Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just a few months ago, I was a poor, unassuming homeless person," he says. "But now that I've become an individual who will stand up for his rights, some don't want to see me succeed." The path to success, he believes, may include pit stops at this year's Democratic Convention as a "homeless delegate," a billboard public-service campaign featuring Kreimer, a national lecture tour and a feature film. "I plan on being the homeless Ralph Nader...
...streets of the fourth ward of Morristown" as a voting address. The following month, Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin struck down the library's rules of conduct as arbitrary and in violation of Kreimer's First Amendment rights. "If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke their conditions, not their library cards," Sarokin wrote...
...homeless person like me isn't going to go to a shelter," he says. "They're dehumanizing and don't allow you control over your own destiny. And then there's the problem of a disorderly environment." His daytime hours were spent at the local library, reading the papers and gossiping...
...around 1987 when the people of Morristown got sick of Kreimer. Perhaps it was his too familiar presence outside the Municipal Building, or his insistent and knowing manner in all things local. Moreover, he was no longer an oddity: Morristown's homeless population had swelled from a handful to more than 300. The town police began rousting street people from the parks and doorways. Most accepted the move-along policy. Kreimer didn...
After a growing cadre of homeless people began to disrupt the quiet confines of the library, some librarians quit in protest. They said they were sick of being hassled by street people, and Kreimer in particular. So the governing board adopted a code of conduct that barred people with "offensive" bodily hygiene and banned staring at other patrons...