Manchester, England, is putting homeless people on trial, saying that their tents are an illegal protest. The homeless people say they are just trying to shelter from rain, after they were stopped from sleeping under a bridge. They face two years in jail.

If they were not protesting, they should have been, and it is wrong to punish homeless people for protesting a state that makes them homeless.

If you find the presence of homeless people on the street inconvenient or annoying, remember that being homeless is a lot worse.