Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the biases in the press are understandable. After all, at the Tent City the temperature was about 110 degrees all three days and dust settled over everything. Air conditioning at the Republican convention made the place pleasantly chilly--some delegates even protested that the hall was too cold. The press was treated to free food, such as shrimp salad lunches and drinks by the GOP, while they could buy a plate of rice and beans at Tent City. The Republicans provided free phones, typewriters, tv's and work areas, while there was a bank of pay phones atop...
...Tent City did not allow any alcohol in the area, to make sure the press did not sensationalize the protest as a bunch of drunken revelers. But the first Republican convention official I dealt with to get my press credentials was drinking a beer at 11 a.m. while a worker behind him was refilling the beer freezer. The beer of course, was COORS, produced by the right-wing, union-busting, Reagan buddy: Joseph Coors...
Months before the Tent City opened, ACORN had to fight with the city of Dallas, a racially segregated city with heaps of poverty in the minority and immigrant sections. The glitzy shiny tower facade of business and oil money was sparkling for the Republican delegates, while the 45 percent minority population was on the verge of calling an all out was on the rich whites who control the city...
There was no way Dallas was going to let the week-long advertisement opportunity be marred by unpredictable events. So, when the Alliance For Justice (the national coalition spearheaded by ACORN to plan the Tent City) applied for a permit for a downtown campsite, the city granted one at a park a full 18 miles away from the Republican Convention Center...
After fighting with the city for a campsite, unsure of the direction the racial sparring would take, ACORN went ahead with plans to set up the Tent City, First, two massive gospel revival tents went up at the corner of the newly formed "Martin Luther King" and John J. Lewis streets. The Saturday afternoon before the Republicans came into town, ACORN held its own national convention...