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Many Michiganders thought he would soon be unemployed himself. In the fall after his welfare move, two homeless men whose payments had been cut lit a fire for warmth in an abandoned house and asphyxiated. An "Englerville" shantytown sprouted in front of the state capital. Engler was widely described as mean; his own pollster put his approval rating...
...most significant divestment protest, however, did not occur until April 1986, when 200 students built a shantytown and a 16-foot ivory tower in the Yard...
...angry; I want them to get up and do something," he says. This goal sometimes causes TV Nation to veer from satire toward simpleminded didacticism. At the end of a NAFTA segment in which Moore visits American plants that have shifted operations to Mexico, the camera pans over a shantytown. In his narration Moore bemoans the fact that U.S. leaders said NAFTA "would build a better life for all Mexicans." Did anyone ever say that decades of poverty would be eradicated within eight months of the passage of a trade agreement...
Agustin Lopez Santiz understands that all too well. He lives in the southern state of Chiapas, at the opposite end of the country from the shantytown where Colosio was shot. Santiz, 66, sits barefoot in the dust of Tuxaquilja, a village of 600 people, picking corn off a cob to feed his chickens. The earth is dry, rocky, infertile. Roads are ruts, and there are few public services. Looking down at the dirt, he says in a mixture of Spanish and Tzeltal, the local Indian tongue, "This is where we are from. We cannot leave...
...enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown. This is brilliant and powerful stuff, but it is hard to imagine reading it to a child. Some adults may feel, under the baleful influence of Sendak's parable, that it is hard to imagine having a child...