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...Treating homeless people with the basic dignity that all humans deserve" means granting basic rights of food and shelter. Our insensitivity to the homeless population does not begin and end in averting our eyes, but in allowing people to become destitute. Smith's attitude is typcial of those who not only accept homelessness, but take it for granted...
...groups of all stripes: hippies, Maoists, anarchists, human rights groups, lesbians, gays. It was a very colorful mix. And somewhat deterring. My wife Eva and I felt like white crows in that crowd. Though they were all very friendly to us, they even attacked the church, which gave them shelter. There were a lot of fights, informers, subversion. They could not possibly become a real political force. What they did was very brave, but it couldn't work. We had to reach out to a more respectable, middle-aged generation, come out of this social ghetto, out of the church...
...Oakland mayoral race and legislative contests in Michigan and Maryland. A veteran welfare- rights lobbyist who earned a college degree in human-services planning, Stevens expects to be included in candidate debates and get equal radio and TV time. "We have homeless people fighting every day for food and shelter," she says. "Someone has to speak for them. That's what I intend...
...proceeds of the benefit will be evenly divided between The Pine Street Inn, a Cambridge homeless shelter, and Casa Myrna Vasquez, a shelter for battered women and children, the director of the foundation said...
...three months after he lost his job at a restaurant and his bed at a New York City shelter, Johnny Williams slept and panhandled on the subways. Landing a new job is all but impossible, he explains, without "your proper rest, a way to get clean and a place to store your clothes." But two months ago, Williams, 32, found an occupation that doesn't require any of the above: selling Street News, the new "motivational" monthly designed to help the homeless help themselves...