NUH 2025 WINTER OFFENSIVE STATEMENT
During the Holiday Season The National Union of the Homeless comes together across 5 U.S. regions (the South, Appalachia, Midwest, West and the Northeast) to declare: Housing and Healthcare NOW. An End to Genocide and the War Economy! No more death on the streets both here and abroad!
The Homeless Union’s Winter Offensive is a series of synchronized actions and protests that take place from Thanksgiving through Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday in order to highlight the time of year when the poor and homeless experience the most deadly conditions and the highest rates of suicide and death.
We work together to fulfill our mission statement, declaring that “we commit our lives to ending homelessness and poverty and to work tirelessly for the human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for social and economic justice for all.”
As our Leader Dr Rev Savina cries “At a time when they sing Peace on Earth our land groans under the weight of injustice!” Again we shout: HOUSING AND HEALTHCARE NOW! NO MORE DEATH ON THE STREETS BOTH HERE AND ABROAD!
As we enter 2026 we are also feeling the deadly effects of the June 28, 2024 Supreme Court decision Grant’s Pass v. Johnson, as well as executive orders by state governors and the President that further criminalize homelessness and poverty. We are seeing an increase in the deadly practice of sweeps and in the incarceration of our homeless communities.
Simultaneously we are facing massive cuts to benefit programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Hospitals continue to close while we build new prisons and forced labor camps for the unhoused and terrorize and imprison undocumented workers. Our nation’s military budget nearing one trillion dollars annually. Sixty (60%) percent of the United States population reports they are struggling to make ends meet while the top ten billionaires grew their collective wealth by $698 billion dollars in the last year alone.
We know there’s enough food to feed everyone and that there are 24 empty homes for every single individual in need of one while 1000 souls will freeze to death on the streets this year and homelessness and poverty continues to rise at record numbers! We declare NO MORE.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has shown that poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S., and 800 people die every day in the richest country that’s ever existed in the history of the world! Our system is FAILING – and we are DYING as a result of a system that puts PROFIT over our lives. We mourn, lift up and honor the names of those we’ve lost.
Join us, the National Union of the Homeless and the Nonviolent Medicaid Army, as we organize to unite our class to end this system that profits from poverty, homelessness and death and to create a society organized around our human rights to health, housing, food and lives of dignity so that we can together thrive, not merely survive.
YOU ONLY GET WHAT YOU ARE ORGANIZED TO TAKE!
Mission
The heart and soul of the National Union of the Homeless is to commit our lives to ending homelessness and poverty and to work tirelessly for the human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for social and economic justice for all. We dedicate ourselves to raising the awareness of our sisters and brothers, to planning a sustained struggle and to building an organization that can obtain freedom through revolutionary perseverance. We pledge to deepen our personal commitment to end all forms of exploitation, racism, sexism, and abuse. True solidarity demands that we create not only the new society, but also the new human being.
The National Union of the Homeless Winter Offensive Organizing Drive
The Main slogans used and promoted throughout the WO are:
- One paycheck or healthcare crisis away from poverty and homelessness!
- Homeless not Helpless!
- No Housing, No Peace!
- You Only Get What You Are Organized to Take!
- No Room at the Inn!
- How Can You Worship a Homeless man on Sunday and Ignore One on Monday?!
- Put Christ Back into Christmas; the feeder of the hungry, the healer of the sick, the homeless revolutionary fighting for the liberation of the least of us.
- Jesus did not ask for a co-pay!
Partnership with Freedom Church of the Poor for National Virtual Events
The Important Winter Days highlighted during the WO are:
- Launch Event Sunday 11/23 – Zoom and Livestream
- December 10th –Anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Right (UDHR) – PEOPLE’S HEARING 7-9PM WED 12/10
- December 21st – Annual National Homeless Memorial Day – Services with FCOP
- December 25th – Birth of Jesus Christ – Jesus was a Revolutionary – Services with FCOP
- New Year and the making of Revolutionary Resolutions for next year work of the National Homeless Union and its locals. – Social Media campaign – What is your revolutionary resolution for 2026
- January 15th – Birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. –Day of action and organizing
www.nationalunionofthehomeless.org
Kristin Colangelo – National Organizer – 609-405-7037 – Text is best
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