLA if Catholic homeless orgs demanded everyone be baptised to walk in the door, for example. Or if Islamic outreach orgs made their clients recite the Shahadah 3 times to receive services. There'd be countless breathless op eds at these nasty religious people exploiting vulnerable people to serve their 'evagnelisation' KPIs or something. (For the record, that's not a thing in Catholic NGO land).
I don't see why radicalised progressives get a free pass to push their worldview on vulnerable people when religious organisations are usually careful to lead with care and bring their worldview later upon request of those being served.
I wonder what a look at Street Books's IRS Form 990 might tell us. (Not a lot, since nonprofits don't have to tell anyone, including the government, where they get their money, how effectively they spend it, and why most of them act more like unregulated banks with $-millions in "assets." You will see what top officers in the NGO make--usually they fulfill the old adage that they come to do good and wind up doing well.)
The idea that handing out books--what's the reading list?--will do something about homelessness is beyond surreal. And the expression on the face of the Blanchet House creature tells its own story.
Richard, I commented on exactly that...at some length (and apologies for that length) just now. Handing out books appears, from their 2025 990, to account for about 5% of their expenses; staff compensation, benefits, etc., appears to account for about 83%. Actually the 990 reports what was spent on "books and library materials." We don't know how that translates into actually handing them out. You can chase the links I supplied and correct me if I misread anything; I'm half blind with pollen allergies today. :^>
Kevin,
Thank you for sharing. Regarding data, aka reality, the most important thing for all Americans to do with a little of their free time, regardless of what else they do, is continue educating any unaware people about the unprosecuted 9/11/01 and anthrax/vaccine crimes on people, and how and why electronic voting machines have never been valid, as HBO pointed out in Hacking Democracy (2006) (1:21:58) https://old.bitchute.com/video/jsHTV8JdIlAt/
Additionally, from the after action review people are either intelligent, respectful, and responsible enough to understand that fake man-made religion labels, books, and buildings were made by mankind, that Americans have a Republic not a Democracy scam, that there is no left or right, or they're not. We're also reminding and educating any unaware people that our U.S. Constitution is a Deistic document, as well as how and why electronic voting machines have never been valid if they didn't understand that either. We already teach how and why our American Republic was formed.
It's all a science thing.
Thank you,
https://michaelatkinson.substack.com
🦖 👀
Crazeeeee.
Richard, I joined the military before the 9/11/01 scam on live TV in part in an effort to be around positive people. The kind that don't say "nigger this" and "nigger that" and "faggot this" and "faggot that" then turn around and praise some Jesus character. Over the years, lobbying our representatives on important issues like we're asked to do, hasn't improved anything. Who would have ever thought that growing up living our lives as Americans that TV and radio "shows" and "news" and "films" have often been in reality "gaslighting" from the British Fake Man-made Religion Divide and Conquer Usury Monarchy? I didn't know what "gaslighting" even was until after 2020.
Leftist Toxic Compassion, they represent the exact opposite of everything good in this world. They project, as a matter of course. Which means, they blame everyone else, for doing exactly what they do on everything they are involved in. It's not that they are just wrong, but, practice EVIL. Take a look at what BPD is, Borderline Personality Disorders. Sociopathic, Psychopathic behavior falls Into the 5 categories. They lack true empathy, but, try to emulate what they think it is, which is why they fail.
“Acting like a cult” - you nailed it Kevin. I also think you were spot on when calling out the merger of compassion and power. Money feeds these NGO groups and through that they feel power (and want more of it). Thanks for your work.
I really liked your identification of underlying structures, such as "The Homeless Industrial Complex" and the one featured here, "The Compassion Cartel". It reminds me of when someone said to me, "Maybe there is no cure for cancer, because cancer makes more money than healthy people." I'm not that cynical. I really appreciate your advocacy for the homeless more than anything, and I hope you will continue to film what is really happening, not what people want to think is happening.
Spot on. Keep up the respectful and deeply caring work you do
First of all, thanks for caring for others. I wish people understood, however, that communism always starts with people claiming to care and offering free stuff, but it’s really about control and making everyone a slave except for a select few. It’s the worst kind of slavery because they feel they own you body and soul. You are not even allowed to have an individual thought, opinion, dream or goal. Anyone who sticks out gets whacked, and the people doing the whacking will get whacked too. I wish people would learn from history! Socialism has killed billions and made life a living hell for billions more. They present it as a utopian dream, but it’s really a nightmare. All of this unrest and division is the process of a communist takeover. May it not come to fruition.
Thank you for this follow up on that event, which has been on my mind ever since you shared it before, Kevin.
This meshes with the agenda of turning "the homeless" into an unending source of funding for marginal/artsy lives where results don't matter but vehemence of opinion and posturing does. It was inevitable that would exploit the homeless and feel violent rage toward anyone questioning the self-reinforcing system these Lifestyle Altruists have built in Portland and other cities.
Let's start with how much Street Books actually spends on books versus, say, staff compensation.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/454081674
Here is their Form 990 for 2025.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/454081674/202620709349300402/full
It appears that the founder and former paid ED, Laura Moulton, stepped down last year. And now, instead of one ED making $58,240 a year there are two "co directors," Monica Beemer and Joshua Pollock, making $58,579 and $48,958 respectively in 2025, with "other salaries" of $96,822.
Form 990 for 2025 reports the total spent on "books and library supplies" as $20,766.
Total expenses are reported as $331,965 with total revenues reported as $406,935.
Salaries, other compensation, and employee benefits are reported as $256,745. 63% of total expenses, compared to books/library supplies at 5%.
Co-ED Joshua Pollock is "a poet and translator, among other things."
https://www.wordvirusbooks.com/events-1/joshua-pollack-sam-lohmann
Here, from 2025, is Pollock using the organization to pump the release of his first book of poetry.
https://www.facebook.com/streetbooks/posts/recently-we-celebrated-the-release-of-joshua-pollocks-debut-poetry-collection-na/1192667805543022/
Co-ED Monica Beemer appears to have previously run a "low cost cafe" for the homeless called Sisters of the Road.
Here she is walking in an "MLK" "nonviolence" event in 2009.
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/2009/11/slide-show-monica-beemer
Here she is in 2010 writing about what to do about homelessness
https://www.streetroots.org/news-stories/2010/07/28/homelessness-book/
...while involved with an organization called the Western Region Advocacy Project.
https://wraphome.org/mission-goals/about/
Here is an interview with Laura Moulton, referred to as the founder of Street Books.
https://creativemornings.com/talks/laura-moulton-street-books
Here's how she sells the idea of volunteerism:
https://www.streetroots.org/news-stories/2025/01/08/new-year-volunteer/
Which is to say, people working for free for the organizations' paid staffers.
This is just one example of the Artsy Marginal Living complex/industry that exploits the problems, and people, it claims to want to solve/help. In the past when I've pointed out similar mechanisms in Pugetopolis (volunteer organizations that exist to provide income to a select few), people have roared that it's just one organization! It's a pittance of money compared to MILLIONAIRES! They are doing their best to do something GOOD! Etc.
OK, now multiply this by...how many hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of complicit people, with interlocking/overlapping interests and circles. How much money and influence changing hands at the local level. How many vehement attacks on anyone operating outside of or questioning their influence/model.
Perhaps the most pathetic defense of the model I ever heard was, "it's nothing that the really big Professional Altruists aren't doing at a much larger scale."
OK fair enough. Let's examine, analyze, and where necessary deflate that as well.
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/subscriber-only/2025/10/10/discover-the-194-largest-public-benefit-nonprofits-in-the.html
But let's not pretend that you aren't all predators of the least of these my brethren, OK?
I concluded in the '00s that these NGO staffers are more like intersection beggars themselves. So long as they can talk volunteers into working for them for free, and donors into funding their projects in return for whatever the emotional or moral incentives are, so long as they can transubstantiate donations of time or money into expiation or indulgences for sins real or imagined...there is nothing illegal about it.
Unless, of course, there is, but that's a separate topic.
we all have trauma in our lives.