Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tsosie frowns at people who are disappointed when he says that he lives in a house, rather than in a tent. Rohana L. Fines '86, who is of white. Black, Seminole and Cherokee descent, but lives in Hawaii, says that matters have improved somewhat: "In the '50s. Westerns used painted Whites to play Indians, then in the '60s they used Mexicans. We're getting closer...
Equally reprehensible are Mr. Feinberg's attempts to portray Dallas as a police state. The city provided the protestors at "Tent City" with basic necessities--which, in my opinion, was more than enough. To suggest or imply that the city should have provided for the protestor's every need, want or comfort is ludicrous. Dallas had the responsibility to insure only that the protestors be given the opportunity to protest; the federal judge (a Democrat) was obviously correct in ruling that the city had no obligation to further subsidize the protestors. By providing basic necessities, the city of Dallas donated...
There, Hanggi told the crowd that they were in Texas not only to get together and chant about how bad Reagan was, but to do some serious work. Everybody at the Tent City, along with another hundred allies, boarded a fleet of buses and vans Sunday morning and spread out over the poor neighborhoods of Dallas. Going door to door in groups of two along carefully mapped out "turfs", the Tent City dwellers registered over 12,000 new voters in Dallas. The largest single-day voter registration drive in the history of Texas was not short-lived either. Back...
Still, she exemplified the spirit of the Tent City dwellers who never started bitching because it was hot, or because the food arrived two hours late, or because there were so many things to bitch at. Without having accomplished anything in five hours on the streets, she was looking forward to hearing Jesse Jackson speak at the Tent City that night. He cancelled however, and she was disappointed. Then, that night at the interfaith service, she shocked me when she learned over to me and said: "I'm going to take some of those voter registration cards to where...
...selling out. The story is about those who will fight when they can, where they can, whether they succeed fully or not, whether they attract attention or not. If this portrayal may seem a little romanticized, so be it. For perhaps romanticism is the stuff that dreams, tent cities, and social change is made...