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No Mansions, No Homeless!
No Mansions, No Homeless!
by Saab Lofton
"It is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to eradicate a slum. It is much easier to guarantee the right to vote than to create jobs or guarantee an annual income. These things cannot be done without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Likewise, it's easier to elect an overrated pretty boy like Obama than it is to tell Halliburton to eschew blood money ...
Ohio judge orders man who stole from Salvation Army to spend night homeless
Published: Friday, January 25, 2008 | 12:55 AM ET
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PAINESVILLE, Ohio - A judge in Ohio ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday kettle containing about $250 to spend the night homeless Thursday.
Nathen Smith, 28, was to spend the night anywhere but a house, said Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti. Smith was fitted with a GPS device to track his moves. "My initial reaction was: 'Wow.' But I don't think the sentence is too harsh," said Smith, who expected to spend Thursday night in a homeless shelter.
"I can see the judge's point because what I did, I shouldn't have done. Now I've got to pay the consequences."
US mayors’ report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities
US mayors’ report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities
By Debra Watson
WSWS
29 December 2007
The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again in 2007, according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors. The 23-city Hunger and Homelessness Survey was released in late December.
Requests for emergency food increased in four of every five cities. Among 15 cities with quantifying data, the median increase in requests for food was 10 percent and in some cities it was much higher. Detroit and some other cities reported seeing more working poor among those seeking food.
