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...Vacie differs little from other squatter settlements in Andalusia, where an estimated 44,000 Spaniards, many of them Gypsies, live in poverty. But Expo's construction introduced a new level of envy and conflict. Additional squatters whose homes were bulldozed for the fair moved in, swelling the waiting list for El Vacie's promised houses. At the fountain, a fistfight broke out between women jostling for water, and one was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg. "Expo is a disaster for the poor," says Miguel Angel Moreno, a local Human Rights Association volunteer. "It drained money from social...
...EVICTED last week from Dunster House, and it wasn't pretty. I was a squatter in I-entry--living with just a few clothes, a bedspread and a pillow. I was busy writing for The Crimson's Commencement issues. I figured that when dorm crew came, I would tidy my stuff on my bed and leave...
...Having the [South African] foreign minister pretend he was the member of a Black squatter group in role reversal was fun," he said...
Their hippie, squatter lifestyle, as Sheba described it, was a simple one: food was provided by leftovers from Square restaurants and was cooked on camping stoves that burned vodka; daily showers were furnished by a near-by water hose...
...huge economic disparities between whites and blacks will continue for years. A majority of South Africa's blacks are desperately poor: at least 7 million live in destitute squatter camps. They will see few dramatic improvements anytime soon. Black unemployment, as high as 41% in some areas, is unlikely to fall quickly. "The future looks extremely bleak," says John Kane-Berman, head of the Johannesburg-based South African Institute of Race Relations. "There is every possibility that the average person will be materially worse off than...